A system and method for locating optimal routes between source and destination nodes in a communications network, in particular, a wireless ad-hoc communications network by employing a link reliability algorithm that estimates the reliability of links between nodes using a prediction mechanism and a...http://www.google.de/patents/US20040260808?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20040260808 - Method to provide a measure of link reliability to a routing protocol in an ad hoc wireless network