公开(公告)号：US11470189B2

公开(公告)日：2022-10-11

申请号：US16613321

申请日：2018-05-14

Applicant: IMEC VZW ,  UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN

Inventor： Patrick Daniel Bosch ,  Tom Johan R De Schepper ,  Ensar Zeljkovic ,  Jeroen Maurice M Famaey ,  Steven Bert Latre

IPC: H04L69/321 ,  H04L47/125 ,  H04L47/34 ,  H04L69/326 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W84/18 ,  H04L67/56

Abstract: A method is disclosed for providing network access by a network stack in a communication device comprising a plurality of physical communication interfaces, each comprising a data link layer for the exchange of data frames with remote communication devices and a data link layer interface for exchanging data of data frames between the data link layer and higher layers in the network stack; and wherein the method comprises i) providing an abstraction data link layer comprising a single abstracted data link layer interface such that the plurality of physical communication interfaces appear as a single data link layer interface to the higher layers; and ii) obtaining network packets from the higher layers and distributing the network packets over the plurality of physical communication interfaces according to a neutral packet distribution scheme.