*3.1.9. Combined Strategy*

Finally, it could be beneficial to have a strategy which combines the properties of the previously discussed ones. Depending on the target scenario and application, a combined strategy could further improve the performance. For example, a combined strategy could employ both the traffic-aware and buffer-aware strategy. Such a combination would represent a trade-off between the delay of high priority packets and packet loss of packets due to buffer overflows. A function which performs the trade-off calculation must be derived which calculates a priority value for each node, depending on the type of traffic that it has to forward and its current buffer fill-level.
