Scalable media access control for multi-hop high bandwidth communications

摘要

A scalable medium access control (“MAC”) module is provided that avoids conflict resource reservation so that network performance does not degrade as the number of hops or nodes in a wireless network increases. The MAC also provides different access schemes for traffic with different quality of service (“QoS”) requirements such that QoS is guaranteed and network resources are efficiently utilized. Furthermore, the resource allocation scheme determines the routing path as resources is allocated for data traffic, thereby achieving more robust layer-2 routing at the MAC layer. Finally, the scalable MAC is compliant with both WiMedia MAC and IEEE 802.15.3 MAC.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving a beacon signal from a wireless communication network, wherein the beacon signal includes information about a sender node and network synchronization information; adding the sender node to a neighbor list; determining a signal quality for the beacon signal from the sender node; and establishing a wireless communication link with the sender node if the determined signal quality meets a predetermined threshold quality level.