Methods and arrangements to coordinate communications of different types of devices on a wireless network

摘要

Logic may coordinate communications of different types of wireless communications devices such as high power and low power wireless communications devices. Logic may coordinate communications by assigning time slots to a low power station (LP-STA) in a management frame such as a beacon transmitted by an access point (AP) associated with the LP-STA. Logic of the high power stations (HP-STAs) may receive the beacon and shepard logic of the HP-STA may defer transmissions by the HP-STA throughout the duration(s) indicated in the beacon from the AP. Logic of the LP-STA may comprise carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance logic to determine when to transmit a communication. Shepard logic of an HP-STA may detect the communication from the LP-STA and defer transmission of communication during a time duration for the communication by the LP-STA.

主权项

1. A method to coordinate wireless transmissions of high-power communications devices and low-power communications devices, the method comprising:
determining, by a first communications device, a time duration to allocate for low transmit power transmissions; and instructing, by the first communications device, high-power communication devices to defer high transmit power transmissions for the time duration to avoid a collision between a high transmit power transmission and a low transmit power transmission by allocating the time duration for low transmit power transmissions, wherein allocating comprises:
generating a frame indicating the time duration; andtransmitting the frame indicating the time duration.