Dynamic management of shared transmission opportunities

摘要

Communicating among stations in a network includes assigning transmission opportunities among a plurality of stations, sending information about transmission requirements in at least one message sent from a first station in the plurality of stations to a second station, and changing the transmission opportunities based on the information in the at least one message.

主权项

1. A method for communicating among a plurality of stations in a network, the method comprising:
assigning a first transmission opportunity to a first station of the plurality of stations, wherein the first transmission opportunity precedes a second transmission opportunity; assigning the second transmission opportunity to a second station of the plurality of stations; determining that information in a message transmitted from the first station to the second station in first transmissions transmitted during the first transmission opportunity indicates a change in a bandwidth requirement associated with the first transmission opportunity; determining that second transmissions transmitted during the second transmission opportunity interfere with the first transmissions based on the indicated change in the bandwidth requirement and on a network topology of the network; and changing an assignment of the second transmission opportunity based on determining that the second transmissions interfere with the first transmissions.