MITIGATING IMPACT OF POWER IMBALANCE ON REMOTE DATA RATE IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK

摘要

A method for mitigating the impact of a power imbalance on a remote data rate in a wireless local area network (WLAN) includes transmitting a wireless local area network (WLAN) acknowledgement (ACK) packet at a first transmit power level to a remote device. The method further includes transmitting to the remote device a WLAN data packet at a second transmit power level that is lower than the first transmit power level of the WLAN ACK packet. Another method for mitigating the impact of a power imbalance on a remote data rate in a wireless local area network (WLAN) may include selecting a wireless local area network (WLAN) acknowledgement (ACK) packet transmit rate independent from a rate at which a WLAN data packet is received. This method further includes transmitting to a remote device a WLAN ACK packet at the selected WLAN ACK packet transmit rate.