MANAGING TRANSMISSIONS AMONG NODES COMMUNICATING OVER A SHARED COMMUNICATION MEDIUM
摘要
A method is provided for managing transmissions among nodes communicating over a shared communication medium. The method includes: transmitting a frame from a sender node to a plurality of receiver nodes, the frame including at least a portion of a data packet and control information associated with accessing the communication medium; transmitting over the communication medium information indicating an end of a time window allocated for transmission of acknowledgement signals to the sender node from at least some of the plurality of receiver nodes; assigning each of a plurality of time slots in the time window to different subsets of the plurality of receiver nodes; and for a given receiver node, transmitting an acknowledgement signal from the given receiver node to the sender node during a time slot assigned to the given receiver node, the acknowledgement signal responsive to at least the frame.
申请公布号
EP2414952(A4)
申请公布日期
2015.04.15
申请号
EP20100759396
申请日期
2010.04.01
申请人
QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
发明人
KATAR, SRINIVAS;SCHRUM, SIDNEY, BROWER, JR.;YONGE, LAWRENCE, W., III;KRISHNAM, MANJUNATH