KEEP ALIVE TIMESLOTS IN A HETEROGENEOUS MAC PROTOCOL TO TRACK HANDSETS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK

摘要

This disclosure describes a new keep alive timeslots based method to track registered handsets for a MAC protocol that combines contention-free and contention- based MAC protocols into a heterogeneous MAC protocol used for forwarding VoIP traffic in VoIP systems on wireless networks using multiple base stations thus allowing for transmission of high bit-rate data to multiple users over wired and wireless means.