COMMUNICATING IN NETWORK THAT INCLUDES MEDIUM HAVING VARYING TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and corresponding system for operating in a network in which stations communicate over a shared medium. SOLUTION: The shared medium has at least one varying channel characteristic that varies approximately periodically. The method includes providing repeated beacon transmissions from a coordinator station for coordinating transmissions among a plurality of the stations, wherein at least some beacon transmissions are synchronized to the varying channel characteristic; and transmitting from a first station to at least one receiving station during a time slot determined based on at least one of the beacon transmissions received by the first station from the coordinator station. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT