Cisco Technology, Inc.

Cisco Systems Wireless Networking (australia) Pty Limited

Jason R Crawford

Brian Donald Hart

Philip J Ryan

Andrew Frederick Myles

John D O'Sullivan

David McClead Theobold

Andrew Robert Adams

James A Amos

Christopher Graham Meil

Kevin C H Wong

Edward Frederick Wright

Philip O'Sullivan

Philip O′Sullivan

Philip O'sullivan

Kevin C Wong

A method and an apparatus for radiolocation using time differences of arrival. The method includes receiving transmit timestamps from a set of wireless stations of a wireless network. Each station transmits at least once. The transmit timestamp uses a local timestamping clock to indicate when a station transmitted a packet. The method further includes receiving sets of timestamped captured samples from each station that receives one of the transmitted packets. The times of arrival of each packet at each station are determined from the received sets of timestamped captured samples, and, the relative positions of the stations are determined from the determined times of arrival and the received transmit timestamps. The transmitting by the stations is in a round robin manner one station after the other, and several round robins may be used to mutually calibrate local clocks. Also an apparatus for inclusion in a station of a wireless network. The apparatus includes a buffer subsystem and a timestamping subsystem, such that the station can capture and timestamp a set of samples of a received signal, and send the captured timestamped samples to a processing entity for time difference of arrival location determination.

Radiolocation in a wireless network using time difference of arrival

A method for radar protection. The method includes recording energy events and calculating differences in recorded energy events to determine pulses. The method further includes sorting intervals between pulses into histogram bins, each bin representing a range of time intervals between two pulses, each pulse indicative of a radar frequency and limiting network traffic on a frequency based on a selected bin count.

Radar protection device for wireless networks

An apparatus in a node of a wireless network for setting the data rate for sending data to a remote node, and a method for setting the data rate. The method includes receiving a packet from the remote node, determining a measure of signal quality for the received packet; and selecting the data rate for communicating to the remote node according to at least the determined signal quality. The measure of signal quality is a measure of the EVM of the received packet. One implementation conforms to one or more variants of the IEEE 802.11 standard that uses OFDM packets.

Selecting the data rate of a wireless network link according to a measure of error vector magnitude

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McMahons Point, Australia

Jason R Crawford