Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Wei Lih Lim

Pek Yew Tan

Yasuo Harada

Shinichiro Ohmi

Kazuhiro Ando

Rahul Malik

Chalermphol Apichaichalermwongse

Tan Pek Yew

A station includes a reservation request transmitter, a bandwidth request transmitter, and a data transmitter. The reservation request transmitter transmits a reservation request to an access point during a contention slot specified by the access point. The contention slot is periodically allocated by the access point. The bandwidth request transmitter transmits a bandwidth request to the access point using a first allocated bandwidth allocated to the station as a response to the reservation request. The bandwidth request has a first data structure different from a second data structure of the reservation request, and includes information indicating a required bandwidth for transmitting a data to be transmitted. The data transmitter transmits the data using a second allocated bandwidth allocated to the station based on the required bandwidth.

Method for ensuring medium access in a wireless network

Method and apparatus for controlling transmission of a data stream from a station. A QoS registration frame is received, via an access point, from the station. The QoS registration frame includes information indicating a request for transmission of a data stream from the station, and information indicating a minimum required interval and a maximum required interval for an interval which is between start points of two successive durations of a medium dedication. Each duration of the medium dedication represents a time period in which the station is permitted to transmit the data stream. A schedule for the transmission of the data stream is calculated by setting a new interval which is between the minimum required interval and the maximum required interval, when the transmission is admitted. A QoS response frame, which includes information indicating the schedule, is then transmitted from the access point to the station.

An efficient medium dedication schedule is generated. The schedule gives wireless medium an ability to concurrently serve real-time and non real-time application and still be able to maintain the Quality of Service as requested by the real-time application. Furthermore, QoS registration request is delivered in a time bound manner and a time slot is chosen for transmission during controlled contention phase that give lesser collision and higher throughput.

Methods for ensuring medium access in a wireless network

The present invention provides a method and system for efficiently scheduling wireless LAN traffic, giving the network the ability to serve both real-time and non-real time applications concurrently, while maintaining a requested level of quality of service for the real time application. It describes a method for scheduling quality of service traffic and a method to optimize this schedule thereby reducing the overall amount of time that is required for serving quality of service traffic (which is coordinated by a centralized network coordinator entity) and increasing the bandwidth available for non-real-time traffic. One application of such a scheduler would be WLANs that carry AV streams, such as may be found in a home based WLAN. Furthermore, a method is provided for announcing the schedule to all nodes in a wireless network to, for example, implement a power savings feature, thereby optimizing battery life and reducing the size and weight of portable network access terminals.

Method and system for scheduling traffic in a wireless network

The presented invention provides methods and apparatus to generate a efficient medium dedication schedule which give wireless medium the ability to serve real-time and non real-time application concurrently and still be able to maintain the QoS as requested by real-time application. Furthermore, it also presents methods for implementing buffer in an efficient matter in order to complement the advantage introduced by burst transmission and burst acknowledgement.

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Wei Lih Lim