Method and apparatus for sending and receiving data in a machine to machine wireless network

Abstract

Method and apparatus for sending and receiving data in a wireless machine to machine communication network comprising at least a gateway () and a plurality of nodes (), implementing an hybrid Medium Access Control protocol to access the shared medium. In order to prevent collisions when sending data transmissions (), nodes () request access to the medium with access request packets (), and are informed by the gateway () if said access request packets () are received correctly or if a collision occurred. According to the feedback information () provided by the gateway (), nodes () are organized in a distributed queuing system with separate queues collision resolutions and data transmissions (). Time slots () with fixed length are used, divided into three separate subperiods for feedback information (), access request packets () and data transmissions (). The method and apparatus further implements channel hopping to reduce interferences from adjacent networks.