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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2015
Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Luca Zappaterra, Arlington, VA (US);
Yu Zhou, Herndon, VA (US);
Muhammad A. Naim, Sterling, VA (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method and apparatus to help manage communication on a wireless channel when transmitting and receiving nodes will engage in a sequence of data-ACK exchanges with each other on the channel. As disclosed, the transmitting node and/or receiving node may include in at least one of the data-ACK exchanges an indication of how many data-ACK exchanges remain in the sequence and may further include indicia of how often each data-ACK exchange will occur and how long each data-ACK exchange will last. A neighboring node that is observing the channel to determine whether the channel is available may thus determine, based at least in part on the indication in the data-ACK exchange how many times to refrain from transmitting on the channel, how often to so refrain, and how long to refrain in each instance.