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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2014
Harman International Industries, Incorporated, Stamford, CT (US);
Harman International Industries, Incorporated, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A method for communicating messages in a channel of a wireless communication network is provided. In the channel, successive cycles, each of which including a predetermined number of successive time slots, are defined. The method may include: a first node obtaining a first list of its neighboring nodes before a first qtime slot; broadcasting a first message in the first qtime slot; receiving acknowledge information from other nodes within the network for one cycle after the first qtime slot; obtaining a second list of its neighboring nodes after the first qtime slot; and determining whether qtime slots are proper for communicating messages by the first node by checking whether all nodes on both the first and the second lists have received the first message based on the received acknowledge information, each piece of which indicates whether a corresponding node has received the first message.