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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2018
Applicant:
Benchmark Electronics, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Inventor:
Jim Luecke, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Assignee:
BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS, INC., Tempe, AZ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 74/02 (2009.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 88/18 (2009.01); G01S 5/22 (2006.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/733 (2013.01); H04W 16/18 (2009.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 64/003 (2013.01); G01S 5/22 (2013.01); H04L 45/126 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 16/18 (2013.01); H04W 52/0206 (2013.01); H04W 56/002 (2013.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01); H04W 74/02 (2013.01); H04W 74/0816 (2013.01); H04W 88/184 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for interference avoidance when transmitting a message in a wireless system comprising: dividing a frame into a plurality of time slots, wherein a first plurality of time slots allocated as Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) time slots and a second plurality of time slots allocated as contention slots; transmitting a message in a designated TDMA time slot by a corresponding wireless node assigned to the designated TDMA time slot if the designated TDMA time slot is idle; and transmitting the message in a contention slot if the designated TDMA time slot is busy.