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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2022
Oledcomm, Velizy-Villacoublay, FR;
Victor Levy, Velizy-Villacoublay, FR;
Carlos Usiel Dominguez-Gonzalez, Velizy-Villacoublay, FR;
Abstract
A method coordinates access points having coverage areas each subdivided into an exclusive sub-area supplemented by an interference sub-area where they overlap and forming part of an optical wireless network. The method includes a procedure including, for each time channel, a first sub-procedure wherein each interface device located in an exclusive sub-area of an access point is allocated an authorized free time slot in the time channel, a second sub-procedure wherein, as long as there remains an interface device without an allocated time slot in an interference sub-area, for each free time slot: a set of interface devices compatible with it is determined, if this set is not empty, an interface device is allocated this free time slot which is compatible with an available access point according to a chosen heuristic, otherwise the time slot is not free, the second sub-step is performed again.