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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Whay Chiou Lee, Cambridge, MA (US);
Krishnan Ramakrishnan, Mansfield, MA (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370462 ; 370229 ;
Abstract
A system (800), device (820), and method (600, 700) for aggregating MAC users in a shared medium network improve MAC performance and minimize complexity of a headend scheduler by aggregating a number of MAC Users into an Aggregate MAC User. The Aggregate MAC User acts as a proxy for its Constituent MAC Users by contending for network resources on behalf of the Constituent MAC Users and allocating network resources to the Constituent MAC Users as needed.