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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2003
William M. Shvodian, McLean, VA (US);
Knut T. Odman, Vienna, VA (US);
Sergio T. Montano, Vienna, VA (US);
William M. Shvodian, McLean, VA (US);
Knut T. Odman, Vienna, VA (US);
Sergio T. Montano, Vienna, VA (US);
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A method is provided to pass information in a wireless network. The available channel time in the network is first divided into a plurality of sequential superframes. Some devices may need to transmit during every superframe, but others will only need to transmit during a fraction of the superframes. These devices are assigned sub-rate time slots in the superframes at sub-rates that must be a power of two. In other words, they can only be assigned sub-rate time slots every second superframe, every fourth superframe, every eighth superframe, etc. This allows the sub-rate time slots to be spread more evenly throughout the plurality of sequential superframes, and minimizes the amount of overlap possible.