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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2001
Applicants:
Jin-meng Ho, Plano, TX (US);
Donald P. Shaver, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Jin-Meng Ho, Plano, TX (US);
Donald P. Shaver, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/43 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Contention for a shared communications medium in a communications network involves a fine balancing act between wasting much network bandwidth sitting idle or recovering from collisions and transmitting data. Contention adaptation concepts are introduced for access to a shared medium, and adaptive algorithms for contention access using probabilities and backoffs are presented.