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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2005
Applicant:
Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong, CN;
Inventor:
Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong, CN;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics Ltd., Hong Kong, HK;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A WLAN communication system and algorithm that adaptively changes the data transmission rate of a communication channel based on changing channel conditions. The WLAN communication system or algorithm has two modes being a searching mode and a transmission mode. Furthermore, the WLAN communication system or algorithm incorporates an additive increase, multiplicative decrease (AIMD) function into the rate adaptation algorithm.