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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2005
John M. Kowalski, Camas, WA (US);
Srinivas Kandala, Vancouver, WA (US);
John M. Kowalski, Camas, WA (US);
Srinivas Kandala, Vancouver, WA (US);
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., Camas, WA (US);
Abstract
A method of selectively providing MIMO transmission/reception in a WLAN system includes using a TSPEC reservation and signaling mechanism to instantiate and tear down, dynamically, multi-channel operation in a WLAN; providing an inference algorithm to determine the minimum number of channels required to establish a TSPEC using a MIMO WLAN system; providing specific channel parameters as parameters to be negotiated in the TSPEC; providing frame exchange sequences to be used in Enhanced Distributed Coordinated Access contention based access and to be used in polled access; and providing a mechanism wherein an access point makes a decision as to whether to admit MIMO functionality on a given link, wherein a 'link' is a set of communications between two specific WLAN stations.