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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2001
Applicants:
Mehdi Alasti, College Park, MD (US);
Nariman Farvardin, Potomac, MD (US);
Inventors:
Mehdi Alasti, College Park, MD (US);
Nariman Farvardin, Potomac, MD (US);
Assignee:
University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/18 (2006.01); H04J 3/16 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention concerns SEAMA, a source encoding assisted multiple access (MAC) protocol, for integrating voice and data traffic in a wireless network. SEAMA exploits the time variations of the speech coding rate, through statistical multiplexing, to efficiently use the available bandwidth and to increase the link utilization.