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Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2009

Filed:

Jun. 18, 2001
Applicants:

Dan Raphaeli, Kfar Saba, IL;

Mordechai Mushkin, Nirit, IL;

Ronen Gazit, Tel Aviv, IL;

Yael Kacen, Omer, IL;

Amir Erez, Nes Tziona, IL;

Inventors:

Dan Raphaeli, Kfar Saba, IL;

Mordechai Mushkin, Nirit, IL;

Ronen Gazit, Tel Aviv, IL;

Yael Kacen, Omer, IL;

Amir Erez, Nes Tziona, IL;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/413 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A novel and useful media access control (MAC) protocol that is intended for use over noisy shared media channels. The MAC protocol provides layerfunctionality over a network using a shared medium including a backoff mechanism for CSMA/CA channel access, link addressing that reduces the overhead of long MAC addresses, a flooding scheme having controlled exposure for broadcast transmissions, multicast transmissions using selective ACKs, implementation of traffic prioritization using an adaptive backoff scheme, a second layer repeater establishment process and multi-packet transport for short packets and fragmentation for long packet transport.


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