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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2004
Brig Barnum Elliott, Arlington, MA (US);
Brig Barnum Elliott, Arlington, MA (US);
Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. & BBN Technologies Corp., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system facilitates communication among nodes in a wireless network. A timeslot is assigned to each of a group of nodes () in the wireless network (). The timeslot is a time for a corresponding node to receive messages transmitted by other nodes (). A modulation scheme is assigned to each of the nodes (). A message is transmitted from at least one of the nodes (), using the assigned modulation scheme, to at least one destination node during a timeslot assigned to the at least one destination node. The messages are received at the at least one destination node from the at least one of the nodes ().