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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2004
Lawrence W. Yonge, Iii, Ocala, FL (US);
Srinivas Katar, Ocala, FL (US);
Stanley J. Kostoff, Ii, Ocala, FL (US);
William E. Earnshaw, Ocala, FL (US);
Bart W. Blanchard, Fort McCoy, FL (US);
Hassan Kaywan Afkhamie, Ocala, FL (US);
Harper Brent Mashburn, Gainesville, FL (US);
Lawrence W. Yonge, III, Ocala, FL (US);
Srinivas Katar, Ocala, FL (US);
Stanley J. Kostoff, II, Ocala, FL (US);
William E. Earnshaw, Ocala, FL (US);
Bart W. Blanchard, Fort McCoy, FL (US);
Hassan Kaywan Afkhamie, Ocala, FL (US);
Harper Brent Mashburn, Gainesville, FL (US);
Atheros Communications, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of operating in a network (e.g., a power line communication network) in which a plurality of stations communicate over a shared medium (e.g., an AC power line) having a periodically varying channel. The method includes determining a plurality of channel adaptations (e.g., tone maps) for communication between a pair of stations, and assigning a different one of the plurality of channel adaptations to each of a plurality of phase regions of the periodically varying channel.