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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2005
Javier Del Prado Pavon, Ossining, NY (US);
Amjad Soomro, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Sai Shankar Nandagopalan, Tarrytown, NY (US);
Zhun Zhong, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);
Kiran Challapali, New City, NY (US);
Joerg Habetha, Aachen, DE;
Guido Hiertz, Cologne, DE;
Javier Del Prado Pavon, Ossining, NY (US);
Amjad Soomro, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Sai Shankar Nandagopalan, Tarrytown, NY (US);
Zhun Zhong, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);
Kiran Challapali, New City, NY (US);
Joerg Habetha, Aachen, DE;
Guido Hiertz, Cologne, DE;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A distributed MAC protocol that includes a super-frame having a slotted Beaconing Period and a data transfer period. The super-frame includes a plurality of medium access slots which are assigned to the slotted Beaconing Period. The Beaconing Period length may be fixed or variable. The Beaconing protocol defines initializing an ad hoc network by means of starting a Beaconing Period, joining an existing Beaconing Period of ad hoc network and resolving collisions during the Beaconing Period.