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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2007
Sujit R. Das, New Berlin, WI (US);
Ting Yan, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Luis R. Pereira, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Sujit R. Das, New Berlin, WI (US);
Ting Yan, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Luis R. Pereira, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
A wireless communication network includes a network coordinator (NC) having plural channels and plural wireless transceivers, and plural nodes. Each node has status information, a number of channels and a number of wireless transceivers. Each node and the NC communicate in a Carrier Sense Multiple Access mode. Each node communicates the status information thereof to or toward the NC in a Time Division Multiple Access mode having plural time slots. The NC assigns the time slots and the channels to the nodes to provide a plurality of collision-free schedules therefor. The NC sends, for each node, a corresponding one of the collision-free schedules to or toward a corresponding one of the nodes. Each collision-free schedule includes a corresponding number of the time slots and a corresponding number of the channels that the corresponding one of the nodes employs to communicate the status information thereof to or toward the NC.