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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2004
Applicants:
Piyush Gupta, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam, Metz, FR;
Aleksandr Stolyar, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Piyush Gupta, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam, Metz, FR;
Aleksandr Stolyar, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/212 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus includes a first node configured to transmit both data frames and requests for channel reservations to a local contention neighborhood of a network. The first node is configured to compete with other nodes of the neighborhood for reservations to the channel. The first node is configured to dynamically update a stored value of an access priority for the first node and to transmit said requests with a rate that depends on the stored value.