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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2009
Arnab Chakrabarti, San Diego, CA (US);
Anastasios Stamoulis, San Diego, CA (US);
Dexu Lin, San Diego, CA (US);
Kambiz Azarian Yazdi, San Diego, CA (US);
Tingfang Ji, San Diego, CA (US);
Arnab Chakrabarti, San Diego, CA (US);
Anastasios Stamoulis, San Diego, CA (US);
Dexu Lin, San Diego, CA (US);
Kambiz Azarian Yazdi, San Diego, CA (US);
Tingfang Ji, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Providing for fair resource sharing among wireless nodes in a wireless communication environment is described herein. By way of example, fairness can comprise establishing a set of resource sharing credits for wireless nodes. By expending credits, a node can borrow a resource of another node, to enable or enhance operation of the borrowing node. Credits for the borrowing node are decreased based on consumption of a shared resource, or credits for the lending node are increased based on such consumption, or both. Once an amount of credits expires, a node can be restricted from borrowing further resources until enough resources are lent to build up a suitable amount of credits. Accordingly, fairness can comprise correlating shared resource consumption with shared resource provisioning, to encourage participation in cooperative wireless communications.