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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2010
Raymond Yim, Cambridge, MA (US);
Hang Su, College Station, TX (US);
Zafer Sahinoglu, Arlington, MA (US);
Raymond Yim, Cambridge, MA (US);
Hang Su, College Station, TX (US);
Zafer Sahinoglu, Arlington, MA (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A wireless star network includes including a master node (master) and a set of N slave nodes (slaves), wherein the network uses orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA). The master partitions the set of slaves in a first subset A(i) and second subset B(j), wherein the first and second subsets are disjoint. Packets are transmitted by the first subset of slaves only while the master and second subset of slaves operate in receive mode, and packets are transmitted by the second subset of slaves only while the master and first of slaves operate in receive mode.