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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2010
Applicants:
Yong He, Beijing, CN;
Xiao-jun MA, Beijing, CN;
Jun LI, Cranbury, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus are described including determining if a successful unicast transmission has occurred, adjusting a contention window to a minimum value and adjusting a time slot back-off counter to one-half of the value of the contention window plus one responsive to the determination and adjusting the contention window using one of a plurality of adjustment schemes and selecting said time slot back-off counter from an interval between zero and the contention window.