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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2008
Jianlin Guo, Malden, MA (US);
Chunjie Duan, Medfield, MA (US);
Ghulam M. Bhatti, Mansfield, MA (US);
Jinyun Zhang, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jianlin Guo, Malden, MA (US);
Chunjie Duan, Medfield, MA (US);
Ghulam M. Bhatti, Mansfield, MA (US);
Jinyun Zhang, Cambridge, MA (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A method for transmitting information in a communication network of multiple nodes, in which information transmission is partitioned into successive superframes, and in which each superframe is partitioned into a beacon period followed by a data period, which may consist of a contention free period (CFP), and each beacon period and CFP of the data period is partitioned into timeslots. The method includes allocating to at least a first node of the multiple nodes a designated timeslot in which to transmit data in at least one of a plurality of superframes, and allocating to at least a second node of the multiple nodes the same designated timeslot in which to transmit information during at least one subsequent superframe.