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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2010
Elza Erkip, New York, NY (US);
Pei Liu, Forest Hills, NY (US);
Chun Nie, Nutley, NJ (US);
Shivendra S. Panwar, Freehold, NJ (US);
Elza Erkip, New York, NY (US);
Pei Liu, Forest Hills, NY (US);
Chun Nie, Nutley, NJ (US);
Shivendra S. Panwar, Freehold, NJ (US);
Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Abstract
A distributed and opportunistic medium access control (MAC) layer protocol for randomized distributed space-time coding (R-DSTC), which may be deployed in an IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN), is described. Unlike other cooperative MAC designs, there is no need to predetermine, before packet transmission, which stations will serve as relays. Instead, the MAC layer protocol opportunistically recruits relay stations on the fly. Network capacity and delay performance is much better than legacy IEEE 802.11g network, and even cooperative forwarding using one relay station. Avoiding the need to collect the station-to-station channel statistics considerably reduces overhead otherwise required for channel measurement and signaling.