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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
May. 23, 2011
Lawrence W. Yonge, Iii, Ocala, FL (US);
Srinivas Katar, Gainesville, FL (US);
Manjunath Krishnam, Gainesville, FL (US);
Lawrence W. Yonge, III, Ocala, FL (US);
Srinivas Katar, Gainesville, FL (US);
Manjunath Krishnam, Gainesville, FL (US);
Qualcomm Atheros, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Communicating among stations in a network includes providing repeated beacon transmissions from at least some of the stations including a first station. The first station is assigned to a first level. Any stations that can reliably receive transmissions from the first station are assigned to a second level. Any stations not assigned to any of the preceding levels that can reliably receive transmissions from the preceding level are assigned to each of one or more higher levels. Timing information at each station in a given level is synchronized according to transmissions received from at least one station in the preceding level.