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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2008
Hang Liu, Yardley, PA (US);
Ishan Mandrekar, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Mingquan Wu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Ramkumar Perumanam, Carmel, IN (US);
Saurabh Mathur, Danville, CA (US);
Hang Liu, Yardley, PA (US);
Ishan Mandrekar, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Mingquan Wu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Ramkumar Perumanam, Carmel, IN (US);
Saurabh Mathur, Danville, CA (US);
Thomson Licensing, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;
Abstract
A method and apparatus are described including multicasting a medium reservation message and receiving a response to the medium reservation message. Also described are a method and apparatus including receiving a medium reservation message, determining if a medium is idle and transmitting a response to the medium reservation message responsive to the determination. Further described are a method and apparatus including receiving a medium reservation message, determining if a received network allocation vector in the medium reservation message has a value greater than a current network allocation vector, determining if transmission over a medium during a time interval is detected and resetting the current network allocation vector responsive to the determination of transmission. Yet further described are a method and apparatus including receiving a response to a medium reservation message, determining if a network allocation vector in the response is greater than a current network allocation vector and updating the current network allocation vector responsive to the determination.