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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2010
Sridhar Rajagopal, Plano, TX (US);
Doyoung Kim, Seoul, KR;
Ying LI, Garland, TX (US);
Farooq Khan, Allen, TX (US);
Sridhar Rajagopal, Plano, TX (US);
Doyoung Kim, Seoul, KR;
Ying Li, Garland, TX (US);
Farooq Khan, Allen, TX (US);
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, KR;
Abstract
For use in a visible light communication (VLC) network, a system and method for communicating a plurality of medium access control (MAC) frames. The method includes providing a single frame structure to support a plurality of topologies, the plurality of topologies including peer-to-peer, broadcast, star and visibility topologies. The method also includes transmitting a plurality of frames comprising a plurality of frame types, the plurality of frame types comprising data, beacon, command, acknowledgement, and color-visibility-dimming (CVD) frames.