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Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 03, 2010
Applicants:

Sridhar Rajagopal, Plano, TX (US);

Doyoung Kim, Seoul, KR;

Ying LI, Garland, TX (US);

Farooq Khan, Allen, TX (US);

Inventors:

Sridhar Rajagopal, Plano, TX (US);

Doyoung Kim, Seoul, KR;

Ying Li, Garland, TX (US);

Farooq Khan, Allen, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04J 3/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/413 (2006.01); H04L 12/403 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
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.


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