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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2011
William Michael Rudnick, Pittsford, NY (US);
Ngan-cheung Pun, San Diego, CA (US);
Charles Joseph Datz, Victor, NY (US);
Stephanie Clark, Brighton, NY (US);
William Michael Rudnick, Pittsford, NY (US);
Ngan-cheung Pun, San Diego, CA (US);
David Clark, Brighton, NY (US);
Charles Joseph Datz, Victor, NY (US);
Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL (US);
Abstract
A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) may include mobile nodes, each having a wireless transceiver and a controller cooperating with wireless transceiver. The controller may be configured to operate in a geographic area using a time division multiple access (TDMA) protocol and based upon a TDMA epoch including TDMA time slots. The controller may also be configured to dynamically divide into first type mobile nodes and second type mobile nodes based upon a current topologic density in the topologic area relative to a topological density threshold so that each first type mobile node has a periodic TDMA time slot allocated in the TDMA epoch and so that each second type mobile node contends for contention interval TDMA time slots in the TDMA epoch.