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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2013
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Gang Ding, San Diego, CA (US);
Kiran S. Chikkappa, Bangalore, IN;
Patrik N. Lundqvist, Encinitas, CA (US);
Rahul Malik, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/413 (2006.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/0231 (2013.01); H04W 74/0808 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of adjusting a carrier sense threshold to avoid hidden nodes during wireless broadcast. The method includes monitoring a load of the peer-to-peer network before broadcasting a message from a node. The method also includes adjusting a carrier sense threshold (CST) based on the load of the peer-to-peer network to avoid broadcast message collisions due to one or more hidden nodes.