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Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016

Filed:

May. 29, 2015
Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Girts Folkmanis, San Francisco, CA (US);

Paul Heninwolf, San Carlos, CA (US);

Assignee:

GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01); H04L 1/18 (2006.01); H04W 40/24 (2009.01); H04L 25/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/085 (2013.01); H04L 1/18 (2013.01); H04L 25/20 (2013.01); H04W 40/24 (2013.01); H04W 72/1278 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01); H04W 88/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

Collisions in wireless networks may be avoided by limiting competing transmissions at the same time or within a temporally proximate time range. A relay schedule may be transmitted with each frame in a transmission chain, the relay schedule containing transmission time information such that each participating node in the transmission chain has designated transmission times. The transmission times may be different such that transmissions are spaced out in an effective manner. A non-participant node may receive the transmission with the relay schedule and may delay transmissions during conflicting times based on the relay schedule.


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