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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2010
Kun Tan, Beijing, CN;
Jiansong Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Yongguang Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Ji Fang, Beijing, CN;
Kun Tan, Beijing, CN;
Jiansong Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Yongguang Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Ji Fang, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A fine-grained channel access system and method to facilitate fine-grained channel access in a high-data rate wide-band wireless local-area network (WLAN). Embodiments of the system and method divide an entire wireless channel into proper size subchannels commensurate with the physical layer data rate and typical frame size. Once the subchannels are defined, each node on the WLAN contends independently for each of the fine-grained subchannels. A first orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) technique is used to signal an access point on the WLAN that the node desires one or more of the subchannels. A second OFDM technique (which is different from the first OFDM technique) is used for data transmission. Sometimes there is contention between nodes that want the same subchannel. The access point resolves any contention between the nodes using a frequency domain contention technique that includes a frequency domain backoff technique.