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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2013
Applicant:
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, SA;
Inventor:
Ahmed Bader, Thuwal, SA;
Assignee:
KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Thuwal, SA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 52/46 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/0808 (2013.01); H04L 5/0035 (2013.01); H04W 52/46 (2013.01); H04W 74/0833 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
A source node in a multihop network determines whether to transmit in a channel based on whether the channel is occupied by a packet transmission with a large number of relays; whether the source node is in the data tones back-off zone; and the source node is in the busy tone back-off zone.