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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2017
Ol Security Limited Liability Company, Dover, DE (US);
Xudong Wang, Kirkland, WA (US);
Chao Gui, San Diego, CA (US);
Abhishek Patil, San Diego, CA (US);
Weilin Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
Michael Nova, Del Mar Mesa, CA (US);
OL SECURITY LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, Dover, DE (US);
Abstract
A scalable medium access control ('MAC') module is provided that avoids conflict resource reservation so that network performance does not degrade as the number of hops or nodes in a wireless network increases. The MAC also provides different access schemes for traffic with different quality of service ('QoS') requirements such that QoS is guaranteed and network resources are efficiently utilized. Furthermore, the resource allocation scheme determines the routing path as resources is allocated for data traffic, thereby achieving more robust layer-2 routing at the MAC layer. Finally, the scalable MAC is compliant with both WiMedia MAC and IEEE 802.15.3 MAC.