Asynchronous low-power multi-channel media access control

RK Panta, S Tozlu, A Keshavarzian - US Patent 8,588,119, 2013 - Google Patents
In an aspect, a method for wirelessly transferring data between nodes may include
periodically waking a receiving node from a sleep mode to a receive mode and returning the …

Conditional scheduling for asynchronous wireless communication

S Nanda, A Sampath - US Patent 8,310,996, 2012 - Google Patents
A wireless media access control supports asynchronous communication and overlapping
transmissions. Here, a wireless node may determine whether to request or schedule a …

Message exchange scheme for asynchronous wireless communication

S Nanda, A Sampath - US Patent 8,416,762, 2013 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A message exchange scheme for wireless communication employs a
request, a grant, and a confirmation. In some implementations wireless media access control …

Reverse link lower layer assisted video error control

YC Lee, CG Lott, P Tinnakornsrisuphap… - US Patent …, 2013 - Google Patents
The disclosure relates to reverse link lower layer assisted video error control. A method may
encode video data, form a packet with the encoded video data, and transmit the packet …

Reservation/retry media access control

R Bontempi - US Patent 7,027,461, 2006 - Google Patents
All upstream messages that are desired to be sent from one of a plurality of settop terminals
sharing a common upstream channel are segmented into data packets through an …

Wake on wireless LAN schemes

C Vu, T Donovan, K Chhabra, S Goel - US Patent 7,684,835, 2010 - Google Patents
A power-management system for wireless network devices includes a media access control
module (MAC) that receives a first enable signal and based thereon selectively transmits …

Network allocation vector settings for multi-user operation

PK Huang, RJ Stacey - US Patent 10,200,989, 2019 - Google Patents
Methods, computer readable media, and wireless appara tuses are disclosed for setting
network allocation vectors (NAV) for multi-user (MU) operation. An apparatus of a wireless …

Media access control protocol with priority and contention-free intervals

LW Yonge III, BE Markwalter, IISJ Kostoff… - US Patent …, 2008 - Google Patents
An access contention scheme having both multi-level pri orities and a contention-free
access indicator for use by a station in a network of Stations. When a contention control …

Frame aggregation in wireless communications networks

Z Tao, D Gu, Y Nagai - US Patent 7,474,676, 2009 - Google Patents
A method aggregates frames to be transmitted over a channel in a wireless network into a
single frame. Multiple MSDU frames having identical destination addresses and identical …

Uplink multi-user transmission

L Chu, L Wang, J Jiang, H Zhang, Y Sun… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
A method for transmitting a subchannel availability for an uplink (UL) multi-user (MU)
transmission is described. An availability of one or more subchannels of an orthogonal …