Abstract Quality of Service (QoS) support is provided by means of a Tiered Contention
Multiple Access (TCMA) distributed medium access protocol that schedules transmission of …

(57) ABSTRACT Quality of Service (QoS) support is provided by means of a Tiered
Contention Multiple Access (TCMA) distributed medium access protocol that schedules …

Using low PF values in conjunction with traffic-adapted con tention windows leads to
Substantial decreases in delay and jitter. In general, adaptation to traffic reduces contention …

(57) ABSTRACT A method and system reduce interference between overlap ping first and
second wireless LAN cells in a medium. Each cell includes a respective plurality of member …

Abstract Quality of Service (QoS) support is provided by a Tiered Contention Multiple Access
(TCMA) distributed medium access protocol that schedules transmission of different types of …

Embodiments of a data handling apparatus can include a network interface controller
configured to interface a pro cessing node to a network. The network interface controller can …

A method for scheduling a crossbar using distributed request-grant-accept arbitration
between input group arbiters and output group arbiters in a switch unit is provided. The …

NU 328 queue uniquely associated with the impairment class of the received packet. A
received packet to be reordered may be stored in a reorder traffic FIFO queue uniquely …

(57) ABSTRACT Quality of Service (QoS) support is provided by means of a Tiered
Contention Multiple Access (TCMA) distributed medium access protocol that schedules …

A cyclic prioritized multiple access method is disclosed which includes Fixed Deterministic
Post-Backoff. Fixed deterministic post-backoff reduces conflicts between access points of …