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SCALABLE MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL FOR MULTI-HOP HIGH BANDWIDTH COMMUNICATIONS

  • US 20060268908A1
  • Filed: 08/04/2006
  • Published: 11/30/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A medium access control communication module system configured to be deployed in a wireless communication device capable of high bandwidth communication over a wireless communication network, the module comprising:

  • a topology module configured to parse a beacon signal to obtain information about nodes in the wireless communication network, the topology module further configured to allocate timeslots for data communication;

    a signaling module configured to send control messages to and receive control messages from one or more nodes in the wireless communication network, the signaling module further configured to send routing messages to and receive routing messages from one or more nodes in the wireless communication network; and

    a resource allocation module configured to reserve data transmission resources in the wireless communication network using fair resource allocation for best effort traffic and end-to-end admission control for reliable transmission traffic.

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