Systems and Techniques for Radio Frequency Environment Awareness and Adaptation
First Claim
1. An apparatus comprising:
- a wireless communications device to analyze interference characteristics of at least one interferer in the presence of interference in a radio frequency communications channel, the wireless communications device to selectively perform one or more adaptation mechanisms for adjusting properties of a communications protocol based on the interference characteristics of the at least one interferer.
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Abstract
Various embodiments directed to a radio frequency (RF) environment aware wireless communication device to analyze interference characteristics of at least one interferer in the presence of interference in an RF communications channel and to selectively perform one or more adaptation mechanisms for adjusting properties of a communications protocol based on the interference characteristics of the at least one interferer. The interferer may comprise a non-communicating device (e.g., microwave oven) or a communicating device (e.g., baby monitor, cordless phones, Bluetooth device, etc.) operating within or in the vicinity of a wireless network. The adaptation mechanisms may comprise contention window control to backoff and defer transmission according to a contention window and to leave a backoff counter of the contention window unchanged if the interference is determined to be non-802.11 interference. The adaptation mechanisms may comprise aggressive transmission to transmit over the interference. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
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60 Claims
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1. An apparatus comprising:
a wireless communications device to analyze interference characteristics of at least one interferer in the presence of interference in a radio frequency communications channel, the wireless communications device to selectively perform one or more adaptation mechanisms for adjusting properties of a communications protocol based on the interference characteristics of the at least one interferer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A method comprising:
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analyzing interference characteristics of at least one interferer in the presence of interference in a radio frequency communications channel; and selectively performing one or more adaptation mechanisms for adjusting properties of a communications protocol based on the interference characteristics of the at least one interferer. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. An article comprising a computer-readable storage medium containing instructions that if executed enable a system to:
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analyze interference characteristics of at least one interferer in the presence of interference in a radio frequency communications channel; and selectively perform one or more adaptation mechanisms for adjusting properties of a communications protocol based on the interference characteristics of the at least one interferer. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52)
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53. A system comprising:
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an antenna; and a wireless communications device to couple to the antenna, the wireless communications device comprising a radio frequency (RF) environment awareness and adaptation module to analyze interference characteristics of at least one interferer in the presence of interference in an RF communications channel and to selectively perform one or more adaptation mechanisms for adjusting properties of a communications protocol based on the interference characteristics of the at least one interferer. - View Dependent Claims (54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60)
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