METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING QUALITY OF SERVICE OVER A CONTENTION ACCESS PERIOD OF A WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORK
First Claim
1. A method for assuring a quality of service (QoS) in a system employing a contention access period, the method comprising the steps of:
- employing a contention-based medium access technique to communicate within the whole contention access period;
determining that another node has a QoS requirement; and
reserving a portion of the contention access period for the other node'"'"'s transmissions.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing quality of service over a contention access period of a wireless personal area network is provided herein. Particularly, the layers above the MAC are allowed to reserve portions of a contention access period (CAP) in order to schedule their QoS actions cooperatively thereby avoiding the dependence on the MAC for QoS performance. By using cooperative scheduling, a node can send a QoS packet from the QoS_Layer to the MAC, and know that it will be transmitted according to the specified QoS requirement. As a result, whenever a node sends a QoS packet in the reserved portion of the CAP, the channel will be guaranteed to be free from competing nodes'"'"' packets because those competing nodes will delay their transmissions based on the shared schedule.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for assuring a quality of service (QoS) in a system employing a contention access period, the method comprising the steps of:
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employing a contention-based medium access technique to communicate within the whole contention access period; determining that another node has a QoS requirement; and reserving a portion of the contention access period for the other node'"'"'s transmissions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method for a node to assure quality of service (QoS) in a system employing a contention access period, the method comprising the steps of:
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notifying a network of the QoS requirement; reserving a portion of the contention access period for transmissions only by the node; and transmitting within the reserved portion of the contention access period. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A node comprising:
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a transmitter notifying a network of a quality of service (QoS) requirement; logic circuitry reserving a portion of a contention access period for transmissions only by the node; and a transmitter transmitting within the reserved portion of the contention access period. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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