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Wireless network for wideband indoor communications

  • US 4,789,983 A
  • Filed: 03/05/1987
  • Issued: 12/06/1988
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/05/1987
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A wideband packet communication network comprising:

  • a plurality of transmitters (10-19), each transmitter being associated with a separate user or group of users of the network for transmitting packets of information between an active user or group of users and the network via either one of a hard-wired or wireless connection during a frame period; and

    a central node (30) for communicating with each of the plurality of transmitters via the hard-wired or wireless connection, the central node comprising,processor means (35) for (a) determining packet transmission requirements associated with each transmitter communicating with the central node via a wireless connection during a first subperiod of each frame period, (b) causing each wireless transmitter determined to have a packet transmission requirement, to transmit its packets of information during a separate second subperiod of time of each frame period, (c) detecting during the first and/or second subperiods of each frame period, transmission impairments associated with each wireless transmitter, and (d) causing packets of information transmitted from each transmitter determined to have a transmission impairment to be transmitted at a transmission rate sufficient to lessen the determined transmission impairment, andmeans (32-34) for (a) receiving packets of information from the plurality of transmitters of the network, and (b) retransmitting the packets to receivers associated with the destined users of the packets of information via an appropriate hard-wired or wireless connection.

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