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Method and apparatus for managing communication resources using neighbor segregation

  • US 6,628,636 B1
  • Filed: 06/28/1999
  • Issued: 09/30/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/28/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for automatically managing communications channel resources between nodes in a network, wherein each node has neighboring nodes and each node communicates during specific time slots on a time multiplex basis, the method comprising:

  • communicating between nodes in the network using a time division multiple access structure, the time division multiple access structure including time divisions, each time division having frames, each frame having time slots, the time slots induding broadcast slots and standby slots;

    monitoring, at a particular node, a transmission characteristic of each of the neighboring nodes of the particular node;

    segregating at least a portion of the neighboring nodes of the particular node into at least a first group and a second group based in the monitored transmission characteristic;

    adjusting a transmission parameter to the first group based on the monitored transmission characteristic; and

    adjusting a transmission parameter to the second group based on the monitored transmission characteristic.

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