Method and apparatus for adaptive processing gain for multiple source devices in a communications system
First Claim
1. A method of dynamically adapting the number of available channels in a set of available data transmission channels for use by at least one source device to transmit stored information to a destination device, said method comprising the steps of:
- computing, at the destination device, at least one received signal statistic;
determining, at the destination device, an adjustment to the number of available channels in said set based on said at least one computed received signal statistic;
sending a signal from the destination device to the at least one source device indicating the adjusted number of available data transmission channels for transmitting the stored information; and
independently selecting, at the source device, a data transmission channel from the adjusted number of available data transmission channels for transmitting the stored information according to a multiple pass transmission algorithm having at least one transmission pass, wherein the data transmission channel is selected based at least in part on the stored information, and wherein the step of sending the signal from the destination device to the at least one source device is at least one of performed at the beginning of and performed during a transmission pass in the multiple pass transmission algorithm.
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Abstract
A method of dynamically adapting the number of available channels in a first set of available channels for use by at least one signal source in a communications system. The method includes the steps of computing at least one received signal statistic; determining an adjustment to the number of available channels in the first set based on the at least one computed received signal statistic; and signaling to each active signal source in the system to cause the signal sources to use the adjusted number of available channels for transmitting signals.
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29 Claims
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1. A method of dynamically adapting the number of available channels in a set of available data transmission channels for use by at least one source device to transmit stored information to a destination device, said method comprising the steps of:
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computing, at the destination device, at least one received signal statistic; determining, at the destination device, an adjustment to the number of available channels in said set based on said at least one computed received signal statistic; sending a signal from the destination device to the at least one source device indicating the adjusted number of available data transmission channels for transmitting the stored information; and independently selecting, at the source device, a data transmission channel from the adjusted number of available data transmission channels for transmitting the stored information according to a multiple pass transmission algorithm having at least one transmission pass, wherein the data transmission channel is selected based at least in part on the stored information, and wherein the step of sending the signal from the destination device to the at least one source device is at least one of performed at the beginning of and performed during a transmission pass in the multiple pass transmission algorithm. - 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)
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24. A communications system comprising:
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at least one source device having stored identification data, a signal source, and a channel selector, the signal source adapted for transmitting at least part of the identification data in an active state over a data transmission channel, the channel selector adapted for independently choosing at the source device the data transmission channel from an adjusted number of available data transmission channels based directly on a predetermined subset of the stored identification data; and at least one destination device adapted for computing at least one received signal statistic based on a measure of a number of unoccupied channels, determining the adjusted number of available data transmission channels from a first set of available data transmission channels based on said at least one computed received signal statistic, and signaling to each active signal source in the system to cause the signal sources to use the adjusted number of available data transmission channels for transmitting the identification data. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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