Method of accommodating periodic interfering signals in a wireless network
First Claim
1. A method of accommodating regularly intermittent interfering signals in a wireless network, comprising:
- scanning in a transmission medium at a coordinator device for the regularly intermittent interfering signals;
measuring a current repetition period of the regularly intermittent interfering signals; and
altering a superframe period in the wireless network such that the superframe period is equal to the current repetition period of the regularly intermittent interfering signals,wherein the regularly intermittent interfering signals are present in the transmission medium during a series of first regularly-repeating time durations, and are absent from the transmission medium during a series of second regularly-repeating time durations, andwherein the repetition period indicates how frequently the first regularly-repeating time durations occur.
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Abstract
A method is provided for accommodating periodic interfering signals in a wireless network. In this method, a network scans a transmission medium to locate any interfering signals. If it finds interfering signals, the scan determines their period, and the network alters the period of its superframes such that: either the period of the superframes is equal to the period of the interfering signals; the period of the superframes is an integer multiple of the period of the interfering signals; or the period of the interfering signals is an integer multiple of the period of the superframes. The network then alters the position of the superframes relative to the position of the interfering signals to arrange things such that no portion of the interfering signal interferes with a superframe beacon, such that that a maximum amount of contiguous channel time is provided in each superframe, or both.
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1. A method of accommodating regularly intermittent interfering signals in a wireless network, comprising:
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scanning in a transmission medium at a coordinator device for the regularly intermittent interfering signals; measuring a current repetition period of the regularly intermittent interfering signals; and altering a superframe period in the wireless network such that the superframe period is equal to the current repetition period of the regularly intermittent interfering signals, wherein the regularly intermittent interfering signals are present in the transmission medium during a series of first regularly-repeating time durations, and are absent from the transmission medium during a series of second regularly-repeating time durations, and wherein the repetition period indicates how frequently the first regularly-repeating time durations occur. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method of accommodating regularly intermittent interfering signals in a wireless network, comprising:
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scanning in a transmission medium at a coordinator device for the regularly intermittent interfering signals; measuring a current repetition period of the regularly intermittent interfering signals; and altering a superframe period in the wireless network such that the superframe period is equal to n times the current repetition period of the regularly intermittent interfering signals, where n is an integer greater than 1, wherein the regularly intermittent interfering signals are present in the transmission medium during a series of first regularly-repeating time durations, and are absent from the transmission medium during a series of second regularly-repeating time durations, and wherein the repetition period indicates how frequently the first regularly-repeating time durations occur. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of accommodating regularly intermittent interfering signals in a wireless network, comprising:
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scanning in a transmission medium for the regularly intermittent interfering signals; measuring a current repetition period of the regularly intermittent interfering signals; and altering a superframe period in the wireless network such that the superframe period is equal to 1/n times the current repetition period of the regularly intermittent interfering signals, where n is an integer greater than 1, wherein the regularly intermittent interfering signals are present in the transmission medium during a series of first regularly-repeating time durations, and are absent from the transmission medium during a series of second regularly-repeating time durations, and wherein the repetition period indicates how frequently the first regularly-repeating time durations occur. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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