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Scalable media access control for multi-hop high bandwidth communications

  • US 7,957,356 B2
  • Filed: 08/04/2006
  • Issued: 06/07/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A medium access control communication module system configured to be deployed in a wireless communication device capable of communication over a wireless mesh communication network comprising:

  • a topology module configured to parse a beacon signal to obtain information about nodes in the wireless mesh communication network, the topology module further configured to allocate timeslots for data communication;

    a signaling module configured to send control messages to and receive control messages from one or more nodes in the wireless mesh communication network, the signaling module further configured to send routing messages to and receive routing messages from one or more nodes in the wireless mesh communication network; and

    a resource allocation module configured to, responsive to receiving a request from a higher-layer protocol to establish a new connection, reserve data transmission resources in the wireless mesh communication network using fair resource allocation for any best effort traffic indicated in the request and using end-to-end admission control for any reliable transmission traffic indicated in the request.

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