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System and method for a dynamic beacon period in a MAC distributed reservation protocol

  • US 8,018,912 B2
  • Filed: 02/04/2005
  • Issued: 09/13/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of decentralized medium access control in a communications network including at least one wireless device, comprising:

  • dividing time into a sequence of at least one superframe comprising at least one dynamic beacon period and at least one data transmission period, said dynamic beacon period having a predetermined maximum length and including a variable plurality of beacon slots;

    beaconing by transmission of a beacon frame in a unique one of said plurality of beacon slots by every device in an awake state, said beacon frame including information; and

    grouping said plurality of beacon slots into at least one contiguous dynamic beacon period, wherein at least one free beacon slot of said at least one contiguous dynamic beacon period is determined based on beacons received from other devices and information included in said received beacons.

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