Synchronous two-phase rate and power control in WLANs
First Claim
1. A method for operation of a node operating in a wireless network comprising the steps of:
- in a synchronized manner with all other nodes in said wireless network, periodically alternating between a reference phase and an operational phase;
during the reference phase, once communication with the wireless network is established by the initial phase, transmitting at maximum power while performing a rate adaptation and variable estimation to infer said wireless network'"'"'s interference characteristics at both sender and receiver;
interference at the sender being estimated using an average transmission time ETT and interference at the receiver being estimated using a utility of medium reservation RTSUtil, with a determination of ETT being related to ETT*phi2+TT*(1−
phi2), with TT being a current transmission time and phi2 being a configurable constant;
RTSUtil being set to 1 if pRTS<
(pTotal+α
) otherwise RTSUtil being set to 0, with pRTS being packet loss rate with medium reservation, pTotal being total packet loss rate, with or without medium reservation, and α
being a configurable constant; and
during the operational phase, transmitting at a power level that is optimal for transmission based on information obtained from the reference phase.
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Abstract
A method for operation of a node operating in a wireless network comprising the steps of during an initial phase, setting transmission power and data transmission rate to initial settings and transmitting the initial settings to the wireless network in order to initiate communication with said wireless network during a reference phase once communication with the wireless network is established by the initial phase, transmitting at maximum power while performing a rate adaptation and at least one variable estimation and during an operational phase, transmitting at a power level that is optimal for transmission based on information obtained from the reference phase.
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8 Claims
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1. A method for operation of a node operating in a wireless network comprising the steps of:
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in a synchronized manner with all other nodes in said wireless network, periodically alternating between a reference phase and an operational phase; during the reference phase, once communication with the wireless network is established by the initial phase, transmitting at maximum power while performing a rate adaptation and variable estimation to infer said wireless network'"'"'s interference characteristics at both sender and receiver;
interference at the sender being estimated using an average transmission time ETT and interference at the receiver being estimated using a utility of medium reservation RTSUtil, with a determination of ETT being related to ETT*phi2+TT*(1−
phi2), with TT being a current transmission time and phi2 being a configurable constant;
RTSUtil being set to 1 if pRTS<
(pTotal+α
) otherwise RTSUtil being set to 0, with pRTS being packet loss rate with medium reservation, pTotal being total packet loss rate, with or without medium reservation, and α
being a configurable constant; andduring the operational phase, transmitting at a power level that is optimal for transmission based on information obtained from the reference phase. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of program instructions, the plurality of program instructions including instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the steps of a method for operation of a node operating in a wireless network comprising:
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in a synchronized manner with all other nodes in said wireless network, periodically alternating between a reference phase and an operational phase; during the reference phase, once communication with the wireless network is established by the initial phase, transmitting at maximum power while performing a rate adaptation and variable estimation to infer said wireless network'"'"'s interference characteristics at both sender and receiver;
interference at the sender being estimated using an average transmission time ETT and interference at the receiver being estimated using a utility of medium reservation RTSUtil), with a determination of ETT being related to ETT=ETT*phi2+TT*(1−
phi2), with TT being a current transmission time and phi2 being a configurable constant;
RTSUtil being set to 1 if pRTS<
(pTotal+α
) otherwise RTSUtil being set to 0, with pRTS being packet loss rate with medium reservation, pTotal being total packet loss rate, with or without medium reservation, and α
being a configurable constant; andduring the operational phase, transmitting at a power level that is optimal for transmission based on information obtained from the reference phase. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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