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Systems and methods for traffic-aware medium access selection

  • US 9,392,487 B2
  • Filed: 05/06/2013
  • Issued: 07/12/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for communicating data using multiple media access control (MAC) access techniques, the method comprising:

  • obtaining, by a transmitter, a first traffic flow and a second traffic flow;

    selecting a contention-based access MAC communication scheme to communicate the second traffic flow in response to determining that a maximum latency period associated with the second traffic flow is exceeded by a delay period associated with a scheduling-based access MAC communication scheme; and

    communicating, by the transmitter, the first traffic flow using a first spreading code associated with the scheduling-based access MAC communication scheme and the second traffic flow using a second spreading code associated with the contention-based access MAC communication scheme, the first traffic flow and the second traffic flow being communicated over the same network during the same time period, and the first spreading code being different than the second spreading code such that scheduling-based transmissions are separated from contention-based transmissions in the code domain.

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