System and method for broadband millimeter wave data communication

• US 6,778,516 B1
• Filed: 11/05/1999
• Issued: 08/17/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: BWA Technology Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Harris Broadband Wireless Access Incorporated
• Inventors: Schafer, David C., Foster, Robert B. Jr., Baugh, Charles R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yao, Kwang Bin
• Application Number:
  US09/434,707
• Time in Patent Office: 1,747 Days
• Field of Search: 370/315, 370/316, 370/326, 370/328, 370/329, 370/330, 370/336, 370/337, 370/338, 370/339, 370/345, 370/349, 455/101, 455/132, 455/272, 455/273, 455/277.1, 455/277.2, 455/278.1
• US Class Current: 370/336
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/0682 by delay compensation, e.g. by compensation of propagation delay or variations thereof, by ranging
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/06 using space diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/02 Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/52 based on load
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/56 based on priority criteria
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/14 Backbone network devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

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