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System and method to provide fairness and service differentation in ad-hoc networks

  • US 7,075,890 B2
  • Filed: 06/07/2004
  • Issued: 07/11/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for performing media access control (MAC) scheduling for nodes in an ad-hoc multi-hopping peer-to-peer wireless communication network, the method comprising:

  • controlling a node attempting a transmission to assess its priority level weight in relation to other nodes in the network based on information included in received request to send (RTS) and clear to send (CTS) messages including those exchanged by the other nodes in the network; and

    scheduling the transmission of the node based on the assessed priority level weight.

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