Method of exchanging message and devices in wireless network

• US 8,493,949 B2
• Filed: 10/04/2010
• Issued: 07/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Jeon, Beom Jin, Kim, Joong Heon
• Primary Examiner(s): Sinkantarakorn, Pao
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chang, Richard K
• Application Number:
  US12/897,737
• Publication Number:
  US 20110019646A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,023 Days
• Field of Search: 370/331, 370/338, 455/434
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/12 using downlink control channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A method of exchanging messages at a device in a wireless network comprises transmitting a change request message for requesting a change of a beacon position among configuration parameters of the wireless network to a coordinator; and receiving a response message in response to the request message from the coordinator.

Claims

1. A method of exchanging messages at a coordinator in a wireless network, the method comprising:

receiving a change request message for requesting a change of a superframe duration length among configuration parameters of the wireless network from a device associated with the wireless network;

transmitting a response message to the device in response to the request message, wherein the response message comprises a command ID field comprising a unique number that identifies the response message, a length field indicating a length of the response message, and a reason code field comprising a reason code; and

transmitting a plurality of beacons to the device when the reason code field comprises the reason code of “

SUCCESS”

, wherein each of the plurality of beacons comprises a parameter change information element (IE) including a changed superframe duration length and a change beacon number field comprising a beacon number of a superframe when the change of the superframe duration takes effect,

wherein the superframe duration length comprises the length of a superframe for channel resources allocated from the coordinator to another device, and

wherein the parameter change IE comprises an IE index field comprising a unique number that identifies the parameter change IE, a change type field indicating a type of the parameter to be changed, and a network parameter field comprising information about a changed value of the parameter.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the request message comprises a command ID field comprising a unique number that identifies the request message, a length field indicating a length of the request message, and a superframe duration field indicating a requested superframe duration length.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the information about the changed value of the parameter is a new superframe duration length.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a last beacon among the plurality of beacons is broadcasted by the coordinator prior to a broadcast of a beacon corresponding to the beacon number.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting, to the device, a beacon to which the changed superframe duration length is applied.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the reason code field comprises a reason for failure when the change of the superframe duration length is not possible.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the change request message and the response message are included in a media access control (MAC) packet.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the reason for failure is one of “

Unsupported Feature”

, “

Already synchronized with higher priority stream”

, “

Network shutdown in progress”

, “

Channel change in progress”

, “

Coordinator handover in progress” and

“

Other failure”

.

9. A coordinator of a wireless network comprising:

a transmitting module;

a receiving module configured to receive a change request message for requesting a change of a superframe duration length among configuration parameters of the wireless network from a device of the wireless network; and

a control module configured to generate a response message in response to the request message and to transmit the response message to the device via the transmitting module, wherein the response message comprises a command ID field comprising a unique number that identifies the response message, a length field indicating a length of the response message, and a reason code field comprising a reason code,

wherein the control module is further configured to transmit a plurality of beacons to the device when the reason code field comprises the reason code of “

SUCCESS”

, wherein each of the plurality of beacons comprises a parameter change information element (IE) including a changed superframe duration length and a change beacon number field comprising a beacon number of a superframe when the change of the superframe duration takes effect,

wherein the superframe duration length comprises the length of a superframe for channel resources allocated from the coordinator to another device, and

wherein the parameter change IE comprises a IE index field comprising a unique number that identifies the parameter change IE, a change type field indicating a type of the parameter to be changed, and a network parameter field comprising information about a changed value of the parameter.

10. The coordinator of claim 9, wherein the control module transmits a beacon, via the transmitting module, to the device to which the changed superframe duration length is applied.