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AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorDilip Krishnaswamy
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Mobile communication devices and wireless network device each can participate in, or solely provide, opportunistic data forwarding in a wireless network such as a wireless local area network or radio access network. A supporting node receives wireless communication between a transmitting node and a receiving node comprising packet data units (PDUs). The receiving node communicates to the transmitting node that one or more portions of the communication were not received, which is overheard by the supporting node. The supporting node can have sufficient over-the-air (OTA) allocation in its transmit opportunity to relay the failed portions to the receiving node. Thereby, techniques such as more robust error encoding, longer transmit allocations, etc., that would reduce the effective data throughput for OTA resources are avoided while providing an ability to more rapidly adapt to a changing channel state.
A method for opportunistic data forwarding in a wireless network, comprising:
At least one processor for opportunistic data forwarding in a wireless network, comprising:
A computer program product for opportunistic data forwarding in a wireless network, comprising:
An apparatus for opportunistic data forwarding in a wireless network, comprising:
An apparatus for opportunistic data forwarding in a wireless network, comprising:
A method for opportunistic data forwarding in a wireless network, comprising:
At least one processor for opportunistic data forwarding in a wireless network, comprising:
A computer program product for opportunistic data forwarding in a wireless network, comprising:
An apparatus for opportunistic data forwarding in a wireless network, comprising:
An apparatus for opportunistic data forwarding in a wireless network, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.