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US 2012/0057515 A1Published application
Multipoint relay set selection methods and their application to multicast channel reservation in overlapping basic service sets in wireless networks
AssigneeThomson Licensing
InventorsMingquan Wu, Hang Liu, Ishan Mandrekar, Ramkumar Perumanam, Saurabh Mathur
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Abstract
A method and apparatus are described including communicating with neighbor nodes in a wireless network, determining one-hop neighbor nodes and two-hop neighbor nodes responsive to the communication, determining a minimum multipoint relay set responsive to the first working channel determination and communicating over the wireless network using the minimum multipoint relay set.
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A method, said method comprising:
- communicating with neighbor nodes in a wireless network;
- determining one-hop neighbor nodes and two-hop neighbor nodes responsive to said communication;
- determining a minimum multipoint relay set responsive to said first determination;
- and
- communicating over said wireless network using said minimum multipoint relay set.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- means for communicating with neighbor nodes in a wireless network;
- means for determining one-hop neighbor nodes and two-hop neighbor nodes responsive to said communication;
- means for determining a minimum multipoint relay set responsive to said first determination;
- and
- means for communicating over said wireless network using said minimum multipoint relay set.
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