Flexible reservation-based mac for wireless body area networks
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorsRongsheng Huang, Lichung Chu, Shigeyuki Shoda, Shinhaeng Lee
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Abstract
A time division multiple access (TDMA) media access control (MAC) protocol is provided for wireless body area networks (BANs). In particular, in some embodiments the described network devices utilize signaling to modify previously made reservations. In other embodiments, reservation adjustment is performed without using signaling. Preemption can also be used to allow flexible reservation adjustment.
Claims31
A method of providing reservation modification for a device in a body area network (BAN), comprising:
- a BAN hub reserving an allocation slot for a BAN device;
- the BAN hub receiving a communication from the BAN device during the allocation slot reserved for the BAN device;
- the BAN hub inserting a message requesting additional communication with the BAN device.
A network device programmed to perform a method of reservation modification in a body area network (BAN), the method comprising:
- a BAN hub reserving an allocation slot for a BAN device;
- the BAN hub receiving a communication from the BAN device during the allocation slot reserved for the BAN device;
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- the BAN hub inserting a message requesting additional communication with the BAN device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.