Communications in an ad-hoc multicast network
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsAdrian P. STEPHENS, Alexandre S. STOJANOVSKI, Alexey KHORYAEV
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Abstract
A technology for a user equipment (UE) that is operable to communicate in an ad-hoc wireless multicast communications network is disclosed. Another UE can be selected to send a request to send (RTS) control frame to. The RTS control frame can be communicated to the other UE. The RTS control frame indicates that the UE requests to send a multicast data frame. A clear to send (CTS) message can be received from the other UE, indicating the UE is clear to send the multicast data frame. The multicast data frame can be transmitted by the UE to a selected group of UEs.
Claims20
A user equipment (UE) operable to communicate in an ad-hoc wireless multicast communications network, the UE having computer circuitry configured to:
- select another UE to send a request to send (RTS) control frame to;
- communicate, to the other UE, the RTS control frame, wherein the RTS control frame indicates that the UE requests to send a multicast data frame;
- receive, from the other UE, a clear to send (CTS) message, indicating the UE is clear to send the multicast data frame;
- and
- transmit the multicast data frame to a selected group of UEs.
A first user equipment (UE) operable to communicate in a decentralized multicast wireless communications network, the UE having computer circuitry configured to:
- multicast a talk burst train to a selected group of UEs;
- communicate a transmit ceased message to the selected group of UEs indicating the completion of the talk burst train;
- receive, from a second UE, a request to send (RTS) control frame, wherein the RTS control frame indicates that the second UE requests to send a multicast data frame;
- and
- communicate, to the second UE, a clear to send (CTS) message indicating that each UE within a communication perimeter of the first UE will refrain from communicating during the multicast of the data frame.
A product including a non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon instructions that are adapted to be executed to implement a method of communicating in a multicast communications network, the method comprising:
- selecting an other UE to send an request to send (RTS) control frame to;
- communicating, to the other UE, the RTS control frame, wherein the RTS control frame indicates that the UE requests to send a multicast data frame;
- receiving, from the other UE, a clear to send (CTS) message, indicating the UE is clear to send the multicast data frame within a communication perimeter of the other UE;
- and
- multicasting the data frame to a selected group of UEs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.