Network protocol method, access point device and peripheral devices for providing for an efficient centrally coordinated peer-to-peer wireless communications network

A low complexity wireless source peripheral device for efficiently accessing a radio resource in a wireless communication system, for, upon sending/receiving an initiation request and upon initializing, preparing N blocks, N a predetermined integer, for transmission, comprising:

• A) a block assignment receiver unit, arranged to receive block assignments assigned to the wireless source peripheral device, for transmitting a data block with a sequence number and receiving a forwarded acknowledgment for the data block from an access point unit;
• B) an acknowledgment interpreter, coupled to the block assignment receiver unit, for determining whether the forwarded acknowledgment represents one of:
• a negative acknowledgment and a positive acknowledgment, and
• where the forwarded acknowledgment is the negative acknowledgment, sending a signal to the block assignment receiver unit to wait for a block assignment, and
• where the forwarded acknowledgment is the positive acknowledgment, incrementing the sequence number and preparing a data block until N data blocks have been positively acknowledged.

A low complexity wireless destination peripheral device for efficiently accessing a radio resource in a wireless communication system, for, upon sending/receiving an initiation request and upon initializing, for reception of N blocks of data, N a predetermined integer, comprising:

• A) a block assignment receiver, arranged to receive block assignments from an access point unit where the block assignments are assigned to the wireless destination peripheral device, for receiving a data block with a sequence number and transmitting sequence information to the access point unit that provides one of:
• a positive acknowledgment together with the sequence number, and
• a negative acknowledgment;
• and
• B) a block-sequence detector, coupled to the block assignment receiver, for determining whether the sequence number corresponds to a wireless destination peripheral sequence number,
• and where the sequence number corresponds to the wireless destination peripheral sequence number, the data block is stored, and the wireless destination peripheral sequence number is incremented, and
• where the sequence number fails to correspond to the wireless destination peripheral sequence number, the data block is discarded.

An article of manufacture for an access point device, comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code thereon for implementing the steps of:

• (A) broadcasting a block assignment that specifies a wireless source peripheral and a wireless destination peripheral;
• (B) receiving, from the wireless destination peripheral, sequence information;
• (C) determining whether the sequence information represents one of:
• a negative acknowledgment and a positive acknowledgment with a sequence number;
• and
• (D) forwarding an acknowledgment to the wireless source peripheral based on the sequence information, and repeating steps (A)-(D) until N blocks of data, N a predetermined integer, have been transferred from the wireless source peripheral to the wireless destination peripheral.

A network protocol method for, following initialization, providing efficient centrally coordinated peer-to-peer communication of N blocks of data, where N is an integer representing a total number of blocks of data to be transmitted, utilizing at least a first access point device (APD), a plurality of wireless source peripheral devices (WSPDs) and a plurality of wireless destination peripheral devices (WDPDs), the network protocol method comprising the steps of:

• A) broadcasting, by the APD, a block assignment with an address of a first WSPD and an address of a first WDPD;
• B) transmitting, by first WSPD, a block of data together with a sequence number;
• C) transmitting, by the first WDPD, acknowledgment information with the sequence number upon receiving the block of data with the sequence number;
• D) forwarding the acknowledgment information, by the APD, to the WSPD and returning to step A to continue transmission of blocks until N blocks have been received successfully by the WDPD.