Method of band multiplexing to improve system capacity for a multi-band communication system
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsShaomin Samuel Mo, Alexander D. Gelman
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Abstract
A control method of synchronizing communications between or among a plurality of devices in a communication system includes detecting beacons from the plurality of devices in the communication system, and establishing a reservation for at least a portion of the plurality of devices in the communication system. Each reservation is a frame interval in which to transmit symbols from one device to one or more of the other devices in the communications system. Each frame interval and intra-frame interval is set according to the established reservation. Each frame interval and intra-frame interval is a plural, integral number of symbol periods in duration.
Claims20
A control method for synchronizing communications between or among a plurality of devices in a communication system;
- the method comprising the steps of:
- a) detecting beacons from the plurality of devices in the communication system;
- b) establishing a reservation for at least a portion of the plurality of devices in the communication system, each reservation being a frame interval in which to transmit symbols from one device to one or more other devices in the communications system;
- and
- c) setting each frame interval and a corresponding intra-frame interval according to the established reservation, each frame interval and each intra-frame interval being a plural, integral number of symbol periods in duration.
A method of controlling synchronization of a plurality of devices during a plurality of frames of a superframe in a communication system;
- the method comprising the steps of:
- a) detecting, by each device, beacons from the plurality of other devices in the communication system;
- b) setting each frame interval and each intra-frame interval of the superframe to be a plural, integral number of symbol periods in duration;
- and
- c) aligning a start of each of the frame intervals of the superframe according to the detected beacons.
A control method of band multiplexing communications from the plurality of devices in the communication system, the method comprising the steps of:
- synchronizing frame intervals among the plurality of devices, frame interval being intervals in which symbol data is transmitted, by setting each frame interval and each intra-frame interval to be a plural, integral number of symbol periods in duration;
- rotating, by each device, between or among a plurality of frequency bands;
- and
- transmitting one or more symbols from each device at each of the rotated transmission frequencies such that simultaneous transmissions by respective devices are at different transmission frequencies.
A computer readable storage medium including software that is configured to control a general purpose computer to implement a method embodied in a computer readable medium to control communication from a device in the communication system, the method comprising the steps of:
- a) detecting beacons from a plurality of other devices in the communication system;
- b) establishing a reservation for the device, the reservation being a frame interval in which to transmit symbols from the device to one or more other devices in the communications system;
- and
- c) setting each frame interval and a corresponding intra-frame interval according to the established reservation, each frame interval and each intra-frame interval being a plural, integral number of symbol periods in duration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.