Communications networks
AssigneeNokia Corporation
InventorsHarald Haas, Gordon Povey
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Abstract
A communications network comprising a plurality of first stations and a plurality of second stations, said first stations being arranged to communicate with the second stations, said first and second stations being arranged so that each of said first and second stations receives signals and transmits signals at different times, wherein at least two of said first stations are arranged to transmit at the same time and to receive at the same time and at least two of said first stations are arranged so that at least one of said first stations transmits and receives at the same time as at least one of the first stations receives and transmits respectively.
Claims50
A communications network comprising a plurality of first stations and a plurality of second stations, said first stations being arranged to communicate with the second stations, said first and second stations being arranged so that each of said first and second stations receives signals and transmits signals at different times, wherein at least two said first stations are arranged to transmit at the same time and to receive at the same time and at least two of said first stations are arranged so that at least one of first said stations transmits and receives at the same time as at least one of the first stations receives and transmits respectively, and wherein a processor is configured to determine which of said at least two first stations are to transmit and receive at the same time and which of said at least two first stations are to transmit and receive at different times.
A method of communicating in a network comprising a plurality of first stations and a plurality of second stations comprising:
- providing a plurality of first stations and a plurality of second stations, the first stations being arranged to communicate with the second stations;
- said first and second stations being arranged so that each of said first and second stations receive signals and transmit signals at different times;
- determining if a first station is to have a first mode in which it transmits and receives signals at the same time as another first station receives and transmits signals respectively or if that first station to have a second mode in which it transmits and receives signals at a different time to the another first station;
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- controlling said first station to transmit and receive at the same or different times as determined in said determining.
An apparatus comprising a processor configured to determine for a first station between transmitting and receiving signals at the same respective times as another first station and transmitting and receiving signals at different respective times to the another first station;
- wherein the processor is further configured to determine for a second station which is in communication with said the first station, the power with which said second station is transmitting, the transmission power being used to determine if the first station is to transmit and receive signals at the same respective times as the another first station or transmit and receive signals at different respective times to the another first station.
A communications network comprising a plurality of first stations and a plurality of second stations, said first stations being arranged to communicate with the second stations, the first and second stations being arranged so that each of the said first and second stations receives and transmits signals at different times, wherein at least two of the first stations are arranged so that there is a predetermined offset between the transmission and/or reception of signals by the at least two first stations, and wherein means are provided for determining which of at least two of the first stations are arranged so that there is a predetermined offset between the transmission and/or reception of the signals by at least two first stations.
A communications network comprising a plurality of first stations and a plurality of second stations, said first stations being arranged to communicate with the second stations, said first and second stations being arranged so that each of said first and second stations receives signals and transmits signals at different times, wherein at least two said first stations are arranged to transmit at the same time and to receive at the same time and at least two of said first stations are arranged so that at least one of first said stations transmits and receives at the same time as at least one of the first stations receives and transmits respectively, and wherein means are provided to determine which of said at least two first stations are to transmit and receive at the same time and which of said at least two first stations are to transmit and receive at different times.
A method as claimed in 32, wherein if said predetermined power is less than the determined power, then the interference is taken into account when determining the mode of that first station.
A method comprising determining for a first station between transmitting and receiving signals at the same respective times as another first station and transmitting and receiving signals at different respective times to the another first station;
- wherein the method further comprises determining for a second station which is in communication with said the first station;
- the power with which said second station is transmitting, the transmission power being used to determine if the first station is to transmit and receive signals at the same respective times as the another first station or transmit and receive signals at different respective times to the another first station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.