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Method and device for regulating sending in a wireless telecommunication network
AssigneeOrange
InventorsPatrick Brown, Jérôme Galtier
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A method of regulating sending of data packets, implemented by a station having at least one data packet to be sent via a wireless communication network, includes at least one step of obtaining a binary value representative either of an authorization to send, or of a prohibition to send, a step of sending the packet, the sending step being executed on condition that at least one criterion relating to the binary value or values obtained is satisfied, where the binary value or values are dependent on an index value assigned randomly to the station and a class of packets to which the packet to be sent belongs.
A method for regulating sending of data packets, implemented by a station having at least one data packet to be sent via a wireless communication network, the method comprising:
A device for regulating sending for a station having at least one data packet to be sent via a wireless communication network, the device comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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Wireless channel access: transmission of channel access control information
Wireless channel access: hybrid access
Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access: with collision treatment
Wireless communication networks
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This application is the U.S. national phase of the International Patent Application No. PCT/FR2009/050142 filed Jan. 30, 2009, which claims the benefit of French Application No. 08 50654 filed Feb. 1, 2008, the entire content of which is incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates to the field of wireless telecommunication networks, in particular wireless local area networks (“WLANs”) in accordance with the family of IEEE 802.11 standards.
Such networks are also dubbed Wi-Fi networks. They are used, in numerous applications, to network stations (for example computers, personal assistants and peripherals).
Other aims, characteristics and advantages of the invention will be apparent through the description which follows, given solely by way of nonlimiting example and by reference to the appended drawings in which:
FIG. 1 represents a wireless telecommunication network with stations in accordance with the invention in a preferred embodiment;
FIG. 2 represents a device for regulating sending in accordance with the invention in a preferred embodiment;
FIG. 1 represents a wireless telecommunication network 1 in which stations 10, 10′, 10″ in accordance with the invention are deployed. Each of these stations 10 comprises a device 100 for regulating sending in accordance with the invention.
In the mode illustrated in FIG. 2, the device 100 according to the invention comprises a processor 110, a random access memory 120, a read-only memory of ROM type 130, a module 140 for access to the network 1, so as to send and receive packets and signals in the wireless telecommunication network 1 and a probability table 150. These various elements are linked together by a bus system, not referenced. The means 140 for dispatching and receiving data packets and signals on the wireless telecommunication network 1 consist, in the example described here, of a card for access to the network 1 in accordance with the family of IEEE 802.11 standards.
For the implementation of the invention, use is made of the tournament scheme cited in the introduction.