Patent ID: 9386578
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method carried out by a given node within an ad-hoc wireless network of nodes, the network including a controller node for a current time period, the method comprising: obtaining one or more air-interface resource requests for the current time period, each obtained resource request indicating a requesting node and a requested resource; using a network-standard algorithm for deriving a network-wide resource-allocation schedule for the current time period based at least in part on the obtained resource requests; verifying the derived resource-allocation schedule based at least in part on a verification value, the verification value having been derived by the controller node from the network-wide resource-allocation schedule using a network-standard verification function; and operating according to the verified resource-allocation schedule for the current time period; wherein obtaining the one or more resource requests comprises generating and broadcasting one or more resource requests; wherein the one or more generated resource requests include one or more new resource requests, wherein broadcasting the one or more generated resource requests comprises broadcasting one or more of the generated new resource requests during one or more time slots designated for multiple access; further comprising rebroadcasting a particular new resource request in response to determining that a new-resource-request rebroadcast received from the controller node does not include the particular new resource request.