Patent ID: 7974239
Filing Date: 2011-07-05
Classification: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method of allocating medium access time in a wireless network, comprising: determining a periodic service interval of an application stream based on a transmission specification (TSPEC), a delay requirement, and local resource; defining a low-latency category and a high-efficiency category of the application stream; categorizing the application stream into one of the low-latency category or the high-efficiency category based on the determined periodic service interval; allocating medium access time within a superframe based on the categorizing, wherein (a) medium access slots for the low-latency category of the application stream are located within a first portion of a two-dimensional representation of the superframe and (b) medium access slots for the high-efficiency category of the application stream are located within a second portion of the two-dimensional representation of the superframe, and wherein the distance in the two-dimensional representation of the superframe is maximized between the low-latency category and the high-efficiency category.