Patent ID: 7756102
Filing Date: 2010-07-13
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A communication system, comprising: devices configured to communicate with each other through a temporal sequence of frames, wherein each frame includes sub-channels; wherein a total number of sub-channels in a given frame is dynamically determined based on a transmission schedule; wherein the transmission schedule is calculated by the devices based on transmission lists that are exchanged between the devices; wherein a first transmission list for a first device includes a first group of sub-channels reserved by the first device and a second group of sub-channels reserved by a set of devices communicating with the first device; and wherein the total number of sub-channels is a least common multiple of the number of sub-channels in the transmission lists exchanged between the devices, and wherein the least common multiple is a product of ranks of the transmission lists divided by a largest common divisor of the ranks.