Patent ID: 9106435
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: H04L,H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) network, comprising: dedicating a portion of a Media Access Plan (“MAP”) cycle prior to a MAP packet to reservation requests transmitted as appended to one or more small data packets, wherein the one or more small data packets are less than or equal to 252 bytes in size; dedicating a portion of the MAP cycle after the MAP packet to data traffic; determining whether guaranteed performance is required for a Carrier Sense Multiple Access (“CSMA”) transmission; waiting for a dedicated contention-free period within a CSMA transmission opportunity to transmit a first of the one of more small data packets if guaranteed performance is not required; and transmitting the MAP packet to a plurality of nodes on the MoCA network.