Patent ID: 8238836
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: H04L,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method operational in a fourth device having a peer-to-peer connection with a third device to facilitate interference management for a second peer-to-peer connection between a first device and a second device within a wireless network, comprising: monitoring to receive a first transmission request signal from the third device and a second transmission request signal from the first device, the first transmission request signal indicating that the third device intends to send a traffic signal to the fourth device in a traffic slot corresponding to the first transmission request signal and the second transmission request signal indicating that the first device intends to send a traffic signal to the second device in the same traffic slot, the second transmission request signal further including information indicative of the signaling format to be used in the traffic signal from the first device to the second device, the signaling format being one of at least a Gaussian signaling format and a flash signaling format; recovering the information indicative of the signaling format from the second transmission request signal; calculating an interference power as a function of the signal strength of the received second transmission request; and determining whether to receive the traffic signal from the third device based on the calculated interference power.