Patent ID: 6937591
Filing Date: 2005-08-30
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless device capable of ensuring fairness in a wireless time slotted network, the wireless device comprising: a network interface card (NIC) configured to transmit and receive signals to the wireless time slotted network; a network driver interface coupled to the NIC, the network driver interface configured to provide statistical parameters concerning the wireless time slotted network; a network monitor coupled to the network driver interface, the network monitor configured to monitor network statistics; a statistics engine coupled to at least the network monitor, the statistics engine configured to receive the statistical parameters and perform operations on the statistical parameters to determine one or more probabilities; and an adaptive parameter engine coupled to one or more of the statistic engine and the network driver interface, the adaptive parameter engine configured to determine a target value for determining a contention window according to a mapped function of the one or more probabilities to enable an alteration of the backoff period.