Patent ID: 7724764
Filing Date: 2010-05-25
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method implementable on a computing device, the method comprising: generating plans of access to a medium to be shared by at least one synchronous node following said plans of access and at least one asynchronous node unaware of said plans of access, each of said plans describing a planned media access period having multiple transmission opportunities (TXOPs) therein, wherein at least one of said TXOPs is reserved for use by at least one synchronous node and more than one of said TXOPs are non reserved scheduled contention periods, said non reserved scheduled contention periods being of reducible length to compensate for unscheduled transmissions by one of said at least one asynchronous node during said at least one reserved TXOP, with at least one of said non reserved scheduled contention periods not located at an end of said media access period.