Patent ID: 8982698
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A transmission method of use by a node of a communications network, wherein nodes communicate with one another via a carrier-sense multiple-access channel, said method comprising steps of: sending a signal at a given transmit power and a given data rate to a receiver node over the channel; and successively assuming, utilizing the transmit power of the sent signal, a first power value during a first time period, and then a second power value during a second time period following the first time period, the first time period and the second time period being included in a sending period, the two power values being different from one another, and one of them being equal to the given transmit power, the first time period being a predetermined function of the given transmit power and not the data rate and the second time period being a predetermined function of the data rate and not the given transmit power.