Patent ID: 8964724
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: in a first device configured to communicate with a second device, synchronizing a clock in the first device to a clock in the second device using beacon or/and acknowledgment frames received from the second device; computing a constant guard time component (GT computing a nominal guard time (GT computing an additional guard time (GT determining an available transmission interval within an allocation interval for the first device and second devices, wherein a beginning of the available transmission interval or an end of the available transmission interval or both are selected by accounting for the nominal guard time or the additional guard time or both; transmitting one or more frames between the first device and the second device within the available transmission interval; and when the first device's last synchronization to the second device occurred less than the nominal synchronization interval ago, then commencing reception of a future transmission up to GT