Patent ID: 6584100
Filing Date: 2003-06-24
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
A method of establishing a transmission sequence for effecting communications between plural terminals in a wireless network, where the transmission sequence is defined by a control data frame comprised of plural slots, each of which can be allocated for communication between one pair of the plural terminals, the method comprising the steps of:generating a transmit/receive matrix for the plural terminals in the wireless network, the transmit/receive matrix comprising plural rows and plural columns, each of the plural rows corresponding to a terminal and each of the plural columns corresponding to a terminal, the transmit/receive matrix including an entry at each row/column nexus, each entry indicating whether communications are to be effected between a pair of the terminals that corresponds to the entry; and allocating slots in the control data frame for communication between pairs of the plural terminals based on the entries in the transmit/receive matrix.