Patent ID: 8650448
Filing Date: 2014-02-11
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a receiving device, a packet from a transmitting device associated with the receiving device, the packet having a corruption; determining, by the receiving device, a cause of the corruption; when the determined cause of the corruption is the in-network packet collision, allowing, by the receiving device, the transmitting device to send a retransmission of the packet in accordance with a contention-based access scheme; and when the determined cause of the corruption is the co-channel interference from one or more sources not associated with the receiving device, providing, by the receiving device, retransmission assistance to the transmitting device; wherein said providing retransmission assistance includes the receiving device reserving a channel for a retransmission of the packet by the transmitting device and/or providing one or more link adaptation suggestions to the transmitting device.