Patent ID: 9084276
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless network with dynamic transmission control comprising a dynamic arbiter and a plurality of client nodes, the arbiter being configured to control an operation of the client nodes by defining communications operation cycles and allocating a bandwidth to each of the plurality of client nodes on a cycle by cycle basis in response to requests for bandwidth from the plurality of client nodes, wherein the arbiter is configured to vary the operation cycles based on the requests for bandwidth, and wherein the arbiter is further configured to define a duration of an operation cycle by varying a frame length in response to requests for bandwidth from the plurality of client nodes and to begin a new frame if a client node does not need an entire slot, and wherein the arbiter comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle configured to monitor for an existing DDL session upon power up and assume the role of arbiter when no DDL session is in progress and the plurality of client nodes comprise ground station, such that the unmanned aerial vehicle dynamically controls an operation of the plurality of client nodes by defining communications operation cycles and allocating a bandwidth to each of the plurality of client nodes on a cycle by cycle basis in response to requests for bandwidth from the plurality of client nodes, and by varying the operation cycles based on the requests for bandwidth, and by defining the duration of an operation cycle by varying the frame length in response to requests for bandwidth from the plurality of client nodes, and by beginning a new frame if a client node does not need an entire slot.