Patent ID: 7649870
Filing Date: 2010-01-19
Classification: B65D,H04W

Abstract:
1. A multi-hop wireless communication system having a plurality of wireless stations that communicate by transmitting and receiving packets on a plurality of channels, wherein: each wireless station has a plurality of transmitting and receiving modules operating on different fixed channels among the plurality of channels; each wireless station uses a fixed one or more of the plurality of channels for transmitting and a different fixed one or more of the plurality of channels for receiving, wherein none of the plurality of channels is used for both transmitting and receiving by the same wireless station; no two wireless stations within one-hop communicable range of each other use the same one or more channels for transmitting; no two wireless stations within one-hop communicable range of each other use the same one or more channels for receiving; for each pair of wireless stations within one-hop communicable range of each other, there is a pair of channels in the plurality of channels such that one wireless station in the pair of wireless stations uses one channel in the pair of channels for transmitting and uses another channel in the pair of channels for receiving, and another wireless station in the pair of wireless stations uses the one channel in the pair of channels for receiving and uses the another channel in the pair of channels for transmitting.