Patent ID: 7613203

Claim:
A method for managing a transmission medium shared between a set of wireless network devices comprising a plurality of stations and a Radio Resource Management (RRM) unit, said method being based on a time division scheme carried out by said RRM unit and comprising steps of: said RRM unit providing a series of Frame Time Intervals (FTIs); splitting each FTI into a give number n of Time Intervals (TIs), each having a respective duration (D), where n is a give integer; and dedicating the ownership of at least one TI to a group of TI owner devices (TOG) selected among said set of devices, said TOG comprising a given number k of transmitting devices, which are allowed to transmit over said transmission medium during said TI and a given number m of receiving devices, which listen to said transmission medium during said TI, where m and k may take any strictly positive integer values, wherein the number n of TIs in on FTI, and the respective duration and TOG of each of said n TIs are determined dynamically on a per FTI basis by the RRM unit, and the RRM unit determines the number n of TIs, and the respective duration and TOG of each one of said n TIs on the basis of information received from the respective stations.