Patent ID: 8081575

Claim:
A method of dynamically selecting at least one of a data rate and transmit (TX) power in a distributed communications network including a plurality of devices comprising: at the receiving device, dividing time into a sequence of at least one superframe; including, at the receiving device, a feedback in a beacon such that a Distributed Reservation Protocol Information Element (DRPIE) is modified in the beacon to include at least a feedback field, said feedback comprising information related to the selection of the at least one data rate and transmit power; transmitting, at the receiving device, the beacon including the modified DRPIE in the superframe, wherein said feedback is designated in the feedback field of the modified DRPIE, and future reservations for at least said receiving device are designated in a reservation field of the modified DRPIE; and at the transmitting device, selecting the at least one of data rate and transmit power based at least in part on the feedback from the receiving device, wherein each of the receiving device and the transmitting device is any device in the distributed communications network.