Patent ID: 8009658

Claim:
A method for transmitting signals in a wireless network, comprising: dividing a transmission time into M time slots; and repeating for each of the M time slots as a selected time slot, dividing the selected time slot into N allocation intervals, each of the N allocation intervals having an assigned interval duration, each of the interval durations representing an assigned fraction of the selected time slot; determining an assigned power level for each of the N allocation intervals, respectively; assigning N different device pairs in the wireless network to the N allocation intervals, respectively; and transmitting information between the N different device pairs in respective ones of the N allocation intervals, wherein for each of the N allocation intervals, the respective assigned power level is determined such that the respective assigned power level multiplied by the assigned fraction of the time slot is less than or equal to a threshold power, wherein M is an integer greater than 1, and wherein N is an integer greater than 1.