Patent ID: 7965733

Claim:
A method for transmitting information in a network, the method comprising the steps of: initiating transmission over a communication channel; multiple packets being transmitted simultaneously and successfully received over the communication channel; determining, by means of a control sub-system, whether signal energy of transmissions on said communication channel exceeds a predetermined amount; preventing transmission over said communication channel, if it has been determined, by the control sub-system, that said signal energy exceeds the predetermined amount; monitoring a feedback channel; transmitted feedback information originates at a receiver, said receiver receiving and decoding simultaneously transmitted multiple packets; said transmitted feedback information conveying whether one or more of said simultaneously transmitted multiple packets can not be successfully decoded; modifying transmission parameters for the transmission over the communication channel, if a feedback transmission is detected while monitoring the feedback channel, a duration of the feedback transmission being smaller than duration of the transmission over the communication channel; data being received over the communication channel; determining communication channel information from the received data; the communication channel information comprising a status of transmissions on the communication channel; and determining, utilizing the communication channel information, whether to transmit.