Patent ID: 7103371

Claim:
In a communications network, a communication unit to transmit and receive information within said network comprising: at least one transmitter to transmit outgoing information to at least one other communication unit within said network; at least one receiver to receive incoming information from at least one other communication unit within said network; and a processor to control said transmission and reception of said outgoing and incoming information, wherein said processor includes: a reservation module to reserve at least one communication link within said network for communicating with at least one other communication unit and to dynamically select a frame architecture from among a plurality of frame architectures employed by said communication unit based on the mode of said communications and utilization of a retransmission scheme over said reserved communication link, wherein said plurality of frame architectures support full duplex and simplex modes of communications and retransmission of information; wherein said selected frame architecture includes a plurality of time slots serving as said communication link, and said plurality of time slots includes for a simplex mode at least one time slot associated with a transmission path, for a duplex mode at least one additional time slot associated with a receiving path, for a retransmission mode at least one additional time slot to said simplex or duplex modes and associated with a retransmission of information, and at least one time slot associated with an acknowledgement.