Patent ID: 8446907

Claim:
A pair scheduling medium access control method used for performing pair scheduling medium access control in a wireless network, comprising the steps of: checking, by a receiving node, which is a node addressed by a transmitting node, whether the transmitting node has data packets to be subsequently sent to the receiving node or not, according to data packets received from the transmitting node; when the transmitting node has no data packets to be subsequently sent to the receiving node, checking, by the receiving node, whether the receiving node has data packets to be sent to the transmitting node or not; setting, in the transmitting node and the receiving node, a maximum allowable number N of times for pair scheduling of which the receiving node is allowed to send data packets to the transmitting node, wherein N is an integer; if the receiving node has data packets to be sent to the transmitting node, adding a time period required for sending the data packets of the receiving node into an acknowledgement packet to be sent to the transmitting node; and after the receiving node receives a Clear to Send packet sent from the transmitting node, sending the data packets in the receiving node to the transmitting node.