Patent ID: 7142581

Claim:
A method for selecting a frequency hopping mode for a communication in a communication system having a plurality of transmission schemes, the method comprising: selecting one of a plurality of candidate frequency hopping modes as the frequency hopping mode for the communication in the communication system based on a transmission scheme of the plurality of transmission schemes selected for the communication in the communication system, wherein selecting one of the plurality of transmission schemes to be used for the communication in the communication system comprises dynamically selecting one of the plurality of transmission schemes to be used for the communication based on at least one of a characteristic of the communication in the communication system and a characteristic of a channel of the communication system over which the communication is to be communicated; wherein each of the transmission schemes has at least one of an associated coding rate and modulation scheme; and wherein the communication comprises a packet distributed over a plurality of transmission windows and wherein ones of the plurality of candidate frequency hopping modes define a transmission frequency for the packet in corresponding ones of the transmission windows.