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Cooperative MAC for rate adaptive randomized distributed space-time coding

US8228836B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 5, 2009
Grant dateJul 24, 2012
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Expiry dateSep 21, 2030

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L2001/0097
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Data is transmitted from a source wireless device to a destination wireless device by: (a) discovering node-to-node wireless channel conditions in a wireless network; (b) determining at least one of (A) wireless relay devices, (B) modulation schemes, and (C) transmission rates using the discovered node-to-node channel conditions; (c) signaling at least some of the determined information to the determined wireless relay devices; (d) receiving, with each of the wireless relay devices, a transmission of the data from the source wireless device; and (e) transmitting, with each of the wireless relay devices, a randomized, space-time encoded, part of the received data, to the destination device using the signaled at least some of the determined information.

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