A medium access control (MAC) protocol for body area networks

A method (600) for controlling access to a wireless medium in a network. The method comprises dividing an access time to the wireless medium into fixed and repeated time rounds (300), wherein each time round includes a plurality of superframes (310) and each superframe includes a fixed number of tim...

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Main Authors CHEN RICHARD, PATEL MAULIN D
Format Patent
LanguageChinese
English
Published 06.07.2011
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DIAGNOSIS
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRICITY
HUMAN NECESSITIES
HYGIENE
IDENTIFICATION
MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE
SURGERY
TRANSMISSION
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
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Summary:A method (600) for controlling access to a wireless medium in a network. The method comprises dividing an access time to the wireless medium into fixed and repeated time rounds (300), wherein each time round includes a plurality of superframes (310) and each superframe includes a fixed number of time slots (420) (S610); allocating a global beacon period (530) within a time round (S620); and reserving subframes (410) within each superframe (300), wherein master devices can access the wireless medium at least during the reserved subframes (S630).
Bibliography:Application Number: CN20098131237