METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PERFORM SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

• Main Authors: RESHEF, Ehud, AGARWAL, Anshu, KARLS, Ingolf, MALKHEDE, Yogesh, HEGDE, Mythili, MANOHAR, Naveen, TIWARI, Padmavathi, TIWARI, Rahul, BILLORE, Kaushal, HANCHATE, Mallari, K, Vishnu, MAHESHWARI, Mayur, PETIT, Barath C, SINGH, Balvinder Pal, DESAI, Prasanna, KROVVIDI, Srinivas, VEMURI, Divya Lakshmi Saranya, GOWDA, Chandrashekar, SUBRAMANIAN, Sudhakaran, DHULL, Vishal, CHANDEL, Amit Singh, CHAKRABORTY, Suranjan
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 09.05.2024
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

An apparatus for a communication device, the apparatus may include a processor configured to: obtain channel metrics for a plurality of radio communication channels, each obtained channel metric is associated with a respective radio communication channel of the plurality of radio communication channels, generate a plurality of channel hopping sequences, each channel hopping sequence is representative of an allocation of the plurality of radio communication channels for a plurality of time slots, wherein a number of time slots allocated for each radio communication channel within each channel hopping sequence is based on the respective obtained channel metric, and select one of the plurality of channel hopping sequences based on a predefined criterion to communicate with a further communication device.