• Patent Title: ENHANCED CHANNEL ALLOCATION OVER MULTI-CHANNEL WIRELESS NETWORKS
  • Application No.: US15558140
    Application Date: 2016-03-17
  • Publication No.: US20180049242A1
    Publication Date: 2018-02-15
  • Inventor: PASCAL VIGERROMAIN GUIGNARD
  • Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
  • Priority: GB1504485.2 20150317
  • International Application: PCT/EP2016/055850 WO 20160317
  • Main IPC: H04W74/08
  • IPC: H04W74/08 H04W72/04
ENHANCED CHANNEL ALLOCATION OVER MULTI-CHANNEL WIRELESS NETWORKS
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method and system for simultaneous transmission of data from two or more wireless communication device during a transmission opportunity otherwise reserved for a single communication device. The invention proposes collaboration among the group of communication devices to reserve a transmission opportunity on a composite channel comprising of a plurality of sub-channels for the entire group and to efficiently manage allocation of the sub-channels for simultaneous data transmission from two or more devices. In the main aspect of the invention, the collaboration takes the form of grouping the sub-channels in the reserved composite channel so as to allow two or more stations to transmit data simultaneously over a contiguous frequency band. The collaboration among the group of communication devices may be in a managed or an ad hoc mode. The invention is particularly relevant to the IEEE 802.11 ac communication standard.
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