Abstract:
The invention relates to a communication device and a method of sending data over a communication network. The communication device includes a controller for accessing the network using contention type access mechanism based on computation of back-off values, and includes a plurality of traffic queues for serving data traffic at different priorities. The controller includes a plurality of back-off engines, each associated with one traffic queue and configured to compute a back-off value in accordance with the priority of the associated traffic queue. One or more back-off engine may be adjusted to prevent the back-off value of such back-off engine to reach zero. When an access to the network is obtained for the device. a traffic queue may be selected based on its associated back-off value, and data may be transmitted from the selected traffic queue.
Abstract:
A method of processing data for video encoding, comprising the following steps: obtaining a current coding entity of a current video frame to encode, said current frame to encode being segmented according to a plurality of coding entities, each coding entity comprising a plurality of coding units, and for a current coding unit of the current coding entity obtained: determining whether there are neighbouring pixels outside the current coding entity that can be used for generating an outside coding unit predictor for predicting said current coding unit, enabling, based on a result of said determining step, use of neighbouring pixels outside the current coding entity, for generating at least one outside coding unit predictor for predicting the current coding unit, and selecting, using at least one weighting criterion applied to the at least one outside coding unit predictor, a coding unit predictor among a default coding unit and the at least one outside coding unit predictor. Embodiments of the invention provide a good trade-off between reducing error propagation and keeping good compression efficiency.
Abstract:
To easy the triggering by an AP MLD of uplink communications of low latency streams from non-AP MLD, the invention proposes that a local traffic stream be identified using a Stream Classification Service, SCS. The local SCS traffic stream is mapped onto a target TID which was previously mapped with an impacted UP. The local SCS stream is preferably assigned to an alternate queue of an AC. Said impacted UP is also mapped onto a fallback TID, corresponding to the primary queue of the same AC. The SCS stream is advertised to the AP using a SCS Request frame. Conventional fields can be used. A trigger frame from an affiliated AP of the AP MLD may then provide resource units to an affiliated non-AP station dedicated to the target TID, hence specific to the low latency SCS stream.
Abstract:
The present invention relates generally to communication networks and more specifically to methods and devices for data communication over a communication network. A method according to the invention comprises, at a transmitting node: obtaining a plurality of frames including first-type frames associated with an acknowledgment policy requiring acknowledgment and second-type frames associated with an acknowledgment policy requiring no acknowledgment; aggregating the frames of the obtained plurality of frames into an aggregated frame including at least one leading frame of second type and frames subsequent thereto, in an order depending on their associated acknowledgment policies; sending the aggregated frame to a receiving node; and sending an acknowledgment request frame to the receiving node to request it to acknowledge receipt of only subsequent frames of the aggregated frame. Such data communication scheme is liable to reduce bandwidth waste and head-of-line blocking and thus latency, compared to known scheme.