Network access mechanism based on power

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9307482-B2
Application number	US-201514686877-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 15, 2015
Priority date	Nov 8, 2011
Publication date	Apr 5, 2016
Grant date	Apr 5, 2016

Abstract

Systems and methods for accessing a contention-based communications network are provided. In systems and methods for accessing a contention-based communications network, an access point in the network is created. The access point is a first node connected to the network configured to receive a request from a second node to gain access to the network. A power of a signal transmitted between the access point and the second node is measured. A probability that the second node will access the network is determined based on the measured power of the signal transmitted between the access point and the second node. A determination of whether to permit the second node to gain access to the network is made based on the determined probability.

First claim

It is claimed:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a first node connected to a network, a signal from a second node that does not have access to the network and is seeking to gain access to the network;
measuring, by the first node, a power of the signal received from the second node;
selecting, by the first node, a group of communication channel slots based on the measured power of the received signal, wherein the group of communication channel slots is selected from a plur…

Assignees

• Marvell World Trade Ltd

Inventors

• Raoul Yann

Classifications

• H04W48/14 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W74/08

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W48/02

  Electricity · mapped topic