US20100118837A1 - Using synchronization frames for mesh networking with piconets - Google Patents

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US20100118837A1
US20100118837A1 US12/573,559 US57355909A US2010118837A1 US 20100118837 A1 US20100118837 A1 US 20100118837A1 US 57355909 A US57355909 A US 57355909A US 2010118837 A1 US2010118837 A1 US 2010118837A1
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  • the invention relates generally to wireless communication and, more particularly, to wireless networks, such as local area networks (LANs) and personal area networks (PANs) commonly referred to as piconets.
  • LANs local area networks
  • PANs personal area networks
  • a “piconet” is generally defined as a wireless personal area network that is composed of a group of wireless devices such as an “access terminal,” an “access point” or both such devices in close proximity to one another.
  • a piconet is typically controlled by an access point that assumes the role of a Piconet Coordinator (PNC) that acts as a master terminal that schedules access to the communications medium for the other access terminals in its piconet.
  • PNC Piconet Coordinator
  • Frames are the basic unit of data transport in a piconet, which can include data, acknowledgment, beacon and MAC command frames.
  • a PNC may also define a superframe structure consisting of multiple frames, with beacons acting as boundaries and providing synchronization to other devices.
  • the IEEE 802.15.3 standard specifies that the PNC sends a beacon to synchronize data exchanges between the PNC and the terminals in the piconet.
  • the beacon signals a start of a superframe and allows each terminal to reset its superframe clock to zero at the beginning of a beacon preamble.
  • a PNC capable device within range of some devices of an existing piconet may not be in range of the piconet's PNC.
  • a device which may be referred to as a “hidden node”
  • the hidden node may form an independent piconet and cause interference to devices that are in range of both piconets.
  • Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method of wireless communication.
  • the method generally includes receiving, from a first node in a first piconet, a first synchronization packet containing timing information regarding allocation of resources in the first piconet, determining interference time slots corresponding to allocated transmissions times for nodes in the first piconet, based on the timing information, and establishing a second piconet by allocating available resources to nodes in the second piconet based on the determined interference time slots corresponding to allocated transmissions times for the nodes in the first piconet.
  • the apparatus generally includes a receiver configured to receive, from a first node in a first piconet, a first synchronization packet containing timing information regarding allocation of resources in the first piconet, a scheduler configured to determining interference time slots corresponding to allocated transmissions times for nodes in the first piconet, based on the timing information, and logic configured to establish a second piconet by allocating available resources to nodes in the second piconet based on the determined interference time slots corresponding to allocated transmissions times for the nodes in the first piconet.
  • the apparatus generally includes means for receiving, from a first node in a first piconet, a first synchronization packet containing timing information regarding allocation of resources in the first piconet, means for determining interference time slots corresponding to allocated transmissions times for nodes in the first piconet, based on the timing information, and means for establishing a second piconet by allocating available resources to nodes in the second piconet based on the determined interference time slots corresponding to allocated transmissions times for the nodes in the first piconet.
  • the wireless node capable of assuming a role of a Piconet Coordinator (PNC).
  • the wireless node generally includes at least one antenna, a receiver configured to receive via the at least one antenna, from a first node in a first piconet, a first synchronization packet containing timing information regarding allocation of resources in the first piconet, a scheduler configured to determining interference time slots corresponding to allocated transmissions times for nodes in the first piconet, based on the timing information, and logic configured to establish a second piconet by allocating available resources to nodes in the second piconet based on the determined interference time slots corresponding to allocated transmissions times for the nodes in the first piconet.
  • PNC Piconet Coordinator
  • Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a computer-program product for communications, comprising a computer-readable medium comprising instructions.
  • the instructions are generally executable to receive, from a first node in a first piconet, a first synchronization packet containing timing information regarding allocation of resources in the first piconet, determine interference time slots corresponding to allocated transmissions times for nodes in the first piconet, based on the timing information, and establish a second piconet by allocating available resources to nodes in the second piconet based on the determined interference time slots corresponding to allocated transmissions times for the nodes in the first piconet.
  • Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method of wireless communication.
  • the method generally includes performing ranging operations for a destination node that is to receive wirelessly distributed video and adjusting at least one of a bandwidth or resolution of the wirelessly distributed video based on results of the ranging operations.
  • the apparatus generally includes ranging logic configured to perform ranging operations for a destination node that is to receive wirelessly distributed video and adjusting logic configured to adjust at least one of a bandwidth or resolution of the wirelessly distributed video based on results of the ranging operations.
  • the apparatus generally includes means for performing ranging operations for a destination node that is to receive wirelessly distributed video and means for adjusting at least one of a bandwidth or resolution of the wirelessly distributed video based on results of the ranging operations.
  • the wireless video source generally includes at least one antenna, ranging logic configured to perform ranging operations, based on packets received via the at least one antenna, for a destination node that is to receive wirelessly distributed video, and adjusting logic configured to adjust at least one of a bandwidth or resolution of the wirelessly distributed video based on results of the ranging operations.
  • Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a computer-program product for communications, comprising a computer-readable medium comprising instructions.
  • the instructions are generally executable to perform ranging operations for a destination node that is to receive wirelessly distributed video and adjust at least one of a bandwidth or resolution of the wirelessly distributed video based on results of the ranging operations.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates an example piconet, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates example components of a piconet terminal, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates an example piconet with nearby terminals that are not included in the piconet.
  • FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an example of interference between terminals in a piconet and nearby terminals that are not included in the piconet.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates example operations for transmitting a unified synchronization packet, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 5A illustrates example components capable of performing the operations shown in FIG. 5 .
  • FIG. 6 illustrates example operations for processing a detected unified synchronization packet, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 6A illustrates example components capable of performing the operations shown in FIG. 6 .
  • FIG. 7 illustrates an example of a piconet that is virtually dependent on another piconet, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 8 illustrates an example synchronization frame format, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 9 illustrates an example synchronization frame body format, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 10 illustrates an example synchronization parameters field format, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 11 illustrates an example of a candidate piconet coordinator (PNC) using synchronization frames to detect the presence of an existing piconet.
  • PNC piconet coordinator
  • FIG. 12 illustrates example operations for scheduling synchronization frame transmissions, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 12A illustrates example components capable of performing the operations shown in FIG. 12 .
  • FIG. 13 illustrates an example of multiple virtually dependent piconets, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 14 illustrates an example range calculation using synchronization packet time stamps, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 15 illustrates example operations for ranging, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 15A illustrates example components capable of performing the operations shown in FIG. 15 .
  • an aspect disclosed herein may be implemented independently of any other aspects and that two or more of these aspects may be combined in various ways.
  • an apparatus may be implemented or a method may be practiced using any number of the aspects set forth herein.
  • such an apparatus may be implemented or such a method may be practiced using other structure, functionality, or structure and functionality in addition to or other than one or more of the aspects set forth herein.
  • an aspect may comprise at least one element of a claim.
  • any reference to an IEEE 802.15 compliant network is intended only to illustrate the inventive aspects, with the understanding that such inventive aspects have a wide range of applications.
  • a node implemented in accordance with the teachings herein may comprise an access point or an access terminal.
  • An access point may comprise, be implemented as, or known as NodeB, Radio Network Controller (“RNC”), eNodeB, Base Station Controller (“BSC”), Base Transceiver Station (“BTS”), Base Station (“BS”), Transceiver Function (“TF”), Radio Router, Radio Transceiver, Basic Service Set (“BSS”), Extended Service Set (“ESS”), Radio Base Station (“RBS”), or some other terminology.
  • RNC Radio Network Controller
  • BSC Base Station Controller
  • BTS Base Station
  • BS Base Station
  • Transceiver Function TF
  • Radio Router Radio Transceiver
  • BSS Basic Service Set
  • ESS Extended Service Set
  • RBS Radio Base Station
  • An access terminal may comprise, be implemented as, or known as an access terminal, a subscriber station, a subscriber unit, a mobile station, a remote station, a remote terminal, a user terminal, a user agent, a user device, user equipment, or some other terminology.
  • an access terminal may comprise a cellular telephone, a cordless telephone, a Session Initiation Protocol (“SIP”) phone, a wireless local loop (“WLL”) station, a personal digital assistant (“PDA”), a handheld device having wireless connection capability, or some other suitable processing device connected to a wireless modem.
  • SIP Session Initiation Protocol
  • WLL wireless local loop
  • PDA personal digital assistant
  • a phone e.g., a cellular phone or smart phone
  • a computer e.g., a laptop
  • a portable communication device e.g., a portable computing device
  • an entertainment device e.g., a music or video device, or a satellite radio
  • a global positioning system device e.g., a global positioning system device, or any other suitable device that is configured to communicate via a wireless or wired medium.
  • the node is a wireless node.
  • Such wireless nodes may provide, for example, connectivity for or to a network (e.g., a personal area network or piconet, wide area network such as the Internet, or a cellular network) via a wired or wireless communication link.
  • a network e.g., a personal area network or piconet, wide area network such as the Internet, or a cellular network
  • FIG. 1 illustrates an example piconet, Piconet 1 .
  • Piconet 1 may include a number of wireless devices 102 or “terminals” 1 A- 1 E that can communicate with one another using relatively short-range wireless links 104 .
  • terminal 1 E acts as a PNC for Piconet 1 .
  • any number of devices i.e., two or more may form a wireless personal area network.
  • Each of the terminals 102 in the Piconet 1 may include, among other things, a wireless transceiver to support wireless communication and controller functionality to manage communication with the network.
  • the controller functionality may be implemented within one or more digital processing devices.
  • the wireless transceiver may be coupled to one or more antennas to facilitate the transmission of signals into and the reception of signals from a wireless channel. Any type of antennas may be used including, for example, dipoles, patches, helical antennas, antenna arrays, and/or others.
  • the devices in the Piconet 1 may include any of a wide variety of different device types including, for example, laptop, desktop, palmtop, or tablet computers having wireless networking functionality, computer peripherals having wireless networking capability, personal digital assistants (PDAs) having wireless networking capability, cellular telephones and other handheld wireless communicators, pagers, wireless network interface modules (e.g., wireless network interface cards, etc.) incorporated into larger systems, multimedia devices having wireless networking capability, audio/visual devices having wireless networking capability, home appliances having wireless networking capability, jewelry or other wearable items having wireless networking capability, wireless universal serial bus (USB) devices, wireless digital imaging devices (e.g., digital cameras, camcorders, etc.), wireless printers, wireless home entertainment systems (e.g., DVD/CD players, televisions, MP3 players, audio devices, etc.), and/or others.
  • PDAs personal digital assistants
  • wireless network interface modules e.g., wireless network interface cards, etc.
  • multimedia devices having wireless networking capability
  • audio/visual devices having wireless networking capability
  • home appliances having
  • a wireless personal area network may include a user's laptop computer that is wirelessly communicating with the user's personal digital assistant (PDA) and the user's printer in a short-range network.
  • PDA personal digital assistant
  • a wireless personal area network may be formed between various audio/visual devices in, for example, a user's living room.
  • a user's laptop computer may communicate with terminals associated with other users in a vicinity of the user. Many other scenarios are also possible.
  • the IEEE 802.15.3 standard is a high data rate wireless personal area network standard.
  • one of the terminals within a piconet is selected as a Piconet Coordinator (PNC) to coordinate the operation of the network.
  • PNC Piconet Coordinator
  • the device PNC lE represents a PNC for the Piconet 1 in an IEEE 802.15.3 implementation.
  • PNC lE may transmit a beacon signal 110 (or simply “beacon”) to other devices of Piconet 1 , which may help the other terminals within Piconet 1 synchronize their timing with PNC 1 E.
  • the beacon typically sent at the beginning of every superframe, contains information that may be used to time-synchronize the terminals in the piconet.
  • Each terminal in the piconet, including the PNC may reset its superframe clock to zero at the beginning of the beacon preamble. If a terminal does not hear a beacon, it may reset its superframe clock to zero at the instant where it expected to hear the beginning of the beacon preamble (e.g., based on previous superframe timing).
  • FIG. 2 illustrates example components of a terminal 102 capable of performing operations in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • the precise configuration of the terminal 102 may vary depending on the specific application and the overall design constraints and any suitable combination of components capable of performing the operations presented herein may be utilized.
  • the terminal 102 may be implemented with a front-end transceiver 200 coupled to an antenna 210 .
  • a baseband processor 220 may be coupled to the transceiver 200 .
  • the baseband processor 220 may be implemented with a software based architecture, or another type of architecture.
  • the software based architecture may configured with a microprocessor (not shown) that serves as a platform to run software programs that, among other things, provide executive control and overall system management functions that allow the terminal to operate either as a master or member terminal in a piconet.
  • the baseband processor 220 may also include a digital signal processor (DSP) (not shown) with an embedded communications software layer which runs application specific algorithms to reduce the processing demands on the microprocessor.
  • DSP digital signal processor
  • the DSP may be used to provide various signal processing functions such as pilot signal acquisition, time synchronization, frequency tracking, spread-spectrum processing, modulation and demodulation functions, and forward error correction.
  • the baseband processor 220 is shown with the transceiver 200 .
  • the transceiver 200 may include a receiver 202 .
  • the receiver 202 provides detection of desired signals in the presence of noise and interference.
  • the receiver 202 may be used to extract the desired signals and amplify them to a level where information contained in the received signal can be processed by the baseband processor 220 .
  • the transceiver 200 may also include a transmitter 204 .
  • the transmitter 204 may be used to modulate information from the baseband processor 220 onto a carrier frequency.
  • the modulated carrier may be upconverted to an RF frequency and amplified to a sufficient power level for radiation into free space through the antenna 210 .
  • the baseband processor 220 may be responsible for configuring the terminal as a master or member terminal of the piconet depending on the results of the pilot signal acquisition process.
  • a signal processor 228 on the receiving end may be used to extract scheduling information broadcast by the piconet master terminal over one or more control channels.
  • the signal processor 228 may use spread-spectrum processing, in conjunction with digital demodulation and forward error correction techniques, to extract the pertinent scheduling information from the control channel and provide it to a controller 230 for processing.
  • the controller 230 may use the scheduling information to determine the time slots for the various transmissions to and from the member terminal, as well as the power level and data rate for each.
  • the controller 230 may be used to provide data rate and spreading information to the signal processor 228 on the receiving end for the scheduled transmissions to the member terminal. Using this information, the signal processor 706 may recover information embedded in the transmissions from other terminals at the appropriate times and provide the recovered information to the various user interfaces.
  • a signal processor 228 on the transmitting end may be used to spread information destined for various other terminals.
  • the information may be originated from various user interfaces and stored in a buffer 222 until the scheduled transmission.
  • the controller 230 may be used to release the information from the buffer 222 to the signal processor 228 for spread-spectrum, processing.
  • the signal processor 228 may also employ digital modulation and forward error correction techniques.
  • the data rate, spreading code and power level of the transmission may be programmed into the signal processor 228 by the controller 230 .
  • the transmission power level may be programmed by the controller 230 at the transmitter 204 in the transceiver 200 .
  • the baseband processor 220 When the baseband processor 220 configures the terminal as the master terminal of the piconet, it may enable a scheduler 224 .
  • the scheduler 224 may be a software program running on the microprocessor.
  • the scheduler 224 is not limited to this aspect, and may be implemented by other means known in the art, including a hardware configuration, firmware configuration, software configuration, or combination thereof, which is capable of performing the various functions described herein.
  • the scheduler 224 may be used to generate scheduling information to support intra-piconet communications.
  • the scheduling information may be derived based on any number of considerations and/or in accordance with any known scheduling algorithm.
  • scheduling information may be made based on a priority system, where voice communications are given priority over high latency communications.
  • the scheduler 224 may also give priority to high data rate transmissions in an effort to maximize throughput. Further increases in throughput may be achieved by scheduling parallel transmissions using spread-spectrum techniques.
  • intra-piconet piconet interference may be managed.
  • a fairness criterion that considers the amount of data to be transferred between terminal pairs and the delay already experienced by such terminal pairs may also be considered. Other factors may be considered and are within the scope of the invention. Those skilled in the art will be readily able to adapt existing scheduling algorithms to any particular piconet application.
  • FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an example of a piconet 100 (Piconet 1 ) having nearby terminals 102 that are not included in the piconet.
  • the piconet 100 may be considered a mesh network with a partial mesh topology.
  • a partial mesh network generally refers to a local area network (LAN) that has some nodes that are connected to all the others (e.g., PNC) and some nodes (e.g., DEVs) that are connected only to those other nodes with which they exchange the most data.
  • LAN local area network
  • PNC personal computer network
  • DEVs some nodes that are connected only to those other nodes with which they exchange the most data.
  • the transmission of synchronization packets containing piconet timing information may be used to help establish and maintain such mesh networks.
  • the illustrated example assumes the nearby terminals PNC 2 A, DEV 2 X, and DEV 2 Y are located in relatively close proximity to Piconet 1 , but that PNC 2 A is outside the range of transmissions from PNC 1 E. The example further assumes that PNC 2 A is in transmission range of DEV 1 C and DEV 1 D.
  • PNC 2 A Since PNC 2 A does not receive any beacon signals 110 from PNC lE (as indicated by the “X” in FIG. 3 ), PNC 2 A is unaware of frequency/time slot assignments within Piconet 1 . As a result, PNC 2 A may thus attempt to transmit in one or more of the frequency/time slots assigned within Piconet 1 . For example, unaware of Piconet 1 , PNC 2 A may form a second piconet, Piconet 2 , with terminals 2 X and 2 Y. The formation of Piconet 2 may result in an interference zone 300 where transmissions from terminals in the different piconets may interfere. In the illustrated example, terminals 1 C and 1 D included in Piconet 1 are also within range of Piconet 2 and may, thus, experience interference due to conflicting transmissions from Piconet 2 in the same frequency/time slots.
  • unified synchronization packets including synchronization data for the piconet.
  • the range of devices capable of detecting an existing piconet may be significantly increased relative to the standard situation with only the PNC transmitting synchronization beacons.
  • nodes that were previously “hidden” from the PNC of a nearby piconet may learn of the piconet via detection of these sync packets transmitted from non-PNC terminals within range.
  • the unified synchronization packets may help terminals in proximity of an existing piconet avoid transmitting in the same frequency/time slots allocated to devices in the existing piconet and may, thus, help reduce interference and help support coexistence of adjacent networks.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates synchronization packets 120 being transmitted from all non-PNC terminals in a piconet to reduce transmission interference between a piconet and nearby terminals, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • terminals acting as PNCs e.g., PNC 1 E and PNC 2 A
  • each non-PNC terminal transmits a synchronization packet, or “sync packet.”
  • sync packets may be transmitted alone or as part of other transmissions (e.g., data frames).
  • Each terminal may transmit a single sync packet, or may transmit multiple sync packets.
  • the terminal may transmit a sync packet upon receiving an allocated/assigned frequency/time slot from a PNC, may transmit a sync packet between every superframe, may transmit in a repeating time cycle, may transmit according to fixed schedule, and the like.
  • sync packets may be sent in a manner that allows terminals having a variety of different types of physical layers (PHY) detect them.
  • PHY physical layers
  • the IEEE 802.15.3c defines various PHY modes, and devices may be configured to transmit sync packets using a single carrier (SC) that may be detectable by other devices (even if they normally operate in an OFDM mode).
  • SC single carrier
  • Such “unified” sync packets may also help promote the co-existence of networks with different PHY layers.
  • sync packets may be sent from IEEE 802.15 compliant devices in a manner that allows both IEEE 802.15 compliant and IEEE 802.11 compliant devices to detect them.
  • this may allow devices, such as those compliant with the proposed IEEE 802.11 VHT60 standard with IEEE 802.11 PHY and Medium Access Control (MAC) Layers, to operate in the 60 GHz frequency band (typically 57-66 GHz) with very high throughput, while coexisting with IEEE 802.15.3c systems (and with other systems operating in a similar band).
  • devices such as those compliant with the proposed IEEE 802.11 VHT60 standard with IEEE 802.11 PHY and Medium Access Control (MAC) Layers, to operate in the 60 GHz frequency band (typically 57-66 GHz) with very high throughput, while coexisting with IEEE 802.15.3c systems (and with other systems operating in a similar band).
  • MAC Medium Access Control
  • each terminal e.g., PNC-capable and non PNC-capable terminals
  • each terminal may be configured to scan for and detect sync packets and/or beacon signals.
  • only PNC-capable terminals may be configured to scan for and detect sync packets and/or beacon signals.
  • a terminal can learn of an existing piconet. Further, the receiving terminal may use the synchronization information to avoid interfering with the existing piconet.
  • PNC 2 A may receive sync packets 120 transmitted by DEV 1 C and/or DEV 1 D. Because these sync packets may include synchronization information regarding timing and resource allocation for Piconet 1 , PNC 2 A may avoid transmissions that would cause interference to devices in Piconet 1 . For example, PNC 2 A may control transmissions to/from DEV 2 X and DEV 2 Y so they avoid frequency/time slots assigned within Piconet 1 , thereby reducing or eliminating any interference with Piconet 1 . To accomplish this, the PNC 2 A may synchronize its timing with the timing of PNC 1 .
  • FIG. 5 is a flow diagram illustrating operations 500 for transmitting a unified synchronization packet, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates operations performed, for example, by a non-PNC device included in a piconet.
  • a non-PNC terminal receives an allocation of transmission resources in a piconet.
  • DEV 1 C may receive an allocation of frequency/time slots within Piconet 1 from PNC 1 E.
  • the terminal may transmit a unified synchronization packet containing information regarding the allocation of resources within the piconet.
  • a unified synchronization packet containing information regarding the allocation of resources within the piconet.
  • An example of a unified synchronization packet, its format, and the information contained therein, is described below with reference to FIGS. 8-10 .
  • the terminal may send transmissions according the resource allocation received at 510 .
  • a terminal may send sync packets at any suitable time.
  • a terminal may transmit when receiving an allocation for transmission.
  • each device may send a synchronization packet at least at the first time it receives an allocation to transmit (e.g., including an allocation for ACK packet).
  • a synchronization packet at least at the first time it receives an allocation to transmit (e.g., including an allocation for ACK packet).
  • devices that receive these sync packets may become aware of the piconet, even if they are not in range to receive beacons from the piconet PNC.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates example operations for processing a unified synchronization packet, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • the operations of FIG. 6 may be performed by a PNC device not included in an existing piconet of a terminal that transmitted the synchronization packet.
  • PNC 2 A may receive a sync packet sent by DEV 1 C or DEV 1 D, and may thus learn of the existence of Piconet 1 .
  • the PNC determines a superframe start time and duration corresponding to the existing piconet based on information contained in the unified synchronization packet.
  • the PNC may use such synchronization information to avoid sending transmissions that interfere with Piconet 1 .
  • the time stamp may be generated by the device sending the sync packet, for example, based on an internal counter reset at the start of a superframe when a beacon signal is received. A device receiving a sync packet may thus be able to determine the start time of a superframe of the existing piconet based on the time stamp.
  • a PNC receiving a synchronization packet may use the information contained therein about an existing piconet to establish a piconet that is “virtually dependent” on the existing piconet, generally meaning that the piconet may coexists with an existing piconet by avoiding using allocated resources of the existing piconet.
  • the PNC may establish a virtually dependent piconet, such as Piconet 2 illustrated in FIG. 7 , for example, by performing optional operations 630 and 640 .
  • the PNC may determine resources allocated to devices in the existing piconet based on information received in the unified synchronization packet.
  • the PNC may establish a virtually dependent piconet using resources that are not allocated in the existing piconet.
  • the synchronization packet may include Channel Time Allocation (CTA) information elements (IEs) indicating resources allocated to terminals in the existing piconet.
  • CTA Channel Time Allocation
  • IEs information elements
  • PNC 2 A may determine resource allocation information for Piconet 1 from information in a sync packet 120 sent by DEV 1 C or DEV 1 D. PNC 2 A may then establish Piconet 2 as being virtually dependent on Piconet 1 , using available resources that are not already allocated in Piconet 1 .
  • a PNC may perform a periodic scan of the CTA IEs of neighboring piconets (included in the sync packets) to map and mask interference zones as part of virtual dependent piconet maintenance. For example, through these periodic scans, the PNC may learn of changes to resource allocation in the existing piconet and make corresponding adjustments to resource allocations in the virtually dependent piconet.
  • FIG. 8 illustrates an example format 800 of a sync packet.
  • the format may be similar or the same as a synchronization frame format used for synchronization frames (beacon signals) sent according the IEEE 802.15.3c standard.
  • the synchronization frame format 800 may include a long preamble, a header, a Header Check Sequence (HCS), a set of parity bits, a synchronization frame body, and a Frame Check Sequence (FCS).
  • the synchronization frame body may include synchronization information regarding an existing piconet, as well as an indication of resources allocated in the existing piconet.
  • FIG. 9 illustrates an example format of the synchronization frame body of the sync packet.
  • the synchronization frame body format 900 may be similar to or the same as a synchronization frame format according to the IEEE 802.15.3c standard.
  • the synchronization frame body format 900 may include synchronization parameters and Channel Time Allocation (CTA) information elements.
  • the CTA information elements may include frequency/time slots assigned to each terminal of a piconet.
  • a PNC-capable device receiving the CTA IEs may use the information contained therein to identify resources available for allocation to terminals in a virtually dependent piconet.
  • FIG. 10 illustrates example fields 1000 that may be included in the Synchronization Parameters, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • the synchronization parameters 1000 may include certain fields that are also used in the IEEE 802.15.3c standard.
  • the synchronization parameters 1000 may include a superframe number, a superframe duration, a contention access period (CAP) end time, a frame start time, a reserved field, and a Piconet Coordinator (PNC) address.
  • CAP contention access period
  • PNC Piconet Coordinator
  • CR common rate
  • This field provides the time stamp for the synchronization frame and marks the synchronization frame preamble start time.
  • a PNC receiving the sync packet may use this time stamp to determine the start of a frame preamble and may then schedule data transfers in a manner that helps avoids interference with the existing piconet.
  • PNC 2 A may not detect beacon signals 110 from PNC 1 E, it may use information in the sync packets 120 from DEV 1 C and DEV 2 C to synchronize data transfers accordingly and form a virtually dependent piconet, Piconet 2 . In so doing, PNC 2 A may schedule data transfers for members of Piconet 2 (DEV 2 X and DEV 2 Y) in a manner that avoids interference with data transfers on Piconet 1 .
  • a candidate PNC may periodically scan for sync frames transmitted from devices in neighboring networks.
  • the candidate PNC may then use the timing information contained in the sync frames, to synchronize to its own timing.
  • the candidate PNC may determine “interference time slots” corresponding to allocated transmission times for devices in an existing piconet and allocate resources to devices in its own piconet in an effort to avoid these interference time slots.
  • the interference zone should remain constant in the time domain and the “interference time slots” can be marked for each neighboring network element.
  • FIG. 12 illustrates example operations for scheduling synchronization frame transmissions, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • the operations may be performed by a PNC or candidate PNC to detect a neighbor piconet and adjust allocation of resources to its own piconet devices in an effort to avoid interference.
  • the operations begin, at 1202 , with the PNC receiving, from a first node in a first piconet, a first synchronization packet containing timing information regarding allocation of resources in the first piconet.
  • the PNC determines interference time slots corresponding to allocated transmissions times for nodes in the first piconet, based on the timing information.
  • the PNC may establish a second piconet by allocating available resources to nodes in the second piconet based on the determined interference time slots corresponding to allocated transmissions times for nodes in the first piconet.
  • the PNC may utilize synchronization packets it receives from devices in an existing piconet to synchronize its timing to the existing piconet and form a virtually dependent piconet.
  • PNC 3 utilizes synchronization packets it receives from devices in piconet 2 to synchronize to PNC 1 timing and forming a virtually dependent piconet 3 .
  • Each PNC may schedule periodic scans of devices in its own network to detect interference and/or use data received from sync packets of devices in neighboring networks to calculate range from neighboring devices. As described above, each PNC may determine and map an “interference time slot” for each network element. Each PNC may then schedule data transfers for devices in its own on piconet in a manner that avoids interference between the piconets.
  • the total bandwidth used in a mesh network of virtually dependent or independent networks with no interference zone may be calculated as:
  • the total bandwidth used in a dependent network is channel bandwidth.
  • the total bandwidth used in mesh network of virtually dependent network array with an interference zone may be calculated as:
  • utilizing sync packets as described herein to mark and avoid interference zones may increase overall channel bandwidth in a mesh network.
  • a PNC candidate may select which piconet to join in the event that it receives sync packets transmitted from devices in more than one piconet.
  • a PNC candidate may select a network based on a PNC address field and choose to join the piconet with the lower value of the PNC address field.
  • This simple algorithm for synchronizing to the piconet with lower value of the PNC address field may apply for network controllers of an exiting piconet.
  • the PNC with the higher address may adopt its timing parameters to synchronize to the piconet with lower value of the PNC address field.
  • a PNC in addition to scanning for sync packets during piconet creation, may also periodically scan for sync frames from neighboring piconets.
  • the PNC may update its mapping of interference time slots of one or more neighboring piconets and avoid these interference time slots when allocating resources to its own devices.
  • a device may synchronize timing with a piconet multiple times in a piconet lifetime. Synchronizing multiple times allows a device to adjust its timing to account for dynamic changes in the piconet environment, for example, such as dynamic changes in interference as devices drift in and out of network coverage area.
  • a PNC may utilize sync frames to perform ranging operations to determine a relative location of a device.
  • FIG. 14 illustrates an example range calculation using synchronization packet time stamps, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
  • Station A may use timing information received to calculate a travel time (t′) from the difference between the actual receive time and the transmit time stamp contained in the synchronization packet:
  • this calculation may yield a +/ ⁇ 6 cm range accuracy, which may be more than adequate for many purposes, such as to perform station range adaptation.
  • Wireless video distribution systems may aim to replace standard cable transmission for video distribution while providing adequate performance and reliability.
  • ranging techniques presented herein may be used to adopt at least one of the bandwidth or resolution (i.e., one or both) of wirelessly distributed video to the range between a wireless video source and a wireless video destination.
  • ranging operations for a destination node that is to receive wirelessly distributed video may be performed, at 1502 .
  • At least one of a bandwidth or resolution of the wirelessly distributed video may be adjusted based on results of the ranging operations, at 1504 .
  • range adaptation may be used to select foreground uncompressed high definition video display when a wireless video source and destination are in close proximity (e.g., Line of Site) for providing same user experience as wired HDMI cable.
  • a range adaptation algorithm may control switching to a lower resolution when the wireless video source and destination are drawn away to Near Line of Site (e.g., in room).
  • Such a range adaptation algorithm may also operate a background process for lower bandwidth/lower resolution, for example, when wireless video source and destination are not in the same room (e.g., non line of site) for video distribution in home.
  • the video source When the video source is in close proximity to video destination (near line of site) it mat be configured to use maximum bandwith to stream video to the video destination (e.g., for display and/or strorage). As a result, a user may enjoy maximum resolution for display and/or fastest syncing time.
  • the display resoltion can be lower and/or video transfer can seamlessly switch to background process using lower bandwidth.
  • ranging technique described above based on timestamps in synchronization packets, may be used to determine the proximity of the video destination to the video source, any other suitable ranging technique may also be used and the bandwidth and/or resolution of the distributed video may be adapted accordingly.
  • the various operations of methods described above may be performed by any suitable means capable of performing the corresponding functions.
  • the means may include various hardware and/or software component(s) and/or module(s), including, but not limited to a circuit, an application specific integrate circuit (ASIC), or processor.
  • ASIC application specific integrate circuit
  • blocks 510 - 530 , 610 - 640 , 1202 - 1206 , and 1502 - 1504 illustrated in FIGS. 5 , 6 , and 12 correspond to circuit blocks 510 A- 530 A, 610 A- 640 A, 1202 A- 1206 A, and 1502 A- 1504 A illustrated in FIGS. 5A , 6 A, and 12 A.
  • determining encompasses a wide variety of actions. For example, “determining” may include calculating, computing, processing, deriving, investigating, looking up (e.g., looking up in a table, a database or another data structure), ascertaining and the like. Also, “determining” may include receiving (e.g., receiving information), accessing (e.g., accessing data in a memory) and the like. Also, “determining” may include resolving, selecting, choosing, establishing and the like.
  • the term “at least one of a or b” is intended to be inclusive.
  • “at least one of A or B” includes the following sets ⁇ A ⁇ , ⁇ B ⁇ , and ⁇ A and B ⁇ .
  • any suitable means capable of performing the operations such as various hardware and/or software component(s), circuits, and/or module(s).
  • any operations illustrated in the Figures may be performed by corresponding functional means capable of performing the operations.
  • DSP digital signal processor
  • ASIC application specific integrated circuit
  • FPGA field programmable gate array signal
  • PLD programmable logic device
  • a general purpose processor may be a microprocessor, but in the alternative, the processor may be any commercially available processor, controller, microcontroller or state machine.
  • a processor may also be implemented as a combination of computing devices, e.g., a combination of a DSP and a microprocessor, a plurality of microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in conjunction with a DSP core, or any other such configuration.
  • a software module may reside in any form of storage medium that is known in the art. Some examples of storage media that may be used include random access memory (RAM), read only memory (ROM), flash memory, EPROM memory, EEPROM memory, registers, a hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM and so forth.
  • RAM random access memory
  • ROM read only memory
  • flash memory EPROM memory
  • EEPROM memory EEPROM memory
  • registers a hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM and so forth.
  • a software module may comprise a single instruction, or many instructions, and may be distributed over several different code segments, among different programs, and across multiple storage media.
  • a storage medium may be coupled to a processor such that the processor can read information from, and write information to, the storage medium. In the alternative, the storage medium may be integral to the processor.
  • the methods disclosed herein comprise one or more steps or actions for achieving the described method.
  • the method steps and/or actions may be interchanged with one another without departing from the scope of the claims.
  • the order and/or use of specific steps and/or actions may be modified without departing from the scope of the claims.
  • a storage media may be any available media that can be accessed by a computer.
  • such computer-readable media can comprise RAM, ROM, EEPROM, CD-ROM or other optical disk storage, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium that can be used to carry or store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a computer.
  • Disk and disc include compact disc (CD), laser disc, optical disc, digital versatile disc (DVD), floppy disk, and Blu-ray® disc where disks usually reproduce data magnetically, while discs reproduce data optically with lasers.
  • certain aspects may comprise a computer program product for performing the operations presented herein.
  • a computer program product may comprise a computer readable medium having instructions stored (and/or encoded) thereon, the instructions being executable by one or more processors to perform the operations described herein.
  • the computer program product may include packaging material.
  • Software or instructions may also be transmitted over a transmission medium.
  • a transmission medium For example, if the software is transmitted from a website, server, or other remote source using a coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twisted pair, digital subscriber line (DSL), or wireless technologies such as infrared, radio, and microwave, then the coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twisted pair, DSL, or wireless technologies such as infrared, radio, and microwave are included in the definition of transmission medium.
  • DSL digital subscriber line
  • modules and/or other appropriate means for performing the methods and techniques described herein can be downloaded and/or otherwise obtained by a user terminal and/or base station as applicable.
  • a user terminal and/or base station can be coupled to a server to facilitate the transfer of means for performing the methods described herein.
  • various methods described herein can be provided via storage means (e.g., RAM, ROM, a physical storage medium such as a compact disc (CD) or floppy disk, etc.), such that a user terminal and/or base station can obtain the various methods upon coupling or providing the storage means to the device.
  • storage means e.g., RAM, ROM, a physical storage medium such as a compact disc (CD) or floppy disk, etc.
  • CD compact disc
  • floppy disk etc.
  • any other suitable technique for providing the methods and techniques described herein to a device can be utilized.

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