Claims
- 1. A method for communicating between nodes in an ad-hoc multi-hopping peer-to-peer communication network, the method comprising:
tuning one of the nodes acting as a source node and another one of the nodes acting as a destination node to a reservation channel; transmitting a short message from the source node to the destination node over the reservation channel without performing a request-to-send/clear-to-send handshake between the source and destination nodes.
- 2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein:
the short message is a hello message.
- 3. A method as claimed in clam 1, wherein:
the short message includes at least one of the following: information about congestion in the network around the source and destination nodes, information regarding activity of other nodes in the network, information pertaining to the device type of the source or destination node, and information pertaining to a mobility level of the source or destination node.
- 4. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein:
the source and destination nodes are mobile nodes.
Parent Case Info
[0001] This application claims benefit under 35 U.S.C. § 119(e) from U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/475,882, filed on Jun. 5, 2003, the entire content of which is incorporated herein by reference.
Provisional Applications (1)
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60475882 |
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