Abstract:
An electric vehicle can be configured to execute an association procedure with one or more charging stations in a charging facility to securely connect to and receive electric power from one of the charging stations. The electric vehicle can broadcast one or more service matching messages to the charging stations and, in response, can receive attenuation information from one or more of the charging stations. The electric vehicle can analyze the attenuation information received from the charging stations to identify with which charging station the electric vehicle should associate (e.g., to determine which charging station should provide electric power to the electric vehicle). The electric vehicle can then associate with (and receive electric power from) the identified charging station.
Abstract:
A method for establishing shared information is described. The method includes estimating characteristics of a communication channel between two nodes based on signals transmitted between the nodes. The method also includes transmitting a signal from the first node to the second node, the signal being modulated with a first data sequence according to a first estimated characteristic, and transmitting a signal from the second node to the first node, the signal being modulated with a second data sequence according to a second estimated characteristic. Shared information is formed at each of the first and second nodes based on at least a portion of the first data sequence and at least a portion of the second data sequence.
Abstract:
A method of operating in a network in which stations communicate over a shared medium is described. The method provides regularly repeated contention free intervals, CSMA communication during times outside the contention free intervals, and distributed control over the initiation and makeup of the contention free intervals to a plurality of stations so that any of the plurality of stations can independently initiate transmission within the contention free interval.
Abstract:
A robust Media Access Controller, MAC, scheme for network stations (12) operating in an OFDM transmissions network (10). The MAC scheme uses robustly transmitted frame control information to ensure network synchronization for media access. The frame control information can occur in a frame (80) in a first frame control field (98) before the frame's payload (82) and in a second frame control field (102) after the frame's payload (82), or in a third access priority (144) to convey channel access prioritization for QoS.
Abstract:
A partial ARQ protocol for multicast and broadcast transmissions in network devices (12) operating in a shared medium access network (10). To support the partial ARQ, a media access control (MAC) protocol uses robustly transmitted frame delimiters (90) and MAC management frame information (182). In a multicast or broadcast frame (80) with partial ARQ, a destination address field (108) is set to that of a selected proxy device's address, and the address of the intended recipients (of group address of the intended recipients) is placed in a Multicast with Resonse entry 210H in the MAC management frame information (182). The frame (80) also contains a multicast flag (164) set to indicate that the transmission is intended for more than one device and a value in a delimiter type field (132) to indicate that a response is requested. Upon receipt of such a frame, the proxy device specified by the destination address field (108) provides an appropriate response type on behalf of the group. Then on-proxy recipients, detecting the multicast flag setting, know to ignore the DA in the destination address field (108) and instead look to the MAC management entry 210H for actual destination addresses.
Abstract:
A mechanism (80) for determining phases of a symbol for phase correlation is provided. The mechanism (80) performs a symmetric apodizing window function on a symbol sample of a symbol having a symbol period of T and a time-offset symbol sample offset from the symbol sample by T/2 to produce first windowed values for the symbol sample and second windowed values for the time-offset symbol sample. The mechanism (80) applies a time shift to re-align the time-offset symbol sample with the symbol sample and sums the second windowed values and the corresponding first windowed values. The summed values are then converted to phases. The symmetric apodizing window function is an apodizing window function having the property Wj + W(FFTSize/2+j)= constant, where FFTSize is the size of the FFT sample. The symmetric apodizing window function, such as a Hanning window, may be performed in the time of frequency domain.
Abstract:
An electric vehicle can be configured to execute an association procedure with one or more charging stations in a charging facility to securely connect to and receive electric power from one of the charging stations. The electric vehicle can broadcast one or more service matching messages to the charging stations and, in response, can receive attenuation information from one or more of the charging stations. The electric vehicle can analyze the attenuation information received from the charging stations to identify with which charging station the electric vehicle should associate (e.g., to determine which charging station should provide electric power to the electric vehicle). The electric vehicle can then associate with (and receive electric power from) the identified charging station.
Abstract:
Communicating between stations over a shared medium comprises: transmitting a waveform from a first station at a time based on a shared time reference, the waveform including at least a first symbol, comprising a first set of frequency components modulated with preamble information and a second set of frequency components modulated with information; monitoring the shared medium at a second station, to detect a start of the first symbol at one of multiple time slot boundaries, including, after each of multiple time slot boundaries, periodically sampling a series of values starting at the beginning of the most recent time slot boundary and processing the sampled values to generate a metric value that indicates whether the start of the first symbol has been detected; and in response to detecting the start of the first symbol, demodulating the first symbol from values sampled based on the shared time reference.
Abstract:
A method for establishing shared information is described. The method includes estimating characteristics of a communication channel between two nodes based on signals transmitted between the nodes. The method also includes transmitting a signal from the first node to the second node, the signal being modulated with a first data sequence according to a first estimated characteristic, and transmitting a signal from the second node to the first node, the signal being modulated with a second data sequence according to a second estimated characteristic. Shared information is formed at each of the first and second nodes based on at least a portion of the first data sequence and at least a portion of the second data sequence.
Abstract:
A method for communicating in a network (2) is presented. The method includes encapsulating content from a plurality of high level data units from a high level layer to generate a stream (100); dividing the stream into a plurality of segments (102); individually encrypting at least some of the segments, wherein an encrypted segment (106) includes a plurality of encrypted blocks, and at least some of the encrypted blocks are encrypted based on at least one other encrypted block within the encrypted segment; and supplying low level data units (110) to a physical layer that handles physical communication over the network, at least some of the low level data units each including a plurality of encrypted segments.