Wireless bandwidth aggregation

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for dynamic bandwidth expansion for wireless clients of a wireless wide-area network (WWAN), wherein each client has an allocated bandwidth for communicating over the WWAN and the clients are within wireless signal reception of each other. The WWAN clients may vol...

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Hauptverfasser:	ALLEN TODD W, JONES KEVIN W
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE ELECTRICITY MULTIPLEX COMMUNICATION WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
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Zusammenfassung:	Methods and apparatus are disclosed for dynamic bandwidth expansion for wireless clients of a wireless wide-area network (WWAN), wherein each client has an allocated bandwidth for communicating over the WWAN and the clients are within wireless signal reception of each other. The WWAN clients may voluntarily or in a predetermined manner join a pool of bandwidth-sharing clients. A wireless aggregation server and a wireless pool boss work in cooperation to utilize unused transmit and receive bandwidth from each of the pool members.