UNBLOCKING AMONG ACCESS TERMINALS AND IMPROVED COMPETITION FOR COEXISTENCE IN SHARED COMMUNICATION MEDIUM Russian patent published in 2020 - IPC H04W74/08 

FIELD: communication equipment.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a communication method. Method comprises: sending, from an access point, a first scheduling grant to a first access terminal for a first set of resources for transmitting an uplink over a communication medium; sending, from an access point, a second scheduling grant to a second access terminal for a second set of resources for transmitting an uplink over a communication medium; scheduling an access point of a sequence of recurrent competition for access terminal contention within or between a first set of resources and a second set of resources, wherein corresponding re-competition interval schedule is included in at least one of first or second scheduling grant; and suppressing uplink and downlink transmission by an access point over a communication medium during each of the repeated competition interval sequences.

EFFECT: technical result consists in reducing the possibility of locking among access terminals in accordance with a temporary competition scheme.

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