Abstract: The present invention provides a method (600), phone (209), and communication system (202) including a systematic encoder (204) adapted to receive input data signals having a first plurality of data bits and generate encoded data signals having the first plurality of data bits and a first plurality of parity bits, a receiver (206) adapted to receive the encoded data signals and to generate values defining the encoded data signals, a decoder (208) coupled to the receiver (206) and adapted to generate a second plurality of data bits in response to the values defining the encoded data signals, and a post-decoder circuit (210) coupled to the decoder (208) adapted to receive the second plurality of data bits and for transforming the second plurality of data bits into an estimate of the first plurality of data bits.

Abstract: A network protocol method (300), access point device (600) and peripheral devices (700, 800) provide an efficient centrally coordinated peer-to-peer wireless communications network wherein the access point device: (1) broadcasts a block assignment that specifies a wireless source peripheral device and a wireless destination peripheral device; (2) receives, from the wireless destination peripheral device, sequence information; (3) determines whether the sequence information represents one of: a negative acknowledgment and a positive acknowledgment with a sequence number; (4) forwards an acknowledgment to the wireless source peripheral based on the sequence information, and repeats steps (1)-(4) until N blocks of data, N a predetermined integer, have been transferred from the wireless source peripheral to the wireless destination peripheral.

Abstract: A method (300), system (400), base station (500), head-end unit (600), and subscriber unit (700) provide for efficient resource management in a communication system or group of communication systems supporting a plurality of communication units, where different communication units may have varying resource size requirements. The method includes the steps of: determining a resource size requirement of a communication unit of the plurality of communication units, determining a hierarchical level within the hierarchy that the communication unit is to be assigned to based on the resource size requirement of the communication unit, and assigning the communication unit to an available resource slot in the hierarchical level in accordance with a predetermined hierarchical management scheme that maximizes a total number of remaining available slots in the hierarchy.

Abstract: A method (300), system (400), base station (500), head-end unit (600), and subscriber unit (700) provide for efficient resource hopping in a communication system or group of communication systems supporting a plurality of communication units, where different communication units may have varying resource size requirements. The method includes the steps of: assigning a communication unit of the plurality of communication units to a resource slot within a level of a plurality of levels of a hierarchical representation of a resource region, assigning an available resource hopping pattern and associated initial resource location within the resource slot to the communication unit, and hopping, by the communication unit in accordance with a predetermined hierarchical resource hopping scheme.