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Article: Michigan Inventors Develop Communication Network Data Rate Adaptation Controller
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- August 23, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 23 -- Pierre T. Kabamba, Semyon M. Meerkov, Wayne E. Stark and Choon Yik Tang, all from Ann Arbor, Mich., have developed a a communication network data rate adaptation controller.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication network with improved performance and a method and controller for controlling data rate in the network are provided. The invention provides a feedforward approach to data rate control in wireless networks."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "The invention is based on designing an optimal, but non-causal, controller and its subsequent 'causification,' which results in a practical, ...