FLOW CONTROL TECHNIQUES FOR CO-LOCALIZED WLAN AND BLUETOOTH

摘要

Flow control techniques for co-localized wireless local area network (WLAN) and Bluetooth (BT) allowing efficient sharing of radio medium are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes deriving an available medium time (T_AV) for the WLAN device to communicate with a peer WLAN device based on schedule data forwarded by the BT device, transmitting a first data from the WLAN device to the peer WLAN device if the BT device becomes inactive and if the T_AV is greater than a threshold time, and transmitting a second data from the WLAN device to the peer WLAN device if the T_AV is less than the threshold time. The first data indicates that the WLAN device is to come out of a power save (PS) mode and the second data indicates that the WLAN device is to enter the PS mode.