A method and apparatus for improving channel utilization and throughput in an ad-hoc wireless communication system is provided. A master unit and one or more slave units are coupled to a shared communication channel having at least an uplink (UL) channel and a downlink channel (DL) for each master unit-slave...http://www.google.ca/patents/US6480505?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6480505 - Batched fair exhaustive polling scheduler
