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An apparatus is disclosed for continuous load optimization of wireless communication networks by making use of statistical data about both the communication medium characteristics and the characteristics of messages that users desire to send over the network. The network comprises a network control

An apparatus is disclosed for continuous load optimization of wireless communication networks by making use of statistical data about both the communication medium characteristics and the characteristics of messages that users desire to send over the network. The network comprises a network control base station (20) and a plurality of slave stations (22). One or more applications (72, 104) are associated with each station which are used to generate the messages in digital format. Each application is coupled to a protocol stack (88) that defines the required characteristics of the data and changes to the data that occur during the communication process. An interface (90) is coupled to the layers of each protocol stack (88) to allow tuning of the message characteristics to maximize successful transmission with minimum message latency.

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1. An apparatus for use in a wireless communication network having a plurality of slave stations and a network control base station, said network control base station comprising:a transmitter; a receiver; a channel metric processor, coupled to said receiver, to evaluate communication medium characte

1. An apparatus for use in a wireless communication network having a plurality of slave stations and a network control base station, said network control base station comprising:a transmitter; a receiver; a channel metric processor, coupled to said receiver, to evaluate communication medium characteristics; a storage device for storing message transmission requests from said plurality of slave stations; an adaptive protocol layer tuning module, responsive to said channel metric processor and said storage device and coupled to said transmitter, to optimize a load on said wireless communication network by evaluating properties of messages to be sent and by controlling a rate and a sequence of message generation by both said network control base station and said plurality of slave stations; at least one layered protocol stack having a plurality of layers; and an interface coupled between said adaptive protocol layer tuning module and said at least one layered protocol stack for enabling said adaptive protocol layer tuning module to control parameters of at least one layer of said at least one layered protocol stack.