Synaptics Corporation

Anil Kumar Maguluri

Patil Sandhya

Girish Anantrao Madpuwar

This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for wireless communications. The present implementations more specifically relate to techniques for changing the channel of a Basic Service Set (BSS) when a wireless communication device attempts to monopolize access to a shared wireless medium. In some aspects, an access point (AP) may be configured to detect nonconforming Network Allocation Vectors (NAVs) that extend the duration for which another wireless communication device has already reserved access to a shared wireless medium. For example, the wireless communication device may cause the AP to set a nonconforming NAV by transmitting a packet that reserves the shared wireless medium for a duration overlapping with, but ending later than, another duration for which the same wireless communication device has already reserved the shared medium. In some implementations, the AP may switch its BSS to a different wireless channel in response to detecting one or more nonconforming NAVs.

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Anil Kumar Maguluri