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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2002
Applicants:
Richa Malhotra, Enschede, NL;
Patrick Busch, Enschede, NL;
Inventors:
Richa Malhotra, Enschede, NL;
Patrick Busch, Enschede, NL;
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention describes an algorithm for the assignment of channels used by access points (APs) in wireless LANs in a dynamic way in order to achieve the best performance. The assignment of channels is based on a procedure in which an AP is passively listening on the other channels during idle time. The AP is calculating the optimal channel with the least interference and sharing. If the AP experiences too much disturbance, it will decide to switch to the calculated optimal channel.