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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2013
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
George Dionyssios Kondylis, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chunyu Hu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A technique to provide a protection mechanism, when operating over a plurality of channels in one's own BSS, to help avoid components in other BSSs from interfering or generating contention conflicts to those channels during its own communication. In one embodiment, a channel reservation signal, such as a Clear-To-Send-To-Self frame, is broadcast across each of a plurality of channels in order to reserve the plurality of wireless channels for a predetermined period of time. A broadcast or multicast frame may then be transmitted during the predetermined time utilizing one or more of the reserved wireless channels.