Patent ID: 11968133
Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 18:
19. A method of handling interference in a wireless network comprising at least two coordinators and a plurality of devices selectively associated to a respective one of the coordinators, wherein the method comprises:
checking whether an advertisement with an identifier has been received from a neighboring coordinator;
generating an interference report which comprises at least one of an identifier of an associated local coordinator and the identifier of the neighboring coordinator, reporting the interference report to the associated local coordinator or to the neighboring coordinator or broadcasting the interference report to all coordinators in its reach;
and wherein the wireless network is based on optical communication with line-of-sight character; and
detecting one of the at least two coordinators based on its advertisement, to align to a global time frame provided by the detected coordinator, and to get associated with the detected coordinator by using an existing protocol.