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

Claim 1:
2. An apparatus for 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 apparatus is adapted to determine an own reserved period of a global time frame used for the transmissions and to advertise its identifier and its determined own reserved period, wherein the apparatus is further adapted to determine presence of a neighboring coordinator and its reserved period based on at least one of an interference report received from a reporting device of the devices and a report of the neighboring coordinator, and to control transmissions by at least one of limiting communication with the reporting device to its own reserved period in the global time-frame and limiting communication with other ones of the devices by excluding from the global time frame the reserved period of the neighboring coordinator reported by the reporting device or by the neighboring coordinator; and wherein the wireless network is based on optical communication with line-of-sight character.