Patent ID: 9736876
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: while a link status information of a first station conflicts with a link status information of a second station, one of wherein, while the link status information of the first station conflicts with the link status information of the second station, the link status information of the first station indicates the previously established link is up and the link status information of the second station indicates that the previously established link is down; subsequent to receiving the request signal or transmitting the data signal, tearing down the link status information of the first station for the previously established link including clearing a parameter and making available a resource, wherein the parameter and the resource were previously allocated for the previously established link, wherein the tearing down of the link status information of the first station changes the link status information of the first station to match the link status information of the second station; and subsequent to the tearing down of the link status information of the first station, establishing one of the new links of the plurality of links with the second station based on the request signal or the data signal.