Patent ID: 9730216
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for medium access reservation in a multiband wireless network, comprising: determining available slots for reservation in a superframe for reservation across multiple channels; generating channel reservation protocol, CRP, availability information element, IE, to indicate the available slots on a main channel; generating one or more Extended-Channel CRP availability IEs to indicate the available slots on one or more respective extended channels; exchanging, over a main channel, the CRP availability IE and the Extended-Channel CRP availability IEs between a receiving device and a transmitting device, wherein the main channel is a communication channel on which all devices can communicate in a single-channel configuration and a multiband configuration; and generating a Multiband CRP IE to reserve slots that are available on the receiving device and the transmitting device, wherein the Multiband CRP IE is configured for negotiation, between the transmitting device and the receiving device, for the reserved slots based on the generated CRP availability IE and Extended-Channel CRP availability IEs.