Patent ID: 7415278
Filing Date: 2008-08-19
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: providing a mesh router, wherein the mesh router is used in a cell of a plurality of cells that covers a geographic region, and wherein the mesh router includes three backhaul radios on three different channels and one access radio, the three backhaul radios used to communicate only with other routers and the access radio used to communicate only with subscribers; assigning channels to the three backhaul radios of the mesh router wherein the channels are selected from a plurality of channels to allow channel reuse throughout the plurality of cells; assigning a common channel of the three different channels to a first neighboring mesh router within a first neighboring cell and a second neighboring mesh router within a second neighboring cell, wherein the first neighboring cell, the second neighboring cell, and the cell are adjacent to one another; and assigning additional channels to the first neighboring mesh router and second neighboring mesh router, wherein the additional channels are not the three different channels of the mesh router.