Patent ID: 8374163

Claim:
A method of wireless communication, comprising: determining whether a first timing reference associated with a first wireless node and a second timing reference associated with a second wireless node are asynchronous; determining whether transmission by the first wireless node may cause interference with communication associated with the second wireless node; and as a result of the asynchronous timing reference determination and the interference determination, synchronizing start and end times of timeslots of the first and second wireless nodes to be approximately equal to control the interference, wherein the synchronization comprises: prioritizing the first and second timing references based on comparison of a plurality of parameters of a first synchronization metric with a plurality of parameters of a second synchronization metric, wherein parameters of the first synchronization metric are indicative of timing reliability of the first timing reference and the parameters of the second synchronization metric are indicative of timing reliability of the second timing reference, selecting one of the first and second timing references based on the prioritization, and adjusting the start and end times of the timeslots of at least one of the first and second wireless nodes based on the selected timing reference.