Patent ID: 8243612

Claim:
A method comprising: for each corresponding access point (AP) of multiple APs, providing wireless access to a network, determining, over any arbitrarily tunable center-frequency setting and arbitrarily tunable channel-width setting combination for configuring a channel of the corresponding AP that is within an available bandwidth of a wireless frequency spectrum of the network, a center-frequency setting and a channel-width setting combination for the channel based at least in part on: a current composition of the network; a current number of client devices associated with each of the multiple Aps; a current traffic demand of each of the client devices associated with each of the multiple APs; a minimization or elimination of channel overlap between the channel of the corresponding AP and channels of neighboring APs of the corresponding AP; determining a minimum allowable channel-width of the channel of the corresponding AP to facilitate a bandwidth distribution fairness among the corresponding AP and the neighboring APs of the corresponding AP based in part on the current number and the current traffic demand of the client devices associated with the corresponding AP and the neighboring APs; and determining a channel-width of the channel of the corresponding AP that: maximizes throughput capacity of the corresponding AP; is greater than or equal to the minimum allowable channel-width; and minimizes or eliminates the overlap; dynamically assigning a channel frequency profile to each of the multiple APs, each channel frequency profile specifying a channel having the center-frequency setting and the channel-width setting combination determined for each corresponding AP of the multiple APs; and adjusting a configurable channel in each of multiple APs based at least in part on the center-frequency setting and the channel-width setting combination specified in each corresponding channel frequency profile.