Patent ID: 8331312

Claim:
A method comprising: at a controller apparatus that communicates with a plurality of wireless access point devices and/or a plurality of wireless client devices in a wireless network: receiving from the wireless access point devices and/or wireless client devices messages indicating relatively long-lived isochronous traffic flows to be wirelessly transmitted from wireless access point devices to their associated client devices and/or from wireless client devices to their respective wireless access point devices; determining which of the plurality of wireless access point devices and/or wireless client devices are in sufficient radio frequency proximity so as to interfere with each other; based on the messages received from the wireless access point devices and/or wireless client devices concerning the isochronous traffic flows and the radio frequency proximity of wireless access point devices, generating schedule data representing the start times for wireless transmission bursts within each isochronous traffic flow from respective ones of the plurality of wireless access point devices and/or respective ones of the plurality of wireless client devices so as to reduce a likelihood of interference between multiple bursts of wireless transmissions for different isochronous traffic flows; and transmitting messages containing the schedule data to the plurality of wireless access point devices and/or wireless client devices.