Patent ID: 7620018

Claim:
A wireless network base station comprising: a channel controller for configuring the wireless network base station to communicate on at least a first channel having a plurality of subcarriers across a first bandwidth allocation and a second channel having a plurality of subcarriers across a second bandwidth allocation; wherein one or more of the subcarriers of the first channel overlap with one or more of the subcarriers of the second channel; wherein at least one of i) error correction coding, ii) bit interleaving, and iii) symbol interleaving is performed by the wireless network base station according to the number of subcarriers of the first channel that overlap with subcarriers of the second channel to enable a subscriber station to correct adjacent-channel interference from one or more overlapping subcarriers; and wherein the wireless network base station adjusts an amount of subcarrier overlap according to at least one of: an amount of adjacent-channel interference and a strength of the error correction coding.