Patent ID: 8155127

Claim:
A method for communicating between a plurality of nodes, comprising: at one or more of the plurality of nodes: sensing spectrum activity on at least one channel; creating and maintaining spectrum awareness data in at least one spectrum awareness table based at least in part on the sensed spectrum activity; determining at least one selected bearer based on the at least one spectrum awareness table, said determining comprising: scoring a plurality of candidate bearers based at least in part on a transmit power in each of said plurality of candidate bearers; prioritizing said scored plurality of candidate bearers by, independently of environmental conditions, considering at least one policy awareness data, said policy awareness data comprising allowed transmit power density information; and defining a frequency and one or more of a waveform and a power for the selected bearer; performing an adaptive control channel initialization operation to detect zero or more neighbor nodes; and updating said determining in response to changes in said sensed spectrum activity without releasing said selected bearer.