Patent ID: 8300673

Claim:
In a public safety communication network having a plurality of Mobile Stations (MSs) and a master controller, a method of communication between at least one MS and the master controller, the method comprising: initiating a communication between the at least one MS and the master controller using a primary channel, wherein the primary channel corresponds to a primary frequency spectrum in the public safety communication network; identifying at least two available channels in at least one of the primary frequency spectrum and a secondary frequency spectrum, wherein each of the primary frequency spectrum and the secondary frequency spectrum comprise at least one channel; generating, at the master controller of the public safety communication network, a channel hopping pattern for the at least one MS based on the at least two available channels using a first predefined set of rules, wherein the channel hopping pattern corresponds to a sequence of frequency hops for a MS; and hopping at least one frequency, by the at least one MS, based on the sequence of frequency hops in the channel hopping pattern of the at least one MS.