Patent ID: 7965786

Claim:
A system for dynamic frequency hopping (“DFH”) among a plurality of overlapping wireless regional area network (“WRAN”) cells wherein each WRAN cell includes a base station (“BS”) and a plurality of consumer premise equipments (“CPEs”) associated with the BS, the system comprising: a number of channels for communicating between each of the CPEs and BS of the plurality of WRAN cells wherein the number of channels is equal to a maximum number of the plurality of overlapping WRAN cells plus 1; and a hopping pattern that hops over the number of channels providing interruption-free working channels and mutual interference-free sensing among each of the plurality of overlapping WRAN cells, wherein a length of each of a plurality of operation periods associated with each of the plurality of overlapping WRAN cells is set to a value greater than a product of a maximum number of overlapping WRAN cells and a quiet period.