Patent ID: 8199707

Claim:
A self-coexistence window reservation protocol method for a Wireless Regional Area Network (WRAN) including a plurality of WRAN cells operating on a plurality of channels, the method comprising allocating a reservation sequence of self-coexistence windows for each of the plurality of WRAN cells operating on at least one of the plurality of channels identifying a unique transmission frame for each of the plurality of WRAN cells, wherein the reservation sequence includes a hosting sequence identifying for each of the plurality of WRAN cells operating on each of the plurality of channels an exclusive frame for transmitting data, wherein the hosting sequence identifies a Coexistence Beaconing Protocol (CBP) frame, wherein the CBP frame includes a plurality of frames and wherein each frame includes self-coexistence windows and data, and wherein the hosting sequence is associated with the first of the plurality of frames in the CBP frame.