Patent ID: 7539496

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a radio signal at a first radio from a second radio; determining a quality parameter of the signal received from the second radio; deriving a co-spatial constraint based on the quality parameter, the co-spatial constraint comprising a limitation on the quantity of additional radios with which the second radio can share one of a plurality of conventional communications channels; assigning the co-spatial constraint to the second radio; searching for a communications channel having a co-spatial constraint equal to the co-spatial constraint assigned to the second radio and having a number of assigned radios no more than the co-spatial constraint of the communication channel; if such a communications channel is found, then selecting the communications channel and assigning the second radio to the found communications channel; if a such a communications channel is not found, then searching for a communications channel having a co-spatial constraint that is less than the co-spatial constraint assigned to the second radio and having a number of assigned radios no more than the co-spatial constraint of the communications channel; if such a communications channel is found, then selecting the communications channel and assigning the second radio to the found communications channel having the highest co-spatial constraint; and if such a communications channel is not found, then denying service to the second radio.