Patent ID: 8903440

Claim:
A method of operating a parent mesh station within an ad-hoc mesh network, comprising: determining a first set of mesh stations that belong to the ad-hoc mesh network, wherein wireless transmissions from each of the first set of mesh stations is expected to directly interfere with wireless transmissions from the parent mesh station; determining, for each of the first set of mesh stations, a second set of mesh stations that belong to the ad-hoc mesh network, wherein wireless transmissions from each of the second set of mesh stations is expected to directly interfere with wireless transmissions from the associated mesh station of the first set of mesh stations; and selectively constraining communications associated with a given mesh station among the first set of mesh stations based on a transmission schedule that includes one or more previously scheduled transmissions or receptions associated with the parent mesh station, the first set of mesh stations and/or the second set of mesh stations.