Patent ID: 8320350

Claim:
A method for determining a channel for communication in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving one or more sub-frames of a beacon signal on a beaconing channel until a legitimacy condition of the beacon signal on the beaconing channel is met, the beacon signal being transmitted by a beaconing device, wherein the one or more sub-frames comprises at least one of an error-checking code and an error-correcting code, each error-checking code being used to check for one or more errors in at least one of the one or more sub-frames, the one or more sub-frames comprising a beacon header sub-frame, a beacon validation sub-frame and a beacon certificate sub-frame, each error-correcting code being used for correcting one or more errors in an individual sub-frame, the individual sub-frame being one of a beacon header sub-frame, a beacon validation sub-frame or a beacon certificate sub-frame; and determining a suitability of the channel for communication in the wireless communication system based on the legitimacy condition of the beacon signal.