Patent ID: 8411649

Claim:
A method to provide additional bandwidth for a wireless ad hoc network configured to operate in a certain communication channel with a certain amount of available bandwidth comprising a plurality of wireless terminals, the method comprising: checking by a central controller of said wireless ad hoc network whether more bandwidth than said certain amount of available bandwidth is required by said plurality of wireless terminals; splitting up, via the central controller, said wireless ad hoc network into at least two wireless ad hoc networks such that at least one additional wireless ad hoc network is spawned, when more bandwidth than said certain amount of available bandwidth is required by said plurality of wireless terminals, and allocating, via the central controller, additional bandwidth to the wireless ad hoc network or to the at least one additional wireless ad hoc network, wherein after the splitting up of said wireless ad hoc network, at least one wireless terminal of said wireless ad hoc network and/or one or more new wireless terminals belong(s) to said at least one additional wireless ad hoc network, said at least one additional wireless ad hoc network is operating in a respective different communication channel, and wireless terminals of a respective wireless ad hoc network of the at least two wireless ad hoc networks communicate with the other wireless terminals of the respective ad hoc network in the respective different communication channels.