Patent ID: 8913597

Claim:
A method for reducing interference between overlapping first and second wireless local area network cells in a medium, each of the first and second wireless local area network cells including a respective plurality of member stations, comprising: coordinating by a processor of a first member station in the first wireless local area network cell a first contention-free session, the first contention-free session including multiple bursts with other member stations in the first wireless local area network cell, and retaining a control of the medium by the first member station by using interframe spaces between the multiple bursts such that the multiple bursts appear to contending stations as being a single instance of activity in the medium; setting by the processor of the first member station a backoff timer to a fixed deterministic post-backoff delay, wherein the fixed deterministic post-backoff delay has a value of Bkoff times a fixed number of idle time slots, the value of Bkoff being greater than a number of overlapping cells; and counting down the backoff timer by the processor of the first member station.