Patent ID: 8885505

Claim:
A method comprising: performing, using a communication device, transmitting a beacon request message over a given one of a plurality of frequency subbands; receiving a plurality of beacons in response to having transmitted the beacon request message, each of the plurality of beacons received over the given one of the plurality of frequency subbands; calculating a downlink quality report based, at least in part, upon the received beacons, wherein the downlink quality report indicates a downlink subband chosen by the communication device among the plurality of subbands; transmitting the downlink quality report over each of the plurality of frequency subbands; and receiving a subband allocation command over the chosen downlink subband in response to having transmitted the downlink quality report, the subband allocation command indicating a downlink subband assignment, an uplink subband assignment, and the subband allocation command identifying uplink subbands chosen by other devices, wherein the allocated downlink subband assignment identifies an assigned downlink subband that is the same as the chosen downlink subband.