Patent ID: 8284739

Claim:
A method for affiliating a wireless device with a wireless local area network (WLAN), the method comprises: receiving, by a control node, identification information of a wireless device via at least one access frequency in the WLAN; determining, by the control node, authenticity of the wireless device based on the identification information provided by the wireless device; selecting, by the control node, an initial access channel from a set of access channels based on data rate requirements of the wireless device and load on the set of access channels, wherein each channel in the set of access channels includes point coordination function (PCF) access time and distributed coordination function (DCF) access time and wherein selecting by the control node an initial access channel from a set of access channels includes: determining by the control node data rate requirements of the wireless device and quality of service (QoS) priority; assigning the wireless device to an initial access channel whose transmission rate sum is lowest in the set of access channels; and allocating point coordination function (PCF) access time on the initial access channel evenly between the wireless device and other wireless devices allocated to the initial access channel having a same QoS priority; and affiliating, by the control node, the wireless device with the initial access channel from the set of access channels when authenticity is determined.