Patent ID: 8472331

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a mobile station having a plurality of time domain radios configured for media access control (MAC) coordination to resolve co-located multi-radio co-existence at a MAC layer; wherein one of said plurality of radios is a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WIMAX) radio and said MAC coordination supports time sharing operations of said WIMAX radio with other co-located radio activities, including determining if an inter-arrival time of communications sent by at least one other co-located radio in the plurality of radios to a base station is one of periodic and random, wherein the WIMAX radio communicates to the base station at least one of: a coexistence bitmap protection request when at least one inter-arrival time of the at least one other co-located radio is periodic, the coexistence bitmap request indicating the at least one inter-arrival time, and a connection identification (CID) downlink (DL) multiple access protocol (MAP) request to enable coexistence aware allocation between at least two radios in said plurality of radios when the at least one inter-arrival time of the at least one other co-located radio is random, wherein said WIMAX radio uses a WIMAX frame format divided into two sub-frames, one for DL and the other for uplink (UL), and wherein said DL includes a Downlink-Multiple Access Protocol (DL-MAP) which carries a CID in the DL-MAP, allowing both time sharing (TS) operations between the at least two radios by enabling said MS to know whether and where to receive its own information in the DL sub-frame at the very beginning of the frame using the CID and to take a rest idle period.