Patent ID: 6941140

Claim:
A communication channel allocation process for a radio transceiver network in which the process starts with each transceiver having the potential to use all available communication channels, interactions between the transceivers causing each transceiver of the network to inhibit its neighbors from using a given communication channel bygenerating a preference value for each communication channel in each transceiver indicative of the level of interference to be expected on that communication channel by that transceiver, said process comprising: transmitting a set of test signals from each transceiver, each test signal being representative of a respective one of the communication channels, measuring the strength of the interfering test signals at each transceiver received from the other transceivers; and adjusting the power of each test signal a transceiver transmits in accordance with the strength of the respective received interfering test signals, the preference value for each communication channel at a given transceiver being determined by the strength of the respective received interfering test signals.