Patent ID: 8902930

Claim:
A method comprising: performing, via a first communication device, sequentially scanning a plurality of frequency subbands for one or more beacons transmitted by a second communication device following a superframe structure, the superframe structure having a plurality of beacon slots, a plurality of Contention Access Period (CAP) slots following the plurality of beacon slots, and a Contention Free Period (CFP) slot following the plurality of CAP slots, each of the plurality of beacon slots and each of the plurality of CAP slots corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of frequency subbands, and the CFP slot corresponding to a combination of the plurality of frequency subbands; in response to having received the one or more beacons, communicating with the second communication device following the superframe structure, said communicating comprising: in response to having received the one or more beacons, creating a downlink subband report; transmitting the downlink subband report over each of the plurality of frequency subbands during respective ones of the plurality of CAP slots to the second communication device; and receiving a subband allocation message from the second communication device, the subband allocation message identifying a first of the plurality of frequency subbands as suitable for subsequent downlink communications and identifying a second of the plurality of frequency subbands as suitable for subsequent uplink communications.