Patent ID: 8737229

Claim:
A method of facilitating access to a wireless communication environment comprising diverse types of wireless access points, comprising: obtaining a network load for the wireless communication environment relative to at least one load threshold; selecting a re-use algorithm based at least in part on the network load relative to the at least one load threshold, wherein the selecting comprises selecting between: a natural re-use algorithm when the current network load is below a minimum load threshold, a pseudo-random re-use algorithm when the current network load is above the minimum load threshold and below a maximum threshold, and a planned re-use algorithm and negotiation scheme when the current network load is above the maximum threshold; employing a processor to parse a set of wireless resources dedicated for access communication and to employ the selected re-use algorithm to generate a subset of the wireless resources reserved for a particular network access point if interference at the access point is above a minimum threshold; and outputting the generated subset to a wireless transmitter for broadcast transmission to facilitate terminal access to the particular network access point.