METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MINIMIZING A PROBABILITY OF SELF-INTERFERENCE AMONG NEIGHBORING WIRELESS NETWORKS

摘要

A first master transceiver (102) of a first wireless network monitors (602) neighboring wireless networks to discover a strongest interfering master transceiver in one of the neighboring wireless networks. The first master transceiver then time-aligns (604) hop intervals of the fir st master transceiver with the hop intervals of the strongest interfering maste r transceiver to ensure that a transmission of the strongest interfering maste r transceiver during each hop interval used by the strongest interfering master transceiver cannot interfere with the transmission of the first maste r transceiver during more than one hop interval of the first master transceive r, thereby minimizing the probability of self-interference between the first wireless network and the one of the neighboring wireless networks.