Inventors:
Scott Y. Seidel - Fairfax VA, US
Roberto Berezdivin - Great Falls VA, US
Jay N. Livingston - Oakton VA, US
Robert J. Breinig - Warrenton VA, US
Gary A. Luethke - Oakton VA, US
Darrell L. Young - Falls Church VA, US
Timothy C. Brannan - Chantilly VA, US
Tin T Ho - Springfield VA, US
Kevin L. Chapman - Vienna VA, US
Stephen P. Hershey - Sarasota FL, US
Assignee:
Powerwave Cognition, Inc. - Santa Ana CA
International Classification:
H04L 12/28
H04L 12/56
H04W 4/00
US Classification:
370400, 370254, 370338, 370343, 455522
Abstract:
Communicating between a plurality of nodes includes: at one or more of the plurality of nodes, sensing spectrum activity on at least one channel; creating and maintaining at least one spectrum awareness table based at least in part on the sensed spectrum activity, determining at least one selected bearer based on the at least one spectrum awareness table; performing an adaptive control channel initialization operation to detect zero or more neighbor nodes.