CPC H04W 72/0453 (2013.01) [H04W 16/00 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 72/563 (2023.01); H04L 41/22 (2013.01); H04L 43/0817 (2013.01); H04W 24/04 (2013.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01)] | 16 Claims |
1. A method of selecting a channel frequency and bandwidth for a network comprising an access point and a plurality of stations, the method comprising:
receiving, from a spectrum analyzer at each of the stations, a description of power in a plurality of frequencies at one or more times to determine an ambient noise floor for each frequency in the plurality of frequencies;
weighting the ambient noise floor of each frequency by a factor weight specific to each frequency, wherein the factor weight is based on a ratio of a receive usage for each frequency to a sum of the receive usages of all frequencies;
determining a goodness value of each of a plurality of channels based, at least in part, on the weighted ambient noise floor of each frequency; and
presenting a list of the plurality of channels ranked by the determined goodness value.
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