| CPC H04B 1/7183 (2013.01) [H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] | 13 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
ranging, by a host Access Point (AP), each neighbor AP of the host AP;
categorizing one or more neighbor APs that failed to range with the host AP in a failed neighbor AP list;
re-ranging, by the host AP, each of the one or more neighbor APs in the failed neighbor AP list with a modified ranging parameter; and
categorizing at least one neighbor AP of the one or more neighbor APs in the failed neighbor AP list that succeeded in re-ranging with the host AP in an extended range neighbor AP list.
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