| CPC H04W 74/0816 (2013.01) [H04L 1/18 (2013.01); H04W 16/14 (2013.01); H04W 28/20 (2013.01)] | 25 Claims |

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1. A non-transitory processor-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a wireless communication device configured for any of a plurality of transmission bandwidths, cause the at least one processor to:
monitor a Clear Channel Assessment (CCA) factor and a Request-to-Send (RTS) factor for each of the transmission bandwidths, wherein the CCA factor is a throughput impact estimate based on any CCA transmission deferrals, and the RTS factor is a throughput impact estimate based on any transmission deferrals due to unanswered RTS messages; and
dynamically select, based on a Packet Error Rate (PER), the CCA factor, and the RTS factor, one of the transmission bandwidths that increases a throughput of the wireless communication device.
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