Listen before talk load based channel access for coexistence with Wi-Fi

摘要

A system that can ensure equivalent media access between a first wireless device associated with a load-based equipment (LBE) protocol and a number of second wireless devices associated with enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA); A method is disclosed. A first wireless device determines a level of contention associated with gaining access to the wireless medium and selects a contention window size based at least in part on the determined level of contention; For medium access contention operations, a random backoff number may be selected from a range of numbers defined by the selected contention window size.