Industry Patents

The present invention relates to a method for selecting operating frequency channels having frequency parameters, such as a frequency interval or at least one carrier frequency, for a network communicating data over a shared medium. The network is configured to communicate within a frequency range, and the frequency range is divided into a plurality of frequency channels f.sub.1-f.sub.n, each frequency channel defines a predetermined frequency parameter. The data to be communicated over the network is divided into sequences FS, each sequence having a plurality of positions SP.sub.1-SP.sub.m. The method further comprises regularly scanning the frequency range to identify interfering frequencies generated by interfering networks operating within said shared medium, and assigning a frequency channel f.sub.k to each position SP.sub.i within the sequences FS based on the identified interfering frequencies, whereby the use of interfering frequencies is limited.