Coexistence management for multiple wireless devices by a wireless network device

A wireless network device configurable to manage coexistence of multiple wireless devices communicating with the wireless network device, the wireless network device comprising:

• one or more antennas;
• wireless circuitry communicatively coupled to the one or more antennas and to processing circuitry, the wireless circuitry configurable to communicate with a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point (AP) and with wireless personal area network (WPAN) devices;
• and
• the processing circuitry, including one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the wireless network device to:
• transmit, in response to an internal trigger indicating a WPAN polling period for one or more active WPAN devices associated with the wireless network device, a radio frequency (RF) reservation request to the WLAN AP, the RF reservation request including an indication of a duration of the polling period for the wireless network device to communicate in an RF band shared with the WLAN AP;
• and
• poll the one or more active WPAN devices for data during the polling period, wherein:
• the duration of the polling period is based at least in part on the number of active WPAN devices associated with the wireless network device;
• and
• the wireless network device adjusts the use of aggregation for WLAN data packets communicated with the WLAN device based at least in part on (i) a signal strength measured by the wireless network device and/or (ii) the number of active WPAN devices.

An apparatus configurable for managing coexistence of multiple wireless devices communicating with a wireless network device, the apparatus comprising:

• processing circuitry, including one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the wireless network device to:
• monitor data activity of a plurality of wireless personal area network (WPAN) devices associated with the wireless network device;
• determine whether each WPAN device of the plurality of WPAN devices is active or inactive based at least in part on the monitored data activity;
• determine a polling interval for each WPAN device of the plurality of WPAN devices based at least in part on whether the WPAN device is active or inactive;
• consolidate polling for multiple WPAN devices of the plurality of WPAN devices into a common polling time period;
• transmit a radio frequency (RF) reservation request to a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point (AP), the RF reservation request including an indication of a duration for the common polling time period;
• and
• poll the multiple WPAN devices during the common polling time period, wherein:
• the duration of the common polling time period is based at least in part on the number of active WPAN devices associated with the wireless network device, and
• the wireless network device adjusts the use of aggregation for WLAN data packets communicated with the WLAN device based at least in part on (i) a signal strength measured by the wireless network device and/or (ii) the number of active WPAN devices.