Opportunistic spatial reuse

A system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory operatively connected to the processor, and including computer code that when executed, causes the system to:
• determine an access point (AP) on a channel shared with the system based on a basic service set (BSS) transmitted by the AP;
• determine one or more factors associated with the channel;
• determine a spatial reuse policy based on the one or more factors associated with the channel, wherein the spatial reuse policy involves enabling spatial reuse for downlink traffic;
• communicate the spatial reuse policy with the AP;
• and
• at least one of:
• broadcast to client devices that spatial reuse is disabled for the channel, and
• communicate with the AP that spatial reuse is enabled for transmissions from the AP.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing system, cause the computing system to:

• determine an access point (AP) on a channel shared with the system based on a basic service set (BSS) transmitted by the AP;
• determine one or more factors associated with the channel;
• determine a spatial reuse policy based on the one or more factors associated with the channel, wherein the spatial reuse policy involves enabling spatial reuse for uplink traffic;
• communicate the spatial reuse policy with the AP;
• and
• at least one of:
• broadcast to client devices that spatial reuse is enabled for the channel, and
• communicate with the AP that spatial reuse is disabled for transmissions from the AP.