Channel Discovery and Disconnection in Networks Over White Spaces and Other Portions of the Spectrum

A computer readable medium for storing computer readable instructions, the computer readable instructions providing a discovery module when executed by one or more processing devices, the computer readable instructions comprising:

• logic configured to advance to a spectrum unit within the available spectrum;
• logic configured to determine whether the spectrum unit is at least part of a channel, the channel being said to be discovered if it is determined that the spectrum unit is at least part of the channel;
• and
• said logic configured to advance and said logic configured to determine repeating their respective advancing and determining operations until the channel is discovered.

A disconnection management module, comprising:

• logic configured to detect a presence of a privileged entity operating on a channel that is being used by a first node to communicate with a second node, the first node and the second node being associated with non-privileged entities, the non-privileged entities having subordinate access rights compared to the privileged entity;
• logic configured to disconnect the first node from the channel;
• and
• logic configured to send notification information to a second node that indicates that the first node has disconnected from the channel.