Communication between overlapping wran cells working in different channels

A system for common control channel communication in a plurality of wireless regional area network (“WRAN”) cells wherein each WRAN is associated with a base station (“BS”) and a plurality of consumer premise equipments (“CPEs”), the system comprising:

• a plurality of overlap areas formed by overlapping the plurality of WRAN cells;
• an enhanced coexistence beacon protocol (“ECBP”) packet transmitted on a working channel of at least one of the plurality of WRAN cells;
• at least one CPE of the plurality of CPEs operating in one of the plurality of overlap areas configured to sense channels being used by neighboring WRAN cells;
• and
• a common control channel for the plurality of overlap areas wherein the common control channel is selected based on sensed channels and used to convey ECBP packets in each of the plurality of overlap areas,
• wherein each ECBP packet includes the following fields:
• former common control channel ID, current common control channel ID, BS ID of the common control channel owner, current working channel ID, and synchronization type.

A non-transitory computer readable medium encoding an enhanced coexistence beacon protocol (“ECBP”) packet, wherein the ECBP packet comprises:

• a former common control channel ID;
• a current common control channel ID;
• a base station (“BS”) ID of a common control channel owner;
• a current working channel ID;
• a synchronization type.

A method for communication for a consumer premise equipment (“CPE”) in overlap areas formed by a plurality of overlapping wireless regional area network (“WRAN”) cells wherein each WRAN cell is operating on a different channel and wherein each WRAN is associated with a base station (“BS”) and a plurality of CPEs, the method comprising:

• sending and receiving an enhanced coexistence beacon protocol (“ECBP”) packet on a working channel at the request of a base station associated with a WRAN cell of the plurality of overlapping WRAN cells, wherein the working channel is an operating channel of the WRAN cell;
• sensing working channels used by other WRAN cells of the plurality of overlapping WRAN cells;
• selecting a common control channel for an overlap area formed by the plurality of overlapping WRAN cells;
• and
• sending and receiving ECBP packets on the common control channel,
• wherein each ECBP packet includes the following fields:
• former common control channel ID, current common control channel ID, BS ID of the common control channel owner, current working channel ID, and synchronization type.