Physical and MAC adaptation for interference mitigation with cognitive radio

A method of mitigating interference, comprising:

• transmitting on a wireless digital packet communication channel of a plurality of channels of a communication band,
• monitoring power and duration of radio frequencies across the communication band;
• characterizing an interference signal;
• comparing the characterization of the interference signal to a plurality of different patterns to recognize the interference signal;
• selecting a communication adaptation for physical layer and medium access control (MAC) layer control based on the interference characterization, wherein the communication adaptation is selected from a plurality of different communication adaptations that do not have a common communication mitigating technique across the entire plurality.

A method of mitigating interference, comprising:

• transmitting on a wireless digital packet communication channel of a plurality of channels of a communication band;
• monitoring power and duration of radio frequencies across the communication band;
• characterizing an interference signal as at least one of:
• an interference narrowband signal;
• an interference, wideband signal with a low power level relative to a physical layer power setting of a communication device;
• an interference, long term, wideband signal with a high power level relative to the physical layer power setting of the communication device;
• and
• pattern matching the characterized interference signal with at least one adaptation, wherein:
• when the interference signal is the interference narrowband signal, the at least one adaptation increases forward error correction;
• when the interference signal is the interference, wideband signal with a low power level relative to the physical layer power setting of the communication device, the at least one adaptation is selected from i) switching to a more robust modulation scheme, or ii) increasing transmission power, or a combination thereof;
• and
• when the interference signal is the interference, long term, wideband signal with a high power level relative to the physical layer power setting of the communication device, the at least one adaptation is selected from i) changing channels, or ii) increasing transmission power, or a combination thereof.