Support for wide area networks and local area peer-to-peer networks

A wireless communications apparatus, comprising:

• a memory that retains instructions for controlling the communications apparatus to:
• identify a wide area network (WAN) from a received signal;
• employ a first set of parameters for said wide area network in a wireless spectrum;
• determine, based upon the identity of the wide area network, local area network parameters to be employed in the wireless spectrum used by said wide area network, said local area network parameters being a second set of parameters, said second set of parameters including at least one of tone spacing or cyclic prefix duration, at least one parameter in said second set of parameters differing from a parameter in the first set from which said at least one parameter is generated;
• and
• employ the second set of parameters for peer to peer communications in a local area peer-to-peer network in the same wireless spectrum used by said wide area network;
• and
• a processor, coupled to the memory, configured to execute the instructions retained in the memory.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-executable instructions for:

• identifying a wide area network from a received signal;
• utilizing a first set of parameters for said wide area network;
• determining, based upon the identity of the wide area network, local area network parameters to be employed in wireless spectrum used by said identified wide area network, said local area network parameters being a second set of parameters, said second set of parameters including at least one of tone spacing or cyclic prefix duration, at least one parameter in said second set of parameters differing from a parameter in the first set from which said at least one parameter is generated;
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• utilizing the second set of parameters for peer to peer communications in a local area peer-to-peer network that leverages a common wireless spectrum as used by the wide area network.

In a wireless communication system, an apparatus comprising:

• a processor configured to:
• identify a wide area network from a received signal;
• employing a first set of parameters for said wide area network in a wireless spectrum;
• determine, based upon the identity of the identified wide area network, local area network parameters to be employed in said wireless spectrum used by said identified wide area network, said local area network parameters being a second set of parameters, said second set of parameters including at least one of tone spacing or cyclic prefix duration, at least one parameter in said second set of parameters differing from a parameter in the first set from which said at least one parameter is generated;
• and
• employ the second set of parameters for peer to peer communications in a local area peer-to-peer network in the same wireless spectrum used by said wide area network.