The method 540, shown in FIG. 5B, may be conducted by a slave AP 104b. Generally, the method 540 starts with a start operation 542 and ends with an end operation 552. The method 540 can include more or fewer stages or can arrange the order of the stages differently than those shown in FIG. 5. The method 540 can be executed as a set of computer-executable instructions, executed by a computer system or processing component, and be encoded or stored on a storage medium. Further, the method 540 can be executed by a gate or other hardware device or component in an ASIC, a FPGA, or other type of hardware device. Hereinafter, the method 500 shall be explained with reference to the systems, components, modules, software, data structures, etc. described herein. The two methods 500 and 540 will be described in conjunction herein.

Both the AP 104c and the AP 104g may determine the RSSI of a signal received from another AP 104 of another BSS 100, in stage 508. The interference detector 204, of both the AP 104c and the AP 104g, may receive a signal 304 from another AP 104 or another station 106. Based on the RSSI determined from the received signal, the interface detector 204 can determine if there is interference from that AP 104 or station 106.