ADAPTIVE BIT RATES FOR WI-FI AND BLUETOOTH COEXISTENCE

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless local area network (WLAN) communication (e.g., Wi-Fi) and Bluetooth coexistence are described. A wireless device may consider the WLAN condition (e.g., whether a WLAN operation is critical) and the Bluetooth medium usage (e.g., Bluetooth bandwidth usage) to determine or adjust encoding schemes (e.g., such as Bluetooth codec or bit rate) for Bluetooth communications. In conditions where critical WLAN activity is to be performed (such as WLAN scanning, WLAN connection establishment, etc.) and high bandwidth Bluetooth communications are established, the device may reduce the Bluetooth encoding scheme to a lower profile (e.g., reduce the rate of the encoding scheme). Such may result in a larger window (e.g., increased bandwidth) for the WLAN procedure at the cost of reducing (e.g., temporarily) the Bluetooth quality to a lower codec, rather than risking interference and glitches to Bluetooth communications otherwise configured using higher bandwidth profiles.