ENABLING COEXISTENCE BETWEEN INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM NETWORKS AND UNLICENSED WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for enabling coexistence between intelligent transportation system (ITS) networks and unlicensed wireless local area networks (WLANs). A method that may be performed by an intelligent transportation system (ITS) device, includes transmitting one of a frame or a clear-to-send-to-self (CTS-to-self) message indicating a first time period during which a bandwidth will be in use, wherein the frame or CTS-to-self transmission is based on a first protocol; and transmitting, by the ITS device during the first time period and on the bandwidth, signaling, wherein the signaling is based on a second protocol.