CHANNEL CONTROL FOR COMMUNICATION USING DYNAMIC SPECTRUM ACCESS

The disclosure described herein configures a base station and client devices for communication using dynamic spectrum access within a frequency spectrum that includes selecting, from a list of available channels, a set of channels as active channels. The active channels include uplink channels and downlink channels. An uplink channel and a downlink channel are assigned to a plurality of client devices based on locations the client devices, wherein at least some client devices have active channels in common. Acknowledgements from the subset of client devices having the common active channel are grouped, the acknowledgements containing medium access control (MAC) commands specific to the subset of client devices, where each message of a plurality of messages on the uplink channels is followed by a downlink acknowledgement.