Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to allocating at least one wireless channel to an access point [for e.g. 102A] by an access point itself [for e.g. 102A]. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising: detecting at least one neighbouring access point [for e.g. 102B, 102C and 102D]; selecting at least one target wireless channel having the highest comparative associated channel width; transmitting a request message to each of the at least one neighbouring access point [for e.g. 102B, 102C and 102D] and allocating the at least one target wireless channel if each of the at least one target wireless channel having the associated channel width is acceptable to the at least one neighbouring access point [for e.g. 102B, 102C and 102D].

Abstract: A method for selecting (64) a server (30, 40 or 50) is based upon an available server capacity indication (66) for each of the servers. A server may become faulty. Repeated attempted selection (63) of a faulty server exponentially decreases (70) the probability of selecting the faulty server. The method performs a ratio of a currently available capacity for each server of a pool of servers to the total available capacity for all the servers in the pool (64). The server capacities for the pool of servers are dynamically changed (68, 70).