Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Controlled spatial reuse in a WLAN
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Application No.: US15498358Application Date: 2017-04-26
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Publication No.: US10306476B2Publication Date: 2019-05-28
- Inventor: Guoqing Li , Christiaan A. Hartman , Jarkko Kneckt , Yong Liu , Su Khiong Yong , Joonsuk Kim , Oren Shani
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Dickinson Wright RLLP
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L5/14 ; H04L12/24 ; H04W16/02 ; H04W52/36 ; H04W74/00 ; H04W84/12 ; H04W88/08 ; H04L12/931

Abstract:
An interface circuit in an electronic device may receive, from an access point associated with the electronic device, a frame with management information that enables the electronic device to use a spatial-reuse technique, where the electronic device, through the spatial-reuse technique, adjusts a transmit power and a channel-availability sensing threshold. Moreover, the management information may specify parameters for the spatial-reuse technique. Then, the electronic device may transmit, using the spatial-reuse technique, one or more frames to the access point based on the parameters. Furthermore, the electronic device may transmit, to the access point, feedback information that indicates communication performance during the communication between the electronic device and the access point. For example, the feedback information may include a retry rate and, more generally, communication-performance information. This feedback information may be used by the access point to modify the parameters.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170311166A1 CONTROLLED SPATIAL REUSE IN A WLAN Public/Granted day:2017-10-26
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