Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Downlink OFDMA for service sets with mixed client types
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Application No.: US15141922Application Date: 2016-04-29
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Publication No.: US10433313B2Publication Date: 2019-10-01
- Inventor: Brian D. Hart
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC
- Main IPC: H04W72/04
- IPC: H04W72/04 ; H04L5/00 ; H04W72/12 ; H04W84/12 ; H04W88/08 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L29/08 ; H04W24/04

Abstract:
Techniques are provided herein to allow a wireless network access point (AP) to more fully use its bandwidth in order to leverage the different bandwidth capabilities of different types of wireless client devices that the AP serves. The AP generates control parameters for usage of a plurality of channels in a bandwidth during a downlink transmission interval. The control parameters comprise information indicating channel assignments that result in multiple downlink transmissions that at least partially overlap in time to different wireless client devices according to their respective bandwidth capabilities. The AP transmits the control parameters in a control frame in advance of the downlink transmission interval on each of the plurality of channels in the bandwidth.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160249342A1 DOWNLINK OFDMA FOR SERVICE SETS WITH MIXED CLIENT TYPES Public/Granted day:2016-08-25
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