Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Joint nulling and joint beamforming for downlink transmissions by multiple access points (AP)
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Application No.: US16566478Application Date: 2019-09-10
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Publication No.: US10892863B2Publication Date: 2021-01-12
- Inventor: Xiaogang Chen , Qinghua Li , Feng Jiang , Po-Kai Huang , Laurent Cariou , Robert J. Stacey , Thomas J. Kenney , Ziv Avital
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: H04L5/00
- IPC: H04L5/00 ; H04B17/327 ; H04B7/06 ; H04W92/12 ; H04B7/024 ; H04W74/08

Abstract:
Embodiments of an access point (AP), station (STA) and method of communication are generally described herein. An AP may be configurable to operate as a master AP of a multi-AP group comprising the master AP and one or more satellite APs. The master AP may select, from the multi-AP group, a set of APs that is to communicate with a STA in accordance with joint processing. The master AP may allocate one or more spatial streams to each of the APs of the set of APs for a joint transmission of a null data packet (NDP) to the STA for channel sounding. The master AP may transmit an NDP announcement (NDPA) that indicates that the APs of the set of APs are to perform the joint transmission of the NDP.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200007283A1 JOINT NULLING AND JOINT BEAMFORMING FOR DOWNLINK TRANSMISSIONS BY MULTIPLE ACCESS POINTS (AP) Public/Granted day:2020-01-02
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