Invention Grant
- Patent Title: NDPA for multi-AP coordinated beamforming (CBF) and multi-AP joint transmission (JT) in EHT
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Application No.: US17078366Application Date: 2020-10-23
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Publication No.: US11716121B2Publication Date: 2023-08-01
- Inventor: Feng Jiang , Qinghua Li , Xiaogang Chen , Po-Kai Huang , Danny Alexander , Chen Kojokaro , Assaf Gurevitz , 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: H04B7/024
- IPC: H04B7/024 ; H04B7/06 ; H04W84/12

Abstract:
An access point (AP) configured for multi-AP coordinated beamforming (CBF) and multi-AP joint transmission (JT) in an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) wireless local area network (WLAN), when operating as a master AP (AP1) in a multi-AP network, is configured to encode a null data packet announcement (NDPA) frame for multi-AP channel sounding. The NDPA is configured for transmission to a second AP (AP2) and a plurality of stations (STAs) of an EHT group. The NDPA may be encoded to have an information field indicating whether a sounding sequence type is for JT channel sounding or CBF channel sounding. The NDPA may further be encoded to include fields identifying the APs participating in the channel sounding. In these embodiments, the channel sounding sequence for JT can be reused for the channel sounding on CBF.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210044333A1 NDPA FOR MULTI-AP COORDINATED BEAMFORMING (CBF) AND MULTI-AP JOINT TRANSMISSION (JT) IN EHT Public/Granted day:2021-02-11
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