Wireless devices, methods, and computer readable media for a high efficiency (HE) signal-A field are disclosed. An apparatus of a HE wireless local area network (HEW) station is disclosed. The apparatus of the HEW station includes circuitry configured to: generate a HE preamble comprising a legacy signal (L-SIG) field followed by a HE-SIG-A1 field, wherein the HE-SIG-A1 field is encoded individually. The circuitry may be further configured to transmit the HE preamble on at least one from the following group: multiple subcarriers of a sub-channel and multiple sub-channels. The circuitry may be configured to transmit the HE preamble with a cyclic prefix (CP) of the HE-SIG-A field that is longer than 0.8 micro-seconds (μs). The circuitry may be configured to indicate enhanced robustness of the packet in a length field of the L-SIG field, a polarization of a repeated L-SIG, and/or a field of the HE-SIG-A.