Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for a common preamble for wireless local-area networks (WLANs). An apparatus of a first wireless device including processing circuitry configured to decode a first data frame from a second wireless device, the data frame indicating a destination address of a third wireless device and in response to the third wireless device being an immediate neighbor of the first wireless device, encode a second data frame comprising the data from the first data frame and an address of the third wireless device as the receiver address of the data frame. The processing circuitry further configured to in response to the third wireless device not being an immediate neighbor of the first wireless device, encode the second data frame to comprise the data from the first data frame, an address of a fourth wireless device, and the address of the third wireless device.