Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Burst OFDMA supporting MU-MIMO
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Application No.: US14833072Application Date: 2015-08-22
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Publication No.: US09780926B2Publication Date: 2017-10-03
- Inventor: Yuh-Ren Jauh , Jianhan Liu , Chao-Chun Wang , James June-Ming Wang , Thomas Edward Pare, Jr.
- Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu
- Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
- Current Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu
- Agency: Imperium Patent Works
- Agent Zheng Jin; Helen Mao
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00 ; H04L5/00 ; H04B7/0452

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are provided for burst OFDMA support MU-MIMO in the WLAN network. In one novel aspect, pluralities of user channels are configured for a downlink wideband channel, wherein each user channel is associated with a user group selecting from a SU-SISO, or a SU-MIMO or a MU-MIMO. In one embodiment, the SIG1 and SIG2 signaling fields are independent for each user channel. In another embodiment, the SIG1 fields are duplicates for all user channels carrying common information. The SIG2 fields for each user group are different from each other carrying user group specific information. In another novel aspect, an uplink OFDMA frames contains ACK packets from multiple STAs concurrently using an uplink wideband channel. In one embodiment, one ACK packet is sent for a MU-MIMO user group. In another embodiment, the uplink ACK packet assignment is based on indications in the downlink PHY SIG field.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160014763A1 Burst OFDMA Supporting MU-MIMO Public/Granted day:2016-01-14
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