摘要:
A method for transmitting a frame includes generating an omni portion of the frame, the omni portion including a non-beamformed long training field and a signal field, the non-beamformed long training field including channel estimation information used to decode the signal field, the non-beamformed long training field configured to be transmitted through one of multiple antennas and multiple streams. The method also includes generating a multi-stream portion of the frame, the multi-stream portion including a data field and a multi-stream long training field, the multi-stream long training field including station-specific decoding information for station-specific data in the data field. The method further includes applying a beamforming indicator to the signal field of the omni portion, and transmitting the frame.
摘要:
A method for communicating data carried in a frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) data frame in a transmission opportunity (TXOP) of a wireless local area network (LAN) access point (AP) is provided. The OFDMA data frame may be a downlink or uplink multi-user (MU) OFDMA data frame carrying data associated with a plurality of stations in respective frequency sub-bands. Cascaded downlink and uplink MU OFDMA data frames may be communicated in the same TXOP. A downlink frame may be communicated in a TXOP to carry frequency resource allocation information for an uplink OFDMA data frame communicated in the TXOP. An acknowledgement (ACK) frame may be communicated in a TXOP to acknowledge whether a downlink or uplink MU OFDMA data frame in the TXOP was successfully received.
摘要:
An OFDMA subframe carrying different data fields in different time segments may include a separate short training field (STF), and a separate set of long training fields (LTFs), for each of the data fields to accommodate time-reuse scheduling. Communicating a separate STF for each data field may allow receivers to re-adjust automatic gain control (AGC) when the data fields carry different numbers of space-time-streams. Likewise, communicating separate sets of LTFs for each data field may allow different beamforming parameters to be applied to different data fields.
摘要:
Embodiments are provided for enabling a beamforming mechanism in WLAN OBSSs. In an embodiment, a first AP of the OBSSs decides to participate in coordinated beamforming for the OBSSs. The OBSSs comprise a plurality of APs and a plurality of STAs associated with the APs. The AP thus transmits, periodically, a coordinated beamforming (CB) announcement message indicating an ID of the first AP and an ID of each STA associated with the first AP. When a second AP of the OBSSs receives the message from the first AP, the second AP maintains the ID of the first AP and the ID of each STA associated with the first AP in an entry of a CB table. When the second AP stops receiving the message, the second AP removes, from the CB table, the entry of the IDs of the first AP and its associated STAs.