Abstract:
A wireless communication device, system and method. The device includes a memory and processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry has a main baseband processor and a low power baseband processor, and further includes logic to cause the low-power baseband processor to process an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) signal allocated to a predetermined resource unit (RU) of an OFDMA packet as an OOK modulated signal including a sequence of bit values of 1 and 0. The sequence represents a low-power wake up (LP-WU) packet. The OFDMA packet has a plurality of RUs and is addressed to one or more destination OFDMA devices. The low power baseband processor is to decode an OFDMA symbol allocated to the predetermined RU as a bit value of 1, and to decode an absence of an OFDMA symbol from the predetermined RU as a bit value of 0. The logic is further to cause a wake-up of the main baseband processor based on the LP-WU packet. The main baseband processor may process subsequent OFDMA modulated data symbols as OFDMA modulated data symbols after waking up
Abstract:
Described herein are waveform designs and systems that enable low-power narrow bandwidth operations by battery powered Internet-of-Things devices in an 802.11ax environment. In one embodiment, a single carrier waveform is frequency multiplexed within 802.11ax OFDM transmissions in both the downlink and uplink. The single-carrier waveform provides a low peak-to-average-power-ratio to lower the overall power consumption of the battery powered devices.
Abstract:
This disclosure describes systems, and methods related to signal classification in a wireless communication network. A first computing device comprising one or more processors and one or more transceiver component may receive a signal transmission packet comprising a physical layer (PHY) preamble. The first computing device may identify within the PHY preamble, one or more signal (SIG) fields, wherein at least one of the one or more SIG fields includes at least a length field indicating a length of the signal transmission packet. The first computing device may determine based at least in part on the length field, that the signal transmission packet is associated with a predetermined communication standard utilized to transmit the signal transmission packet. The first computing device may decode the signal transmission packet based at least in part on the determination that the signal transmission packet is associated with the predetermined communication standard.
Abstract:
Embodiments allow a wireless device configured to work with the 802.11n/ac standard to work in the communication bands where 802.11p devices operate with little change. Embodiments may receive signals using a receiver adapted for the wider bandwidth 802.11n/ac signals. Embodiments may also increase the sensitivity of the receiver to reduce the likelihood of missing the presence of a lower bandwidth 802.11p signal. When a signal is detected, embodiments may process the incoming signal as if it were an 802.11n/ac signal while also processing incoming signal samples in a way that effectively narrows the receiver bandwidth to identify whether an 802.11p signal is present. If the device detects the presence of an 802.11n/ac signal, it may terminate the 802.11p signal processing and proceed with normal 802.11n/ac operation. If the device detects the presence of an 802.11p signal, it may terminate 802.11n/ac processing and trigger collision avoidance processes.
Abstract:
Some demonstrative embodiments may include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of communicating over a narrowband channel in a 2.4 Gigahertz (GHz) frequency band. For example, wireless device may be configured to generate a frame configured for transmission over a narrow channel bandwidth of between 2 Megahertz (MHz) and 3 MHz; and to transmit the frame over a narrowband channel in a 2.4 GHz frequency band, the narrowband channel having the narrow channel bandwidth.
Abstract:
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of communicating a wakeup packet. For example, an apparatus may include circuitry configured to cause a wireless device to generate a frame comprising a Low-Power Wakeup-Receiver (LP-WUR) capability indication to indicate a capability of the wireless device to process communication of a wakeup packet; and to transmit the frame.
Abstract:
Logic may calculate predicted phase rotations based upon more than one previously determined phase rotation. Logic may access memory to store and retrieve previously determined phase rotations to calculate predicted phase rotations. Logic may determine channel information updates such as channel state information and phase correction information from pilot tones that do not travel close to the direct current (DC) tone or the band edge (or guard) tones and replace the missing phase rotations with predicted phase rotations. Logic may skip phase tracking from pilot tones that have traveled close to the DC tone or the edge tones or that experience channel fading, which may result in a predicted phase rotation being more accurate than a phase rotation determined by processing the corresponding pilot tone.
Abstract:
Logic may comprise hardware and/or code to select a narrow band from a wider channel bandwidth. Logic of communications between devices may select, e.g., a 1 or 2 MHz sub-channel from a wider channel bandwidth such as 4, 8, and 16 MHz and transmit packets on the selected 1 or 2 MHz channel. For instance, a first device may comprise an access point and a second device may comprise a station such as a low power sensor or a meter that may, e.g., operate on battery power. Logic of the devices may facilitate a frequency selective transmission scheme. Logic of the access point may transmit sounding packets or control frames across the sub-channels of the wide bandwidth channel, facilitating selection by the stations of a sub-channel and subsequent communications on the sub-channel between the access point and the station.
Abstract:
Techniques to manage dwell times for pilot rotation are described. An apparatus may comprise a memory configured to store a data structure with a set of modulation and coding schemes (MCS) available to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system, each MCS having an associated pilot dwell time. The apparatus may further comprise a processor circuit coupled to the memory, the processor circuit configured to identify a MCS to communicate a packet using multiple subcarriers of the OFDM system, and retrieve a pilot dwell time associated with the MCS from the memory, the pilot dwell time to indicate when to shift a pilot tone between subcarriers of the multiple subcarriers during communication of the packet. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Abstract:
Logic may determine channel information updates such as channel state information and phase correction information from pilot tones that do not travel close to the DC tone or the band edge tones. Logic may skip channel updates and phase tracking from pilot tones that have traveled close to the DC tone or the edge tones. Logic may use channel estimates and phase rotations that are obtained from previous locations of the pilot tones instead of pilot tones that are adjacent to the DC tone or the edge tones. Logic may access memory to store the channel information such as the phase correction information previously obtained and the channel state information previously obtained and derived from processing pilot tones at locations adjacent to the symbol indices next to the DC tone and the edge tones.