Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices are described for dealing with mutual clock drifts for communications over multiple RATs by maintaining a guard interval. A guard interval is a time interval during which no transmissions should occur. For example, the guard interval may be set relative to a scheduled interference interval of a STA so that transmissions to the STA from an AP will not collide with different RAT (e.g., interference) transmissions/receptions even with clock drift (e.g., a guard interval at both sides of the scheduled interference interval). Such an approach may allow the clocks to be re-synchronized (e.g., by the STA notifying the AP of the schedule of interference interval) infrequently to avoid excessive signaling overhead, which would increase with an increase in the number of coexistence STAs being serviced by the AP.
Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a methods and apparatus for wireless communication. In one aspect, a method a method of communication over a wireless medium. The method includes transmitting, from a first wireless device, a first communication reserving access to the wireless medium during an indicated first time period. The first communication includes a contention-based transmission. The method further includes transmitting, during the first time period, a second communication reserving access to the wireless medium during an indicated second time period at least partially overlapping the first. The second communication includes a scheduled transmission. The method further includes transmitting or receiving a long term evolution unlicensed (LTE-U) transmission during the second time period.
Abstract:
A system and method are disclosed that may provide an accurate estimate of an AP's available capacity. The AP may simulate medium access contention operations using actual packets being transmitted from the AP to associated STAs and virtual packets indicative of traffic that would be transmitted to a new STA that is not currently associated with AP. The AP may determine a transmission schedule for the actual packets and virtual packets based on the simulated medium access contention operations, and then determine what portion of the available capacity is allocated to the virtual packets based, at least in part, on the transmission schedule.
Abstract:
An energy transmitting device (e.g., access point) can transmit an energy signal to a wireless device. The wireless device can obtain energy from the energy signal. The energy signal may be transmitted via an unused frequency sub-range of a frequency range associated with a communication signal. In one embodiment, the energy signal may occupy a frequency sub-range in unused frequencies of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal transmission. The energy signal may be transmitted in a manner that coexists without interfering with traditional communication signals. Various control/configuration settings may be used to enable or disable the energy signal, for example, based on capability of a wireless device to harvest energy from the energy signal or in accordance with a schedule.
Abstract:
A method of adjusting a carrier sense threshold to avoid hidden nodes during wireless broadcast. The method includes monitoring a load of the peer-to-peer network before broadcasting a message from a node. The method also includes adjusting a carrier sense threshold (CST) based on the load of the peer-to-peer network to avoid broadcast message collisions due to one or more hidden nodes.