公开(公告)号：US11558098B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-17

申请号：US17132091

申请日：2020-12-23

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Sameer Vermani ,  Bin Tian

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04L25/02 ,  H04B7/0452 ,  H04B7/024

Abstract: Certain aspects relate to methods and apparatus for wireless communication. The apparatus generally includes a first interface configured to output one first frame for transmission to solicit CSI feedback from each of one or more first wireless nodes associated with a first BSS and from each of one or more second wireless nodes associated with a second BSS, a second interface configured to obtain the CSI feedback solicited from the first and second wireless nodes, and a processing system configured to generate data frames for the first wireless nodes based on the CSI feedback solicited from the first wireless nodes, and one or more nulling frames based on the CSI feedback solicited from the second wireless nodes. The first interface is configured to simultaneously output the data frames for beamformed transmission to the first wireless nodes, and the nulling frames for beamformed transmission to the second wireless nodes.

公开(公告)号：US11546938B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-03

申请号：US16988624

申请日：2020-08-08

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Jialing Li Chen ,  Sameer Vermani ,  Lin Yang ,  Bin Tian ,  Vincent Knowles Jones, IV ,  Youhan Kim

IPC: H04W74/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L69/18 ,  H04L69/22 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for wireless communication, and particularly, methods, devices and systems for including signaling regarding enhanced features of new wireless communication protocols. The signaling may be included in various portions of a physical layer preamble of a wireless transmission. In some implementations, the physical layer preamble may be used to indicate puncturing of subbands or content channels that may carry further signaling in accordance with preamble signaling designs of this disclosure. The physical layer preamble signaling be parallelized for different subchannels of a wireless channel that consists of multiple subchannels. Some implementations of the physical layer preambles may be used to multiplex different types of wireless local area network communications into different subsets of the plurality of subchannels of the wireless channel.

公开(公告)号：US11515982B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-29

申请号：US17096934

申请日：2020-11-12

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Bin Tian ,  Stephen Jay Shellhammer ,  Yanjun Sun ,  Alfred Asterjadhi

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W28/06 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for soliciting trigger-based (TB) physical layer protocol convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data units (PPDUs). Some implementations more specifically relate to trigger frame designs that support non-legacy TB PPDU formats. In some aspects, a trigger frame may carry information to be included in a physical layer (PHY) preamble of a TB PPDU solicited by the trigger frame. For example, the information may indicate values of one or more subfields of a universal signal field (U-SIG) associated with the non-legacy TB PPDU format. In some aspects, the information may be carried in a special user information field of the trigger frame. For example, the special user information field may be identified by a special association identifier (AID) value. The special AID value may be different than any AID values assigned to wireless communication devices in a basic service set (BSS) associated with the TB PPDU.

公开(公告)号：US11431539B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-30

申请号：US17145641

申请日：2021-01-11

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Alireza Raissinia ,  Bin Tian ,  Stephen Jay Shellhammer ,  Youhan Kim

IPC: H04L27/26 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H04L69/323

Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for improving the security of secure long training field (LTF) transmissions. In some implementations, a transmitting device may perform windowing on a secure LTF, in the frequency domain, so that the resulting time-domain LTF signal is difficult, if not impossible, to predict by any device that observes a portion of the LTF signal. In some aspects, the transmitting device may negotiate the windowing of secure LTFs with a receiving device based on fine timing measurement (FTM) negotiation frames exchanged at the start of an FTM procedure. In some other aspects, the transmitting device may dynamically or adaptively perform windowing on secure LTFs. In such aspects, the transmitting device may indicate whether windowing is performed on a secure LTF based on information carried in a signal field of a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) that includes the secure LTF.

公开(公告)号：US11363526B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-14

申请号：US17068509

申请日：2020-10-12

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Stephen Jay Shellhammer ,  Bin Tian ,  Lochan Verma

IPC: H04W52/02 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04L5/14 ,  H04L12/825 ,  H04L47/25 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for indicating a data rate of a packet. The transmitting device may select the data rate of a data field of the packet to be transmitted to the receiving device, and may select a pattern to embed within a preamble of the packet based on the selected data rate. In some implementations, the transmitting device may select a first structure including a first number of instances of a sequence or its logical complement if the selected data rate is a low data rate, and may select a second structure including a second number of instances of the sequence or its logical complement if the selected data rate is a high data rate.

公开(公告)号：US11272490B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-08

申请号：US16402492

申请日：2019-05-03

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Lochan Verma ,  Bin Tian ,  Sameer Vermani ,  Lin Yang

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04B7/0452 ,  H04L1/00

Abstract: Techniques for control signaling in extreme high throughput (EHT) environments are described. A message transmitted by an access point (AP) may allocate resources to a plurality of stations (STAs). The AP may be configured to allocate up to 320 MHz of total bandwidth or up to sixteen spatial streams to one or more STAs. In some multiple-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) cases, the spatial configuration field may include a starting spatial stream field and a spatial stream number field. In some non-MU-MIMO cases, the spatial configuration field may be expanded by one bit or more. In some cases, content channels of a resource unit (RU) allocation table may span a frequency segment of 40 MHz.

公开(公告)号：US11245501B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-08

申请号：US16559571

申请日：2019-09-03

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： George Cherian ,  Alfred Asterjadhi ,  Abhishek Pramod Patil ,  Sameer Vermani ,  Bin Tian ,  Stephen Jay Shellhammer ,  Lochan Verma ,  Lin Yang ,  Jialing Li Chen

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W88/08 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for coordination between multiple access points (APs) for communications within a transmission opportunity (TxOP). A first AP may gain channel access for a TxOP, and may coordinate with at least a second AP to allow both the first AP and the second AP to transmit and receive wireless communications during the TxOP. The first AP, upon gaining channel access following a successful contention-based channel access procedure, may initiate a scheduling phase with the second AP to schedule of resources within the TxOP for the first and second APs. The first AP may initiate a multi-AP coordinated transmission phase following the scheduling phase, during which both the first AP and second AP may communicate with one or more associated STAs.

公开(公告)号：US20220038241A1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-03

申请号：US17388344

申请日：2021-07-29

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Sameer VERMANI ,  Alfred Asterjadhi ,  Yanjun Sun ,  Bin Tian ,  Lin Yang ,  Jialing Li Chen ,  George Cherian ,  Youhan Kim

IPC: H04L5/00

Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for generating enhanced sounding packets. Some implementations more specifically relate to sounding packet designs that support enhancements to wireless communication protocols associated with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11be amendment, and future generations, of the IEEE 802.11 standard. In some implementations, an enhanced null data packet announcement (NDPA) frame may be configurable to support multiple versions of the IEEE 802.11 standard. For example, the enhanced NDPA frame may be configured in accordance with a legacy or a non-legacy NDPA frame format. In some other implementations, the enhanced NDPA frame may include a subfield carrying information identifying a particular basic service set (BSS) which may be associated with one or more STA information fields. Still further, in some implementations, an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) PPDU may include signaling to indicate whether the EHT PPDU is formatted as a sounding NDP.

公开(公告)号：US11206554B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-21

申请号：US16515978

申请日：2019-07-18

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Sameer Vermani ,  Bin Tian ,  Lin Yang

IPC: H04W16/28 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L25/02 ,  H04L1/16

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for concurrently transmitting beamformed data from each of a plurality of access points (APs) to a wireless station (STA). In some implementations, the plurality of APs may operate as a distributed antenna array, and carrier signals of the plurality of APs may be synchronized with each other. A beamforming steering matrix may be determined for each of the plurality of APs, and beamformed data may be concurrently transmitted from each of the plurality of APs to the STA based on corresponding ones of the plurality of beamforming steering matrices.

公开(公告)号：US20210359885A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-18

申请号：US17320221

申请日：2021-05-14

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Stephen Jay Shellhammer ,  Bin Tian ,  Sameer Vermani ,  Jialing Li Chen ,  Youhan Kim

IPC: H04L27/26

Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for wireless communication, and particularly, for generating or receiving a multi-generation physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU). The multi-generation PPDU may concurrently include a first generation-specific preamble based on a first generation of a wireless communication specification (such as that defined by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 family of standards) and a second generation-specific preamble based on a second generation of the wireless communication specification in a same transmission. The generation-specific preambles may be generated based on bandwidth portions of a wireless channel that each generation-specific preamble will occupy in the multi-generation PPDU. One or more of the generation-specific preambles may be modified based on an aggregate bandwidth of the multi-generation PPDU. This disclosure includes several options for modifying one or more generation-specific preambles or data fields to accommodate their use in a multi-generation PPDU.