COORDINATED ACCESS POINT TRANSMISSIONS
    141.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240224257A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-04

    申请号:US18602912

    申请日:2024-03-12

    CPC classification number: H04W72/12 H04W72/20 H04W88/08

    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for sharing resources of a wireless medium. Particular implementations relate more specifically to coordinated AP (CAP) time-division-multiple-access (TDMA) and orthogonal-frequency-division-multiple access (OFDMA) techniques for sharing the time or frequency resources of a transmission opportunity (TXOP). According to such techniques, an AP that wins contention and gains access to the wireless medium for the duration of a TXOP may share its time or frequency resources with other selected APs. To share its resources, the winning AP may partition the TXOP into multiple time or frequency segments each including respective time or frequency resources representing a portion of the TXOP, and allocate each of the time or frequency segments to itself or to one of the selected APs.

    CROSS-LINK SIGNALING FOR MULTI-LINK DEVICES
    145.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240064832A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-22

    申请号:US17821452

    申请日:2022-08-22

    CPC classification number: H04W76/15 H04W52/0235 H04W74/0816

    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for communicating cross-link multi-link signaling (MLS) control signaling in wireless local area networks (WLANs). In various aspects, an apparatus may generate a frame that includes a header including an MLS subfield that includes a set of bits associated with a respective link of a set of links between the first MLD and a second MLD. The apparatus may configure a signaling type (s-type) of the MLS subfield with a value indicating a type of MLS control signaling associated with the MLS subfield, and may configure each bit of a first subset of bits of the MLS subfield with a value indicating that the type of MLS control signaling is applicable to the respective link associated with the bit. Further, the apparatus may output the first frame for transmission to the second MLD on a first link of the set of links.

    CONTEXT UPDATES FOR MULTI-LINK DEVICES
    146.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230403545A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-14

    申请号:US18343222

    申请日:2023-06-28

    CPC classification number: H04W8/005 H04W48/10 H04W76/15

    Abstract: A first access point (AP) of an AP multi-link device (MLD) is associated with a first communication link, and one or more secondary APs of the AP MLD are associated with one or more respective secondary communication links of the AP MLD. The first AP of the AP MLD generates a frame including a first change sequence field and one or more secondary change sequence fields. The first change sequence field indicates a presence or absence of a critical update associated with the first communication link, and each of the one or more secondary change sequence fields indicates a presence or absence of a critical update associated with a corresponding secondary communication link of the AP MLD. The first AP of the AP MLD transmits the frame over the first communication link of the AP MLD to a station (STA) of a STA MLD.

    COORDINATED DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS
    150.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230209466A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-29

    申请号:US18178390

    申请日:2023-03-03

    Abstract: Various aspects of the techniques, methods and devices described in this disclosure relate generally to achieving coexistence between WLAN and P2P networks, and specifically, to coordinated D2D communications. Some aspects particularly involve extending the capabilities of TWT elements transmitted by APs to support periodic reserved access windows during which D2D-enabled wireless devices are permitted to transmit direct wireless communications. Some other aspects relate to sharing time and frequency resources via CAP TDMA or CAP OFDMA techniques, and specifically, to allocating at least some of the time and frequency resources specifically for D2D communications. Some other aspects relate to periodic coordinated access windows during which APs are scheduled to contend but during which D2D devices are not permitted to contend, and specifically, to scheduling a reserved access window within a periodic coordinated access window during which D2D devices may transmit direct communications to other D2D devices despite the permissions associated with the periodic coordinated access windows.

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