Negative-Block ACK Based Wi-Fi MAC Protocol

    公开(公告)号:US20210076402A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-11

    申请号:US17009895

    申请日:2020-09-02

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Methods for performing negative acknowledgements (NACKs) in a Wi-Fi based network may include a wireless device receiving, from a neighboring wireless device, a transmission schedule associated with receipt of data packets from the neighboring wireless device. The transmission schedule may include a timeout period associated with transmission of the data packets and/or a start time of the transmission schedule. The method may also include the wireless device determining an error condition associated with the data packets. The error condition may be, for example, non-receipt of any packet (e.g., data packets and/or non-data packets) prior to expiration of the timeout period and/or detection of a gap in sequence numbers associated with the data packets. The method may further include the wireless device, based on the error condition, transmitting a NACK. The NACK may be (or include) a negative block ACK (N-BA) bitmap indicating which data packets were not successfully received.

    Channel access based on uplink virtual queues

    公开(公告)号:US10484309B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-19

    申请号:US15610046

    申请日:2017-05-31

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An access point may receive, from a set of electronic devices, one or more buffer status reports that indicate that at least a subset of the electronic devices have uplink data associated with one or more access categories. In response, the access point may create a group of uplink virtual queues for one or more electronic devices in the subset based on the one or more buffer status reports, where a given uplink virtual queue corresponds to a particular access category and a given electronic device. The access point may start one or more backoff counters with a one-to-one correspondence to uplink virtual queues in the group of uplink virtual queues. When a backoff counter for the given uplink virtual queue reaches zero, the access point may transmit a trigger frame to an electronic device in the subset that corresponds to the given uplink virtual queue.

    REDUCED POWER CONSUMPTION USING COORDINATED BEACON SKIPPING
    13.
    发明申请
    REDUCED POWER CONSUMPTION USING COORDINATED BEACON SKIPPING 审中-公开
    降低功耗使用协调的绊倒

    公开(公告)号:US20160095061A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-03-31

    申请号:US14502064

    申请日:2014-09-30

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: In order to reduce the power consumption associated with waking and receiving beacons, a current listening device in a group of electronic devices wakes and scans for a beacon from another electronic device (such as an access point) using a wireless-local-area-network (WLAN) communication protocol (such as Wi-Fi®). Then, the current listening device transmits information associated with the beacon to the group of electronic devices using a second communication protocol (such as Bluetooth® Low Energy), which is different than the WLAN communication protocol and has a lower power consumption. Moreover, the current listening device receives, using the second communication protocol, a sequence of responses from the group of electronic devices indicating that the information was received, wherein the responses from different electronic devices are received at different times. For example, the responses may be received in a predefined order and/or in round-robin fashion for the group of electronic devices.

    Abstract translation: 为了降低与唤醒和接收信标相关联的功率消耗,一组电子设备中的当前监听设备使用无线局域网从另一电子设备(例如接入点)唤醒和扫描信标 (WLAN)通信协议(如Wi-Fi®)。 然后,当前的监听设备使用与WLAN通信协议不同并且具有较低功耗的第二通信协议(例如蓝牙低能量)将与信标相关联的信息发送到电子设备组。 此外,当前的监听装置使用第二通信协议接收来自指示接收到该信息的电子设备组的响应序列,其中在不同时间接收来自不同电子设备的响应。 例如,响应可以以用于该组电子设备的预定义顺序和/或循环方式来接收。

    Wireless access protocol with collaborative spectrum monitoring

    公开(公告)号:US11451966B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-20

    申请号:US16809432

    申请日:2020-03-04

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: This application relates to electronic devices configured to connect to a wireless local area network and communicate using a trigger-based access mechanism. An access point is configured to manage the wireless local area network. The access point includes a processing subsystem configured to select a channel associated with a communications medium for communicating with the set of electronic devices. The processing subsystem is also configured to monitor the channel to detect interference from radio frequency sources not connected to the wireless local area network, receive channel information for at least one additional channel associated with the communications medium from the electronic devices, and configure an interface circuit of the access point to communicate with the set of electronic devices on a new channel based, at least in part, on the channel information. Each electronic device can be configured to collect the channel information and transmit the channel information to the access point for analysis.

    Low latency wireless protocol
    20.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11290955B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-29

    申请号:US16586297

    申请日:2019-09-27

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: This application relates to electronic devices configured to connect to a wireless local area network and communicate using a trigger-based access mechanism. An access point is configured to define a contention-free period associated with a communications medium utilized by the wireless local area network. During the contention-free period, the access point allocates transmission opportunities to each of a number of electronic devices by transmitting trigger frames to the electronic devices via the communications medium. Each trigger frame can be directed to a particular electronic device and indicates to that electronic device that the current transmission opportunity has been allocated to that electronic device to transmit data (e.g., frames) to the access point via the communications medium. The access point implements an algorithm for allocating two or more transmission opportunities within a contention-free period to two or more corresponding electronic devices.

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