公开(公告)号：US20180132276A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-10

申请号：US15668191

申请日：2017-08-03

Applicant: Intel IP Corporation

Inventor： Po-Kai Huang ,  Emily H. Qi

IPC: H04W74/00

CPC classification number: H04W74/006 ,  H04W72/1289

Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for a network station receiving a communication schedule announced by a first wireless network station, determining that the first wireless network station has a right to generate an adjusted communication schedule, and transmitting an availability window schedule to the first wireless network station. The availability window schedule indicates one or more time slots during which communication with the wireless network station is inhibited.

公开(公告)号：US09949317B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-17

申请号：US14927821

申请日：2015-10-30

Applicant: Intel IP Corporation

Inventor： Po-Kai Huang ,  Robert J. Stacey ,  Qinghua Li

IPC: H04W84/12 ,  H04L29/12

CPC classification number: H04W84/12 ,  H04L61/2038 ,  H04L61/2092 ,  H04L61/6004 ,  H04L61/6022

Abstract: An apparatus, computer readable medium, and method for overlapping basic service set (OBSS) indication in a high-efficiency wireless local-area network (HEW). An apparatus of a high-efficiency wireless local-area network device is disclosed. The apparatus including transceiver circuitry and processing circuitry configured to receive a frame and determine whether the frame is a frame transmitted from a basic service set (BSS) or a frame transmitted from an OBSS based on one or more media access control (MAC) addresses of the frame. The MAC address may include an indication of a BSS of the HE wireless device. If the HE wireless device is an access point, then a second part of the MAC address may be a predetermined pattern, the second part of the MAC address may be a formula applied to a first part of the MAC address, or an individual/group bit of the MAC address may be set.

公开(公告)号：US09924540B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-20

申请号：US14972541

申请日：2015-12-17

Applicant: Intel IP Corporation

Inventor： Po-Kai Huang ,  Laurent Cariou ,  Robert J. Stacey ,  Chittabrata Ghosh

IPC: H04W74/08

CPC classification number: H04W74/0808

Abstract: An apparatus of a first high-efficiency (HE) access point (AP) or station for spatial reuse is the disclosed. The apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to: decode a first portion of a first packet; and if the first portion indicates the first packet was transmitted by a second HE AP or station and that the first packet is an overlapping basic service set (OBSS) packet, then if a preamble detect energy is below a threshold, cause to be transmitted a second packet simultaneously with a portion of the first packet after the first portion. The processing circuitry may be configured to determine the first portion was transmitted by the second HE AP or station if a field in a physical (PRY) header or a second field in a media access control (MAC) header indicate the first packet was transmitted by the second HE AP or station.

公开(公告)号：US09912489B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-06

申请号：US14927854

申请日：2015-10-30

Applicant: Intel IP Corporation

Inventor： Robert J. Stacey ,  Po-Kai Huang

IPC: H04L12/18 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H04L5/00

CPC classification number: H04L12/189 ,  H04L5/0007 ,  H04L5/0053 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: Apparatuses, computer readable media, and methods for sending and receiving multi-user request-to-send frames in a high-efficiency wireless local-area network (HEW) are disclosed. HEW frames are sent with frame types and subtypes the same as legacy frames with a length field greater than a legacy length to indicate the frame is a HEW frame. An apparatus of a high-efficiency (HE) wireless local-area network device is disclosed. The apparatus including transceiver circuitry and processing circuitry configured to receive a frame comprising a legacy frame type, a legacy frame sub-type, and a length in a legacy signal field (L-SIG), and determine the frame is an HE frame if the length is greater than a threshold length, wherein the threshold length is greater than a second length of a legacy frame of the legacy frame type and legacy frame sub-type.

公开(公告)号：US20180049131A1

公开(公告)日：2018-02-15

申请号：US15392398

申请日：2016-12-28

Applicant: Intel IP Corporation

Inventor： Po-Kai Huang ,  Robert J. Stacey ,  Minyoung Park

IPC: H04W52/02

CPC classification number: H04W52/0235 ,  H04W52/0248 ,  H04W84/12 ,  Y02D70/00 ,  Y02D70/10 ,  Y02D70/1226 ,  Y02D70/1242 ,  Y02D70/1262 ,  Y02D70/14 ,  Y02D70/142 ,  Y02D70/144 ,  Y02D70/146 ,  Y02D70/164 ,  Y02D70/166 ,  Y02D70/20 ,  Y02D70/22 ,  Y02D70/26

Abstract: Embodiments of a low-power wake-up radio (LP-WUR) are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a wireless device is set to a first state or a second state, wherein in the first state the wireless device is configured to receive wake-up (WU) packets, and wherein in the second state the wireless device is configured to not receive WU packets, wherein the wireless device comprises a WLAN radio and a low-power wake-up radio (LP-WUR). In some embodiments, the wireless device is configured to receive a wake-up packet, turn on the WLAN radio and turn off the LP-WUR. In some embodiments, the wireless device is configured to turn off the WLAN radio and turn on the LP-WUR for power conservation. In some embodiments, the wireless device turns off the WLAN radio and turns off the LP-WUR, and can periodically turn on the LP-WUR radio for extreme power saving.

公开(公告)号：US09894653B2

公开(公告)日：2018-02-13

申请号：US14861501

申请日：2015-09-22

Applicant: Intel IP Corporation

Inventor： Po-Kai Huang ,  Chittabrata Ghosh ,  Robert J. Stacey ,  Qinghua Li

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04L12/741 ,  H04L5/00

CPC classification number: H04W72/0446 ,  H04L5/0037 ,  H04L5/006 ,  H04L5/0094 ,  H04L45/74 ,  H04W74/006 ,  H04W74/0816

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for MU-RTS and CTS in WLANs are disclosed. An apparatus is disclosed that comprises circuitry that is configured to generate a packet to indicate a multi-user request-to-send (MU-RTS), wherein the packet indicates one or more HEW station information fields, wherein the one or more HEW station information fields comprise an address of a HEW station and an indication of a bandwidth for the HEW station to transmit one or more clear-to-send (CTS) packets; and transmit the packet to the one or more HEW stations. A HEW device is disclosed that includes circuitry configured to receive a multi-user request-to-send (MU-RTS); copy a scramble seed from the MU-RTS to a clear-to-send (CTS) packet; and transmit the CTS packet.

公开(公告)号：US20170353381A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-07

申请号：US15393321

申请日：2016-12-29

Applicant: INTEL IP CORPORATION

Inventor： Emily H. Qi ,  Po-Kai Huang

IPC: H04L12/721 ,  H04W8/00 ,  H04W48/08 ,  H04L12/751 ,  H04W84/12

CPC classification number: H04L45/26 ,  H04L45/026 ,  H04W8/005 ,  H04W40/00 ,  H04W48/08 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of establishing a mesh data path. For example, a first Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) device may be configured to transmit a NAN data path request to a second NAN device to request to establish a NAN data path between the first NAN device and the second NAN device, the NAN data path request including a first path information attribute corresponding to a mesh data path; and to process a NAN data path response from the second NAN device, the NAN data path response including a second path information attribute corresponding to the mesh data path, the second path information attribute including a path status indicator to indicate whether mesh data path routing to the destination address of the mesh data path is successful.

公开(公告)号：US09794790B2

公开(公告)日：2017-10-17

申请号：US14745743

申请日：2015-06-22

Applicant: Intel IP Corporation

Inventor： Po-Kai Huang ,  Robert J. Stacey ,  Qinghua Li ,  Rongzhen Yang

IPC: H04W16/02 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W40/16 ,  H04W72/08 ,  H04W76/02 ,  H04W76/04 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H04W84/20 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L27/26

CPC classification number: H04W16/02 ,  H04L5/0007 ,  H04L5/0062 ,  H04L5/0091 ,  H04L27/261 ,  H04W28/0236 ,  H04W40/16 ,  H04W72/046 ,  H04W72/082 ,  H04W72/1231 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W76/23 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H04W84/20

Abstract: Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses are disclosed for spatial reuse. A high efficiency station (HE STA) that includes circuitry is disclosed. The circuitry may be configured to: determine if a link with a wireless device is a D2D link with a spatial reuse opportunity; and transmit a packet that includes an indication that there is the spatial reuse opportunity for the duration of the packet, if the link with the wireless device is the D2D link with the spatial reuse opportunity. The circuitry may be configured to: receive a packet from a second HE STA, where the packet includes an indication that there is a spatial opportunity for the duration of the packet; adjust at least one of the following group: a transmit power and a clear channel assessment parameter; and transmit a second packet to a wireless device in the spatial opportunity in accordance with D2D communication.

公开(公告)号：US20170230837A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-10

申请号：US15382128

申请日：2016-12-16

Applicant: Intel IP Corporation

Inventor： Po-Kai Huang ,  Laurent Cariou

IPC: H04W16/14

CPC classification number: H04B7/0452 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: Embodiments for an access point (AP), station (STA) and method for communication are generally described herein. An access point (AP), configurable to operate in a basic service set (BSS), the apparatus comprising memory. The AP further comprising processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry configured to encode a physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) for transmission to stations operable in the BSS. The PPDU may comprise a media access control (MAC) header portion. The processing circuitry may encode signaling in the MAC header portion of the PPDU that defines a spatial reuse restriction and the spatial reuse restriction may restrict spatial reuse by stations operating in a BSS that is different from the BSS of the AP. In an embodiment, processing circuitry coupled to the memory may encode the spatial reuse restriction in an HE-A control field of the MAC header portion.

公开(公告)号：US20170208153A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-20

申请号：US15324033

申请日：2015-06-26

Applicant: Intel IP Corporation

Inventor： Qinghua Li ,  Xiaogang Chen ,  Po-Kai Huang ,  Rongzhen Yang ,  Peng Meng

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L27/26

CPC classification number: H04L69/22 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L1/0079 ,  H04L1/08 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04L27/2602 ,  H04L27/2607 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: Wireless devices, methods, and computer readable media for a high efficiency (HE) signal-A field are disclosed. An apparatus of a HE wireless local area network (HEW) station is disclosed. The apparatus of the HEW station includes circuitry configured to: generate a HE preamble comprising a legacy signal (L-SIG) field followed by a HE-SIG-A1 field, wherein the HE-SIG-A1 field is encoded individually. The circuitry may be further configured to transmit the HE preamble on at least one from the following group: multiple subcarriers of a sub-channel and multiple sub-channels. The circuitry may be configured to transmit the HE preamble with a cyclic prefix (CP) of the HE-SIG-A field that is longer than 0.8 micro-seconds (μs). The circuitry may be configured to indicate enhanced robustness of the packet in a length field of the L-SIG field, a polarization of a repeated L-SIG, and/or a field of the HE-SIG-A.