Abstract:
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of communicating traffic to a plurality of wireless devices. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) device to communicate one or more discovery messages during at least one Discovery Window (DW) of a NAN cluster including the NAN device; and communicate data within a data link group after the DW, the data link group including the NAN device and one or more NAN devices of the NAN cluster.
Abstract:
Embodiments of a LP-WUR (low-power wake-up radio) wake-up packet acknowledgement procedure are generally described herein. A first wireless device encodes for transmission of a wake-up packet of a LP-WUR to a second wireless device, the wake-up packet to wake up a WLAN (wireless local area network) radio of the second wireless device. Upon decoding a response frame from the second wireless device received during a predefined time period: the first wireless device encodes for transmission of a data packet to the WLAN radio of the second wireless device. Upon failing to receive the response frame from the second wireless device during the predefined time period: the first wireless device encodes for retransmission of the wake-up packet to the second wireless device.
Abstract:
This disclosure describes methods, apparatus, and systems related to: identifying, at a first wireless communication station, one or more second wireless communication stations within a predetermined proximity of the first wireless communication station; determining, at the first wireless communication station, one or more second wireless communication stations identified within the predetermined proximity of the first wireless communication station for which a multicast frame is intended; generating, at the first wireless communication station, a bit map comprising a hashed identifier of each of the one or more second wireless communication stations for which the multicast frame is intended, wherein the bit map is included in the multicast frame; and causing to transmit, by the first wireless communication station, the multicast frame from the first wireless communication station to the one or more second wireless communication stations for which the multicast frame is intended.
Abstract:
Logic may implement a restricted access window association scheme that uses information provided in traffic indication map (TIM) bitmap and restricted access window (RAW) parameter set (PS) to determine stations associated with RAWs. The TIM information element (IE) may comprise a bitmap indicating paged and unpaged stations. The RAW PS IE may comprise a range of station association identifiers (AIDs) and possibly other station selection data. Logic may determine a range of stations associated with a RAW based upon AIDs for the first and last stations in the range based upon a position for the station in the TIM bitmap. And the range of stations associated with a RAW may be independent of block associations of the first and last stations in the TIM bitmap.
Abstract:
Various embodiments of the invention describe a format and procedure for a wireless communication device to request a network controller to transmit a synchronization frame so that the device may synchronize its communication activities with the network controller. This operation may be used in various types of wireless networks, such as but not limited to those conforming to IEEE standard 802.11ah.
Abstract:
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of communicating in a data path group. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) device to communicate during one or more Discovery Windows (DW) of a NAN cluster; and to communicate with one or more NAN devices of at least one data path group having a data path topology according to a scheduling scheme corresponding to the data path topology, the data path group including two or more NAN devices of the NAN cluster.
Abstract:
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of communicating in a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) cluster. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a NAN device to determine a scheduling rank of the NAN device; to receive schedule information from one or more other NAN devices of a NAN cluster including the NAN device, the schedule information of an other NAN device indicating one or more communication resources for communication with the other NAN device; based on a comparison between the scheduling rank of the NAN device and one or more scheduling ranks of the one or more other NAN devices, to determine a schedule to communicate with the one or more other NAN devices; and to communicate with the one or more other NAN devices based on the schedule.
Abstract:
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of communicating in a data path group. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) device to communicate during one or more Discovery Windows (DW) of a NAN cluster; and to communicate with one or more NAN devices of at least one data path group having a data path topology according to a scheduling scheme corresponding to the data path topology, the data path group including two or more NAN devices of the NAN cluster.
Abstract:
Methods, devices, and systems for retransmission of wake-up signals from a first station to a second station over a wireless network are disclosed. In some aspects, a wake-up signal is encoded for transmission to the second station. While the first station is waiting for an acknowledgment of the wake-up signal from the second station, the second station may retransmit the wake up signal and/or encode a packet for transmission to a third station. In some aspects, whether the wake-up signal is retransmitted is based in part, on at least one of whether a number of timeout events for wake-up signals transmitted to the second station exceeds a maximum timeouts threshold, whether a number of wake-up signals transmitted to the second station exceeds a maximum wake-up signals threshold; or whether a maximum predetermined elapsed time since a first wake-up signal was transmitted to the second station is exceeded.
Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are described to encode, by a first station, duty cycle timing for transmission to a second station via a primary connectivity radio. A wake-up radio (WUR) receiver (WURx) is enabled to receive a transmission based upon the duty cycle timing of the WURx when the primary connectivity radio is in a doze state from a perspective of the second station. A wake-up packet, received from the second station, is decoded and received by the WURx. The WURx receives a WURx transmission when in an WURx awake state. The primary connectivity radio is enabled based upon decoding the wake-up packet.