Abstract:
A method for operating a communications device adapted for orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) wireless local area network (WLAN) communications includes generating an OFDMA preamble comprising an OFDMA signal (SIG) field including an indication of an allocation of an OFDMA resource to a station, and transmitting the OFDMA preamble in a frame.
Abstract:
Signal (SIF) field capacity can be significantly increased by encoding SIG field data using two streams in accordance with a space-time block code (STBC) encoding scheme. Dual-stream SIG field encoding allows for the utilization of higher order modulation schemes, such as quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK), which increases SIG field capacity. Dual-stream encoded SIG fields are transmitted using an omnidirectional beam to allow mobile stations to accurately decode the SIG field irrespective of their spatial location.
Abstract:
Embodiments are provided for WLAN Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) design of subcarrier groups and corresponding frame format. An embodiment method includes grouping a plurality of subcarriers for OFDMA transmissions into a plurality of subcarrier groups in accordance with a pre-defined grouping structure for subcarriers. The method further includes allocating the subcarrier groups to a plurality of corresponding users, and signaling, to the users, a map of the subcarrier groups to the corresponding users. According to the pre-defined grouping structure, each one of the subcarrier groups includes a plurality of consecutive subcarriers, a plurality of non-consecutive subcarriers, or a combination of consecutive and non-consecutive subcarriers according to a deterministic structure. The map is signaled using an OFDMA PPDU comprising a legacy preamble portion configured to silence legacy users that do not use OFDMA communications, an OFDMA preamble portion indicating the map, and a data portion.
Abstract:
A method and a device for a coordinated beamforming for overlapping BSS (OBSS) in WLAN are shown. In an embodiment the method includes transmitting, by a first access point (AP) of the plurality of APs, to other APs of the plurality of APs a first coordinated beamforming (CB) announcement message, wherein the first CB announcement message includes an identifier (ID) of the first AP, an ID of each station (STA) associated with the first AP, and a beamforming capability information of the first AP and receiving, by the first AP, a second CB announcement message from a second AP of the plurality of APs.
Abstract:
Signal (SIF) field capacity can be significantly increased by encoding SIG field data using two streams in accordance with a space-time block code (STBC) encoding scheme. Dual-stream SIG field encoding allows for the utilization of higher order modulation schemes, such as quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK), which increases SIG field capacity. Dual-stream encoded SIG fields are transmitted using an omnidirectional beam to allow mobile stations to accurately decode the SIG field irrespective of their spatial location.
Abstract:
Methods and devices are disclosed for transmitting data, including segmenting a group of information bits into a set of information blocks that each include a respective plurality of the information bits; encoding, using low density parity check (LDPC) encoding, each of the information blocks to generate corresponding codewords; transmitting the codewords to a destination station; receiving a feedback message indicating that at least one of the codewords has not been successfully decoded by the destination station; interleaving the information bits of the information block that corresponds to the at least one of the codewords; encoding, using low density parity check (LDPC) encoding, the interleaved information bits to generate an interleaved codeword; and transmitting the interleaved codeword to the destination station.
Abstract:
A computerized method has the steps of: transmitting a signal for broadcasting a multiple-report-type-support capability, receiving from a device a first request having an indication of the multiple-report-type-support capability, sending to the device a first response having a confirmation of the multiple-report-type-support capability, exchanging information with the device for selecting a report type, and receiving from the device one or more sensing-measurement reports generated using the selected report type.
Abstract:
A first wireless device communicates using a frequency bandwidth with multiple wireless devices, and is configured to concurrently transmit trigger frame messages for each of the multiple wireless devices within respective trigger frame frequency bands of the frequency bandwidth to trigger the multiple wireless devices to concurrently transmit respective data units to the first wireless devices within respective frequency segments of the frequency bandwidth.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus related to NDPA frame indication. An aspect of the disclosure provides a method. The method includes sending, to one or more stations (STAs), a request for channel state information (CSI). The request includes a null data packet announcement (NDPA) frame including a first field and a second field. The first field indicates presence of the second field, and the second field indicates a variant of the NDPA frame. The method further includes receiving, from the one or more STAs, a CSI feedback response based on the request. In some embodiments, the first field is one of a sounding dialog token field and indicates the presence of the second field via at least two bits. In some embodiments, the first field is a frame control field and indicates the second field via a 4-bit subtype subfield.
Abstract:
Methods and systems for waking up a wireless receiving stations having wake-up radio (WUR) circuits. A method of providing a wake-up signal in a communications channel for a plurality of receiving stations, including generating at least a first series and a second series of waveform coded symbols, the first series being incorporated into a first wake-up-radio (WUR) frame that is intended for a first receiving station and has a first predefined bandwidth, the second series being incorporated into a second WUR frame that is intended for a second receiving station and has a second predefined bandwidth; combining the first and second WUR frames into a multiband WUR data unit having a bandwidth that is greater than a sum of the predefined bandwidths of the first and second WUR frames; and transmitting a wake-up signal including the multiband WUR data unit in the communications channel.