MULTI-LINK ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IN MULTI-LINK DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20210045095A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-11

    申请号:US17083203

    申请日:2020-10-28

    IPC分类号: H04W72/04 H04W76/15

    摘要: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to multi-link acknowledgments. A device may transmit a trigger frame to a station device (STA) multi-link device (MLD), wherein the trigger frame polls the STA MLD to announce presence on communication links. The device may identify a null data packet (NDP) from the STA MLD announcing its presence on a set of communication links. The device may establish the set of communication links with the STA MLD, wherein the STA MLD comprises a plurality of station devices (STAs). The device may allocate a plurality of tone-sets to the plurality of STAs within the STA MLD. The device may identify energy on the allocated tone-sets for each link that the STA MLD has presence on.

    MECHANISM TO ENABLE ALIGNED CHANNEL ACCESS

    公开(公告)号:US20210251006A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-12

    申请号:US17242865

    申请日:2021-04-28

    IPC分类号: H04W74/08 H04W74/00

    摘要: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to aligned channel access. A device may perform a first backoff countdown on a first link associated with a first station device (STA) of the device, wherein the device is a multi-link device (MLD). The device may detect a second backoff countdown associated with a second STA of the MLD after the first backoff countdown reaches zero. The device may determine to hold the first backoff countdown at zero based on the value of the second backoff countdown. The device may transmit in synchronization on the first link and on the second link from the first STA and the second STA respectively based on holding the first backoff countdown at zero.

    TRIGGER-BASED (TB) PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) COMMUNICATION USING DIRECT LINK ANNOUNCEMENT (DIL-A) FOR NAV SETTING

    公开(公告)号:US20210045192A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-11

    申请号:US17079791

    申请日:2020-10-26

    IPC分类号: H04W88/08 H04W76/14 H04L5/00

    摘要: Embodiments of an access point (AP) configured for extremely high throughput (EHT) operation may be configured to operate as a triggering AP for a trigger-based (TB) peer-to-peer (P2P) communication between a triggered direct (TD) station (STA) and a TD peer STA. The AP may encode a Direct Link Announcement (DiL-A) frame to schedule the TD STA for a direct link transmission to the TD peer STA. The DiL-A frame may be encoded to include a Duration/ID field. The AP may set the Duration/ID field of the DiL-A frame to a remaining duration of a transmission opportunity (TXOP) when the TD peer STA is an EHT STA that supports TB P2P operation (e.g., to allow the TD peer STA to ignore the NAV set by the DiL-A frame). The AP may set the Duration/ID field of the DiL-A frame to a response time for the TD STA to respond to the DiL-A frame when the TD Peer STA is a legacy STA (e.g., to allow the TD peer STA to set its NAV based on the response time).