Abstract:
Implementations of the technology described herein provide adjustment to the time-of-departure (ToD) of the start of the acknowledgement frames (ACK) based on the time-of-arrival (ToA) estimation and correction of their corresponding message frames to keep the turnaround time of the acknowledgement frames stable to a predefined order of precision, with special applications for Wi-Fi ranging to achieve double-sided time-of-arrival (ToA) correction accuracy with minimal frame exchanges. A receiving station uses its time-of-arrival (ToA) correction to adjust the transmission time of an acknowledgement message (ACK) so that both the sending station and the receiving station can estimate round trip time (RTT) (or perform ranging) at the same level or higher accuracy.