BEACONING IN SMALL WAVELENGTH WIRELESS NETWORKS

    公开(公告)号:US20220116851A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-14

    申请号:US17558709

    申请日:2021-12-22

    IPC分类号: H04W40/24 H04W8/00 H04W16/28

    摘要: Reduced signaling overhead is provided in an apparatus and method for communications within a mesh network. The communications involve using two different beacon signals. A peer beacon contains time synchronization and resource management information to maintain existing links among one or more neighboring peer stations, while a separate network discovery beacon contains mesh network profile information that identifies the mesh network to aid network discovery for wireless communication stations wanting to join the mesh network. Embodiments describe coordination between peer stations to determine which stations are to send the network discovery beacons, so that at any given period of time not all stations need to be transmitting the discovery beacons.

    Contention-based random access with receive beamforming in wireless networks

    公开(公告)号:US11134515B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-28

    申请号:US16778308

    申请日:2020-01-31

    摘要: Wireless communication is performed in a wireless network by dividing up a data transmission interval (DTI) within the communication frame into a plurality of time slots based on determining the number of best sector directions from the AP to each STA in the wireless network. Each STA transmits only during this time slot, while the AP uses receiver beamforming and receives only from a single beamforming direction for each of these time slots. A time slot may be used by more than one STA if they are in the same best antenna sector direction from the AP, wherein they contend for access within this time slot.

    MULTI-BAND MILLIMETER WAVE NETWORK DISCOVERY

    公开(公告)号:US20220353791A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-03

    申请号:US17812619

    申请日:2022-07-14

    摘要: Multi-band signaling is described for reducing signaling overhead in an apparatus and method for communications within a mesh network. The communications involve using two different beacon signals on two different communication channels. Peer beacons are sent using directional millimeter-wave (mmW) communications to provide time synchronization and resource management information to maintain existing links among one or more neighboring peer stations. A separate network discovery beacon is sent over a sub-6 GHz communication channel, to provide mesh network profile information that identifies the mesh network to aid network discovery for wireless communication stations wanting to join the mesh network.