Abstract:
A method for generating a pilot pattern within a data frame (100) for a data transmission arrangement employing orthogonal frequency division multiple access, OFDMA, is provided. One data frame comprises a multitude of OFDM symbols (120) to be consecutively transmitted in time. The method comprising the steps of: transmitting a first pilot (132) at a first frequency of one of the OFDM symbols and transmitting a second pilot (134) at a second frequency of one of the OFDM symbols, wherein the second frequency is different from the first frequency, wherein the first frequency and the second frequency are assigned to a first communication device (20A).
Abstract:
87341488PCT01 23 ABSTRACT A wireless communication apparatus (110; 120) for OFDMA communication with a further wireless communication apparatus is provided. The wireless communication apparatus5 comprises a processing circuitry (111; 121) configured to (i) obtain a plurality of tones of a first resource unit, RU, within a channel bandwidth; (ii) permutate a plurality of data tones of a second RU based on a LDPC tone mapping formula depending on a number of the plurality of data tones of the second RU that is larger than a number of tones of the first RU; (iii) map the tones of the first RU to a subset of the permutated data tones of the second RU 10 to obtain a re-arranged plurality of tones of the first RU distributed over the permutated data tones of the second RU; and (iv) communicate with the further wireless communication apparatus based on the re-arranged plurality of tones of the first RU. (Fig. 3)15
Abstract:
A wireless AP (110a) is configured to share a TXOP with one or more further wireless APs (110b-d) within an M-AP set for participating in a coordinated transmission. The wireless AP (110a) comprises a processing circuitry (111a) configured to generate an M-AP agreement-based announcement frame (130a) comprising a coordination agreement identifier for identifying one coordination agreement of a plurality of coordination agreements within the M-AP set. Moreover, the wireless AP (110a) comprises a communication interface (113a) configured to transmit the M-AP agreement-based announcement frame (130a) to the at least one further wireless AP (110b-d) within the M- AP set, wherein the wireless AP (110a) and the further wireless AP (110b-d) within the M- AP set operate under the coordination agreement identified by the coordination agreement identifier within the M-AP set. Moreover, a corresponding method is disclosed. Advantageously, the M-AP agreement-based announcement frame including the coordination agreement identifier allows reducing the signalling overhead.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to an entity comprising: a memory storing identifiers and/or general communication parameters of a plurality of Access Point entities ascribed to a Multi-Access Point Set in a wireless communication network; a processor establishing a specific Coordination Agreement that includes a subset of the plurality of Access Point entities of the Multi-Access Point Set based on the identifiers and/or the general communication parameters of the plurality of Access Point entities; and a transmitter transmitting an agreement request to one or more Access Point entities of the Multi-Access Point Set based on the identifiers and/or the general communication parameters of the one or more Access Point entities, wherein the agreement request indicates cooperation parameters under the specific Coordination Agreement which shall be used for coordinated transmission of the Access Point entities of the Multi-Access Point Set which are included under that specific Coordination Agreement.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a wireless network and generally to Multiple Resource Unit (MRU) allocation in the wireless network, which may be a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) according to the WiFi standard. Embodiments of the present disclosure accordingly provide a wireless network device and a corresponding method, respectively, for MRU allocation. The wireless network device is configured to select a training signal for a MRU, wherein the MRU comprises two or more RUs arranged in a frequency domain, and wherein the training signal comprises a training sequence per RU. Further, the wireless network device is configured to apply, for at least one RU, a subset of phase values to the training sequence of the at least one RU, wherein the subset of phase values is selected for the at least one RU from a set of phase values allocated to the MRU.
Abstract:
The disclosure relates to a station (STA) (600), in particular WiFi-STA, comprising: a processor (601) configured to generate a radio signal (605) based on a code (604) and at least one replica of the code (604); and a transmitter (602) configured to transmit the radio signal (605) to an access point (AP) (103, 700). The disclosure further relates to an access point (AP) (700) comprising: a receiver (702), configured to receive a radio signal (705) from at least one STA (101, 102, 110, 600), wherein the radio signal (705) comprises a code (712, 722, 732) and at least one replica of the code (712, 722, 732).
Abstract:
The invention provides a device (100) for providing a soft AP, and provides an AP 200 in a wireless network. The device (100) sends, to the AP 200, a resource request message (101) including cluster information about a cluster (111) of network units (110) connected to the device (100). The AP 200 allocates first resources for communications (103) within the cluster (111) according to the cluster information, and sends to the device (100) a resource allocation message (102) specifying the first resources. The device (100) uses the first resources for communications (103) within the cluster (111).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a communication transmitter (100) for providing a periodic signal for channel measurements (101), in particular for channel gain measurements, the communication transmitter (100) comprising a processor (107) being configured to determine the periodic signal (101) upon the basis of at least one of the following seed sequences: a first seed sequence M1=[1, -1, 1, 1, 1,-1,-1,-1,-1, 1,-1, 1, 1] for transmitting the periodic signal (101 ) within a first bandwidth; a second seed sequence M2=[1, 1,-1,-1,-1, 1,-1, 1,-1, -1,-1,-1, 1,-1,-1,-1, 1,-1, 1, 1, 1, 1,-1,-1, 1, -1, -1, -1, -1,1 ] for transmitting the periodic signal (101) within a second bandwidth, the second bandwidth comprising the first bandwidth; a third seed sequence M3_1 =[-1, -1, 1, 1, 1,-1, 1, 1, 1,-1, 1,-1,-1,-1,-1, 1,-1,- 1, -1, 1, -1, 1, 1, 1, -1, -1, 1, -1, 1,1] for transmitting the periodic signal (101) within the third bandwidth, the third bandwidth comprising the second bandwidth; or a fourth seed sequence M3_2=[-1,-1, 1,-1, 1, 1,-1,-1, 1, 1, 1, -1, 1, 1, 1, -1, -1, -1, 1, 1, 1, -1, 1, -1, -1, 1, -1, 1, 1] for transmitting the periodic signal (101) within the third bandwidth, the third bandwidth comprising the second bandwidth.
Abstract:
In some embodiments disclosed herein a device 102 for network communication transmits an outbound WLAN frame to a remote device 104 via the network 100. The outbound frame includes a frame synchronization portion 802 followed by first ODFM. The device also receives an inbound WLAN frame 808 from the remote device. The inbound frame includes second OFDM symbols. One of: (a) the transmitted outbound frame and (b) the inbound frame, includes generation data 821 for generating the other of the outbound frame, by the device, and the inbound frame, by the remote device. The frame synchronization portion suspends transmission of the first OFDM symbols to be synchronized with the second OFDM symbols. Corresponding methods, computer programs and non-transient computer readable mediums are also disclosed.
Abstract:
A device is disclosed comprises at least one processor adapted (330) to determine synchronization information for each of a plurality of orthogonal frequency duplex multiplexing (OFDM) signals (152) in a respective plurality of wireless local area network (WLAN) frames (103, 113, 123). The WLAN frames respectively are transmitted from different transmission addresses and respectively define different reception addresses to be processed by different receivers (104, 114, 124). The at least one processor also instructs transmission of at least one message (402, 505) comprising the synchronization information. The at least one message configures a first device (114) to transmit a first OFDM signal (113) of the plurality of OFDM signals synchronously with a transmission, by a second device (102 or 122), of a second OFDM signal (103 or 123) of the plurality of OFDM signals. A corresponding method and computer program product are also disclosed.