Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure provide example preamble formats with repeated signal (SIG) fields that may help provide backwards compatibility and help address the effects of larger delay spreads in various wireless bands (e.g., WiFi bands).
Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for communicating supported modulation coding schemes (MCS). In some aspects, the information indicating which MCS are supported for a first communication type is used in part to determine which MCS are supported for a second communication type.
Abstract:
A communication device for transmitting a pilot sequence is described. The communication device includes pilot generation circuitry configured for generating a pilot sequence with a reduced peak-to-average power ratio contribution after rotation. The communication device also includes transmitter circuitry configured for transmitting the pilot sequence.
Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to apparatus and methods for switching operating bandwidth and/or operating channel in a wireless communications network. A transmitting STA may send an announcement of a switch to a particular bandwidth in a frame, wherein the presence of absence of a Secondary Chanel Offset Element and a Wide Bandwidth Channel Switch Element in the frame indicates whether the particular bandwidth belongs to a first or second set of operating bandwidths. The presence of the Secondary Channel Offset Element and a Wide Bandwidth Channel Switch Element in the frame may indicate a switch to the first set of operating bandwidths. The first set of operating bandwidths may include VHT channels including 80MHz only, 80+80MHz and 160 MHz channels. The absence of the Secondary Channel Offset Element and a Wide Bandwidth Channel Switch Element in the frame may indicate a switch to the second set of operating bandwidths. The second set of operating bandwidths may include 20MHz and 40MHz channels.
Abstract:
Systems, methods, and devices for performing clear channel assessment at a receiving device are described herein. In some aspects, the receiving device determines whether it is the intended receiver for a data transmission. Upon determining it is the intended receiver, the receiving device transmits a reservation signal. Devices in the vicinity of the receiving device are configured to listen for the reservation signal and refrain from transmitting interfering signals to the receiving device based on the reservation signal.
Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for transmitting sounding feedback in Very High Throughput (VHT) wireless systems. The sounding feedback may be transmitted from a user station (STA), wherein the feedback may comprise a certain number of beamforming matrices and a certain number of singular values of a wireless channel associated with the STA. Further, the sounding feedback may comprise a bit for indicating whether this feedback represents a Single-User (SU) feedback or a Multi-User (MU) feedback.
Abstract:
A communication device for transmitting beamformed signals using implicit channel sounding is described. The communication device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The communication device receives one or more sounding signals and computes a channel estimate based on the one or more sounding signals. Frequency offset compensation is applied to the channel estimate by the communication device. The communication device also computes a precoding matrix based on the channel estimate and transmits a beamformed signal using the precoding matrix. Another communication device for receiving beamformed signals using explicit channel sounding is also described. The communication device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The communication device receives one or more sounding signals, computes a channel estimate based on the one or more sounding signals and applies amplitude compensation to the channel estimate. The communication device also sends estimated channel data and receives a beamformed signal.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for transmitting and receiving frames with various Very High Throughput Signal B (VHT-SIG-B) and Service field formats are provided. Some of these formats may be in accordance with the IEEE 802.11ac amendment to the wireless local area network (WLAN) standard.
Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure present a technique for designing a signal (SIG) field of a mixed mode preamble transmitted to a plurality of user terminals. The SIG field can signal a number of spatial streams assigned to each user. The SIG field is designed such that a robust interference cancellation can be achieved at each user terminal.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to communication, and more specifically to distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems.