Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Apple Inc.

Qualcomm Incorporated

Ashok Ranganath

Simone Merlin

Wook Bong Lee

Sharan Naribole

Yong Liu

Alfred Asterjadhi

Alireza Raissinia

Joonsuk Kim

Su Khiong Yong

Ning Zhang

Srinivas Kandala

Guoqing Li

Oren Shani

Christiaan A Hartman

Ravi H Gidvani

Jarkko L Kneckt

Ruchen Duan

Shailender Karmuchi

Tianyu Wu

Matthew L Semersky

Sandip HomChaudhuri

James Simon Cho

Guido Robert Frederiks

Zhanfeng Jia

Mostafa Sayed Roshdy Ibrahim

Gangadhar Burra

Pradeep Kumar Yenganti

Deepak Dhamdhere

Hong Fan

Viral Modi

Pattabiraman Subramanian

Md Majharul Islam Rajib

Myeongjin Kim

Chaitanya Mannemala

Wookbong Lee

Hoon Ki Lee

Sumeet Kumar

Sunit Pujari

Ian David O'Donnell

Dinesh K Upadhyay

Badrisrinivasan Sampathkumar

Sandip Homchaudhuri

Pavankumar Veerashetty

Ruehen Duan

Krunal Soni

Michail Koundourakis

Jason Young

Disclosed is a method of setting conditions for an access point (AP) to be included in an AP candidate set of a coordinating AP for a transmission opportunity (TXOP), including setting a first primary channel of the AP as part of the AP candidate set of the coordinating AP within a basic service set (BSS) operating bandwidth of the coordinating AP, and coordinating AP updates in the AP candidate set when a coordinated AP that is part of the AP candidate set performs a channel switch to a second primary channel operating on a different bandwidth stream than a bandwidth stream of the first primary channel.

Shared transmission opportunity operation in multi-access point coordination

A system and method for the discovery of Access Point Stations operating on non-Preferred Scanning Channels. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, by a non-Access Point Station (non-AP STA), from a first Access Point Station (AP STA), in a transmission on a first channel, a Reduced Neighbor Report (RNR); and determining, by the non-AP STA, from the RNR, that a second AP STA is operating on a second channel, the first channel being a Preferred Scanning Channel (PSC), and the second channel being a non-PSC channel.

6 GHZ non-PSC AP discovery

A method for associating and authenticating a station (STA) with a coordinated access point (AP) group may include generating a pairwise master key (PMK) between the STA and a coordinator of the coordinated AP group, and maintaining an association and authentication state between the STA and the coordinated AP group based on the PMK. The method may further include generating one or more temporal keys between the STA and the coordinator based on the PMK. The method may further include distributing the PMK from the coordinator to a first member AP and a second member AP of the coordinated AP group. The method may further include generating a first temporal key between the STA and the first member AP, and generating a second temporal key between the STA and the second member AP.

Systems, methods, and devices for association and authentication for multi access point coordination

A system and method for managing latency in a wireless network. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, by a non-Access Point Station (non-AP STA), a first inserted packet; and sending, by the non-AP STA, an Acknowledgement (ACK) for the first inserted packet, the first inserted packet beginning after the beginning of a first originally scheduled Aggregated Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (A-PPDU) and being substituted for a portion of the data of the first originally scheduled A-PPDU.

Inserted PPDU

A wireless device may include a transceiver configured to communicate through a first link and a second link. The wireless device may be configured to indicate, through the transceiver, a number of spatial streams associated with the first link. The wireless device may include one or more radio frequency (RF) chains and may be configured to indicate a sharing capability of the one or more RF chains between the first and second links. The wireless device may be configured to perform a collision avoidance operation based on switching an RF chain from the first link to the second link. The wireless device may be configured use an RF chain on the first link based on the availability of the first link. A method of performing a sounding operation may include initiating a sounding sequence on a link based on a sounding feedback capability of a wireless device.

Systems, methods, and apparatus for multi-link spatial multiplexing

A system and method for managing beacon size. In some embodiments, the method includes: transmitting, by an Access Point Station (AP STA) a first beacon; transmitting, by the AP STA, a second beacon indicating feature information; and transmitting, by the AP STA, a first follow-on beacon, the first follow-on beacon supplementing the feature information indicated in the second beacon.

System and method for managing growing beacon size in a wireless network

Systems and methods for managing use of power of a wireless communication device configured to communicate over a plurality of radio links. A criterion is detected, and one of the plurality of radio links is selected as a selected radio link based on detecting the criterion. Operation of the selected radio link is switched from a first operating mode to a second operating mode, and operation of one or more remaining radio links of the plurality of radio links is disabled. In response to switching operation of the selected radio link to the second operating mode, the selected radio link oscillates between an awake state and an asleep state. Radio traffic information for the plurality of radio links is received, via the selected radio link, during the awake state.

Systems and methods for managing power usage of a multi-link device equipped with a plurality of radio interfaces

A system and method for downlink feedback in communications between a station and an access point. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, from the access point, by the station, a null data packet announcement (NDPA) including a first number of spatial streams, and sending, by the station, to the access point, a Compressed Beamforming Report (CBR) including a second number of spatial streams, different from the first number of spatial streams; or sending, by the station, to the access point, an Operating Mode Indication (OMI) declaring a change in a station Modulation Coding Scheme (MCS) capability for a third number of spatial streams; or sending, by the station, to the access point, an Association Request including a declared Single-User (SU) MCS capability for a first bandwidth and a declared Multi-User (MU) MCS capability for the first bandwidth, the MU MCS capability being different from the SU MCS capability.

System and method for downlink multi-user MIMO feedback

A method for encoding or transmitting. In some embodiments, the method includes forming a set of one or more unpunctured codewords by coding a plurality of payload bits at a mother code rate, removing a plurality of punctured bits from the set of one or more unpunctured codewords to form a set of one or more punctured codewords, and transmitting the set of one or more punctured codewords. In some embodiments, the number of punctured bits exceeds a first threshold, or the number of punctured bits exceeds a second threshold.

System and method for encoding data using punctured low-density parity-check codes

A method of providing multi-link operation channel access in a multi-link network includes initiating a first backoff countdown and a second backoff countdown associated with a first link and a second link of the multi-link network, respectively, and in response to the first backoff countdown reaching zero, determining whether the second backoff countdown is less than or equal to an aggregation threshold, and in response to determining that the second backoff countdown is less than or equal to the aggregation threshold, transmitting a first frame and a second frame on the first and second links.

Multi link TXOP aggregation

A method of implementing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process. The method includes: transmitting, by a transmitter to a receiver, an initial transmission of the HARQ process; receiving, by the transmitter from the receiver, receiver decoding capability information; setting, by the transmitter, a retransmission duration based on the receiver decoding capability information; and implementing, by the transmitter, a retransmission of the HARQ process based on the retransmission duration.

Systems and methods for implementing hybrid automatic repeat request retransmission scheduling

A method and device are provided for dynamic access point (AP) selection by a coordinator in a coordinated AP group. The coordinator of the coordinated AP group receives one or more link quality metrics for each link between a station (STA) and each of a plurality of member APs in the coordinated AP group, from the plurality of member APs. The coordinator selects an anchor AP for the STA from the plurality of member APs based on the one or more link quality metrics for each link. The anchor AP is used to relay transmissions between the STA and the coordinator. Authentication of the STA with the anchor AP is shared with all APs in the coordinated AP group, allowing the STA to utilize any subsequently selected anchor AP to relay transmissions without re-authentication.

Method and system for dynamic access point selection in coordinated access point group

A method for communicating over a WiFi channel. In some embodiments, the method includes determining, by a non-access point station, that a first skipping criterion is met; in response to determining that the first skipping criterion is met, skipping N1 target wait time service periods, N1 being a positive integer; after skipping N1 target wait time service periods, determining, by the non-access point station, whether a second skipping criterion is met; and in response to determining that the second skipping criterion is met, skipping N2 subsequent target wait time service periods, N2 being a positive integer greater than N1.

System and method for dynamic adjustment of target wake time service period intervals

A method of establishing communication between a first device and a second device to exchange ranging information is provided. According to an embodiment, the method includes: sending, by the first device to the second device via a first channel, or receiving, by the first device from the second device via the first channel, a first control message indicating a start time; sending, by the first device to the second device via a second channel, a second control message including one or more ranging parameter values for exchanging the ranging information, the second control message being sent at the start time; and exchanging, by the first device with the second device via the second channel, the ranging information over one or more ranging rounds.

System and method of establishing communication for exchanging ranging information

Methods and a devices are provided is for receiving simultaneous downlink transmissions at a mobile station (STA). Information regarding whether endings of simultaneous data transmissions to the mobile station are to be aligned is transmitted to an access point (AP). The simultaneous data transmissions are between the AP and the STA over a pair of channels. Reception begins of a first data transmission, from the AP, on a first channel of the pair of channels. Reception begins of a second data transmission, from the AP, on a second channel of the pair of channels. The second data transmission overlaps at least a portion of the first data transmission. Reception of the second data transmission ends upon an end of the first data transmission when the information indicates that the endings of simultaneous downlink data transmissions are to be aligned.

Method and system for simultaneous multi-channel downlink operation in wireless local area network

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