Intel Corporation

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Apple Inc.

Intel IP Corporation

Inten IP Corporation

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

Carlos Cordeiro

Solomon B Trainin

Artyom Lomayev

Alexander A Maltsev

Claudio Da Silva

Michael Genossar

Laurent Cariou

Emily H Qi

Assaf Yaakov Kasher

Bahareh Sadeghi

Cheng Chen

Chittabrata Ghosh

Ou Yang

Po-Kai Huang

Robert J Stacey

Guoqing C Li

Oren Kedem

Ali Sadri

Srikathyayani Srikanteswara

Michael Glik

Ganesh Venkatesan

Kiran Srinivas Challapali

Dibakar Das

Praveen Gopalakrishnan

Andrey Pudeyev

Minyoung Park

Qian Li

Jonathan Segev

Daniel F Bravo

Arik Klein

Thomas J Kenney

Elad Levy

Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov

Adrian Paul Stephens

Ehud Reshef

Necati Canpolat

Xiaogang Chen

Andreas Schmidt

Alexander Sasha Sirotkin

Jing Zhu

Dave A Cavalcanti

Dagnachew Birru

Pingping Zong

Juan Fang

Huaning Niu

Martin Hans

Yaron Alpert

Vadim Sergeyevich Sergeyev

Richard D Roberts

Monisha Ghosh

Michelle Xiaohong Gong

Michael Faerber

Mohammad Mamunur Rashid

Ofer Hareuveni

Kerstin Johnsson

Javier Perez-Ramirez

Elad Oren

Qinghua Li

Youn Hyoung Heo

Umesh Phuyal

Rath Vannithamby

Candy Yiu

Maik Bienas

Puneet K Jain

Nageen Himayat

Shilpa Talwar

Feng Jiang

Wook Bong Lee

Alexander W Min

Xue Yang

Sangeetha L Bangolae

Vallabhajosyula S Somayazulu

Ilya Bolotin

Binita Gupta

Ido Ouzieli

Danny Alexander

Jeffrey R Foerster

Maulin Dahyabhai Patel

Yang Tang

Jie Cui

Hwan-Joon Kwon

Ariela Zeira

Yujian Zhang

Shahrnaz Azizi

Jeongho Jeon

Geng Wu

Hosein Nikopour

Seau Sian Lim

Christian Maciocco

Andrey Chervyakov

Anthony Lee

Hassnaa Moustafa

Hua Li

Xiangying Yang

Vijay Sarathi Kesavan

Anthony George LaMarca

Javier Del Prado Pavon

Dmitry Belov

Oner Orhan

Provided herein is a method and apparatus for transmit parameter indication in support of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) sensing. The disclosure provides an apparatus, comprising: a Radio Frequency (RF) interface; and processor circuitry coupled with the RF interface, wherein the processor circuitry is to: decode an Information Element (IE) received from a WLAN device via the RF interface, wherein the IE is to indicate a transmit parameter for a transmission of a Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) of the WLAN device; and perform WLAN sensing on the WLAN device based on the IE. Other embodiments may also be disclosed and claimed.

Method and apparatus for transmit parameter indication in support of WLAN sensing

Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of communicating a Single-User (SU) Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmission. For example, a first wireless communication station may be configured to transmit a Request to Send (RTS) to a second wireless communication station via a plurality of SU MIMO Transmit (Tx) sectors of the first wireless communication station, the RTS to establish a Transmit Opportunity (TXOP) to transmit an SU-MIMO transmission to the second wireless communication station, a control trailer of the RTS including an indication of an intent to transmit the SU-MIMO transmission to the second wireless communication station; and to transmit the SU-MIMO transmission to the second wireless communication station, upon receipt of a Clear to Send (CTS) from the second wireless communication station indicating that the second wireless communication station is ready to receive the SU-MIMO transmission.

Apparatus, system and method of communicating a single-user (SU) multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) transmission

A next generation NodeB (gNB) implements a radio access network (RAN) convergence functionality for new radio (NR) and wireless local area network (WLAN) access, the gNB further implementing a split architecture comprising a central unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU) for each of the NR access and WLAN access. The gNB receives a data packet for transmission to a user equipment (UE) implementing the RAN convergence functionality, the data packet comprising one of a control plane (CP) packet or a user plane (UP) packet. The gNB splits the data packet via a convergence layer residing on the NR CU or a convergence layer residing on the WLAN CU and transmits the split data packet over the NR access and the WLAN access.

Mutual anchoring and traffic distribution in a converged RAN integrating NR and Wi-Fi access

Provided herein are apparatus and methods for coexistence between Wi-Fi communication and Bluetooth communication. An apparatus for a UE includes: a Wi-Fi module to perform Wi-Fi communication; a Bluetooth module to perform Bluetooth communication; and interface circuitry coupled with both of the Wi-Fi module and the Bluetooth module; wherein the Wi-Fi module is to: obtain event schedule information from the Bluetooth module via the interface circuitry, wherein the event schedule information is to indicate information about a schedule of the Bluetooth communication; and puncture, based on the event schedule information, a secondary channel for the Wi-Fi communication to reserve a sub-channel for the Bluetooth communication. Other embodiments may also be disclosed and claimed.

Apparatus and method for coexistence between Wi-Fi communication and Bluetooth communication

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to security for multi-link operation. A device may determine a multi-link communication with a first multi-link device comprising two or more links associated with two or more station devices (STAs) included in the first multi-link device. The device may determine a first medium access control (MAC) address associated with a first link of the two or more links. The device may determine a second MAC address associated with a second link of the two or more links. The device may generate one or more pairwise security keys to be used in the multi-link communication on the two or more links. The device may cause to send a frame to the first multi-link device using at least one combination of the one or more pairwise security keys.

Security for multi-link operation

Provided herein are apparatus and methods for signaling regulatory information and transmit power information for device-to-device communication. An apparatus for a Wi-Fi device comprising: a RF interface; and processor circuitry coupled with the RF interface. The processor circuitry is to: decode a first discovery frame received from a peer Wi-Fi device via the RF interface to obtain a first Operation Information attribute of the peer Wi-Fi device, wherein the first Operation Information attribute is to indicate a first operation mode of the peer Wi-Fi device; and encode, in response to the first discovery frame, a second discovery frame for transmission to the peer Wi-Fi device via the RF interface, wherein the second discovery frame includes a second Operation Information attribute of the Wi-Fi device to indicate a second operation mode of the Wi-Fi device. Other embodiments may also be disclosed and claimed.

Apparatus that operates with a neighbor awareness networking (NAN) protocol, method for signaling operation information and transmit power information for device-to-device communication

Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of communicating a PPDU including a training field. For example, an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) wireless communication station may be configured to determine one or more Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Training (TRN) sequences in a frequency domain based on a count of one or more 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz) channels in a channel bandwidth for transmission of an EDMG PPDU including a TRN field; generate one or more OFDM TRN waveforms in a time domain based on the one or more OFDM TRN sequences, respectively, and based on an OFDM TRN mapping matrix, which is based on a count of the one or more transmit chains; and transmit an OFDM mode transmission of the EDMG PPDU over the channel bandwidth, the OFDM mode transmission comprising transmission of the TRN field based on the one or more OFDM TRN waveforms.

Apparatus, system and method of communicating a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) including a training field

For example, a first device may calibrate a reference channel estimation based on a plurality of first channel estimation measurements, the plurality of first channel estimation measurements corresponding to first PPDUs received from a second device over a wireless channel, wherein two consecutive channel estimation measurements of the plurality of first channel estimation measurements are separated by no more than a first time interval; and determine a plurality of second channel estimation measurements for detection of a change in an environment of the wireless channel based on the reference channel estimation, wherein the plurality of second channel estimation measurements corresponds to a plurality of second PPDUs received from the second device over the wireless channel, wherein two consecutive channel estimation measurements of the plurality of second channel estimation measurements are separated by at least a second time interval, the second time interval is longer than the first time interval.

Apparatus, system and method of wireless sensing

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to peer-to-peer (P2P) Wi-Fi sensing. A device may generate a request to perform P2P Wi-Fi sensing operations with a second non-AP STA; send the request to an AP to which the non-AP STA is associated; identify a response received from the AP, the response indicating that the non-AP STA is a sensing receiver for the P2P Wi-Fi sensing operations; identify a trigger frame received from the AP, the trigger frame associated with the P2P Wi-Fi sensing operations; identify a sensing physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU) received from the second non-AP STA, the sensing PPDU associated with the P2P Wi-Fi sensing operations and including an indication that the second non-AP STA sent the sensing PPDU; and determine channel state information based on the sensing PPDU, the channel state information indicative of motion of people or objects.

Mechanisms to enable peer-to-peer (P2P) sensing

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to power spectral density (PSD) limit. A device may generate a frame comprising one or more elements to be sent to a first station device, wherein the frame is to be sent using a 6 GHz band. The device may include in the frame, information associated with a PSD limit on a per bandwidth size basis of the 6 GHz band. The device may cause to send the frame to the first station device.

Power spectral density limit for 6 GHz

Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for report identification and power control for multi-device wireless sensing in a wireless network are disclosed. An apparatus of an access point (AP) is disclosed, where the apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to encode for transmission to a station (STA) a frame comprising a configuration hold subfield, the hold subfield indicating whether the STA should maintain a transmit configuration unchanged during uplink (UL) sensing. The processing circuitry further configured to encode for transmission a trigger frame (TF) for sensing, the TF for sensing including an identification of the STA, an indication of a resource unit (RU) for the STA to use to transmit an uplink (UL) sensing packet, and TF type subfield, the a TF type subfield indicating the TF for sensing.

Trigger-based WLAN sensing with multiple sensing responders

Provided herein are techniques for AP coordinated P2P communications in a Wi-Fi network. Embodiments describe an apparatus for an AP including processing circuitry to: encode a first trigger frame, to be transmitted to a plurality of STAs associated with the AP, to query a buffer status of each STA; receive one or more response frames from one or more of the plurality of STAs, each having data to be transmitted to a target receiver STA in the plurality of STAs; allocate one or more RUs for each of a group of STAs selected from the one or more STAs, based on the one or more response frames, and using OFDMA; and encode a second trigger frame, to be transmitted to the selected group of STAs and the target receiver STA for each of the group of STAs, to indicate the allocation of RUs.

Access point (AP) coordinated peer-to-peer (P2P) communications in wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) network

This disclosure describes methods, apparatus, and systems related to media access control (MAC) range extension. A device may cause to append a training field to each of one or more beacon frames. The device may cause to send the one or more beacon frames directionally using a sector sweep to one or more responder devices during a first interval. The device may determine an extended schedule element to be sent to the one or more responder devices, the extended schedule element including one or more directional antenna sectors to be used by the device during a second interval. The device may identify a first frame from a first responder device, during the second interval, wherein the first frame is received on a directional antenna sector of the one or more directional antenna sectors corresponding to an operating sector of the first responder device.

Media access control range extension

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Carlos Cordeiro