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Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Rakuten Group, Inc.

Hongyuan Zhang

Hui-Ling Lou

Liwen Chu

Sudhir Srinivasa

Yakun Sun

Rohit U Nabar

Lei Wang

Rui Cao

Jinjing Jiang

Yong Liu

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Young Hoon Kwon

Yan Zhang

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Mingguang Xu

Harish Ramamurthy

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Mao Yu

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Christian Raimund Berger

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Huiling Lou

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Jie Huang

Manyuan Shen

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Prashant Sharma

Su Khiong Yong

Timothy J Donovan

Atul Salhotra

Sarang Wagholikar

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Riddhi Madani

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Yong Ma

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Parag Suresh Khairnar

A wireless network interface of a first client station negotiates with an access point a first component channel of an operating channel via which the first client station is to receive wakeup frames from the access point. A wakeup radio of the first client station receives a wakeup packet from the access point. The wakeup packet spans the operating channel, which comprises at least four component channels, and one or more of the component channels within the operating channel are punctured so that the access point does not transmit the wakeup packet in the one or more component channels that are punctured. The wakeup packet includes a first wakeup frame for the first client station in the first component channel and one or more respective second wakeup frames for one or more second client stations in one or more respective second component channels.

Frequency division multiple access (FDMA) support for wakeup radio (WUR) operation

In a vehicular communication network, a communication device generates a physical layer (PHY) preamble of a PHY protocol data unit (PPDU) for transmission in the vehicular communication network. The communication device generates a plurality of PHY data segments of the PPDU, and one or more PHY midambles, each PHY midamble to be transmitted between a respective pair of adjacent PHY data segments, and each PHY midamble including one or more training signal fields. Generating the one or more PHY midambles includes, when the PPDU is to be transmitted according to an extended range (ER) mode, generating each training signal field to include i) a first portion based on a very high throughput long training field (VHT-LTF) defined by the IEEE 802.11ac Standard and ii) a second portion based on the VHT-LTF defined by the IEEE 802.11ac Standard; and transmitting, by the communication device, the PPDU in the vehicular communication network.

Midamble format for packets in a vehicular communication network

A device, a system, and a method for multi-link Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS) are disclosed. In an embodiment, the device includes a wireless network interface device implemented on one or more integrated circuits (ICs), wherein the wireless network interface device is configured to transmit a TDLS setup request frame to a second device, wherein the TDLS setup request frame announces a plurality of proposed TDLS links to be established with the second device, receive a TDLS setup response frame from the second device, wherein the TDLS setup response frame indicates a plurality of TDLS links selected from the plurality of proposed TDLS links announced by the TDLS setup request frame, and establish the plurality of TDLS links indicated by the TDLS setup response frame with the second device.

Device, system, and method for multi-link tunneled direct link setup (TDLS) setup

A device, a system, and a method for power spectrum density (PSD) limited transmissions are disclosed. In an embodiment, the device includes a wireless network interface device implemented on one or more integrated circuits (ICs), where the wireless network interface device is configured to generate a Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) that includes a base modulation frequency unit, where the base modulation frequency unit is duplicated to unpunctured subchannels of the PPDU with a phase rotation, and transmit the PPDU in accordance with a power spectrum density (PSD) limit.

Device, system, and method for power spectrum density (PSD) limited transmissions

A communication device performs a first backoff operation with a first backoff counter to determine when to transmit a first packet in a first frequency, and performs a second backoff operation with a second backoff counter to determine when to transmit a second packet in a second frequency segment. In connection with the first backoff counter expiring, the communication device transmits the first packet in the first frequency segment. In connection with the second backoff counter expiring, the communication device transmits the second packet in the second frequency segment simultaneously with transmitting the first packet in the first frequency segment. In response to determining that transmission of the first packet in the first frequency segment failed, the communication device increases a first contention window for a retransmission of the first packet, and does not adjust the second contention window for a next transmission in the second frequency segment.

Padding and backoff operations when transmitting via multiple frequency segments in a WLAN

A communication device generates a first packet and a second packet. The first packet includes a first physical layer (PHY) preamble having: a first legacy signal field (L-SIG) having first duration information that indicates a first duration of the first packet; and first non-legacy signal field information having first modulation information that indicates a first modulation used in the first packet. The second packet includes a second PHY preamble having: a second L-SIG having second duration information that indicates a second duration of the second packet, wherein the second duration is different than the first duration; and second non-legacy signal field information having second modulation information that indicates a second modulation used in the second packet, wherein the second modulation is different than the first modulation. The communication device simultaneously transmits the first packet in a first frequency segment and the second packet in a second frequency segment.

Simultaneous transmission in multiple frequency segments

Embodiments of a method and an apparatus for wireless communications are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for wireless communications involves encoding bits in a first preamble portion of a packet that are defined on a per-channel basis and that are repeated across multiple frequency blocks of a bandwidth, encoding bits in a second preamble portion of the packet that are defined on the per-channel basis and that are repeated within at least one frequency block of the bandwidth, encoding bits in a third preamble portion of the packet that are defined on a two-channel basis and that are repeated within at least one frequency block of the bandwidth, padding the third preamble portion of the packet to have a same length for each of the frequency blocks, and transmitting the packet.

Method and apparatus for communications

A first communication device is configured to process packets that conform to a first physical layer (PHY) protocol for wireless vehicular communications and packets that conform to a second PHY protocol for wireless vehicular communications. The first communication device determines that one or more second communication devices neighboring the first communication device are not capable of processing packets that conform to the second PHY protocol. The first communication device transmits a first packet to a third communication device that is configured to process packets that conform to the first PHY protocol and packets that conform to the second PHY protocol. The first packet indicates that the one or more second communication devices neighboring the first communication device are not capable of processing packets that conform to the second PHY protocol to inform the third communication device of the one or more second communication devices.

Packet formats for vehicular networks

A first communication device receives a sounding packet from a second communication device and develops beamforming information based on the sounding packet. The first communication device transmits beamforming feedback to the second communication device, the beamforming feedback including beamforming information for use by the second communication device to beamsteer a data packet to the first communication device, the data packet having a data portion that includes a second number of OFDM tones greater than a first number of OFDM tones in the sounding packet. After transmitting the beamforming feedback, the first communication device receives the data packet from the second communication device, the data packet including one or more data OFDM symbols, each of the one or more data OFDM symbols having the second number of OFDM tones.

Explicit beamforming in a high efficiency wireless local area network

A first communication device generates a first physical layer (PHY) data unit that includes information indicating a capability to use a channel bandwidth greater than a maximum channel bandwidth of the first communication device, and transmits the first PHY data unit to a second communication device during an association process with the second communication device. The first communication device generates a second PHY data unit that includes information indicating a capability to use at most the maximum channel bandwidth of the first communication device, and transmits the second PHY data unit to the second communication device when the first communication device is associated with the second communication device.

Reporting bandwidth capability of a bandwidth-limited communication device

Various embodiments relate to a system and method for joint sounding by a client with a master access point (AP) and a slave (AP), including: receiving a message from the master AP; applying network allocation vector (NAV) rules to update a NAV values, wherein the received message is treated as an intra-basic service set (BSS) message when the transmit address (TA) of the received message has a prespecified value; receiving a first trigger frame; and transmitting a first channel state information (CSI) to the master AP when the channel is idle based upon the updated NAV value in response to the trigger frame.

Apparatus and methods for multi-AP joint transmission and reception

Various embodiments relate to an access point (AP) configured to support a high priority (HP) service, including: a transceiver configured to: announce first enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) parameters for a first device associated with the AP, wherein the first EDCA parameters support the HP service; announce second EDCA parameters for a second device associated with the AP that does not support the HP service; receive a HP priority access request frame from the first device configured to request HP services; determine that the second device supports the HP service through negotiation; and transmit an HP priority access response frame to the first device enabling HP traffic transmission by the first device.

High priority medium access

A preamble of physical layer (PHY) data unit includes a first legacy portion and a first non-legacy portion that follows the first legacy portion. The first non-legacy portion includes i) a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol that immediately follows the first legacy portion and that is modulated using binary phase shift keying (BPSK), and ii) a second OFDM symbol that immediately follows the first OFDM symbol and that is modulated using BPSK modulation rotated by 90 degrees (Q-BPSK). The modulation of the first and second OFDM symbols indicates to a receiver device that conforms to a first communication protocol that the data unit conforms to the first communication protocol. The first OFDM symbol being modulated using BPSK modulation causes a receiver device that conforms to a second communication protocol to determine that the PHY data unit conforms to a third communication protocol.

Physical layer frame format for WLAN

A first communication device generates a first packet and transmits the first packet via a first wireless local area network (WLAN) communication channel having a first radio frequency (RF) bandwidth. The first communication device generates a second packet and, after transmitting the first packet, transmits the second packet via the first WLAN communication channel. The first communication device receives a transmission from one or more second communication devices that overlaps in time with transmission of the second packet. The transmission from the one or more second communication devices is received via a second WLAN communication channel having a second RF bandwidth.

WiFi multi-band communication

A first communication device transmits first bitmap length capability information for the first communication device regarding block acknowledgment procedures, and receives second bitmap length capability information for a second communication device regarding block acknowledgment procedures. The first communication device performs a block acknowledgment procedure, including setting a block acknowledgment transmission window size for the block acknowledgment procedure based on the second bitmap length capability information for the second communication device, and a determination of whether a block acknowledgement frame used in the block acknowledgment procedure is a compressed block acknowledgement (C-BA) frame or a multi-station (multi-STA) block acknowledgement frame.

Block acknowledgment operation

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