Intel Corporation

Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

Idac Holdings, Inc.

Juan Fang

Dave A Cavalcanti

Laurent Cariou

Shahrnaz Azizi

Thomas J Kenney

Minyoung Park

Jing Zhu

Dibakar Das

Javier Perez-Ramirez

Carlos Cordeiro

Po-Kai Huang

Cheng Chen

Oghenekome Oteri

Guodong Zhang

Xiaogang Chen

Robert L Olesen

Chittabrata Ghosh

Xiaofei Wang

Pengfei Xia

Hanqing Lou

Feng Jiang

Monisha Ghosh

Alexander W Min

Jeffrey R Foerster

Roya Doostnejad

Robert J Stacey

Shilpa Talwar

Yaron Alpert

Daniel F Bravo

Mohammad Mamunur Rashid

Arik Klein

Ziv Avital

Danny Ben-Ari

Mikhail T Galeev

Avi Mansour

Shu-Ping Yeh

Susruth Sudhakaran

Ofer Schreiber

Menglei Zhang

Qinghua Li

Rath Vannithamby

Rui Yang

Erdem Bala

Leonid L Kazakevich

Necati Canpolat

Ganesh Venkatesan

Ravikumar Balakrishnan

Anil K Kumar

Yi Zhang

Dmitry Akhmetov

Timothy F Cox

Kenneth Kearney

I-Tai Lu

Anil S Keshavamurthy

Valerie J Parker

Ziv Kfir

Wey-Yi Guy

Jialing Li

Zihao You

The present disclosure is related to multi-queue management techniques and packet reordering techniques for inter-radio access technology (RAT) and intra-RAT traffic steering. The multi-queue management and packet reordering techniques may be used in Multi-Access Management Services (MAMS) framework, which is a programmable framework that provides mechanisms for the flexible selection of network paths in a multi-access (MX) communication environment, based on an application's needs. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Traffic steering and cross-layer and cross-link mobility management techniques for multi-access management services

For example, an apparatus may be configured to cause an Access Point (AP) Multi-Link Device (MLD) to, during an ongoing communication between a first AP of the AP MLD and a first non-AP wireless communication station (STA) over a first wireless communication channel, communicate a suspend request by a second AP of the AP MLD over a second wireless communication channel, the suspend request configured to request suspension of the ongoing communication between the first AP of the AP MLD and the first non-AP STA; to suspend the ongoing communication between the first AP of the MLD and the first non-AP STA over the first wireless communication channel for a suspension period; and to communicate a frame by the first AP over the first wireless communication channel during the suspension period, the frame communicated between the first AP and a second non-AP STA.

Apparatus, system, and method of suspending a wireless communication

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to latency reduction. The device may set up a plurality of links between an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) and a non-AP MLD. The device may encode a frame for transmission on a first link of the plurality of links between a first AP of the AP MLD and a first STA of the non-AP MLD. The device may identify an indication received at a second STA of the non-AP MLD using an interference mitigation signal. The device may cause to stop the transmission of the frame on the first link based on the indication. The device may identify a second frame on the first link received from the first AP. The device may cause to resume the transmission of the first frame on the first link.

Mechanisms to reduce the worst-case latency for ultra-low latency applications

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to using redundant frames for time-sensitive networking (TSN). A device may identify an Ethernet frame including a redundancy tag and an Internet Protocol (IP) packet; generate, based on the Ethernet frame, a first Wi-Fi frame including the redundancy tag and a sub-network access protocol (SNAP) header after an 802.11 medium access control (MAC) header and prior to the redundancy tag, the first Wi-Fi frame further including a first encapsulation of the IP packet; generate, based on the Ethernet frame, a second Wi-Fi frame including the redundancy tag and the SNAP header after the 802.11 MAC header and prior to the redundancy tag, the second Wi-Fi frame further including a second encapsulation of the IP packet; transmit the first Wi-Fi frame using a first Wi-Fi communication link; and transmit the second Wi-Fi frame using a second Wi-Fi communication link.

Enhanced redundancy over Wi-Fi for ultra-reliable wireless time-sensitive networking

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to ultra-low latency (ULL). A device may generate a first frame to be sent on a first link in a multi-link operation (MLO) with an multi-link device (MLD). The device may generate a second frame to be sent on a second link in the MLO with the MLD. The device may divide the first frame and the second frame into a first plurality of segments and a second plurality of segments separated by one or more first and second time gaps, respectively. The device may indicate to a first station device having a ULL packet to initiate a transmission of the ULL packet during an earliest time gap on the first link. The device may cause to send the one or more first and second plurality of segments on the first link and second link respectively.

Ultra-low latency medium access control design for 802.11

A multi-link device (MLD) configured for reporting per-port frame replication and elimination for reliability (FRER) capabilities uses a per-Port FRER-capabilities object generated by upper MLD MAC layer to indicate per-Port FRER capabilities of lower layers including lower MAC and PHY layers. The per-port FRER capabilities of the lower layers may be reported using the per-Port FRER-capabilities object to an upper layer such as an FRER layer. The per-Port FRER-capabilities object may indicate at least whether or not a port between the upper MLD MAC layer and the FRER layer supports frame replication and duplication elimination capabilities in the underlying MAC and PHY layers.

Multi-link device (MLD) for reporting per-port frame replication and elimination for reliability (FRER) capabilities using a per-port FRER-capabilities object

The present disclosure is related to Multi-Access Management Services (MAMS), which is a programmable framework that provides mechanisms for the flexible selection of network paths in a multi-access (MX) communication environment, based on an application's needs. Generic Multi-Access (GMA) functions are also integrated into the MAMS framework. The present disclosure discusses Per-Packet Prioritization (PPP), intra-flow classification, and Active Queue Management (AQM) techniques for MAMS/GMA systems. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Multi-access management service packet classification and prioritization techniques

A Quality-of-Service (QoS) Management AP is configured to support QoS Management features and to perform a QoS Management Protocol. The AP decodes an Enhanced Add Traffic Stream (E-ADDTS) Request QoS Action Frame (E-ADDTS Req) received from a station (STA) to initiate QoS setup for a traffic stream. The STA may be a QoS Management STA configured to support the QoS Management features and perform the QoS Management protocol. The AP may encode, for transmission to the STA in response to the E-ADDTS Req, an E-ADDTS Response QoS Action Frame (E-ADDTS Resp) which includes a status code to indicate whether the QoS setup has been accepted. When the QoS setup is accepted, the E-ADDTS Resp includes a QoS setup ID within a QoS setup ID field in the E-ADDTS Resp that uniquely identifies the QoS setup for the traffic stream.

Extensible enhanced QoS framework for signaling requirements

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to wireless time sensitive networking. A device may identify, using an 802.3 protocol stack, an 802.3 frame received from a second device using a wired Ethernet connection, and extract, using the 802.3 protocol stack, a redundancy tag from the 802.3 frame, the redundancy tag including a sequence number. The device may generate, using an 802.11 protocol stack, an 802.11 frame with a subnetwork access protocol (SNAP) field, the SNAP field including an organizationally unique identifier (OUI) and the sequence number, the OUI including an indication of an Ethertype protocol. The device may send the 802.11 frame using a wireless connection.

Frame replication and interfaces for time sensitive networking

A station may receive a frame transmitted to a plurality of stations (STAs). The frame may indicate a first frequency resource allocated for the STA and a second frequency resource allocated for another STA of the plurality of STAs. The STA may transmit a data frame using the first frequency resource and receive an acknowledgement frame that acknowledges receipt of the data frame. The STA may receive a multiple user request to send (MU RTS) frame transmitted to the plurality of STAs and may subsequently transmit a clear to send (CTS) frame in response to receipt of the MU RTS frame. The RTS/CTS transmissions may occur prior to transmission of the data frame.

Enhancements for resource allocation in WLAN systems

An access point (AP) may be configured by processing circuitry to operate as a coordinator AP for performing BSS channel level coordination. The coordinator AP is configured to assign non-overlapping channels to one or more coordinated APs of overlapping BSSs to schedule time-sensitive traffic to help ensure bounded latency, jitter and reliability per BSS. In some embodiments, the AP may be configured for performing transmission level coordination and may initiate a coordinated transmission opportunity (TXOP) for resource assignment to control contention access among managed BSSs. To perform the BSS channel level coordination, the coordinator AP is configured to encode a multi-AP trigger frame (M-TF) to initiate the coordinated TXOP. The M-TF may be encoded to include a time-sensitive operation IE indicating how each STA is to access the channel within the coordinated TXOP.

Extreme high throughput (EHT) communication of QOS frames during restricted target wake time (R-TWT) service periods

Extreme high throughput (EHT) time-sensitive networking

Embodiments of a station (STA) and method of communication are generally described herein. The STA may be included in a first plurality of STAs affiliated with a first multi-link logical entity (MLLE). A plurality of links may be established between the first MLLE and a second MLLE, wherein the second MLLE may be affiliated with a second plurality of STAs. The STA may receive a first subset of a sequence of MAC protocol data units (MPDUs). A second subset of the sequence of MPDUs may be transmitted by another STA of the first plurality of STAs. The STA may transmit a block acknowledgement (BA) frame that includes: a number of BA bitmaps, configurable to values greater than or equal to one; and BA control information for each of the BA bitmaps.

Block acknowledgement and fragmentation in multi-link communication between multi-link logical entities

Systems, methods, and devices related to an EHT multi-AP group are described. The coordinated APs of the EHT group are synchronized to the coordinator AP using a periodic or non-periodic frame. Each coordinated AP then synchronizes STAs associated with the coordinated AP. In response to an MPDU, either triggered by a trigger frame from the coordinator AP or initiated by the STA, an ACK frame or NDP response is sent by each AP receiving the MPDU. The response to the MPDU is dependent on whether frame aggregation is used, as well as whether the trigger frame triggers transmission of MPDUs from multiple STAs.

Multi-access point collaboration in wireless communications

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to multi-link acknowledgments. A device may transmit a trigger frame to a station device (STA) multi-link device (MLD), wherein the trigger frame polls the STA MLD to announce presence on communication links. The device may identify a null data packet (NDP) from the STA MLD announcing its presence on a set of communication links. The device may establish the set of communication links with the STA MLD, wherein the STA MLD comprises a plurality of station devices (STAs). The device may allocate a plurality of tone-sets to the plurality of STAs within the STA MLD. The device may identify energy on the allocated tone-sets for each link that the STA MLD has presence on.

Multi-link acknowledgments in multi-link devices

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