Intel Corporation

Laurent Cariou

Po-Kai Huang

Thomas J Kenney

Robert J Stacey

Daniel F Bravo

Dibakar Das

Arik Klein

Xiaogang Chen

Qinghua Li

Feng Jiang

Dmitry Akhmetov

Carlos Cordeiro

Minyoung Park

Yaron Alpert

Ehud Reshef

Danny Alexander

Danny Ben-Ari

Nir Yizhak Balaban

Chittabrata Ghosh

Ido Ouzieli

Avner Epstein

Bahareh Sadeghi

Alexander W Min

Dave A Cavalcanti

Cheng Chen

Mohammad Mamunur Rashid

Necati Canpolat

Ganesh Venkatesan

Ofer Hareuveni

Ziv Avital

Chen Kojokaro

Dor Chay

Hassan Yaghoobi

Ofer Schreiber

Daniel Cohn

Daniel Leiderman

Amir Hitron

Some demonstrative embodiments may include apparatus, system and method of scheduling Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) wireless communications. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a wireless communication Access Point (AP) to allocate at least one Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) enabled (TSN-enabled) Target Wakeup Time (TWT) Service Period (SP) based on one or more timing requirements of a TSN schedule of at least one TSN stream for at least one wireless communication station (STA); to transmit a TWT scheduling message to schedule the TSN-enabled TWT SP, the TWT scheduling message including an indication that the TSN-enabled TWT SP is restricted to only TSN communications; and, during the TSN-enabled TWT SP, to communicate one or more frames of the at least one TSN stream with the at least one STA.

Apparatus, system and method of restricted target wake time (TWT) service period (SP) for sensitive traffic

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to 60 GHz operation. A device may utilize a legacy baseband data for a generation of a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols for a 60 GHz communication. The device may select a number of subcarriers based on a bandwidth selection. The device may generate an upclock of the legacy baseband data by an upclocking factor that aligns a first bandwidth with a legacy bandwidth. The device may assign a first subcarrier spacing for a first group of bandwidths. The device may assign a second subcarrier spacing for a second group of bandwidths. The device may generate the plurality of OFDM symbols using an upclocking mechanism based on a bandwidth for the 60 GHz communication. The device may cause to send a plurality of OFDM symbols to a station device.

Numerology for 60GHZ operation to achieve channelization alignment

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 link recommendation. A device may determine that a first STA associated with an AP MLD requires transitioning a first station device (STA) to at least one AP MLD of a plurality of AP MLDs. The device may generate a basic service set transition management (BTM) frame comprising a neighbor report element for a first AP MLD of the plurality of AP MLDs. The device may include a Multi-Link information element for the first AP MLD of the plurality of AP MLDs, wherein the Multi-Link information element is for recommending the transition of the first STA to the first AP MLD of the first AP MLD. The device may configure the processing circuitry to send the BTM frame to the first STA.

Link recommendation for basic service set transition management request for a multi-link device

The application provides a method, comprising: generating identifying information at an access point (AP), the identifying information including information relating to an energy detection (ED) threshold to be used for a channel in a wireless network; and broadcasting the identifying information via the channel.

Method and apparatus used in WLAN networks

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to extremely high throughput (EHT) capabilities. A device may detect a first station device (STA), wherein the first STA operates as a legacy device. The device may detect a second STA, wherein the second STA operates as an EHT device. The device may exchange first capabilities with the first STA, wherein the first capabilities include support for legacy features. The device may exchange second capabilities with the second STA, wherein the second capabilities include multi-link operation (MLO) support. The device may dynamically de-correlate EHT capabilities from the second STA. The device may establish a communication channel with the second STA based on an energy detection (ED) threshold that is determined based on the de-correlation of the EHT capabilities.

Dynamically enabling and disabling extremely high throughput (EHT) for multi-link

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to group addressed data delivery. A device may determine a plurality of links between one or more access points (APs) in an AP multi-link device (MLD) and one or more logical non-AP stations (STAs) in a non-AP MLD. The device may determine one or more group addressed frames to be sent from the one or more APs of the AP MLD to the one or more non-AP STAs of the non-AP MLD. The device may generate a delivery traffic indication map (DTIM) associated with each link to be used by the one or more non-AP STAs of the non-AP MLD to receive group addressed frames. The device may perform an action based on whether the non-AP MLD sent an indication that a first link of the plurality of links is selected by the non-AP MLD for receiving a first group addressed frame from the one or more group addressed frames.

Group addressed data delivery

For example, a non Access Point (AP) (non-AP) wireless communication station (STA) and/or an AP STA may be configured to utilize a mechanism configured to support bandwidth signaling for a link between the non-AP STA and an other non-AP STA. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a non-AP STA to set a channel bandwidth field to indicate a maximum channel bandwidth (BW) for the link between the non-AP STA and an other non-AP STA; and to transmit a frame to an AP STA, the frame including an information element including the channel bandwidth field.

Apparatus, system, and method of communicating bandwidth information of a wireless communication link

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to multi-link operation. A device may configure a single N×N transmit (TX)/receive (RX) radio to a plurality of 1×1 TX/RX radios, where N is a positive integer. The device may monitor a first channel of a plurality of channels to determine its availability. The device may monitor a second channel of the plurality of channels to determine its availability. The device may identify a first control frame received from an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) on the second channel. The device may cause to send a second control frame to the AP MLD on the second channel. The device may configure back to a single N×N TX/RX radio to receive a data frame.

Multi-link operation for a single radio multi-link device

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to traffic indications for multi-link devices (MLDs). A device may generate a first traffic indication map (TIM) with a first bitmap including a first indication that traffic is to be sent by a first access point (AP) device of the MLD to a first non-AP device of a second MLD using a first communication link. The device may generate a second TIM with a second bitmap including a second indication that no traffic is to be sent by a second AP device of the MLD to a second non-AP device of the second MLD using a second communication link. The device may send, using the first communication link, the beacon, the beacon including the first TIM and the second TIM. The device may send, using the first communication link, a data frame to the first non-AP device of the second MLD.

Enhanced traffic indications for multi-link wireless communication devices

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to long range beacon. A device may determine one or more co-located frequency bands with a 6 GHz access point (AP). The device may generate a reduced neighbor report (RNR), wherein the RNR comprises information associated with the 6 GHz AP. The device may determine a minimum bandwidth to transmit a beacon frame using a communication mode. The device may cause to send the beacon frame to a first station device.

Long range beacon for power difference between 5 and 6 GHz

Logic to generate an extremely high throughput (EHT) physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) comprising a medium access control (MAC) management frame. the MAC management frame comprising a QoS management field. the QoS management field comprising at least one bit value to indicate quality of service (QoS) management capability associated with links associated with more than one frequency bands. Logic to cause the transmission of the EHT PPDU. And logic to receive and decode the EHT PPDU.

Methods and arrangements for application service discovery

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to an extreme high throughput (EHT) signaling structure. A device may establish a communication channel with one or more station devices (STAs). The device may generate an extreme high throughput signal field (EHT-SIG) of a header, wherein the EHT-SIG field comprises information associated with resource allocations (RUs). The device may generate a frame comprising the header. The device may assign a first RU to a first station device. The device may assign a second RU to the first station device, wherein the first RU or the second RU is an aggregation of a 26-tome RU and a neighboring RU. The device may cause to send the frame to the first station device.

Multi-link re-setup and link change

The application relates to a method and apparatus used in wireless local area networks (WLANs), the method including: generating a frame including capability information of a non-Access Point (non-AP) Station (STA) for transmission of sounding feedback; and transmitting the frame to an AP STA, so that the AP STA controls a rate at which the non-AP STA must use for transmission of the sounding feedback based on the capability information.

Method and apparatus used in WLANs

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.

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