Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Oded Redlich

Shimon Shilo

Genadiy Tsodik

Jian Yu

Doron Ezri

Ming Gan

Xun Yang

Wei Bin Lin

Le Liu

Mengshi Hu

Sheng Liu

Tao Wu

Meilu Lin

Yaron Ben-Arie

Leonid Epstein

Yunbo Li

Jun Luo

Ezer Melzer

Avi Weitzman

Yoav Levinbook

Wei Lin

Yanchun Li

Xin Xue

Ningjuan Wang

Arik Klein

Avner Epstein

Oren Hencinski

Shimi Shilo

This application provides a resource unit combination indication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: determining a physical layer protocol data unit PPDU, where the PPDU includes a signal field, the signal field includes a resource unit allocation subfield and a combination indication corresponding to the resource unit allocation subfield, the resource unit allocation subfield indicates a plurality of resource units, and the combination indication indicates combination information of the plurality of resource units; and sending the PPDU. The method provided in this application can support one or more users in transmitting data by using a plurality of contiguous or discontiguous RUs, and indicate a combination status of the plurality of RUs to the user.

Resource unit combination indication method and communications apparatus

A wireless access point (AP) is disclosed, which is configured to share a transmission opportunity with at least one further wireless access point within a Multi-AP set using a Coordinated Beamforming (C-BF) scheme. The wireless AP comprises a processing circuitry configured to generate a C-BF Null Data PPDU Announcement (C-BF NDPA) frame, wherein the C-BF NDPA frame comprises a Multi-AP set identifier. Moreover, the wireless AP comprises a communication interface configured to transmit the C-BF NDPA frame to one or more wireless stations associated with the wireless AP and/or to one or more further wireless stations associated with the at least one further wireless AP within the Multi-AP set.

Devices and methods for C-BF sequential sounding

An apparatus for wireless communication. A memory stores instructions; and a processor coupled with the memory, wherein the processor executes the instructions in memory to cause the processor to: generate a signaling field, SIG, in a wireless local area network, WLAN, wherein the SIG includes a resource unit, RU, allocation field, indicating a size and location of an RU in a frequency resource, the SIG further including one or more user fields, a user field including information of a scheduled station, STA; wherein an MRU which includes multiple RUs is assigned to one STA; and transmit the SIG.

Resource allocation signalng in a wireless local area network preamble

The present disclosure suggests to expand and improve the method of utilizing channel resources in the 802.11be standard by allowing the use of multiple and non-contiguous portions of a channel. Supporting multiple resource units (MRUs) and non-contiguous resource units (RUs) improves the channel utilization by making it more efficient due to enhancing the capability of leveraging the channel selectivity. To this end, a wireless network device for resource allocation is provided and configured to define a non-contiguous MRU in the bandwidth of the channel. The channel includes a plurality of RUs, and the non-contiguous MRU is defined based on non-punctured RUs after puncturing one or more of the RUs of the channel, and/or is defined by aggregating two or more non-adjacent RUs of the channel.

Device and method for non-contiguous multiple resource unit in a wireless network

In a method, a PPDU is generated, where the PPDU includes resource allocation information, and the resource allocation information is related to a channel bitmap in a beacon frame; and the PPDU is sent. According to the resource allocation indication method and apparatus provided in the embodiments of this application, an unavailable channel is indicated through an indication of the PPDU, so that a receive end can be prevent from performing transmission on the unavailable channel.

Resource allocation indication method and apparatus

A signal field indication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: generating, by a transmit end, a PPDU, where the PPDU includes a SIG-A indication field, and the SIG-A indication field includes at least one of a field used to indicate a number of SIG-A information symbols and a field used to indicate a SIG-A information bandwidth; and sending, by the transmit end, the PPDU. According to the method provided in this application, the transmit end may indicate different numbers of SIG-A information symbols and/or different SIG-A information bandwidths.

Signal field indication method and apparatus

A beamformer device is provided for WiFi communication schemes such as IEEE 802.11ax and 802.11be. The beamformer device is configured to: transmit a request to a beamformee device, the request comprising a set of sounding tone indices, the set of sounding tone indices indicating tones for which a report of beamforming information is requested from the beamformee device, wherein the tones are defined according to a first WiFi scheme, wherein the set of sounding tone indices is based on a first tone plan defined by the first WiFi scheme for a partial channel bandwidth and on a second tone plan defined by a second WiFi scheme for a full channel bandwidth. A corresponding beamformee device is further provided.

Method and device for beamforming

This application relates to the field of communications technologies, in particular Wireless Local Area Network technologies, and provides a method and apparatus for reducing a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) for transmitting a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU), in particular reducing the PAPR for the U-SIG field. Methods are disclosed for both an access point (AP) and stations (STA).

Method and apparatus for reducing a peak to average power ratio in the transmission of physical layer protocol data units

A radio physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) sending method includes: obtaining, a radio physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU), wherein the PPDU includes a high efficiency-signal field A (HE-SIG-A) and a high efficiency-signal field B (HE-SIG-B), the HE-SIG-A includes a field indicating a quantity of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in the HE-SIG-B, and wherein a value of the field indicates one of the following: that the quantity of OFDM symbols included in the HE-SIG-B is greater than or equal to 16, or the quantity of OFDM symbols included in the HE-SIG-B; and sending the PPDU.

Downlink PPDU sending method and apparatus, and downlink PPDU receiving method and apparatus

The present disclosure relates to techniques for forward error correction and packet padding in radio transmission, e.g. WiFi communication schemes such as IEEE 802.11ax and 802.11be. In particular, the disclosure relates to a communication device configured to: transmit and/or receive a data frame based on a set of pre&post-Forward Error Correction (pre&post-FEC) parameters and a set of packet extension (PE) parameters, wherein the set of pre&post-FEC parameters is based on an extension of a set of pre&post-FEC parameters defined for a second radio transmission technology with respect to a size of resource units (RUS) supported by a first radio transmission technology, wherein the set of pre&post-FEC parameters is based on a combination of RUs that is supported by the first radio transmission technology, and wherein the set of PE parameters is based on an extension of a set of PE parameters defined for the second radio transmission technology.

Techniques for pre and post forward error correction and packet padding in radio transmission

A signaling method and device can support channel puncturing of BW size. Embodiments provide various options for signaling methods, each of which may be suitable for supporting single-user and/or multi-user communication. A wireless network device is suitable for channel puncturing, and can include information regarding the channel puncturing in a preamble of a transmitted packet.

Channel utilization by applying short-term puncturing

The method includes: receiving, by a second transmit end, policy information sent by a first transmit end, where the second transmit end belongs to a second BSS, the first transmit end is a transmit end that is in a first basis service set and that transmits data by using a first link, and the policy information is used to indicate a condition that the second transmit end needs to satisfy to transmit data by using a second link, or used to indicate whether the second transmit end is allowed to transmit data by using a second link; and determining, by the second transmit end based on the policy information, whether to transmit data by using the second link. According to the wireless communication method, a spatial reuse transmission policy can be adjusted dynamically based on an actual situation of a current network. This improves a system throughput.

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