Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Apple Inc.

Intel Corporation

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Wook Bong Lee

Ashok Ranganath

Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov

Srinivas Kandala

Yushu Zhang

Sharan Naribole

Ruchen Duan

Gang Xiong

Tianyu Wu

Mostafa Sayed Roshdy Ibrahim

Dae Won Lee

Hong He

Guotong Wang

Hosein Nikopour

Claudio Da Silva

Sameer Pawar

Victor Sergeev

Seunghee Han

Oner Orhan

Minyoung Park

Nageen Himayat

Minki Ahn

Sarabjot Singh

Gregory Vladimirovich Morozov

Jing Zhu

Sung Soo Kim

Dmitry Dikarev

Eren Sasoglu

Ehsan Aryafar

Joon Suk Kim

Debdeep Chatterjee

Joonyoung Cho

Jeongho Jeon

Shilpa Talwar

Kameran Azadet

Bryan K Casper

Ofir Degani

Honglei Miao

Ashoke Ravi

Michael Genossar

Stefano Pellerano

Debabani Choudhury

Rotem Banin

Sidharth Dalmia

Albert Molina

Georgios Yorgos Palaskas

Igal Kushnir

Duncan Kitchin

Saku Lahti

Jayprakash Thakur

Kunal Datta

Menashe Soffer

Run Levinger

Moshe Teplitsky

Erkan Alpman

Ron Pongratz

Baljit Singh

Amit Freiman

Kaushik Dasgupta

Eran Gerson

Hyun Bae Jeon

Daewon Lee

Ravi H Gidvani

Emanuel Cohen

Mikko S Komulainen

Gadi Shor

Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe

Roya Doostnejad

Ana M Yepes

Omer Asaf

Chintan S Thakkar

Eshel Gordon

Nebil Tanzi

Josef Hagn

Tawfiq Musah

Peter Sagazio

Eyal Goldberger

Shuhei Yamada

Yossi Tsfati

Shmuel Ravid

Nir Weisman

Huaning Niu

Carlos Cordeiro

Umesh Phuyal

Candy Yiu

Alexander Sasha Sirotkin

Sungsoo Kim

Myeongjin Kim

Jong-Kae Fwu

Yuan Zhu

Ralf Matthias Bendlin

Donghan Kim

Yongjun Kwak

Michael Faerber

Feng Xue

Lopamudra Kundu

Eunsung Jeon

Gregory W Chance

Brandon R Davis

A system and a method are disclosed for controlling a coordinating network entity in a virtual network including a plurality of access points (APs) and at least one wireless station (STA), including receiving one or more parameters from at least one AP included in the plurality of APs; identifying a first multi-AP coordination scheme based on the one or more parameters; and assigning the first multi-AP coordination scheme to a first dynamic group of network entities included in the virtual network, wherein the first dynamic group of network entities performs wireless communication based on the first multi-AP coordination scheme.

Electronic device and method for enabling virtual BSS and multi-AP transmissions

Disclosed is a method of setting conditions for an access point (AP) to be included in an AP candidate set of a coordinating AP for a transmission opportunity (TXOP), including setting a first primary channel of the AP as part of the AP candidate set of the coordinating AP within a basic service set (BSS) operating bandwidth of the coordinating AP, and coordinating AP updates in the AP candidate set when a coordinated AP that is part of the AP candidate set performs a channel switch to a second primary channel operating on a different bandwidth stream than a bandwidth stream of the first primary channel.

Shared transmission opportunity operation in multi-access point coordination

A method for associating and authenticating a station (STA) with a coordinated access point (AP) group may include generating a pairwise master key (PMK) between the STA and a coordinator of the coordinated AP group, and maintaining an association and authentication state between the STA and the coordinated AP group based on the PMK. The method may further include generating one or more temporal keys between the STA and the coordinator based on the PMK. The method may further include distributing the PMK from the coordinator to a first member AP and a second member AP of the coordinated AP group. The method may further include generating a first temporal key between the STA and the first member AP, and generating a second temporal key between the STA and the second member AP.

Systems, methods, and devices for association and authentication for multi access point coordination

A system and method for managing latency in a wireless network. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, by a non-Access Point Station (non-AP STA), a first inserted packet; and sending, by the non-AP STA, an Acknowledgement (ACK) for the first inserted packet, the first inserted packet beginning after the beginning of a first originally scheduled Aggregated Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (A-PPDU) and being substituted for a portion of the data of the first originally scheduled A-PPDU.

Inserted PPDU

A wireless device may include a transceiver configured to communicate through a first link and a second link. The wireless device may be configured to indicate, through the transceiver, a number of spatial streams associated with the first link. The wireless device may include one or more radio frequency (RF) chains and may be configured to indicate a sharing capability of the one or more RF chains between the first and second links. The wireless device may be configured to perform a collision avoidance operation based on switching an RF chain from the first link to the second link. The wireless device may be configured use an RF chain on the first link based on the availability of the first link. A method of performing a sounding operation may include initiating a sounding sequence on a link based on a sounding feedback capability of a wireless device.

Systems, methods, and apparatus for multi-link spatial multiplexing

Herein described are apparatuses, systems, and methods for measurement and reporting of channel state information within wireless network systems. In embodiments, an apparatus for a user equipment (UE) may include memory to store a rank indicator (RI), a precoding matrix index (PMI), and a channel quality indicator (CQI) of channel state information (CSI) for the UE. The apparatus may further include circuitry to concatenate the RI, the PMI, and the CQI to produce a concatenated CSI element, generate a CSI report that includes the concatenated CSI element, and cause the CSI report to be transmitted to a base station within a single slot. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Channel state information concatenation and antenna port measurement

Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.

Wireless communication technology, apparatuses, and methods

Systems and methods for managing use of power of a wireless communication device configured to communicate over a plurality of radio links. A criterion is detected, and one of the plurality of radio links is selected as a selected radio link based on detecting the criterion. Operation of the selected radio link is switched from a first operating mode to a second operating mode, and operation of one or more remaining radio links of the plurality of radio links is disabled. In response to switching operation of the selected radio link to the second operating mode, the selected radio link oscillates between an awake state and an asleep state. Radio traffic information for the plurality of radio links is received, via the selected radio link, during the awake state.

Systems and methods for managing power usage of a multi-link device equipped with a plurality of radio interfaces

A system and method for downlink feedback in communications between a station and an access point. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, from the access point, by the station, a null data packet announcement (NDPA) including a first number of spatial streams, and sending, by the station, to the access point, a Compressed Beamforming Report (CBR) including a second number of spatial streams, different from the first number of spatial streams; or sending, by the station, to the access point, an Operating Mode Indication (OMI) declaring a change in a station Modulation Coding Scheme (MCS) capability for a third number of spatial streams; or sending, by the station, to the access point, an Association Request including a declared Single-User (SU) MCS capability for a first bandwidth and a declared Multi-User (MU) MCS capability for the first bandwidth, the MU MCS capability being different from the SU MCS capability.

System and method for downlink multi-user MIMO feedback

A method for encoding or transmitting. In some embodiments, the method includes forming a set of one or more unpunctured codewords by coding a plurality of payload bits at a mother code rate, removing a plurality of punctured bits from the set of one or more unpunctured codewords to form a set of one or more punctured codewords, and transmitting the set of one or more punctured codewords. In some embodiments, the number of punctured bits exceeds a first threshold, or the number of punctured bits exceeds a second threshold.

System and method for encoding data using punctured low-density parity-check codes

A method of providing multi-link operation channel access in a multi-link network includes initiating a first backoff countdown and a second backoff countdown associated with a first link and a second link of the multi-link network, respectively, and in response to the first backoff countdown reaching zero, determining whether the second backoff countdown is less than or equal to an aggregation threshold, and in response to determining that the second backoff countdown is less than or equal to the aggregation threshold, transmitting a first frame and a second frame on the first and second links.

Multi link TXOP aggregation

A method of implementing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process. The method includes: transmitting, by a transmitter to a receiver, an initial transmission of the HARQ process; receiving, by the transmitter from the receiver, receiver decoding capability information; setting, by the transmitter, a retransmission duration based on the receiver decoding capability information; and implementing, by the transmitter, a retransmission of the HARQ process based on the retransmission duration.

Systems and methods for implementing hybrid automatic repeat request retransmission scheduling

An apparatus and a method for allocating a multiple resource unit (RU) for a user in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system are provided. A transmission device of the WLAN system includes a transceiver that generates a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) including a preamble and a payload and transmitting the generated PPDU to at least one receiving device and a processor controlling the transceiver. The preamble includes a plurality of training fields and a plurality of signaling fields. Resource unit (RU) allocation information on the at least one receiving device is included in one of the plurality of signaling fields. The RU allocation information includes a first subfield indicating an arrangement of RUs in a frequency domain corresponding to the PPDU and a second subfield indicating a portion of the RUs to be combined to form a multiple RU.

Apparatus and method employing multi-resource unit for user in a wireless local area network

Apparatuses of a user equipment (UE), a cellular base station, and radio access network (RAN) nodes are disclosed. An apparatus of a wireless communication device includes circuitry configured to measure reference signals received from a plurality of antennas of an other wireless communication device, and circuitry configured to cause one or more antennas of the wireless communication device to transmit information regarding the received reference signals back to the other wireless communication device to enable the other wireless communication device to estimate a utility function for different transmit parameter sets.

Management of MIMO communication systems

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Wook Bong Lee