Zte Corporation

Zte (usa) Inc.

Zteit Usa, Inc.

Zte San Diego, Inc.

Yonggang Fang

Xiaowu Zhao

Bo Sun

Rajesh Bhalla

Ting Lu

Yuanfang Yu

Kaiying Lv

Mary Chion

Wenfeng Zhang

James Jiang

Li Zhang

Weimin Xing

Nan Li

Zhiqiang Han

Anming Jiang

Wenzhong Zhang

Yunsong Yang

Kaibo Tian

Sean Cai

Qiang Huang

Jing Wang

Jun Wu

Jason Hou

Keqiang Zhu

Yu Xin

Ke Yao

Jinguo Zhu

Liu Yang

Hua Mary Chion

Hexing Liu

Jun Han

Dazi Feng

Yanwei Wu

Zhiwei Peng

Irving Wang

Methods, systems, and devices relate to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques relate to dynamic change MAC address of the station for subsequent transmissions. In one exemplary aspect, a method of dynamic change MAC address includes specifying a MAC address change mode and a new MAC address to be used by the station. In another exemplary aspect, a method of dual MAC address change mode in the dynamic change MAC address mechanism includes separating the unchanged MAC address of the station from the changeable MAC address of the station, and keep the mapping between them. In another exemplary aspect, a method includes transmitting a MAC address change request message from the station (or the access point) to initiate the MAC address change procedure. In another exemplary aspect, a method includes receiving a MAC address change response message from the access point (or the station).

Dynamic MAC address change mechanism for wireless communications

Methods, systems, and devices related to related to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques related to station controlled multi-access point transmission and retransmission. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes receiving a multi-network node capability indication message from a first network node and a second network node indicating that each of the first network node and the second network node are capable of transmitting multi-network node transmissions. The method also includes transmitting a multi-network node association request message to the first network node and the second network node to associate the first network node and second network node into a group of network nodes.

Multiple access point operation of a wireless network

Dynamic mac address change mechanism for wireless communications

Techniques for sharing channel availability information using virtual sensing are disclosed. In one example, a wireless communication method includes receiving, by a wireless terminal, a message carrying a multi-channel occupancy information for multiple channels over a wireless communication medium and performing, by the wireless terminal, an access to the wireless communication medium by avoiding collisions using the multi-channel occupancy information.

Multi-channel virtual sensing mechanism for wireless communications

A method of setup a protection mechanism for scheduled transmissions to multiple stations is introduced. Through transmitting a control frame addressing to multiple stations for immediate simultaneous responses, the transmitter would know the stations that are ready for receiving the scheduled data frames and schedule the packet for those stations. Combining the transmission of the control frame with the power saving mechanism would allow triggering a group of power saving stations to wake up at same for receiving the control frame and scheduled user data frames. A new mechanism of simultaneous group responses to the control frame with orthogonal identifier information for individual station is provided to uniquely identify the responding stations.

Controlling transmissions from multiple user devices via a request-clear technique

Application mobility is a unique feature of the edge computing to support relocation of application instance across edge computing hosts or between edge computing host and cloud computing over underlying mobile network. With the active-standby mode application instance implementation with support of L2 networks, the application mobility could achieve the service continuity with low latency switching time. An application mobility mechanism can be implemented in the data plane of edge computing host under the control of edge computing platform and management. It can be also implemented in L2 switching function of the User Plane Function in 5G networks.

Application mobility mechanism for edge computing

Methods, systems, and devices relate to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques relating to dynamic change MAC address of the station for subsequent transmissions. In one exemplary aspect, a method of dynamic change MAC address includes specifying a MAC address change mode and a new MAC address to be used by the station. In another exemplary aspect, a method of dual MAC address change mode in the dynamic change MAC address mechanism includes separating the unchanged MAC address of the station from the changeable MAC address of the station, and keep the mapping between them. In another exemplary aspect, a method includes transmitting a MAC address change request message from the station (or the access point) to initiate the MAC address change procedure. In another exemplary aspect, a method includes receiving a MAC address change response message from the access point (or the station).

A transmitting wireless device provides channel spatial reuse information to a receiving wireless device for the receiving wireless device to make a determination of how to contend the medium for spatial reuse transmission, when to transmit and what transmissions parameters to use for the transmission in the spatial reuse. A timer is designated to track the remaining time for inter-ESS and/or intra-ESS spatial reuse. The spatial reuse information may include fields indicative of color code identifying BSS, transmission power used, signal to noise ratio headroom available and so on. With the spatial reuse information, the wireless device can calculate the target transmit power for initiating spatial reuse transmission without interrupting the on-going transmission, perform EDCA in spatial reuse condition to assess the channel status for contending the medium over the on-going transmission(s), tracking the spatial reuse duration and initiate a new spatial reuse transmission over the on-going transmission without interruption.

Techniques of improving EDCA mechanism in spatial reuse

A transmitting wireless device dynamically and periodically transmits beacon frames including either full set of information or a partial information about the BSS. The wireless device schedules the target beacon transmission time and target dynamic beacon transmission time to have different starting time and different interval for each BSS. A Nack based mechanism for detecting and report missing dynamic beacon frames is used to provide the wireless access point with a feedback information of dynamic beacon transmission for improving the transmission efficiency and reliability. A wireless station receives the transmitted beacon frames and uses the information in the beacon frames to associate with a wireless network.

Using multiple beacon types in wireless communication

Method, systems and devices for location information determination based on timing measurements are described. One example method includes transmitting, by a communication apparatus, a timing request to a plurality of network devices, where the timing request comprises a respective expected response time for each of the plurality of network devices, receiving, at a plurality of times, a plurality of timing measurements from each of the plurality of network devices, wherein each of the plurality of times is based on the corresponding expected response time, and the plurality of timing measurements comprises a respective time of arrival (ToA) timestamp and a respective time of departure (ToD) timestamp, and determining a location information of the communication apparatus based on an estimate of a round trip delay that is computed using a difference of the respective ToA and ToD timestamps from the plurality of timing measurements.

Location information determination based on timing measurements in wireless networks

Access to a wireless medium is controlled based on contention arbitration. A certain number of wireless devices are allowed by an access point to contend for a transmission opportunity. A trigger frame is used to communicate access opportunities to multiple devices. A beacon transmission may additionally be used for communication of access opportunities.

Slotted OFDMA based channel access

Access to a wireless medium is made more flexible by combining the distributed access and central controlled access. A wireless device may be allowed to perform both orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) and enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) channel access mechanisms at same time and start the channel access via a mechanism that allows a faster access to the channel. Depending on channel acquisition, the wireless device can use a multi-user format or a single-user format to transmit uplink anPLCP protocol data unit (PPDU).

Integrated OFDMA and EDCA channel access mechanism

Disclosed is a channel detection method applied to a wireless local area network device, including: measuring a channel before data are transmitted; and determining a Clear Channel Assessment (CCA) threshold according to a corresponding relation among a channel measurement result, transmitting power levels and channel access parameters, and judging whether a state of the channel is idle according to the CCA threshold. The present application further discloses a channel detection apparatus.

Channel detection method and apparatus

Growing community of inventors

San Diego, CA, United States of America

Yonggang Fang