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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Hanqing Lou, Mineola, NY (US);
Ronald G. Murias, Calgary, CA;
Xiaofei Wang, Cedar Grove, NJ (US);
Nirav B. Shah, San Diego, CA (US);
Monisha Ghosh, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Guodong Zhang, Syosset, NY (US);
Frank La Sita, Setauket, NY (US);
Robert L. Olesen, Huntington, NY (US);
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus may be configured to support coordinated orthogonal block-based resource allocation (COBRA) operations. An access point (AP) may be configured to indicate to a plurality of stations (STA)s that it may support COBRA. Each WTRU may be configured to indicate to the AP that it can support COBRA as well. The AP may be configured to transmit a COBRA controller information element (IE) comprising a plurality of fields to each of the WTRUs. Each WTRU may be configured to transmit a COBRA controllee IE comprising a plurality of fields. STA grouping management, group maintenance, channel access, beamforming, sounding and frequency and synchronization procedures are also described.