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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2019
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Po-Kai Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert J. Stacey, Portland, OR (US);
Daniel F. Bravo, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Laurent Cariou, Portland, OR (US);
Arik Klein, Givaat Shmuel, IL;
Danny Ben-Ari, Hasharon Hatichon, IL;
Ofer Schreiber, Kryat Ono, IL;
Shahrnaz Azizi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Thomas J. Kenney, Portland, OR (US);
Alexander W. Min, Portland, OR (US);
Yaron Alpert, Hod Hasharoni, IL;
Avi Mansour, Haifa, IL;
Dave A. Cavalcanti, Portland, OR (US);
Jing Zhu, Portland, OR (US);
Ziv Avital, Raanana, IL;
Xiaogang Chen, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Juan Fang, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of a station (STA) and method of communication are generally described herein. The STA may be included in a first plurality of STAs affiliated with a first multi-link logical entity (MLLE). A plurality of links may be established between the first MLLE and a second MLLE, wherein the second MLLE may be affiliated with a second plurality of STAs. The STA may receive a first subset of a sequence of MAC protocol data units (MPDUs). A second subset of the sequence of MPDUs may be transmitted by another STA of the first plurality of STAs. The STA may transmit a block acknowledgement (BA) frame that includes: a number of BA bitmaps, configurable to values greater than or equal to one; and BA control information for each of the BA bitmaps.