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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2021
Nxp Usa, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Hari Ram Balakrishnan, Chennai, IN;
Sudhir Srinivasa, Los Gatos, CA (US);
NXP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of a method and an apparatus for wireless communications are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for wireless communications involves assigning subcarriers of a first access point (AP) and a second AP to a subcarrier set of a virtual AP, generating, by the virtual AP, a packet that includes a signal for a station (STA) and that is transmitted using the subcarrier set, where generating the packet includes: encoding a preamble portion of the packet on the assigned subcarriers included in the subcarrier set, nulling the preamble portion of the packet for unassigned subcarriers of the first AP and the second AP, encoding a subsequent portion of the packet according to a Distributed Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (DMIMO) transmission, and transmitting the packet to the STA.