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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2022
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Ahmed Ragab Elsherif, San Jose, CA (US);
Nicholas Kucharewski, San Jose, CA (US);
Simon Jan Brand, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Srinivas Katar, Fremont, CA (US);
Xiaolong Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Sandip Homchaudhuri, San Jose, CA (US);
Nathaniel David Houghton, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Aravind Seetharaman, San Jose, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for selectively enabling multi-user (MU) communications are disclosed. In some implementations, an access point (AP) obtains packets associated with a traffic flow, and obtains at least one of service-level agreement (SLA) parameters associated with the traffic flow, attributes of the traffic flow, or network parameters associated with a basic service set (BSS) that includes the AP. The AP provides an indication of whether the traffic flow is suitable for transmission as a single-user (SU) multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) (SU-MIMO) communication, as an MU-MIMO communication, as an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication, or as a partial bandwidth (BW) MU-MIMO communication to a WLAN subsystem of the AP, the indication being based on one or more of the SLA parameters, the traffic flow attributes, or the network parameters. The AP initiates transmission of the one or more packets based on the indication.