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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2023
Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Oghenekome Oteri, San Diego, CA (US);
Pengfei Xia, San Diego, CA (US);
Xiaofei Wang, North Caldwell, NJ (US);
Hanqing Lou, Syosset, NY (US);
Monisha Ghosh, Chicago, IL (US);
Robert Olesen, Huntington, NY (US);
Nirav B Shah, San Diego, CA (US);
Frank LaSita, Long Beach, NY (US);
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses are described herein for adapting clear channel assessment (CCA) thresholds with or without Transmit Power Control (TPC) are disclosed. An IEEE 802.11 station (STA) may dynamically calculate a STA specific transmit power control (TPC) value and a STA specific clear channel assessment (CCA) value based on a target TPC parameter and a target CCA parameter. The target TPC parameter and the target CCA parameter may be received from an IEEE 802.11 cluster head configured to control TPC and CCA for a plurality of STAs associated with the BSS. The target TPC parameter and the target CCA parameter also may be related. The STA may then determine whether a carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) wireless medium of a wireless local area network (WLAN) basic service set (BSS) is occupied or idle based on the STA specific CCA value.