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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2013
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Simone Merlin, Solana Beach, CA (US);
Santosh Paul Abraham, San Diego, CA (US);
Maarten Menzo Wentink, Naarden, NL;
Zhi Quan, Livemore, CA (US);
Alfred Asterjadhi, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 74/00 (2009.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/0273 (2013.01); H04L 1/0029 (2013.01); H04L 1/0073 (2013.01); H04W 74/002 (2013.01); H04L 1/0025 (2013.01); H04L 1/0079 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and devices for communicating short control frames are described herein. In some aspects, a method of wireless communication includes generating a control frame comprising a contention free end (CF-end) frame, the CF-end frame comprising a physical layer preamble having a type field, the type field including an indicator indicating the CF-end frame is a null data packet (NDP). The method further includes transmitting the control frame.