Patent ID: 9504038
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus comprising: a controller to generate a wide-bandwidth data frame to be transmitted over a wide-bandwidth millimeter-Wave (mmWave) channel, said wide-bandwidth mmWave channel including a plurality of mmWave channels; and a transmitter to transmit a plurality of reservation frames over said plurality of mmWave channels, a reservation frame of said plurality of reservation frames including a duration value corresponding to a duration of said wide-bandwidth data frame and a wide-bandwidth indication to indicate that said wide-bandwidth data frame is to be transmitted over said wide-bandwidth mmWave channel, said duration value is to cover a duration of at least a transmission of said wide-bandwidth data frame, a short interframe space (SIFS), and a transmission of a response to said wide-bandwidth data frame, said transmitter to transmit said wide-bandwidth data frame over said wide-bandwidth mmWave channel.