Patent ID: 9729284
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. An apparatus of a high-efficiency (HE) access point (AP) comprising: memory; and, hardware processing circuitry coupled to the memory, the hardware processing circuitry configured to: configure the HE AP to transmit a resource allocation message to indicate an allocation of at least a portion of a group of sub-channels to one or more HE stations for uplink data transmissions; and decode one or more uplink data transmissions from the HE stations, wherein the resource allocation message includes a partial bandwidth indicator to indicate either a partial allocation or a full allocation of the group of sub-channels; wherein the resource allocation message further includes a sub-channel mapping block that indicates a mapping between allocated sub-channels and the HE stations; and wherein a length of the sub-channel mapping block is at least partly based on the partial bandwidth indicator, the resource allocation message further includes an allocation indicator to indicate allocation of an equal number of sub-channels each of the HE stations; and the length of the sub-channel mapping block is further based at least on the allocation indicator.