Patent ID: 9668258
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04J,H04L,H04W,Y02B,Y02D

Claim:
1. A master station arranged for communicating with a plurality of high-efficiency Wi-Fi (HEW) stations, the master station comprising: processing circuitry configured to select a number of long-training fields (LTFs) to be included in a multi-device HEW preamble of an HEW frame; and physical layer (PHY) circuitry configured to: transmit, within an HEW control period, the selected number of LTFs sequentially as part of the HEW preamble; and transmit, within the HEW control period, a plurality of data fields sequentially to each of a plurality of scheduled HEW stations, the data fields being part of the HEW frame, each data field corresponding to one link and comprising one or more streams.