Patent ID: 8842614
Filing Date: 2014-09-23
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: determining wireless resource allocations in a time domain, a spatial wireless channel domain, and a frequency domain to coordinate communications with two or more wireless communication devices, wherein determining the wireless resource allocations comprises determining frequency allocations in the time domain and spatial wireless channel allocations in the time domain; generating a control frame that directs wireless communications based on at least a portion of the wireless resource allocations, wherein the control frame comprises records addressed respectively to the wireless communication devices, each of the records comprising a station identifier, a downlink slot assignment, an uplink slot assignment, and a frequency sub-band assignment that is associated with at least one of the downlink slot assignment or the uplink slot assignment, wherein determining the wireless resource allocations comprises assigning different frequency sub-bands of a frequency band to produce the frequency sub-band assignments for the records, and wherein the frequency sub-band assignments specify one or more 20MHz sub-bands within the frequency band; and transmitting the control frame to the wireless communication devices, wherein generating the control frame comprises: