Patent Publication Number: US-11051246-B2

Title: Addressing for wake-up radio (WUR) frames in WUR device communications

Description:
The present Application for Patent claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/636,779 by Asterjadhi, et al., entitled “Systems, Methods, and Apparatus For Implementing Wake-Up Radio (WUR) Device Communications,” filed Feb. 28, 2018, and to U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/635,523 by Asterjadhi, et al., entitled “Systems, Methods, and Apparatus For Implementing Wakeup Radio (WUR) Device Communications filed Feb. 26, 2018, assigned to the assignee hereof, and expressly incorporated herein. 
    
    
     BACKGROUND 
     Field of the Disclosure 
     The following relates generally to wireless communications, and more specifically to addressing for wake-up radio (WUR) frames in WUR device communications. 
     Background 
     In many telecommunication systems, communications networks are used to exchange messages among several interacting spatially-separated devices. Networks may be classified according to geographic scope, which could be, for example, a metropolitan area, a local area, or a personal area. Such networks would be designated respectively as a wide area network (WAN), metropolitan area network (MAN), local area network (LAN), wireless local area network (WLAN), or personal area network (PAN). Networks also differ according to the switching/routing technique used to interconnect the various network nodes and devices (e.g., circuit switching vs. packet switching), the type of physical media employed for transmission (e.g., wired vs. wireless), and the set of communication protocols used (e.g., Internet protocol suite, SONET (Synchronous Optical Networking), Ethernet, etc.). 
     Wireless communications systems are widely deployed to provide various types of communication content such as voice, video, packet data, messaging, broadcast, and so on. These systems may be multiple-access systems capable of supporting communication with multiple users by sharing the available system resources (e.g., time, frequency, and power). A wireless network, for example a WLAN, such as a Wi-Fi (i.e., Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11) network may include AP that may communicate with one or more stations (STAs) or mobile devices. 
     As use of wireless networks increases, power constraints of wireless devices may become increasingly critical. Some devices may include a plurality of radios: zero or more “main” radios used for general communications and data transfer on the wireless networks and a secondary or WUR for wake-up communications. In some cases, the WUR may be the only radio of the device. The WUR may provide for communications when the main radio is in a power saving mode, as waking the WUR periodically to monitor communications on the wireless network may be more energy efficient than waking the main radio. Improved systems, methods, and devices for communicating over wireless networks with WUR devices are desired. 
     SUMMARY 
     The described techniques relate to improved methods, systems, devices, or apparatuses that support addressing for wake-up radio (WUR) frames in WUR device communications. Various implementations of systems, methods and devices within the scope of the appended claims each have several aspects, no single one of which is solely responsible for the desirable attributes described herein. Without limiting the scope of the appended claims, some prominent features are described herein. 
     Details of one or more implementations of the subject matter described in this specification are set forth in the accompanying drawings and the description below. Other features, aspects, and advantages will become apparent from the description, the drawings, and the claims. Note that the relative dimensions of the following figures may not be drawn to scale. 
     A method of wireless communications is described. The method may include identifying one or more receiving wireless devices for which to send a WUR frame, obtaining a basic service set identifier (BSSID) for the access point, the BSSID being known by the one or more receiving wireless devices, performing a hashing function to the BSSID to obtain a hashed BSSID, using a first portion of the hashed BSSID as a first identifier, generating the WUR frame for transmission with an address identifier field that includes either the first identifier or a second identifier, where the second identifier is based on the first identifier, and transmitting the WUR frame to the one or more receiving wireless devices. 
     An apparatus for wireless communications is described. The apparatus may include a processor, memory in electronic communication with the processor, and instructions stored in the memory. The instructions may be executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to identify one or more receiving wireless devices for which to send a WUR frame, obtain a BSSID for the access point, the BSSID being known by the one or more receiving wireless devices, perform a hashing function to the BSSID to obtain a hashed BSSID, use a first portion of the hashed BSSID as a first identifier, generate the WUR frame for transmission with an address identifier field that includes either the first identifier or a second identifier, where the second identifier is based on the first identifier, and transmit the WUR frame to the one or more receiving wireless devices. 
     Another apparatus for wireless communications is described. The apparatus may include means for identifying one or more receiving wireless devices for which to send a WUR frame, obtaining a BSSID for the access point, the BSSID being known by the one or more receiving wireless devices, performing a hashing function to the BSSID to obtain a hashed BSSID, using a first portion of the hashed BSSID as a first identifier, generating the WUR frame for transmission with an address identifier field that includes either the first identifier or a second identifier, where the second identifier is based on the first identifier, and transmitting the WUR frame to the one or more receiving wireless devices. 
     A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code for wireless communications is described. The code may include instructions executable by a processor to identify one or more receiving wireless devices for which to send a WUR frame, obtain a BSSID for the access point, the BSSID being known by the one or more receiving wireless devices, perform a hashing function to the BSSID to obtain a hashed BSSID, use a first portion of the hashed BSSID as a first identifier, generate the WUR frame for transmission with an address identifier field that includes either the first identifier or a second identifier, where the second identifier is based on the first identifier, and transmit the WUR frame to the one or more receiving wireless devices. 
     In some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein, performing the hashing function to the BSSID may include operations, features, means, or instructions for calculating a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) over the BSSID to obtain the hashed BSSID. 
     In some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein, a polynomial associated with the CRC over the BSSID may be a same polynomial as a polynomial used for a CRC computation for a transmission over a first radio transceiver different from a second radio transceiver used for transmitting the WUR frame. 
     In some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein, the first portion of the hashed BSSID includes a least significant bit portion of the hashed BSSID. 
     In some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein, a length of the hashed BSSID may be 32 bits and a length of the first portion may be 12 bits. 
     Some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein may further include operations, features, means, or instructions for using a second portion of the hashed BSSID as a third identifier, and calculating a CRC over a set of calculation fields that includes a field with the third identifier to obtain a CRC value. 
     In some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein, the set of calculation fields includes the first or second identifier in the address identifier field. 
     In some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein, generating the WUR frame for transmission may include operations, features, means, or instructions for generating the WUR frame for transmission with the CRC value in a frame check sequence (FCS) field of the WUR frame. 
     In some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein, generating the WUR frame for transmission may include operations, features, means, or instructions for generating the WUR frame for transmission without the third identifier explicitly included in a field of the WUR frame. 
     In some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein, the second portion of the hashed BSSID includes a most significant bit portion of the hashed BSSID and a length of the second portion may be 16 bits. 
     Some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein may further include operations, features, means, or instructions for using a second portion of the hashed BSSID as a third identifier, and calculating a message integrity check (MIC) over a set of calculation fields that includes a field with the third identifier to obtain a MIC value. 
     Some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein may further include operations, features, means, or instructions for calculating the second identifier using the first identifier and an association identifier of a receiving device of the one or more receiving wireless devices. 
     In some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein, calculating the second identifier may include operations, features, means, or instructions for performing a modulo operation on a summation of the first identifier and the association identifier of the receiving device. 
     Some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein may further include operations, features, means, or instructions for calculating the second identifier using the first identifier and a value that may be greater than or equal to a number of basic service sets available to the one or more receiving wireless devices. 
     In some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein, calculating the second identifier may include operations, features, means, or instructions for performing a modulo operation on a summation of the first identifier and the number of basic service sets available to the one or more receiving wireless devices. 
     In some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein, the number of basic service sets may be a maximum number of basic service sets identified in a traffic indication map (TIM). 
     Some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein may further include operations, features, means, or instructions for calculating the second identifier using the first identifier and a value greater than a highest association identifier of a receiving wireless device of the one or more receiving wireless devices. 
     In some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein, calculating the second identifier may include operations, features, means, or instructions for performing a modulo operation on a summation of the first identifier and the value. 
     Some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein may further include operations, features, means, or instructions for calculating the second identifier using the first identifier and an indication of a non-transmitted BSSID. 
     In some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein, generating the WUR frame for transmission may include operations, features, means, or instructions for generating a broadcast WUR frame for transmission with the first identifier in the address identifier field. 
     In some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein, generating the WUR frame for transmission may include operations, features, means, or instructions for generating a variable-length WUR frame for transmission with the second identifier in the address identifier field and a set of identifiers, each identifier of the set of identifiers associated a corresponding receiving wireless device of the one or more receiving wireless devices. 
     In some examples of the method, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable medium described herein, each identifier of the set of identifiers may be listed in an order within the variable-length WUR frame. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         FIG. 1  illustrates an example of a system for wireless communications that supports addressing for wake-up radio (WUR) frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 2  illustrates an example of a various components that may be utilized in a wireless device that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 3  illustrates an example of a structure of a physical layer data unit (PPDU) for communicating with a WUR device in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 4  illustrates an example of further details of the structure of the PPDU of  FIG. 3  for communicating with a WUR device in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 5  illustrates an example of further details of the structure of the PPDU of  FIG. 3  for communicating with a WUR device in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 6  illustrates an example of a structure of a PPDU for communicating with a WUR device in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 7  illustrates an example of further details of the structure of the PPDU of  FIG. 6  for communicating with a WUR device in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 8  illustrates a flowchart of an exemplary method that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 9  illustrates an example of further details of the structure of the PPDU of  FIG. 3  for communicating with a WUR device (e.g.,  FIG. 2 ) in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 10  illustrates an example of further details of an exemplary structure of a media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (MPDU) of  FIG. 9  for communicating with a WUR device in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 11  illustrates an example of further details of an exemplary structure of an MPDU of  FIG. 9  for communicating with a WUR device in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 12  illustrates an example of further details of an exemplary structure of a PPDU of  FIG. 4  for communicating with a WUR device in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 13  illustrates an example of further details of an exemplary structure of paged IDs field of a PPDU of  FIG. 12  for communicating with a WUR device in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 14  illustrates an example of details of an exemplary WUR frame indicating an embedded basic service set identifier (BSSID) field and of an exemplary WUR frame not indicating the embedded BSSID field that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 15  illustrates an example of details of an exemplary processing flow for calculating a frame check sequence (FCS) that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 16  illustrates an example of an exemplary mapping of a traffic indication map (TIM) between a primary connecting radio (PCR) and the WUR that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 17  illustrates an example of an exemplary mapping of a TIM between a PCR and the WUR that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIGS. 18 and 19  show block diagrams of devices that support addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 20  shows a block diagram of a WUR addressing manager that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 21  shows a diagram of a system including a device that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
         FIGS. 22 through 26  show flowcharts illustrating methods that support addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. 
     
    
    
     The various features illustrated in the drawings may not be drawn to scale. Accordingly, the dimensions of the various features may be arbitrarily expanded or reduced for clarity. In addition, some of the drawings may not depict all of the components of a given system, method or device. Finally, like reference numerals may be used to denote like features throughout the specification and figures. 
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     Various aspects of the novel systems, apparatuses, and methods are described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings. The teachings disclosure may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to any specific structure or function presented throughout this disclosure. Rather, these aspects are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the disclosure to those skilled in the art. Based on the teachings herein one skilled in the art should appreciate that the scope of the disclosure is intended to cover any aspect of the novel systems, apparatuses, and methods disclosed herein, whether implemented independently of or combined with any other aspect of the invention. For example, an apparatus may be implemented, or a method may be practiced using any number of the aspects set forth herein. In addition, the scope of the invention is intended to cover such an apparatus or method which is practiced using other structure, functionality, or structure and functionality in addition to or other than the various aspects of the invention set forth herein. It should be understood that any aspect disclosed herein may be embodied by one or more elements of a claim. 
     Although particular aspects are described herein, many variations and permutations of these aspects fall within the scope of the disclosure. Although some benefits and advantages of the preferred aspects are mentioned, the scope of the disclosure is not intended to be limited to particular benefits, uses, or objectives. Rather, aspects of the disclosure are intended to be broadly applicable to different wireless technologies, system configurations, networks, and transmission protocols, some of which are illustrated by way of example in the figures and in the following description of the preferred aspects. The detailed description and drawings are merely illustrative of the disclosure rather than limiting, the scope of the disclosure being defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof. 
     Wireless network technologies may include various types of wireless local area networks (WLANs). A WLAN may be used to interconnect nearby devices together, employing widely used networking protocols. The various aspects described herein may apply to any communication standard, such as WiFi or, more generally, any member of the IEEE 802.11 family of wireless protocols. 
     In some implementations, a WLAN includes various devices which are the components that access the wireless network. For example, there may be two types of devices: access points (“APs”) and clients (also referred to as stations, or “STAs”). In general, an AP serves as a hub or base station for the WLAN and a station (STA) serves as a user of the WLAN. For example, a STA may be a laptop computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a mobile phone, a watch, etc. In an example, a STA connects to an AP via a WiFi (e.g., IEEE 802.11 protocol) compliant wireless link to obtain general connectivity to the Internet or to other wide area networks. In some implementations a STA may also be used as an AP. 
     The techniques described herein may be used for various broadband wireless communication systems, including communication systems that are based on an orthogonal multiplexing scheme. Examples of such communication systems include Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) systems, Single-Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) systems, and so forth. An SDMA system may utilize sufficiently different directions to simultaneously transmit data belonging to multiple user terminals. A TDMA system may allow multiple user terminals to share the same frequency channel by dividing the transmission signal into different time slots, each time slot being assigned to different user terminal. A TDMA system may implement GSM or some other standards known in the art. An OFDMA system utilizes orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), which is a modulation technique that partitions the overall system bandwidth into multiple orthogonal sub-carriers. These sub-carriers may also be called tones, bins, etc. With OFDM, each sub-carrier may be independently modulated with data. An OFDM system may implement IEEE 802.11 or some other standards known in the art. An SC-FDMA system may utilize interleaved FDMA (IFDMA) to transmit on sub-carriers that are distributed across the system bandwidth, localized FDMA (LFDMA) to transmit on a block of adjacent sub-carriers, or enhanced FDMA (EFDMA) to transmit on multiple blocks of adjacent sub-carriers. In general, modulation symbols are sent in the frequency domain with OFDM and in the time domain with SC-FDMA. A SC-FDMA system may implement 3GPP-LTE (3rd Generation Partnership Project Long Term Evolution) or other standards. 
     The teachings herein may be incorporated into (e.g., implemented within or performed by) a variety of wired or wireless apparatuses (e.g., nodes). In some aspects, a wireless node implemented in accordance with the teachings herein may comprise an access point (“AP”) or an access terminal. 
     An AP may comprise, be implemented as, or known as a NodeB, Radio Network Controller (“RNC”), eNodeB, Base Station Controller (“BSC”), Base Transceiver Station (“BTS”), Base Station (“BS”), Transceiver Function (“TF”), Radio Router, Radio Transceiver, Basic Service Set (“BSS”), Extended Service Set (“ESS”), Radio Base Station (“RBS”), or some other terminology. 
     A station “STA” may also comprise, be implemented as, or known as an access terminal (“AT”), a subscriber station, a subscriber unit, a mobile station, a remote station, a remote terminal, a user terminal, a user agent, a user device, user equipment, or some other terminology. In some implementations an access terminal may comprise a cellular telephone, a cordless telephone, a Session Initiation Protocol (“SIP”) phone, a wireless local loop (“WLL”) station, a personal digital assistant (“PDA”), a handheld device having wireless connection capability, or some other suitable processing device connected to a wireless modem. Accordingly, one or more aspects taught herein may be incorporated into a phone (e.g., a cellular phone or smartphone), a computer (e.g., a laptop), a portable communication device, a headset, a portable computing device (e.g., a personal data assistant), an entertainment device (e.g., a music or video device, or a satellite radio), a gaming device or system, a global positioning system device, or any other suitable device that is configured to communicate via a wireless medium. 
     Aspects of the disclosure are initially described in the context of a wireless communications system. Aspects of the disclosure are further illustrated by and described with reference to apparatus diagrams, system diagrams, and flowcharts that relate to addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications. 
       FIG. 1  is a diagram of an exemplary wireless communication system  100  in which aspects of the present disclosure may be employed. The wireless communication system  100  may operate pursuant to a wireless standard, for example a high-efficiency (HE) 802.11 standard, high throughput (HT) 802.11 standard, a very high throughput (VHT) standard, or any other wireless communication standard. The wireless communication system  100  may include an AP  104 , which communicates with STAs  106  (referring generally to the STAs  106 A- 106 C). 
     A variety of processes and methods may be used for transmissions in the wireless communication system  100  between the AP  104  and the STAs  106 . For example, signals may be sent and received between the AP  104  and the STAs  106  in accordance with OFDM/OFDMA techniques. If this is the case, the wireless communication system  100  may be referred to as an OFDM/OFDMA system. Alternatively, signals may be sent and received between the AP  104  and the STAs  106  in accordance with code division multiple access (CDMA) techniques. If this is the case, the wireless communication system  100  may be referred to as a CDMA system. 
     A communication link that facilitates transmission from the AP  104  to one or more of the STAs  106  may be referred to as a downlink (DL)  108 , and a communication link that facilitates transmission from one or more of the STAs  106  to the AP  104  may be referred to as an uplink (UL)  110 . Alternatively, a downlink  108  may be referred to as a forward link or a forward channel, and an uplink  110  may be referred to as a reverse link or a reverse channel. This communication link may be established via a single-input-single-output (SISO), multiple-input-single-output (MISO), single-input-multiple-output (SIMO), or a multiple-input-multiple output (MIMO) system. 
     The AP  104  may act as a base station and provide wireless communication coverage in a basic service area (BSA)  102 . The AP  104  along with the STAs  106  associated with the AP  104  and that use the AP  104  for communication may be referred to as a basic service set (BSS). It should be noted that the wireless communication system  100  may not have a central AP  104 , but rather may function as a peer-to-peer network (for example TDLS, WiFi-Direct) between the STAs  106 . Accordingly, the functions of the AP  104  described herein may alternatively be performed by one or more of the STAs  106 . 
     In some aspects, a STA  106  may be required to associate with the AP  104  in order to send communications to and/or receive communications from the AP  104 . In one aspect, information for associating is included in a broadcast by the AP  104 . To receive such a broadcast, the STA  106  may, for example, perform a broad coverage search over a coverage region. A search may also be performed by the STA  106  by sweeping a coverage region in a lighthouse fashion, for example. After receiving the information for associating, the STA  106  may transmit a reference signal, such as an association probe or request, to the AP  104 . In some aspects, the AP  104  may use backhaul services, for example, to communicate with a larger network, such as the Internet or a public switched telephone network (PSTN). In some aspects, the STA  106  may already be associated with AP  104  and may periodically monitor the communications from the AP  104  for communications directed to the STA  106 . 
     In some implementations, one or more of the STAs  106  of the BSA  102  may include a plurality of radios. For example, these STAs may include a “main” radio that is used to perform communications within wireless communication system  100  and the low power radio or “wake-up radio (WUR)” that is used to monitor for “wake-up” or similar low power communications from the AP  104  when the STA  106  is in a low power or power saving mode. In some implementations, the STAs  106  may only include the WUR radio. In some implementations the STA may include more than one main radio, each of which may operate in different bands (e.g., 2.4, 5, 6, 18, 60 GHz etc.) or with different wireless technologies (LTE, Bluetooth, 802.11) The STAs  106  including the WUR radio may be designated as WUR STAs. The WUR may be a transmitter and/or receiver circuit with minimal capabilities (e.g., minimal compatibility with communication frequencies and speeds) for communication over the communication system  100 . In some implementations, the WUR may include fewer features than the main radio, for example lack of advanced encoder/decoder capabilities, etc. Accordingly, the WUR may be lower in cost than the main radio and may also consume less power than the main radio when in operation. Thus, the WUR may be used to monitor for communications to the STA more efficiently than using the main radio of the STA. In certain cases, the WUR radio may be operating in a different channel/band compared to the one or more main radios. The WUR may be configured to receive instructions from the AP  104  (or other devices broadcasting on the wireless communication system  100 ). These instructions may include instructions to “wake-up” the main radio and/or perform other actions that do not require activation of the main radio. 
     In some examples, the AP  104  and/or the STAs  106  may be configured to generate various WUR communications for WUR devices. For example, the AP  104  and/or the STAs  106  may be configured to synchronize devices based on a WUR Beacon transmission. Additionally, or alternatively, the AP  104  and/or the STAs  106  may transmit unicast WUR messages to wake up a single WUR STA or multicast/broadcast WUR messages to wake up multiple or all WUR STAs. The AP  104  and/or the STAs  106  be configured to generate and transmit WUR Beacon frames/messages, WUR control frames/messages, etc. Similarly, the WUR STAs may be configured to perform various operations based on the received WUR communications. For example, the WUR STAs may synchronize based on WUR Beacon reception that includes timing information, wake up based on an individual or multicast/broadcast wakeup message, activate lights or perform actions, etc. 
     WUR communications may be generally based on typical IEEE802.11 communication structures. For example, communication frames may include preambles, addressing information, control information, and frame check information. However, the IEEE802.11 communication structures may be customized for WUR communication (e.g., WUR PPDUs) in order to reduce and/or minimize overhead and maintain signaling of essential information to enable various operations. In some implementations, the WUR PPDUs may provide flexibility for a wide range of use cases and scenarios. 
       FIG. 2  illustrates an example of a various components that may be utilized in a wireless device that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. In some examples, the wireless device  200  may implement aspects of wireless communication system  100 . The wireless device  202  is an example of a device that may be configured to implement the various methods described herein. The wireless device  202  may implement a WUR AP or a WUR STA. In some implementations, the wireless device  202  may implement an AP  104  or a STA  106 . 
     The wireless device  202  may include a processor  204  which controls operation of the wireless device  202 . The processor  204  may also be referred to as a central processing unit (CPU). Memory  206 , which may include both read-only memory (ROM) and random-access memory (RAM), provides instructions and data to the processor  204 . A portion of the memory  206  may also include non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM). The processor  204  may perform logical and arithmetic operations based on program instructions stored within the memory  206 . The instructions in the memory  206  may be executable to implement the methods described herein. 
     The processor  204  may comprise or be a component of a processing system implemented with one or more processors. The one or more processors may be implemented with any combination of general-purpose microprocessors, microcontrollers, digital signal processors (DSPs), field programmable gate array (FPGAs), programmable logic devices (PLDs), controllers, state machines, gated logic, discrete hardware components, dedicated hardware finite state machines, or any other suitable entities that can perform calculations or other manipulations of information. 
     The processing system may also include machine-readable media for storing software. Software shall be construed broadly to mean any type of instructions, whether referred to as software, firmware, middleware, microcode, hardware description language, or otherwise. Instructions may include code (e.g., in source code format, binary code format, executable code format, or any other suitable format of code). The instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the processing system to perform the various functions described herein. 
     The wireless device  202  may also include a housing  208  that may include a transmitter  210  and a receiver  212  to allow transmission and reception of data between the wireless device  202  and a remote location and/or device. The transmitter  210  and receiver  212  may be combined into a transceiver  214 . A single or a plurality of transceiver antennas  216  may be attached to the housing  208  and electrically coupled to the transceiver  214 . The wireless device  202  may also include multiple transmitters (e.g., WUR transmitter  224 ), multiple receivers (e.g., WUR receiver  226 ), and multiple transceivers (e.g., WUR transceiver  228 ). 
     The wireless device  202  may also include a signal detector  218  that may be used in an effort to detect and quantify the level of signals received by the transceiver  214  or the transceiver  228 . The signal detector  218  may detect such signals as total energy, energy per subcarrier per symbol, power spectral density and other signals. The wireless device  202  may also include a digital signal processor (DSP)  220  for use in processing signals. In some aspects, the wireless device may also include one or more of a user interface component (not shown) and a wireless LAN (WLAN) modem (not shown). The WLAN modem may provide for communications using one or more WiFi technologies, such as any of the IEEE 802.11 protocol standards. 
     The various components of the wireless device  202  may be coupled together by a bus system  222 , which may include a power bus, a control signal bus, and a status signal bus in addition to a data bus. 
     Certain aspects of the present disclosure support transmitting an uplink (UL) signal or a downlink (DL) signal between one or more STAs, WUR STAs, APs, and WUR APs. In some examples, the signals may be transmitted in a multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) system. Alternatively, the signals may be transmitted in a multi-user FDMA (MU-FDMA) or similar FDMA system. In some aspects, these signals may be transmitted using one or more of the transmitter  210  and the WUR transmitter  224 . 
     In some examples, the WUR transmitter  224 , the WUR receiver  226 , and/or the WUR transceiver  228  may be configured to communicate with limited or minimal power consumption. Accordingly, the WUR transmitter  224 , the WUR receiver  226 , and/or the WUR transceiver  228  may be limited to operation at specific frequencies and/or bandwidths. For example, the WUR transmitter  224 , the WUR receiver  226 , and/or the WUR transceiver  228  may be configured to operation at one of 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz, and/or 5.0 GHz, 6 GHz, 18 Ghz and/or 60 GHz frequency bands at speeds of 62.5 Kbps and/or 250 Kbps, although not limited to these frequencies or speeds. In some implementations, the WUR devices may be limited to operation in heavy utilized the industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) radio bands. Based on such speeds and limitations transmitting even a limited number of bytes would require significant amount of time, as an example transmitting seven (7) bytes of information may utilize ˜1 ms transmission time assuming a speed of 62.5 kbps. 
     Furthermore, the WUR devices (e.g., WUR APs and WUR STAB) may be configured such that the corresponding radio systems operate in one of four states at any given time. For example, in a first state, both the WUR transceiver  228  and the transceiver  214  are off. In a second state, the WUR transceiver  228  is on while the transceiver  214  is off In a third state, the WUR transceiver  228  is off while the transceiver  214  is on. In a fourth state both are on. And the number of states may increase proportionally with the number of main radios which may be greater than one. The WUR transmitter  224 , the WUR receiver  226 , and/or the WUR transceiver  228  and the transceiver  210 , the receiver  212 , and the transceiver  214  may share the same one or more antennas  216  and may operate in the same band or may operate in separate bands. Accordingly, the corresponding WUR components and “main radio” components may be configured to operate only one at a time so that only WUR communications or main radio communications are being transmitted/received at any given moment. In some examples, when the device  202  includes multiple antennas  216  coupled to the WUR transmitter  224 , the WUR receiver  226 , and/or the WUR transceiver  228  and the transmitter  210 , the receiver  212 , and the transceiver  214 , the processor  204  may be configured to dedicate one or more antennas  216  to the WUR transmitter  224 , the WUR receiver  226 , and/or the WUR transceiver  228  and one or more of the remaining 216 antennas to the transmitter  210 , the receiver  212 , and the transceiver  214  to allow simultaneous WUR and main channel communications. The STA may also turn off the WUR radio and allocate all antennas to the main radio. 
     Although a number of separate components are illustrated in  FIG. 2 , those of skill in the art will recognize that one or more of the components may be combined or commonly implemented. For example, the processor  204  may be used to implement not only the functionality described above with respect to the processor  204 , but also to implement the functionality described above with respect to the signal detector  218  and/or the DSP  220 . Further, each of the components illustrated in  FIG. 2  may be implemented using a plurality of separate elements. Additionally, additional components not illustrated in  FIG. 2  may be included in any of the devices  202 . 
     The wireless device  202  may comprise an AP  104 , a STA  106 , an AP  204 , and/or a STA  206 , and may be used to transmit and/or receive communications. That is, either AP  104 , STA  106 , AP  204 , or STA  206  may serve as transmitter or receiver devices. Certain aspects contemplate signal detector  318  being used by software running on memory  306  and processor  304  to detect the presence of a transmitter or receiver. 
       FIG. 3  illustrates an example of a structure of a physical layer data unit (PPDU) for communicating with a WUR device in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. In some examples, PPDU  300  may be used for communicating with WUR device  202  ( FIG. 2 ). The four portions of the PPDU  300  illustrated are a PHY Preamble  310  portion, media access control (MAC) header  320  portion, a payload or frame body portion  330  (payload or frame body portion  330  may be used interchangeably), and a frame check sequence (FCS)  340  portion. The PHY preamble  310  is a portion of the PPDU  300  preamble that contains information for decoding the one or more physical layer service data unit (PSDU) or MAC protocol data unit (MPDU)  302  contained in the PPDU  300 . More than one PSDUs or MPDUs may be contained in a PPDU that is sent in MU mode (e.g., using OFDMA multiplexing techniques). The MPDU  302  of the PPDU  300  may include one or more of a MAC header  320 , payload or frame body portion  330 , and FCS  340 . The MAC header  320  may include one or more common fields that are present in all WUR frames or PPDUs  300 . The payload or frame body portion  330  may include one or more frame type specific fields that may be present in select PPDUs  300  (e.g., based on the type of PPDU  300 ). In some examples, the payload or frame body portion  330  may be optional in the PPDU  300 , for example, based on a type of the WUR frame or based on an indication contained in the WUR frame. In some examples, the FCS  340  may be used to detect if the MPDU  302  contains any errors or if the MPDU  302  is generated from an access point of an overlapping BSS. The FCS  340  may include cyclic redundancy check (CRC) or message integrity check (MIC) depending on the type of PPDU  300  received (e.g., the CRC may be present if the frame is not secure, and the MIC may be present if the frame is secured). The FCS  340  may be 8 bits, 16 bits, or any other number of bits in length and may contain one or more bits of a CRC-8, CRC-16, or CRC-32. For example, when communicated with unprotected frames, the FCS  340  may carry a CRC having a length of 8 bits, 16 bits, 24 bits, or 32 bits. In some examples, the FCS  340  may have a variable length. For example, the size of the FCS  340  may depend on whether the WUR frame is protected or not (e.g., whether or not the WUR frame contains CRC or MIC). In some examples, the size of the FCS  340  may depend on the type of the WUR frame. In certain examples, the MAC header  320  and the FCS  340  constitute a minimal WUR frame format and are present in all WUR frames, including reserved types. In some examples, the FCS  340  may include a MIC, which may be computed in a manner similar to the CRC as described herein. According, the CRC as described herein may be replaced with the MIC. 
     A size of the FCS  340  may directly impact a probability of false alarms generated by the corresponding MPDU  302 . For example, a smaller FCS size may cause or result in a STA  106  receiving the frame containing the FCS  340  and the MPDU  302  to mistakenly interpret the MPDU  302  as being directed to the STA  106  even if the MPDU  302  contains an error or is generated by an AP  104  from an overlapping BSS. However, an FCS  340  having a smaller size (e.g., smaller number of bits) than a larger FCS  340  may create or cause smaller (or reduced or less) overhead as compared to the larger FCS  340  (e.g., larger number of bits). The smaller or reduced overhead may be beneficial for short frames (e.g., constant length frames). For example, a smallest possible MPDU  302  may have a length of 32 bits (4 Bytes) (e.g., a constant length WUR frame), as will be discussed in further detail below. In some other examples, the MPDU  302  may be up to 12 or 30 Bytes in length (e.g., a variable-length WUR frame), as will be discussed in further detail below. The FCS  340  length may be in addition to the MPDU  302  length. For example, when the WUR frame includes the FCS  340  with a length of 8 bits and the MPDU  302  with a length of 32 bits, the FCS  340  may make up 20% of the overhead. In contrast, the WUR frame that includes the MPDU  302  having the 12 Byte length and the FCS  340  of an 8-bit length, the FCS  340  makes up only 8.3% of the overhead of the WUR frame. Accordingly, in some examples, where the overhead is of greater concern than potential false alarms, a shorter FCS  340  may be implemented. Where overhead is of less concern than potential false alarms, a longer FCS  340  may be implemented. 
     In some examples, the CRC may utilize a polynomial generator that generates one or more polynomials for the CRC. For example, the polynomial generator may generate a 32-bit polynomial. In certain examples, the 32-bit polynomial is used for the CRC to provide baseline MPDU protection. In such an example, the generator polynomial may be identified by Equation 1 below:
 
 G ( x )= x   32   +x   26   +x   23   +x   22   +x   16   +x   12   +x   11   +x   10   +x   8   +x   7   +x   5   +x   4   +x   2   ±x+ 1  Equation 1:
 
     In some examples, the polynomial generator may generate a 16-bit polynomial. In certain examples, the 16-bit polynomial is used for the CRC of a SIG field of a DSSS PHY. In such an example, the generator polynomial may be identified by Equation 2 below:
 
 G ( x )= x   16   +x   12   +x   5 +1  Equation 2:
 
     In some examples, the polynomial generator may generate an 8-bit polynomial. In certain examples, the 8-bit polynomial is used for the CRC of an MPDU delimiter. In such an example, the generator polynomial may be identified by Equation 3 below:
 
 G ( x )= x   8   +x   2   +x+ 1  Equation 3:
 
     Since the WUR radio may be a secondary radio used to wake up or activate a main or primary radio, in some examples, the polynomial used by the WUR radio may be the same as the polynomial used by the main or primary radio. By using the same polynomial between the WUR radio and the main or primary radio, overall costs and complexity of design may be reduced. Any of the 8-, 16-, or 32-bit polynomials may be implemented, where a higher degree polynomial better protection against false positives caused by the CRC. The higher degree also requires the FCS  340  to be longer (e.g., creating increased overhead and utilizing increased memory). 
     Various options may provide for reducing overhead while implementing higher degree polynomial protections. For example, in some examples, only a portion of the calculated CRC may be transmitted or included in the FCS  340 , thereby allowing use of a higher degree CRC polynomial without a correspondingly high overhead. In certain examples, the FCS  340  may have a length of 8 bits and include only 8 bits of a calculated CRC-16 (e.g., including only the 8 most significant bits (MSBs) or 8 least significant bits (LSBs) and excluding the remaining 8 bits of the CRC-16. Similarly, in other examples, the FCS  340  may have a length of 8 bits and include only 8 bits of a calculated CRC-32, may have a length of 16 bits and include only 16 bits of a calculated CRC-32, may have a length of 16 bits and include only 16 bits of a calculated CRC-16, may have a length of 8 bits and include 8 bits of a calculated CRC-8, etc. Accordingly, a STA  106  receiving the WUR frame may perform the frame check based on the CRC bits transmitted in the FCS  340 , which may be less than the calculated bits. 
     In a first example, a constant length WUR frame may include an FCS  340  of 8-bit length and a variable-length WUR frame may include an FCS  340  of 8-bit length with an additional 8 bits of the CRC-16 contained in the frame body  330  (e.g., as the last 8 bits of the frame body  330 ). For the constant length frame, the WUR frame may be short and sensitive to overhead as compared to the variable-length frame, where the WUR frame is longer and less sensitive or susceptible to increased overhead. While the CRC-16 is described as being used for the WUR frames, any of the CRC polynomials described herein may be used. However, if the polynomial degree is less than the FCS  340  length (e.g., the FCS  340  length is 16 bits for the CRC-8), then a repletion or padding can be applied to the CRC included in the FCS  340 . By such repletion, the calculated bits of the CRC may be repeated in the FCS  340  having a length greater than the CRC calculated bits. 
     For the constant length WUR frame, the 8 bits of the FCS  340  may carry the 8 MSBs of the CRC-16, while the 8 LSBs of the CRC-16 may be omitted from transmission. Accordingly, a receiver receiving the constant length WUR frame may only perform a frame check on the received 8 bits. For the variable-length WUR frame, the 8 LSBs that are omitted from the FCS  340  may instead be included or carried in the frame body  330 . Accordingly, the receiver receiving the variable-length WUR frame may perform the frame check on the received 16 bits. Therefore, more protection is provided to longer frames (e.g., the variable-length WUR frames. 
     Note that in this example, the calculated fields (e.g., the fields that the CRC is protecting) include all fields of the WUR frame up to but not including the FCS  340  itself. 
     In a second example, the 8 bit FCS  340  of the variable-length WUR frame may protect a portion of the MPDU  302  that is the same as what the FCS  340  protects in the constant length WUR frame (e.g., everything except for the frame body  330 ), and the 8 bits of the CRC included in the frame body  330  may protect contents of the frame body  330  excluding the portion of the frame body  330  comprising the remainder of the CRC-16 (e.g., the frame body  330  length minus 8 bits used for the CRC-16 remainder). 
     As depicted in  FIG. 3 , the MAC header  320  may include one or more of the three separate fields: a frame control field  321 , a partial basic service set identifier (BSSID) field  322 , and a timestamp field  322 . Each of the frame control field  321 , the partial BSSID field  322 , and the timestamp field  322  may have a length of one (1) Byte or octet. In some examples some part of the contents of the Frame Control field may be carried in the PHY preamble of the WUR PPDU. 
     The 1-byte frame control field  321  may provide information that identifies details of the MPDU  302  type and/or length. In some implementations, the frame control field  321  may include a type subfield (not shown) and a length/subtype field (not shown). The type subfield may be configured to identify a frame type for the PPDU  300 . In some implementations, the type subfield may indicate that the PPDU  300  is a WUR Beacon frame, a WUR control frame, a WUR sync frame, etc.). In some examples the frame control may indicate whether the frame is a secure/protected frame or an unsecure/unprotected frame (MIC present or CRC present). For example, a first value in the type subfield may indicate the WUR Beacon frame while a second value in the type subfield may indicate the WUR control frame. In some implementations, the frame type indicated by the type subfield may help differentiate between constant length and variable-length PPDUs  300 . The length/subtype field may provide information indicating one or both of different frame subtypes or different payload or frame body sizes for the payload or frame body portion  330  of the PPDU  300 . In some implementations, as will be described in more detail below, the payload or frame body portion  330  may be integrated with the MAC header portion  320 , and the length of the payload or frame body portion  330  may not be indicated in the length/subtype subfield of the frame control field  321 , but rather the length of the MAC header, or of the MPDU, or of the variable portion of the MPDU may be indicated by the length specified in the Frame Control field. When the length/subtype field is included, the length may provide lengths for variable-length frames. Alternatively, or additionally, the subtype field may provide additional details of subtypes for constant length frames. In some examples, the frame control field  321  may be moved to the PHY preamble  310  and may be part of a SIG field of the PHY preamble or encoded in the PHY preamble itself. 
     In some examples, the constant length frame may not include the payload or frame body portion  330 . A WUR frame that includes the payload or frame body portion  330  may be referred to as a variable-length (VL) WUR frame. In some examples, a constant length WUR frame can be sent to any WUR STA while a variable-length WUR frame can be sent only to a WUR STA that has declared support of reception of variable-length WUR frames. 
     The partial BSSID field  322  (may optionally be present and may be 1 byte) may provide identification of an identity (e.g., an ID) of a transmitting BSS. The transmitting BSS may correspond to the BSS from which the WUR communication is transmitted. For example, the partial BSSID field  322  may include a partial address or identifier for the AP  104  or STA  106  that transmitted the PPDU  300 . In some implementations, the receive WUR STA may use the partial BSSID field (and the information contained therein) to determine whether or not the WUR STA is a potential intended recipient for the PPDU  300 . For example, during association with the AP  104  and/or the wireless communication system  100 , the WUR STA may be assigned or provided with a BSSID for the BSS to which the WUR STA belongs (e.g., the BSS in the BSA  102 ). Accordingly, the WUR STA may store the BSSID for its BSS in its memory (e.g., the memory  206  of  FIG. 2 ). When the WUR STA compares the partial BSSID  322  to the stored BSSID, if the values match, then the WUR STA may determine that the received PPDU  300  does apply to the WUR STA and perform additional checks as described below. However, if the partial BSSID  322  does not match the WUR STA stored BSSID, then the WUR STA may determine that the received PPDU  300  does not apply to the WUR STA and may ignore the remainder of the PPDU  300 . Accordingly, the partial BSSID field  322  may be used to reduce unnecessarily computations, processing, and reception of the PPDU  300  by WUR STAB that do not need to pay attention to the PPDU  300 . In some examples the partial BSSID may be a value that is known by both the AP and STA which may change in time according to a function (e.g., a random generator with a seed known at both devices) that is known at both the AP and STA. 
     In some examples, the partial BSSID  322  field may only include one octet of the BSSID of the transmitting device. In some examples, the single octet of the BSSID (e.g., the partial BSSID) is sufficient to provide adequate intra-PPDU power savings and discarding of PPDUs sent by other BSSs (APs) as compared to the added costs (e.g., time, bandwidth, etc.) of transmitting and processing the full BSSID. Accordingly, the partial BSSID field  322  may provide for reduced accuracy of identifying whether the WUR STA belongs to the same or different BSS as the transmitting AP  104  or STA  106  while providing for reduced communication costs (e.g., time, bandwidth, etc.). Additionally, in some examples, the partial BSSID field  322  may be used in some implementations of minimization of false alarms in the FCS, as discussed in further detail below. 
     The timestamp field  323  (may be 1 byte or 2 bytes in length, if present) may contain a partial timing synchronization function (TSF). The partial TSF may allow the WUR STA to synchronize its clock to match the clock of the transmitting AP  104 . The partial TSF may also allow the WUR STA to prevent and/or avoid replay attacks, as will be described in further detail below. 
       FIG. 4  illustrates an example of further details of the structure of the PPDU of  FIG. 3  for communicating with a WUR device in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. In some examples, the exemplary structure of the PPDU  300  of  FIG. 3  may be used for communicating with the WUR device  202  ( FIG. 2 ). As depicted in  FIG. 4 , the payload or frame body portion  330  may include two separate fields: a paged identifiers (paged IDs, or wake-up identifiers, WIDs) field  331  and control/misc. instructions field  332 . In some examples, the control/misc. information may be interchangeable referred to as miscellaneous information and/or control information herein. The paged IDs field  331  may have a variable byte or octet length and the control/misc. instructions field  332  may have a length of 1 byte or octet. In another example the paged ID(s) field  331  and/or the control/misc. instructions field  332  may be part of the MAC header  320 . 
     The paged IDs field  331  (may have one or more paged IDs, each of which may be 1 byte in length) may provide a list of intended receiving WUR STAs of the payload or frame body or of the PPDU  300 . In some implementations, the paged IDs field  331  may include identifiers, each of which may identify one STA or be assigned to a group of WUR STAs, or identify all WUR STAs associated to the device sending the PPDU  300 . The paged IDs field  331  may be used in conjunction with the partial BSSID field  322  of  FIG. 3 . For example, when a WUR STA determines that the partial BSSID field  322  matches the BSSID of the WUR STA, then the WUR STA may proceed to confirm that the ID of the WUR STA is included in the paged IDs field  331 . If the ID of the WUR STA is not included in the paged IDs field  331 , then the WUR STA can stop receiving the PPDU  300  and can ignore any received information. On the other hand, if the ID of the WUR STA is included in the paged IDs field  331 , then the WUR STA proceeds to receive the remainder of the PPDU  300  and follows any instructions included in the PPDU  300 . In some examples each paged ID in the paged IDs field  331  may be mixed with a known portion of an identifier of the BSS (e.g., XORing with certain 8 bits of the BSSID) so that the paged ID values are not concentrated in a certain portion of the range (e.g., if all APs  104  start allocating IDs in increasing order, then the likelihood that multiple APs assign low values (e.g., 1, 2, etc.) is high. If APs  104  apply this rule, then paged ID values can be uniformly spread across the 1-255 range). In certain examples the APs  104  may use a random generator for selecting the paged IDs that they assign to their STAs and the selected paged IDs may be known by all APs that are within its range so that paged IDs assigned by APs  104  in the same area do not coincide. 
     In some implementations, the paged IDs field  331  may have a length of one byte. With a length of one byte, the paged IDs field  331  may indicate or identify a single WUR STA to or with which the PPDU  300  applies or is associated. The paged IDs field  331  may have a size of up to 16 bytes, allowing the PPDU  300  to apply or be associated with up to 16 different WUR STAs. In some examples, the length subfield of the frame control field  321  may indicate a number of WUR STAs identified by the paged IDs field  331  and, accordingly, may indicate a number of bytes of the paged IDs field  331 . In some examples, when the length subfield is zero (0), the PPDU  300  may be intended to be a broadcast or multicast PPDU that applies to all WUR STAs or to all WUR STAs sharing the BSSID of the partial BSSID field  322 . In such an implementation, the paged IDs field  331  may have a length of zero and may not include any WUR STA identifiers. In some implementations, when the length subfield is 0 for the broadcast PPDU, the pages IDs field  331  may have a length of one (1) byte without including any WUR STA identifiers (e.g., may have a value of zero indicating that the frame is broadcast). 
     The paged IDs subfield  331  of 1-byte length may be used to identify up to 256 unique STA identifiers (or if value 0 is used for broadcast, then up to 255 unique STA identifiers may be identified, or if the Paged ID is 11 bits, then up to 1024 unique STA identifiers may be identified, etc.). However, if the AP  104  serves more than 256 STAs, then the AP  104  may be configured to utilize orthogonal scheduling to orthogonally schedule STAs that share the same paged IDs. If the paged IDs are obtained from the association identifier (AID), for example, 8 LSBs of the AID provide the Paged ID, then the AP may make such scheduling using one or more of the remaining MSBs of the AID. For example, STAs having an association identifier of “1” and “257” may share the LSB of 0000 0001. Accordingly, if the paged IDs field  331  identifies the STA having the identifier 0000 0001, then both the STA “1” and the STA “257” will determine, based on the partial BSSID field  321  and the paged IDs field  331 , that the PPDU  300  is intended for the STA. Accordingly, the STA “1” and the STA “257” may be considered “clones.” During association of the STA “1” and the STA “257,” the AP  104  may schedule clones to have orthogonal wake times or allocated in orthogonal groups. For example, the STA “1,” during association, may be provided to have a scheduled wake times and wake time durations (SPs) such that they do not coincide with the scheduled wake times and wake time durations of STA  257  (e.g., STA 1 may be scheduled the first 10 ms of a 20 ms wake time duration and STA  257  may be scheduled the second 20 ms of a wake time duration. Accordingly, the clone STAs (e.g., the WUR STAs having the same LSB identifiers or paged ID) will not wake up simultaneously and unintended WUR STAs will not be awakened just because they share an LSB identifier of paged ID with an intended WUR STA. 
     Alternatively, or additionally, a most significant bit (MSB) of the identifier for the paged IDs may be masked in one or more other fields of the PPDU  300  or the MPDU  302 . For example, the paged IDs in the paged IDs field  331  may be associated with between one and four groups of MSBs. For example, for the STA “1” and the STA “257,” the STAs will be associated with two groups of MSBs. The STA “1” will be associated with an MSB of “0” while the STA “257” will be associated with an MSB of “1.” Accordingly, the MSB identifiers may be communicated to the WUR STA to allow the WUR STA to determine if the PPDU is intended for it or for another WUR STA having the same LSB identifier in the paged ID field  331 . 
     In some implementations, the AP  104  may desire to send instructions or page more than 16 WUR STAs. In such an implementation, the AP  104  may send a multicast or broadcast PPDU  300  (e.g., having the length of 0, as described herein). Alternatively, or additionally, the AP  104  may transmit back-to-back (e.g., consecutive) WUR PPDUs  300 . When multiple PPDUs  300  are transmitted back-to-back, the AP  104  may include STA identifiers in the paged IDs field  331  in only increasing or ascending (or any other) order, which may allow STAs to know when they will not be paged in later PPDUs  300 . For example, when a first PPDU  300  of two or more back-to-back PPDUs  300  includes paged IDs for WUR STA 1, 3, and 8, the WUR STA 5 may know that later PPDUs  300  of the two or more back-to-back PPDUs  300  will not page the STA 5 because the lowest WUR STA that can be paged by subsequent PPDUs  300  is 9 (e.g., the STA identifiers only ascend between PPDUs). Such an ascending order may allow WUR STAs to optimize their sleep patterns by determining when they will not be paged without having to wait for all back-to-back PPDUs  300  from being received and reviewed. In some implementations, one or more bits may be included in the MPDU  302  to indicate that a train of one or more other PPDUs  300  is following the current PPDU  300 . 
     The control/misc. instructions field  332  may include one or more instructions for the one or more paged IDs identified in the paged IDs field  331 . In some implementations, the control/misc. instructions field  332  may provide special instructions for the WUR STA(s) to perform once they are awakened. In some implementations, the control/misc. instructions field  332  may include special commands if the PPDU  300  is used for controlling external states. In some implementations, the special commands may instruct which main radio to turn on (e.g., by identifying a radio number, technology, or band). In some implementations, the special commands may indicate which bandwidth to use or may specify one or more receive or transmit parameters. 
     In some implementations, the one or more control/misc. instructions field  332  may be common to all of the identified WUR STAs in the paged IDs field  331 . In some implementations, one or more of the identified WUR STAs in the paged IDs field  331  may have unique instructions from others of the identified WUR STAs in the paged IDs field  331 . The association of WUR STAs to particular control instructions may be identified in the frame control field  321 , for example, the length subfield. For example, the length subfield may indicate that each identified WUR STA has a respective control instruction field. In this implementation, the length subfield may provide the length of both page IDs and control IDs (e.g., the unit of the length subfield may be 2 bytes because one paged ID may be one byte and one control ID one byte) and the length will have a range between 2 and 14 bytes. Other lengths for the length subfield in the frame control field  321  may be used (e.g., 3 or 4 or more). 
     In some implementations, the two-byte paged ID and control field may include a combination of AID identifier bits and control/misc. instructions bits. For example, the two-byte paged ID and control field may include 12 AID identifier bits and 4 control/misc. instructions bits. In some implementations, the combination may be 8 AID identifier bits and 8 control/misc. instructions bits. In some implementations, the various combinations of the AID identifier bits and the control/misc. instructions bits are negotiated in advance between the AP  104  and the WUR STA. In some implementations, the combination of AID identifier bits and the control/misc. instructions bits may be vendor specific (e.g., different vendors may have different numbers of AIDs identifier bits and different numbers of control/misc. instructions bits, etc.). 
     In some implementations, the commands or instructions associated with the control/misc. instructions bits may be negotiated in advance between the AP  104  and the WUR STA. For example, these bits and the corresponding instructions may be negotiated during association of the WUR STA with the AP  104 . For example, the control/misc. instructions bits may be stored in a table-type format with each bit corresponding to a particular action, command, or instruction. 
       FIG. 5  illustrates an example of further details of the structure of the PPDU of  FIG. 3  for communicating with a WUR device in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. In some examples, the exemplary structure of the PPDU  300  of  FIG. 3  may be used for communicating with the WUR device  202  of  FIG. 2 . As depicted in  FIG. 5 , the FCS  340  may be a two-byte portion that includes a CRC or a MIC. The CRC may be used to detect errors in unsecured PPDUs  300 . The MIC may be used to detect errors and/or replay attacks in secure PPDUs  300 . 
     In some implementations, the AP  104  may logically combine the FCS  340  with portions of the BSSID of the AP  104  or known sequences prior to transmission of the PPDU  300 . For example, the AP  104  may XOR the FCS with the two LSBs of the 3 MSBs of the BSSID of the AP  104 . Since the BSSID of the AP  104  is known to the associated STAs from the initial association process, when the FCS is decoded by the receiving WUR STAs, successful decoding may mean that the WUR STA is receiving the PPDU  300  that was generated by the AP  104  of the WUR STA. For WUR STAs that belong to a different BSSID than the transmitting AP  104 , the PPDU  300  may be decrypted as being corrupted. In some examples, the AP  104  may compute the CRC and the MIC assuming that the BSSID is present in the PPDU  300  (e.g., immediately after the FCS or prior to the FCS and omit it from transmission, for example, compute but do not transmit). The receiver, when it receives the PPDU  300 , may check the FCS and/or MIC under the assumption that the BSSID was present (e.g., MAC address of the AP transmitting the PPDU  300 ). 
     In some implementations, the CRC/MIC fields of the FCS  340  may be used to ensure that WUR STAs are not woken up by PPDUs from an attacker or non-friendly AP  104 . For example, a security protocol with low overhead may be used to avoid CCMP-like signaling, where the MIC has 8 or 16 bytes and the CCMP header has 8 bytes). Accordingly, the PPDUs  300  or MPDUs  302  may be unsecure when the FCS  340  contains the CRC and secure when the FCS  340  contains the MIC. In some implementations, the frame control field  321  may be used to signal whether CRC or MIC is used for a particular PPDU  300  or MPDU  302 . 
     In some implementations, the MIC computation may be based on the entire MPDU  302 . For example, the MPDU  302  may be intended for a single WUR STA or a plurality of WUR STAs. In some implementations, the MIC is generated by the AP  104  based on a group key known by both AP and the one or more WUR STAs. The group key may be known by all STAs associated with the AP  104  that are intended receivers for the PPDU  300 . In some implementations, the timestamp field  323  may provide part of a monotonically increasing counter. For example, an absolute TSF timer at the WUR STA may be updated based on the partial TSF of the timestamp field  323 . The absolute TSF timer may be used as an input parameter for the MIC computation, which may be further used to protect the WUR STA from replay attacks. 
     In some implementations, the MPDU  302  may have a minimum length and a maximum length. The length may be signaled or determined based on a frame type of the PPDU  300  (e.g., in the frame control field  321 , as described herein). For example, the MPDU  302  may have a minimum length of six (6) bytes. The MPDU  302  may include one or more of the following fields: the frame control field  321  of 1 byte, the partial BSSID field  322  of 1 byte, the timestamp field  323  of 1 byte, the control/misc. instructions field  322 , and the CRC/MIC field  341  of 2 bytes. In some examples, as described above, the MPDU  302  may have a minimum length of seven (7) bytes when the frame control fields  321  indicates no length (e.g., no paged IDs) but where the paged IDs field  331  is included with a length of 1 byte but a zero value. In some implementations, constant length PPDUs  300  may have minimum MPDU  302  sizes of 6 or 7 bytes. The minimum sized MPDUs  302  may utilize 1 ms of time to transmit at 62.5 Kbps. 
     The MPDU  302  may have a maximum length of twenty-two (22) bytes. For example, the MPDU  302  may include the minimum 6 bytes described above and then also include 16 bytes for 16 identifiers in the paged ID field  331 . Thus, the maximum length for the MPDU  302  may be the 6 bytes of the non-paged IDs fields plus the maximum of 16 bytes for the paged IDs field  331 . In some implementations, variable-length PPDUs  300  may be signaled and/or determined based on the frame type and length in the frame control field  321 . The maximum MPDU  302  length of 22 bytes may use ˜3 ms of transmission time at 62.5 Kbps. In some implementations, the MPDU  302  may have a length anywhere between 6 bytes and 22 bytes. 
       FIG. 6  illustrates an example of a structure of a PPDU for communicating with a WUR device in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. In some examples, PPDU  600  may be used for communicating with the WUR device  202  ( FIG. 2 ). The three portions of the PPDU  600  illustrated are a PHY Preamble  610  portion, media access control (MAC) header  620  portions, and an FCS  630  portion. The PHY preamble  610  is a portion of the PPDU  600  preamble that contains information for decoding the one or more PSDUs or MPDUs  602  contained in the PPDU  600 . More than one MPDU  602  may be contained in a PPDU  600  that is sent in MU mode (e.g., using OFDMA multiplexing techniques). The MPDU  602  contained in the PPDU  600  may include one or more of the MAC header  620  and the FCS  630 . The MAC header  620 , as compared to the MAC header  320 , may include one or more common fields that are present in all PPDUs  600  or it may include one or more type specific fields that may not be present in every WUR PPDU  600 . Accordingly, in some implementations, the contents of the MAC header  620  may depend on a type of WUR PPDU frame in which the MAC header  620  is included. The FCS  630  may include a CRC or a MIC, depending on the type of WUR PPDU frame received (e.g., the CRC may be present if the PPDU  600  is not secure, and the MIC may be present if the PPDU  600  is secured). No payload or frame body portion may exist in the PPDU  600 , as the PPDU frames do not carry any payloads and the type specific fields may not be included in the MAC header  620  portion. Other aspects of communicating the PPDU  600  (e.g., speeds, frequency bands, etc.) may be similar to those described above in relation to  FIG. 3  and the PPDU  300 . 
     As depicted in  FIG. 6 , the MAC header  620  may include one or more of four separate fields: a frame control field  621 , a paged IDs (RA) field  622 , a partial BSSID (TA) field  623 , and a timestamp field  624 . The frame control field  321  may have a length of one (1) byte or octet. The paged IDs (RA) field  622 , partial BSSID (TA) field  623 , and timestamp field  624  may have lengths not fully established but estimated as described below. In some implementations, some part of the contents of the frame control field  621  may be carried in the PHY preamble of the PPDU  600 . 
     The 1-byte frame control field  621  may provide information that identifies details of the MPDU  602  type and/or length. In some implementations, the frame control field  621  may include a one-bit protocol version field (not shown), where zero (0) is currently used and one (1) is saved for future development. The frame control field  621  also includes a type subfield of a two-bit length. The type a type subfield (not shown) may identify a type of PPDU  600  frame. In some implementations, the type subfield may indicate that the PPDU  600  is a WUR Beacon frame, a WUR control frame, a WUR sync frame, etc. In some implementations, the frame control field  621  may indicate whether the PPDU  600  is a secure/protected PPDU  600  or an unsecure/unprotected PPDU  600  (e.g., MIC present or CRC present). For example, a first value in the type subfield may indicate the WUR Beacon frame while a second value in the type subfield may indicate the WUR control frame. In some implementations, the frame type indicated by the type subfield may help or may implicitly differentiate between constant length and variable-length PPDUs  600 . For example, WUR broadcast frames may be constant length while Beacon or control frames may be variable length. The length/subtype field (not shown) may be a 3-bit field that may provide information indicating one or both of different frame subtypes or payload or frame body sizes for a payload or frame body of the PPDU  600  and MPDU  602 . In some implementations, as will be described in more detail below, the payload or frame body may be integrated with the MAC header portion  620 . In some implementations, the length/subtype field may have a length of four bits. In some implementations, the length of the MAC header  620 , or of the MPDU  602 , or of the variable portion of the MPDU may be indicated by the length specified in the frame control field  621 . When the length/subtype field is included, the length may provide lengths for variable-length frames. Alternatively, or additionally, the subtype field may provide additional details of subtypes for constant length frames. The frame control field  621  may further include two bits for future use (one or both of these two bits may be used for security purposes, as described in further detail below). In some examples, the frame control field  621  may be moved to the PHY preamble  610  and may be part of a SIG field of the PHY preamble or encoded in the PHY preamble itself. The possible breakdown above of the frame control field  621  may also apply to the frame control field  321  of  FIG. 3 . 
     The partial BSSID field  623  (may optionally be present with a length TBD) may provide identification of an identity (e.g., and ID) of a transmitting BSS. The transmitting BSS may correspond to the BSS from which the WUR communication is transmitted. For example, the partial BSSID field  623  may include a partial address or identifier for the AP  104  or STA  106  that transmitted the PPDU  600 . In some implementations, the receive WUR STA may use the partial BSSID field (and the information contained therein) to determine whether or not the WUR STA is a potential intended recipient for the PPDU  600 . For example, during association with the AP  104  and/or the wireless communication system  100 , the WUR STA may be assigned or provided with a BSSID for the BSS to which the WUR STA belongs (e.g., the BSS in the BSA  102 ). Accordingly, the WUR STA may store the BSSID for its BSS in its memory (e.g., the memory  206  of  FIG. 2 ). When the WUR STA compares the partial BSSID  623  to the stored BSSID, if the values match, then the WUR STA may determine that the received PPDU  600  does apply to the WUR STA and perform additional checks as described below. However, if the partial BSSID  623  does not match the WUR STA stored BSSID, then the WUR STA may determine that the received PPDU  600  does not apply to the WUR STA and may ignore the remainder of the PPDU  600 . 
     Accordingly, the partial BSSID field  623  may be used to reduce unnecessarily computations, processing, and reception of the PPDU  600  by WUR STAB that do not need to pay attention to the PPDU  600 . In some examples the partial BSSID  623  may be a value that is known by both the AP  104  and the WUR STA, which may change in time according to a function (e.g., a random generator with a seed known at both devices) that is known at both the AP  104  and WUR STA. 
     In some examples, the partial BSSID  623  field may only include one octet of the BSSID of the transmitting device. In some examples, the single octet of the BSSID (e.g., the partial BSSID) is sufficient to provide adequate intra-PPDU power savings and discarding of PPDUs  600  sent by other BSSs (APs) as compared to the added costs (e.g., time, bandwidth, etc.) of transmitting and processing the full BSSID. Accordingly, the partial BSSID field  623  may provide for reduced accuracy of identifying whether the WUR STA belongs to the same or different BSS as the transmitting AP  104  or STA  106  while providing for reduced communication costs (e.g., time, bandwidth, etc.). Additionally, in some examples, the partial BSSID field  623  may be used in some implementations of minimization of false alarms in the FCS, as discussed in further detail below. Additionally, or alternatively, the partial BSSID may be masked or hidden in another field of the MPDU  602 , for example the FCS  630 . Additionally, or alternatively, the paged IDs may be scrambled or masked with the partial BSSID, as will be discussed in further detail below. 
     The timestamp field  624  (optional with a length TBD) may contain a partial timing synchronization function (TSF). The partial TSF may allow the WUR STA to synchronize its clock to match the clock of the transmitting AP  104 . The partial TSF may also allow the WUR STA to prevent and/or avoid replay attacks, as will be described in further detail below. The timestamp field  624  may have a length of 1 byte. Alternatively, or additionally, the timestamp field  624  may include a sequence number (e.g., the timestamp field  624  may be the timestamp/sequence number field  624 ). The sequence number pay provide an alternative for a counter of secure frames and provide other purposes, such as BSS parameter updates, etc. In some implementations, the timestamp field  624  may include change sequence information or control information. For example, control information may be carried in the timestamp field  624  in the timestamp information (e.g., scrambled or masked) or prior to or after the timestamp information. In some implementations, if control information is desired for each paged ID, then the paged IDs field  622  may be followed by a control field (not shown). Thus, each paged ID may have a dedicated or shared control field. The control field may have a variable length based on the control information and/or the number of paged IDs. In some implementations, the control field may provide for special signaling to one or more WUR STA. For example, the control information may include application layer commands. Alternatively, or additionally, the control information may include indications of which WUR STAs should turn on their main radio or which radio to turn on in dual/tri-band radios or which antennas to activate in multi-antenna STAs. In some implementations, the control field application may be dependent on the type of the PPDU  600 . In some implementations, the special commands may instruct which main radio to turn on (e.g., by identifying a radio number, technology, or band). In some implementations, the special commands may indicate which bandwidth to use or may specify one or more receive or transmit parameters. 
     In some implementations, the control information may be common to all of the identified WUR STAs in the paged IDs field  621 . In some implementations, one or more of the identified WUR STAs in the paged IDs field  621  may have unique instructions from others of the identified WUR STAs in the paged IDs field  621 . The association of WUR STAs to particular control instructions may be identified in the frame control field  621 , for example, the length subfield. For example, the length subfield may indicate that each identified WUR STA has a respective control instruction field. In this example the length field may provide the length of both page ids and control Ids (unit of 2 bytes as an example because one paged id may be one byte and control another one) and the length will have a range between 2 to 14 bytes. Different lengths of the length field may be used in the frame control field (3 or 4 or more). 
     In some implementations, the two-byte paged ID and control field may include a combination of AID identifier bits and control/misc. instructions bits. For example, the two-byte paged ID and control field may include 12 AID identifier bits and 4 control/misc. instructions bits. In some implementations, the combination may be 8 AID identifier bits and 8 control/misc. instructions bits. In some implementations, the various combinations of the AID identifier bits and the control/misc. instructions bits are negotiated in advance between the AP  104  and the WUR STA. In some implementations, the combination of AID identifier bits and the control/misc. instructions bits may be vendor specific (e.g., different vendors may have different numbers of AIDs identifier bits and different numbers of control/misc. instructions bits, etc.). 
     In some implementations, the commands or instructions associated with the control/misc. instructions bits may be negotiated in advance between the AP  104  and the WUR STA. For example, these bits and the corresponding instructions may be negotiated during association of the WUR STA with the AP  104 . For example, the control/misc. instructions bits may be stored in a table-type format with each bit corresponding to a particular action, command, or instruction. 
     The paged IDs field  622  (may include one or more paged IDs each of which may be 1 byte in length) may provide a list of intended receiving WUR STAs of the payload or frame body or of the WUR PPDU  600 . In some implementations, the paged IDs field  624  may include identifiers, each of which may identify one WUR STA or assigned to a group of WUR STAs, or identify all WUR STAs associated to the device sending the PPDU  600 . The paged IDs field  622  may be used in conjunction with the partial BSSID field  623  of  FIG. 6 . For example, when a WUR STA determines that the partial BSSID field  622  (or BSSID stored or retrieved from elsewhere, for example, masked with FCS  630  or paged ID) matches the BSSID of the WUR STA, then the WUR STA may proceed to confirm that the ID of the WUR STA is included in the paged IDs field  622 . If the ID of the WUR STA is not included in the paged IDs field  331 , then the WUR STA can stop receiving the PPDU  600  and can ignore any received information. On the other hand, if the ID of the WUR STA is included in the paged IDs field  622 , then the WUR STA proceeds to receive the remainder of the PPDU  600  and follows any instructions included in the PPDU  600 . In some examples each paged ID in the paged IDs field  622  may be mixed, scrambled, coded, or masked with a known portion of an identifier of the BSS of the AP  104  (e.g., XORed with certain 8 bits of the BSSID of the AP  104  and the WUR STA) so that the paged ID values are not concentrated in a certain portion of the range of available IDs. For example, if all APs  104  start allocating IDs in increasing (or any other) order, then the likelihood that multiple APs  104  assign low values (e.g., 1, 2, etc.) is high. If APs  104  apply this rule, then paged ID values can be uniformly spread across the 1-255 range. In certain implementations, the APs  104  may use a random generator for selecting the paged IDs that are assigned to associated STAs. The random generator and selected/assigned paged IDs may be known by all APs  104  that are within range so that paged IDs assigned by APs  104  in the same area do not coincide or overlap. 
     In some implementations, the paged IDs field  622  may have a length of one byte. With a length of one byte, the paged IDs field  622  may indicate or identify a single WUR STA to or with which the PPDU  600  applies or is associated. The paged IDs field  622  may have a size of up to 8 bytes, allowing the PPDU  600  to apply or be associated with up to 8 different WUR STAs. For example, when the length subfield in the frame control field  621  is 3 bits, then only 8 paged IDs can be included. Thus, length subfield of the frame control field  621  may indicate the number of WUR STAs identified by the paged IDs field  622  and, accordingly, may indicate a number of bytes of the length of the paged IDs field  622  (maximum of 8). In some examples, when the length subfield is zero (0), the PPDU  600  may be intended to be a broadcast or multicast PPDU that applies to all WUR STAs or to all WUR STAs sharing the BSSID of the partial BSSID field  622 . In such an implementation, the paged IDs field  622  may have a length of zero and may not include any WUR STA identifiers. In some implementations, when the length subfield is 0 for the broadcast PPDU, the pages IDs field  622  may have a length of one (1) byte without including any WUR STA identifiers (e.g., may have a value of zero, indicating that the PPDU is a broadcast PPDU). In some implementations, the paged IDs field  622  is included in multicast and/or broadcast PPDUs  600 . Only a single paged ID may be present in the paged IDs field  622  (length of 1 byte) for a unicast PPDU  600 . 
     The paged IDs subfield  622  of 1-byte length may be used to identify one of up to 256 unique STA identifiers (or if value 0 is used for broadcast than up to 255 unique STA identifiers). The number of STAs that can be identified depends on the size of the paged ID. For example, if the paged ID is 11 bits in length, then the paged ID may identify up to 1024 STA (assuming value of 0 is used for broadcast), and so on. However, if the AP  104  serves more than 256 STAs, then the AP  104  may be configured to orthogonally schedule STAs that share the same paged IDs. If the paged IDs are obtained from an association identifier (AID), for example, 8 LSBs of the AID provided the paged ID, then the AP  104  may make such scheduling using one or more of the remaining MSBs of the AID. For example, STAs having an association identifier of “1” and “257” may share the LSB of 0000 0001. Accordingly, if the paged IDs field  622  identifies the STA having the identifier 0000 0001, then both the STA “1” and the STA “257” will determine, based on the partial BSSID field  623  and the paged IDs field  622 , that the PPDU  600  is intended for the STA. Accordingly, the STA “1” and the STA “257” may be considered “clones.” During association of the STA “1” and the STA “257,” the AP  104  may schedule clones to have orthogonal wake times or allocated in orthogonal groups. For example, the STA “1,” during association, may be provided to have a scheduled wake times and wake time durations (SPs) such that they do not coincide with the scheduled wake times and wake time durations of STA  257  (e.g., STA 1 may be scheduled the first 10 ms of a 20 ms wake time duration and STA  257  may be scheduled the second 10 ms of the 20 ms wake time duration). Accordingly, the clone STAs (e.g., the WUR STAs having the same LSB identifiers or paged ID) will not wake up simultaneously and unintended WUR STAs will not be awakened just because they share an LSB identifier or paged ID with an intended WUR STA. 
     Alternatively, or additionally, a most significant bit (MSB) of the identifier for the paged IDs may be masked in one or more other fields of the PPDU  600  or the MPDU  602 . For example, the paged IDs in the paged IDs field  622  may be associated with between one and four groups of MSBs. For example, for the STA “1” and the STA “257,” the STAs will be associated with two groups of MSBs. The STA “1” will be associated with an MSB of “0” while the STA “257” will be associated with an MSB of “1.” Accordingly, the MSB identifiers may be communicated to the WUR STA to allow the WUR STA to determine if the PPDU  600  is intended for it or for another WUR STA having the same LSB identifier in the paged ID field  622 . 
     In some implementations, the AP  104  may desire to send instructions or page more than 8 WUR STAs. In such an implementation, the AP  104  may send a multicast or broadcast PPDU  600  (e.g., having the length of 0, as described herein). Alternatively, or additionally, the AP  104  may transmit back-to-back (e.g., consecutive) PPDUs  600 . When multiple PPDUs  600  are transmitted back-to-back, the AP  104  may include STA identifiers in the paged IDs field  622  in only ascending order, which may allow STAs to know when they will not be paged in later PPDUs  600 . For example, when a first PPDU  600  of two or more back-to-back PPDUs  300  includes paged IDs for WUR STA 1, 3, and 8, the WUR STA 5 may know that later PPDUs  600  of the two or more back-to-back PPDUs  600  will not page the STA 5 because the lowest WUR STA that can be paged by subsequent PPDUs  600  is 9 (e.g., the STA identifiers only ascend between PPDUs). Such an ascending order may allow WUR STAs to optimize their sleep patterns by determining when they will not be paged without having to wait for all back-to-back PPDUs  600  from being received and reviewed. In some implementations, one or more bits may be included in the MPDU  602  to indicate that a train of one or more other PPDUs  600  is following the current PPDU  600 . 
     In some implementations, the no paged ID field  622  is included in broadcast PPDUs  600  as noted above. In such an implementation, each receive WUR STA will decode the PPDU  600 , independent of the BSS of the WUR STA. Thus, in some implementations, the partial BSSID field  623  and the paged IDs field  622  may be eliminated from the MAC header  620  (further reducing the minimum MPDU  602  size to 3 bytes). In some implementations, one paged ID may be included in the paged ID field  622  for broadcast frames. Accordingly, the AP  104  may allocate a single WUR STA ID for inclusion in the paged IDs field  622 . In some implementations, this WUR STA may drop other BSSIDs. Additionally, or alternatively, the AP  104  may scramble or mask a portion of the BSSID identifier of the AP  104  with the paged IDs included in the paged ID field  622 . For example, the AP  104  may mask its BSSID (or a portion thereof, for example, BSSID[40:47]) with the target paged IDs as stored in the paged IDs field  622 . The receive WUR STAs can descramble the paged IDs in the paged IDs field  622  and determine if any of the obtained paged IDs match the WUR STA&#39;s identifier or if it is a broadcast value (e.g., paged ID value of 0). If the WUR STA determines that one of the descrambled paged IDs matches the WUR STA identifier, or that the broadcast value was included, then the WUR STA receives the remainder of the packet and performs any necessary actions. If the WUR STA determines that the descrambled paged ID does not match the WUR STA identifier and that the broadcast value is not included, then the WUR STA may discard the PPDU  600 . 
       FIG. 7  illustrates an example of further details of the structure of the PPDU of  FIG. 6  for communicating with a WUR device in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. In some examples, the exemplary structure of PPDU  600  of  FIG. 6  may be used for communicating with the WUR device  202  ( FIG. 2 ). As depicted in  FIG. 7 , the FCS  630  (length TBD) may include a CRC or a MIC. The CRC may be used to detect errors in unsecured PPDUs  600 . The MIC may be used to detect errors and replay attacks in secure PPDUs  600 . In some implementations, there may not be any need for an explicit CRC for the PPDU  600 . 
     In some implementations, the AP  104  may hide, scramble, or mask its partial BSSID in the FCS  630 . Various methods may be used for such scrambling or hiding. For example, the AP  104  may XOR its partial BSSID (e.g., BSSID[23:38]) with the FCS  630 . Accordingly, the WUR STA will only successfully decode received PPDUs  600  generated by its AP  104  because only those WUR STAB will have the proper BSSID values to successfully decode the FCS  630 . PPDUs generated by other APs  104  will decode as being corrupted because the improper BSSID decoder value will result in an incorrect FCS  630 . By using such a scrambling or coding method, the partial BSSID may not need to be included as a separate field, saving communication time, power, and bandwidth. In some implementations, the FCS field  630  may have a length of 2 bytes, which may provide for better security and protection, fewer false alarms, and greater prevention of replay attacks. In some implementations, the AP  104  may compute the CRC and the MIC assuming that the BSSID of the AP  104  is present in the PPDU  600  (e.g., immediately after the FCS or prior to the FCS) and omit the BSSID from transmission (e.g., compute but do not transmit). The WUR STA, when it receives the PPDU  600 , may check the FCS and/or MIC under the assumption that the BSSID was present (e.g., MAC address of the AP  104  transmitting the PPDU  600 ). 
     Accordingly, in some examples, computing the CRC may be based at least in part on an assumption that at least a portion of the BSSID is present in the WUR frame. For example, a transmitter may append one or more bits of the BSSID in the WUR frame but without transmitting the one or more bits of the BSSID (e.g., a 16-bit address 2 field may be present after an address field but the address 2 may not be transmitted). 
     Alternatively, the CRC may be computed as described herein and then may be scrambled or embedded with some information of the BSSID with which the transmitter device (e.g., the AP  104 ) is associated. In some examples, the XORing may be expanded to other fields of the WUR frame. For example, if the WUR frame is 6 bytes long, then WUR frame may be scrambled with 6 bytes of BSSID. The scrambling of the CRC may occur before the CRC is included in the FCS  630 . The CRC may be scrambled with 16 bits of the BSSID. As described herein, the scrambling may include XORing the CRC. A receiver device (e.g., the STA  106 ) may descramble the CRC based on known information of the receiver BSSID before checking or comparing the descrambled CRC to confirm that it passes. In some examples, the MIC may be computed and scrambled or embedded instead of the CRC. 
     In some implementations, the CRC/MIC/BSS fields of the FCS  630  may be used to ensure that WUR STAs are not woken up by PPDUs from an attacker or non-friendly AP  104 . For example, a security protocol with low overhead may be used to avoid CCMP-like signaling, where the MIC has 8 or 16 bytes and the CCMP header has 8 bytes). Accordingly, the PPDUs  300  or MPDUs  302  may be unsecure when the FCS  340  contains the CRC and secure when the FCS  340  contains the MIC. In some implementations, the frame control field  321  may be used to signal whether CRC or MIC is used for a particular PPDU  300  or MPDU  302 . In some implementations, the MIC is a truncated output of a selected cipher suite (e.g., baseline) and the timestamp field  624  TSF timer may act as a packet number. Accordingly, the PPDUs  600  may be unsecure PPDUs when the FCS  630  contains the CRC with a scrambled/coded/masked/camouflaged/etc. BSSID of the AP  104  and may be secure PPDUs when the FCS  630  contains the MIC with scrambled/coded/masked/camouflaged/etc. BSSID of the AP  104 . In some implementations, the frame control field  621  may signal differences between the secure and unsecure PPDUs  600 . 
     In some implementations, the MIC computation may be based on the entire MPDU  602 . For example, the MPDU  602  may be intended for a single WUR STA or a plurality of WUR STAs. In some implementations, the MIC is generated by the AP  104  based on a group key known by both the AP  104  and the one or more WUR STAs. For example, the group key may be a primary connecting radio (PCR) group key, etc., IGTK. The group key may be known by all STAs associated with the AP  104  that are intended receivers for the PPDU  600 . In some implementations, the timestamp field  624  may provide part of a monotonically increasing counter. For example, the timestamp field  624  may contain the MSB of the 2 LSBs of the TSF timer, which may provide 256 us steps in time and a wraparound of the timestamp every 65536 ms. In some implementations, a full TSF timer at the WUR STA is updated using the partial TSF included in the timestamp field  624 . In some implementations, the absolute TSF timer may be used as an input parameter for the MIC computation, which may be further used to protect the WUR STA from replay attacks. 
     In some implementations, the MPDU  602  may have a minimum length and a maximum length. The length may be signaled or determined based on a frame type of the PPDU  600  (e.g., in the frame control field  621 , as described herein). For example, the MPDU  602  may have a minimum length of five (5) bytes. The MPDU may include one or more of the frame control field  621  of 1 byte, the paged IDs (RA) field  622  (TBD), the partial BSSID (TA) field  623  (TBD), the timestamp field  624  (TBD), and the CRC/MIC/BSS field  631  (TBD), assuming that the paged IDs (RA) field  622  has a length of zero bytes (e.g., for a broadcast or multicast PPDU  600 ) and each of the remaining TBD fields have a minimum length of 1 byte. In some examples, as described above, the MPDU  602  may have a minimum length of six (6) bytes when the frame control fields  621  indicates no length (e.g., no paged IDs) but where the paged IDs field  622  is included with a length of 1 byte but a zero value. In some implementations, constant length PPDUs  600  may have minimum MPDU  602  sizes of 5 or 6 bytes. The minimum sized MPDUs  602  may utilize ˜0.77 ms of time to transmit at 62.5 Kbps. 
     The MPDU  602  may have a maximum length of twelve (12) bytes. For example, the MPDU  602  may include the minimum 5 bytes described above and then also include 7 bytes for 16 identifiers in the paged ID field  622 . Thus, the maximum length for the MPDU  602  may be the 5 bytes of the non-paged IDs fields plus the maximum of 8 bytes for the paged IDs field  622 . In some implementations, variable-length PPDUs  600  may be signaled and/or determined based on the frame type and length in the frame control field  621 . The maximum MPDU  602  length of 12 bytes may use ˜1.66 ms of transmission time at 62.5 Kbps. In some implementations, the MPDU  602  may have a length anywhere between 5 bytes and 12 bytes. 
       FIG. 8  illustrates a flowchart of an exemplary method that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. Although the method  800  is described herein with reference to communications among an AP  104  and STAs  106  as discussed above with respect to  FIG. 1 , a person having ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the method  800  may be implemented by other suitable devices and systems. For example, the method  800  may be performed by a STA  106  or a plurality of APs  104 . Although the method  800  is described herein with reference to a particular order, in various examples, blocks herein may be performed in a different order, or omitted, and additional blocks may be added. 
     In operation block  802  the method comprises generating a message for transmission, the message comprising a preamble and a data unit. The preamble may comprise information to decode the data unit. The data unit may comprise control information for the data unit, identifying information for the one or more devices intended to receive the data unit, identifying information for a transmitting device, and synchronization and security information. In operational block  804 , the method further comprises transmitting the message to the one or more devices from the transmitting device, wherein the one or more devices are configured to receive the message via a power saving receiver circuit. 
     In some examples, an apparatus for wireless communication may perform some of the examples described herein. In some examples, the apparatus comprises means for generating a message transmission, the message comprising a preamble and a data unit. The preamble may comprise information to decode the data unit. The data unit may comprise control information for the data unit, identifying information for the one or more devices intended to receive the data unit, identifying information for a transmitting device, and synchronization and security information. The apparatus further comprises means for transmitting the message to the one or more devices from the transmitting device, wherein the one or more devices are configured to receive the message via a power saving receiver circuit. 
       FIG. 9  illustrates an example of further details of the structure of the PPDU of  FIG. 3  for communicating with a WUR device (e.g.,  FIG. 2 ) in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure.  FIG. 9  illustrates only the three portions of the one or more MPDU  902  contained in the PPDU  300 . More than one MPDU may be contained in a PPDU that is sent in MU mode (e.g., using OFDMA multiplexing techniques). The MPDU  902  may include one or more of a MAC header  320 , payload or frame body portion  330 , and FCS  340 . The MAC header  320  may include one or more common fields that are present in all WUR frames or PPDUs. For example, the MAC header  320  may include one or more of a frame control field  910 , an address field  912 , and a TSD (type subtype dependent)/TD (type dependent) control  914 . Either one of the TSD or TD may be present in the WUR frame. In some examples, TSD and TD may be used interchangeably. The payload or frame body portion  330  may contain miscellaneous information and may have a length of zero (“0”) or more bits. In certain examples, the length may be a multiple of one octet, or two octets, etc., and the length may be indicated in the Frame Control field. The FCS  340  may include cyclic redundancy check (“CRC”) or message integrity check (“MIC”) depending on the type of PPDU  300  received (e.g., the CRC may be present if the frame is not secure, and the MIC may be present if the frame is secured). The FCS field  340  may be a 16-bit field. The FCS  340  may additionally be computed accounting for the BSSID address if the frame is sent to one or more STAs that are associated with the BSS. The FCS  340  may not be computed accounting for the BSSID address if the frame is sent to one or more STAs that are not associated with the BSS. 
     As depicted in  FIG. 9 , the MAC header  320  may include one or more of the three separate fields: a frame control field  910 , an address field  912 , and a TSD/TD control field  914 . The frame control field  910  may be an 8-bit field, the address field  912  may be a 12-bit field, and the TSD/TD control frame  914  may be a 12-bit field. In some examples some part of the contents of the Frame Control field may be carried in the PHY preamble of the WUR PPDU. Additionally, the payload or frame body portion  330  may have a variable length and the FCS may have a length of 8, 16, 24, and 32 bits. For example, the maximum lengths for the payload or frame body portion  330  may be 8, 16, 32 or 64 bytes. In certain examples, the length of the payload or frame body portion  330  is indicated in the frame control field  910 , and is in units of 1 octet, 2 octets, etc. 
     The 1-byte frame control field  910  may provide information that identifies details of the MPDU  902  type and/or length, and additional information that may be necessary to decode the MPDU. In some implementations, the frame control field  910  may include a one-bit protocol version field (not shown), where zero (0) is currently used and one (1) is saved for future development. In some implementations, the frame control field  910  may include a type subfield (not shown) and a length/subtype field (not shown). The type subfield may be configured to identify a frame type for the MPDU  902 . In some implementations, the type subfield may indicate that the MPDU  902  is a WUR Beacon frame, a WUR control frame, a WUR sync frame, a WUR paging frame, etc.). In some examples the type subfield may be used to differentiate between constant or variable-length frames. For example, a first value in the type subfield may indicate the WUR Beacon frame with a constant length while a second value in the type subfield may indicate the WUR control frame with a varied length. The length/subtype field may provide information indicating one or both of different frame subtypes or different payload or frame body sizes for the payload or frame body portion  330  portion of the MPDU  902 . Alternatively, or additionally, the length/subtype field may provide a parity bit which may indicate validity or lack of corruption in the frame. Alternatively, or additionally, a bit (e.g., the first bit or the last bit of the frame control field  910 ) may be a parity bit that indicates validity or corruption of one or more of the subfields of the MPDU  902 . In one example the parity bit may be computed to cover only the frame control field  910 , or the frame control field  910  and/or the address field  912 . Alternatively or additionally, the length/subtype field may indicate a frame subtype for constant length frames or a length for variable-length frames. In some examples, the parity bit may be any bit in the frame control field  910 . For example, the parity bit may be either bit 1 of the frame control field  910  or the last bit of the frame control field  910 . Alternatively, or additionally, the parity bit could also be one of the bits of the address field  912  (e.g., the last bit). 
     The address field  912  may optionally be present and may be 8 or 12 bits in length and may provide identification of an identity (e.g., an ID) of a transmitting device. The transmitting device may be identified by the transmitting BSS, which may correspond to the BSS from which the WUR communication is transmitted. For example, the address field  912  may contain a partial BSSID field  322  or it may include a partial address or identifier for the AP  104  or STA  106  that transmitted the PPDU  300 . Alternatively, the address field  912  may include a portion of the BSSID or a portion of the service set identifier (SSID). In some implementations, the receive WUR STA may use the address field  912  (and the information contained therein) to determine whether or not the WUR STA is a potential intended recipient for the PPDU  300 . For example, during association with the AP  104  and/or the wireless communication system  100 , the WUR STA may be assigned or provided with a BSSID for the BSS to which the WUR STA belongs (e.g., the BSS in the BSA  102 ). Accordingly, the WUR STA may store the BSSID for its BSS in its memory (e.g., the memory  206  of  FIG. 2 ). When the WUR STA compares the partial BSSID  322  to at least a portion of the stored BSSID (or the portion to be compared may be stored rather than the full BSSID), if the values match, then the WUR STA may determine that the received PPDU  300  does apply to the WUR STA and perform additional checks as described below. However, if the partial BSSID  322  does not match the WUR STA stored BSSID or SSID, then the WUR STA may determine that the received PPDU  300  does not apply to the WUR STA and may ignore the remainder of the PPDU  300 . Accordingly, the partial BSSID field  322  may be used to reduce unnecessarily computations, processing, and reception of the PPDU  300  by WUR STAs that do not need to pay attention to the PPDU  300 . In some examples the partial BSSID may be a value that is known by both the AP and STA which may change in time according to a function (e.g., a random generator with a seed known at both devices, or in line with a time reference common at the AP and STA) that is known at both the AP and STA. In some examples, the address field  912  may contain an identifier for the WUR frame, which may be selected from Table 1 below. The identifier included in the address field  912  may be dependent on the type of WUR frame (identified below in relation to Table 2). 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 1 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Identifiers of WUR frames 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 Address 
                   
               
               
                 field 
                 Identifier description 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 Transmit ID 
                 Identifier of the transmitting AP (may be provided by 
               
               
                   
                 the AP to the WUR STAs) 
               
               
                 Group ID 
                 Identifier of a group of receiving WUR STAs (may be 
               
               
                   
                 provided by the AP to the group of WUR STAs) 
               
               
                 Wake Up 
                 Identifier of an individual receiving WUR STA (may 
               
               
                 ID 
                 be provided by the AP to the WUR STA) 
               
               
                 OUI1 
                 The 12 MSBs of the OUT (see 9.4.1.32 (Organization 
               
               
                   
                 Identifier field)) 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In some examples, the WUR STAs may rely on the address field  912  of the WUR frame to identify whether the frame is one of the Wake-Up ID (meaning the WUR frame is individually addressed to the receiving WUR STA), the Transmit ID (meaning the WUR frame is broadcast), and the Group ID (meaning the WUR frame is addressed to a group to which the WUR STA belongs). In some examples, the WUR STAs also rely on additional information that may be included in the WUR frame (e.g., an embedded BSSID, as described in more detail herein) and/or that may be included in the WUR frame (e.g., in a TSD/TD control field  914 ). Based on this combination of the address field  912  and some additional information, the WUR STAs may experience reduced false wake ups caused by WUR frames generated by OBSS APs and may experience increased or improved filtering of WUR frames that are not intended for the WUR STA because the received information increases a likelihood that the corresponding addressing information is reliable and/or accurate. 
     In some examples, the address field  912  of a WUR frame (e.g., a Wake-Up frame) contains the Wake-Up ID when the WUR frame is individually addressed, the Group ID when the WUR frame is group addressed, and the Transmit ID when the WUR frame is broadcast. In the descriptions below, other examples for the identifiers contained in the address field and/or in other fields of the WUR frame are provided. 
     In some examples, the partial BSSID  322  field may only include one octet of the BSSID of the transmitting device or 12 bits of the BSSID (or SSID). In some examples, the single octet or 12 bits of the BSSID (e.g., the partial BSSID) is sufficient to provide adequate intra-PPDU power savings and discarding of PPDUs sent by other BSSs (APs) as compared to the added costs (e.g., time, bandwidth, etc.) of transmitting and processing the full BSSID. Accordingly, the partial BSSID field  322  may provide for reduced accuracy of identifying whether the WUR STA belongs to the same or different BSS as the transmitting AP  104  or STA  106  while providing for reduced communication costs (e.g., time, bandwidth, etc.). Additionally, in some examples, the partial BSSID field  322  may be used in some implementations of minimization of false alarms in the FCS, as discussed in further detail below. In some examples, the frame control field  910  can be moved to the PHY preamble if there is a SIG field in the PHY preamble. 
     The type and/or subtype dependent (TSD/TD) control field  914  contains control information that depends on the type and/or subtype of the MPDU  902 , as discussed in more detail below. For example, the TSD/TD control field  914  may contain a partial TSF if the MPDU  902  is a beacon, a packet number if the MPDU  902  is paging one or more STAs to wake up and the frame is protected, other control information may be carried in this case such as partial TSF etc. In another example, the TSD/TD control field  914  may contain additional portions of the transmitter identifier. This may be useful for frames sent prior to association (e.g., for locationing, discovery, and ranging purposes) as these frames may require a lower false alarm probability. In this example the Address field and the TSD/TD control field  914  may be such that a portion of the transmitter identifier is stored in the Address field and another portion of the transmitter identifier is stored in the TSD/TD control field  914 . Alternatively the TSD/TD control field  914  may contain a portion of the receiver identifier when the Address field contains a portion of the transmitter identifier, or vice versa. While we refer to a portion of the identifier in this example it should be clear that these values may be identifiers that are assigned, and/or negotiated between the peer STAs using the main radio. 
     The payload or frame body portion  330  may be of variable length, and its content may be dependent of the MPDU type/subtype or other settings of fields that precede it in the MPDU  902 . The payload or frame body portion  330  may contain information specific to particular individual WUR frame types. Additionally, the payload or frame body portion  330  may not be present in constant length WUR frames and may be present in variable-length WUR frames. In some examples, the length of the payload or frame body portion  330  may be equal to X*(L+1), where L is the value of the length subfield in the frame control field  910  and X is the unit in octets (e.g., if unit is 1 octet and the length field is 3 bits, or if unit is 2 octets and the length field is 2 bits), 16 octets (similar considerations playing with the possible X, L values), 24 octets, or 32 octets. Examples of the possible miscellaneous fields are provided below in relation to  FIG. 10 . 
       FIG. 10  illustrates an example of further details of an exemplary structure of a media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (MPDU) of  FIG. 9  for communicating with a WUR device in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure.  FIG. 10  illustrates four specific MPDU formats of the general MPDU format  902 : a beacon format  1010 , a paging format  1020 , a pre-association format  1030 , and an exemplary vendor specific format  1040 . As shown, each of these formats may be associated with a particular “type” value (and/or subtype value) which may correspond to a value to be used in the type subfield of the frame control field  910  described herein. Accordingly, the beacon format  1010  may be identified by the type field value being “0”, the paging format  1010  may be identified by the type field value being “1”, the pre-association format  1030  may be identified by the type field value being “2”, and the vendor specific format  1040  may be identified by the type field value being “3”. 
     As shown, the beacon format  1010  includes the 8-bit frame control field  910  as described above in relation to  FIG. 9 . The 12-bit address field  912  referenced in relation to  FIG. 9  is a partial BSSID (PBSSID)  1011  for the transmitting device, as described herein. For the beacon format  1010 , the 12-bit TSD/TD control field  914  is a partial timestamp function (PTSF) field,  1011 , and contains 12 bits of the timing synchronization function of the AP (e.g., the 12 LSBs of the Timestamp field that the AP would include in a transmitted beacon, or a certain window of size 12 bits of the Timestamp field). The PTSF field helps the receiver to synchronize its internal clock to that of the AP (peer STA) with which the receiver is interacting. For the beacon format  1010 , no payload or frame body portion  330  may be included, and the FCS  340  is the CRC/MIC/BSS field described herein. Thus, the beacon format  1010  may have a length of 6 bytes. 
     In some examples, the beacon format  1010  may be constant or variable length. The constant length may be most used and may be required for use by all WUR devices. The enhanced or extended length beacon formats may be optional. In some examples, a beacon format  1010  may have a subtype identifier (e.g., in the length/subtype field) of 0, indicating a constant length. If the length bits are not used to indicate the length of the payload or frame body portion  330 , then this field (e.g., the remaining bits of the length/subtype field) may not be used and can be repurposed. In such an example, the bits may be used as extended control bits, such as a change sequence number that can indicate to the receiver STAs that a BSS system update has occurred if the change sequence number has increased. 
     As shown, the paging format  1020  includes the 8-bit frame control field  910  as described above in relation to  FIG. 9 . The 12-bit address field  912  referenced in relation to  FIG. 9  is a paged ID field  1021  for the receiving device, as described herein, and may contain the 11 LSBs of the association identifier of the receiving device. For the paging format  1020 , the 12 bit TSD/TD control field  914  may be any of the following: a packet number field which is an increasing number that identifies the packet and may be used to identify replay attacks for protected frames, or may be used to identify the packet for which an acknowledgment is needed; a PTSF field which contains a portion of the timing synchronization function, which is useful for synchronizing the internal clock of the receiver to that of the transmitter, and additionally can be used as a counter to detect replay attacks over secure frames. For the paging format  1020 , a frame body field  1023  of variable length may be included, and presence of the frame body field  1023  may be indicated by a nonzero length field in the frame control field  910 , and the FCS  340  is the CRC/MIC/BSS field described herein. Thus, the paging format  1020  may have a minimum length of 6 bytes and a maximum length of 13 bytes, depending on the presence and/or length of the frame body field  1023 . 
     The paging format  1020  may be basic or advanced. When the paging format  1020  is advanced, it may have a variable length based on the presence and length of the frame body field  1023  itself. Accordingly, the length/subtype field of the frame control field  910  may be used to indicate a length of the frame body field  1023  in units of 1 byte, in units of 2 bytes, 3 bytes, 4 bytes, and so on (unit known at both transmitter and receiver and can be a default value). For example, when the length/subtype field indicates “2”, the frame body field  1023  may have a length of 2 bytes. In some examples, the 2-byte frame body field  1023  may indicate two addresses in reference to the paged ID in the paged ID field  1021 . For example, the frame body field  1023  may include a range of addresses in relation to the paged ID in the paged ID field  1021 . For example, when the frame body field  1023  is 2 bytes then it may contain a STA list of an additional 2 paged ID fields, identifying a second and a third STA, wherein the first STA is identified by the Address field itself of the WUR Paging frame. In this example the first STA is identified by the AID contained in the Address field, the second STA is identified by the AID (identifier) that is obtained from the 3 MSBs of the Address field and the first 8 bits of the STA list, while the third STA is identified by the AID (identifier) that is obtained from the 3 MSBs of the Address field and the second 8 bits of the STA list. As shown, the pre-association format  1030  includes the 8-bit frame control field  910  as described above in relation to  FIG. 9 . The 12-bit address field  912  referenced in relation to  FIG. 9  is a partial BSSID field  1031  or a partial identifier for the transmitting device (e.g., PBSSID (TA)). For the pre-association format  1030 , the 12-bit TSD/TD control field  914  is a second partial BSSID field  1032  (e.g., PBSSID2 (TA2)), as described herein. The presence of two identifiers in the frame reduces significantly the false alarm probability. For the pre-association format  1030 , the payload or frame body portion  330  may be specific to pre-association frames (e.g., a pre-association specific field  1033 ) and may be of variable length. The FCS  340  is the CRC field described herein. Thus, the pre-association format  1030  may have a minimum length of 6 bytes and a maximum length of 13 bytes, depending on the length of the pre-association specific field  1033 . In some examples, the vendor specific field  1043  may include a receiver address (e.g., an address of the receiving device for the vendor specific format  1040  frame). 
     In some examples, the pre-association format  1030  may not be encrypted because the communicating devices may not be aware of encryption methods used by the other device until they are associated. Furthermore, the pre-association format  1030  may be transmitted by a transmitting device for locationing by the receiving device, to convey timing information, or to convey discovery information. In some situations, the CRC of the FCS  340  may be replaced with another PBSSID field (e.g., PBSSID3 (TA3)) to further reduce the false alarm probability (from 24 bits now it becomes 32 bits identifier of that transmitter). In some examples, the pre-association specific field  1033  may have a length indicated by the length/subtype field of the frame control field  910 . For example, when the length field indicates a length of 2, then the pre-association specific field  1033  may have a length of 2 bytes and may be used to provide for fine timing synchronization, locationing, etc. In some examples, the PBSSID field  1031  and the PBSSID2 field  1032  may include a hash of an SSID of the for the transmitting device (and the receiving device). For example, the 6-byte MAC address of an associated AP may be hashed down to 3 bytes and included in the PBSSID and PBSSID2 fields  1031  and  1032 , respectively. 
     As shown, the vendor specific format  1040  includes the 8-bit frame control field  910  as described above in relation to  FIG. 9 . The 12-bit address field  912  referenced in relation to  FIG. 9  is a vendor ID  1041  for the transmitting device, which may identify a particular vendor, etc. For the vendor specific format  1040 , the 12-bit TSD/TD control field  914  is a second vendor ID field  1024 , which may identify a second transmitting device. In some examples, the vendor specific format contains two partial identifiers, one in the address field (e.g., the vendor ID field  1041 ) and one in the TSD/TD control field  914  (e.g., the second vendor ID field  1024 ). The vendor ID field  1041  may contain the 12 least significant bits (LSBs) of the organizationally unique identifier (OUI), and the second vendor ID field  1042  contains another 12 bits of the OUI. The vendor ID fields  1041  and  1042  may identify the vendor of the device generating the frame. For the vendor specific format  1040 , the payload or frame body portion  330  may include a vendor specific field  1043  of miscellaneous length, and the FCS  340  is the CRC field described herein. Thus, the vendor specific format  1040  may have a minimum length of 6 bytes and a maximum length of 13 bytes, depending on the length of the vendor specific field  1043 . In some examples, the vendor specific field  1043  may include a receiver address (e.g., an address of the receiving device) for the vendor specific format  1040  frame. 
       FIG. 11  illustrates an example of further details of an exemplary structure of an MPDU of  FIG. 9  for communicating with a WUR device in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. In some examples, the exemplary structure of the MPDU  902  of  FIG. 9 , including details of the frame control field  910  of the MPDU  902  may be used in WUR device communications. As shown, the frame control field  910  may include a type (or subtype) field  1102 , a length or miscellaneous field  1104 , and a reserved field(s)  1106 . In some examples, the type field  1102  may be 3-4 bits in length and the length/miscellaneous field  1104  may be 3-4 bits in length. The reserved field(s)  1106  may be the remainder bits of the 8-bit frame control field. The type field  1102  may indicate a type of the MPDU  902 . Exemplary types for the MPDU  902  are provided below in Table 2: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 2 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
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                 Type description 
               
               
                   
                   
               
               
                   
                 0 
                 WUR Beacon 
               
               
                   
                 1 
                 WUR Wake Up 
               
               
                   
                 2 
                 WUR Vendor Specific 
               
               
                   
                 3 
                 WUR Discovery 
               
               
                   
                 4-7 
                 Reserved 
               
               
                   
                 (if 3 
               
               
                   
                 bits) 
               
               
                   
                 or 4-15 
               
               
                   
                 (if 4 
               
               
                   
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     For example, when the type field  1102  includes a value of “0”, the MPDU  902  may be a WUR beacon frame. When the type field  1102  includes a value of “1”, the MPDU  902  may be a WUR wake up frame. When the type field  1102  includes a value of “2”, the MPDU  902  may be a WUR vendor specific frame. When the type field  1102  includes a value of “3”, the MPDU  902  may be a WUR discovery frame. When the type field  1102  includes a value of “4” or greater, the MPDU  902  may be another specific type of frame(s). 
     The length/miscellaneous field  1104  may include or act as a length field for the MPDU  902  when the length is variable and as a miscellaneous field for the MPDU  902  when the length is constant. In some examples, whether or not the MPDU  902  is variable length or constant length may be indicated by a bit (e.g., a variable length or constant length bit). When the bit is set to “1”, the MPDU  902  may be of variable length. When the bit is set to “0”, the MPDU  902  may be of constant length. The bit may be indicated in various locations. As an example, this bit can be the most significant bit or the least significant bit of either the Type field or the length/miscellaneous field itself. Alternatively, this bit may be in the B0 or B2 or B3 or any other bit position of the type field  1102 . The bits shown in  FIG. 11  are exemplary to the type field  1102  and the length/miscellaneous field  1104  being 4-bits in length. 
     When the length/miscellaneous field  1104  is operating as the length field for a variable-length MPDU  902 , the length field  1104  may contain the length of the payload or frame body portion  330 . When the length/miscellaneous field  1104  is operating as the miscellaneous field, the miscellaneous field  1104  may contain bits that are expected to be used to indicate or convey various other information, for example, as discussed above. 
     As described herein, each WUR frame including the MPDU  902  may consist of the following components: a MAC header  320  (which includes the frame control  910 , the address field  912 , and the type and/or subtype dependent (e.g., TSD/TD) control field  914 ), a payload or frame body portion  330  (which may be variable length and, when variable length, contains information specific to the frame type), and an FCS  340  (which contains for example an 8-, 16-, or other bit CRC). In some examples, the FCS may contain a different CRC. For example, the FCS  340  may include a CRC-16 FCS, which may include a degree 16 polynomial and corresponding computation(s), or a CRC-8 FCS, which may include a degree 8 polynomial and corresponding computation(s). In some examples, another CRC polynomial or computation may be used or provided. 
       FIG. 12  illustrates an example of further details of an exemplary structure of a PPDU of  FIG. 4  for communicating with a WUR device in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. In some examples, the WUR frame or PPDU  300 , as described above, may include the paged IDs or WIDs in the paged IDs field  331 . In some examples, the paged IDs field  331  may include information regarding the one or more STAs to which the PPDU  300  applies or is addressed. For example, when the PPDU  300  is a unicast frame or of constant length, the PPDU  300  need not include information regarding the one or more STAs to which the PPDU  300  applies or is addressed. When the PPDU  300  is a broadcast frame or of variable length, the PPDU  300  may include information regarding the one or more STAs to which the PPDU applies or is addressed. In some examples, the information may include one or more of a bitmap, and STA identifier list, etc. As shown, the paged IDs field  331  may include STA identifiers for three STAs in paged ID 1 field  1201   a , paged ID 2 field  1201   b , and paged ID 3 field  1201   n.    
     In some examples, when the payload or frame body portion  330  of the PPDU  300  includes an address field (e.g., address field  912 ) set to zero, the payload or frame body portion  330  may include the multiple paged identifiers (e.g., paged IDs  1201   a - 1201   n ) for STAs for which the PPDU  300  is intended and/or directed. For example, in a variable-length, broadcast or multicast WUR wake up frame with a payload or frame body portion  330 , each receiving STA may determine that the payload or frame body portion  330  includes one or more paged IDs in the paged ID field  331  (e.g., the paged IDs  1201   a - 1201   n ) and may parse the WUR wake up frame to determine whether the PPDU  300  applies to or is directed to the receiving STA based on the identifiers in the paged ID field  331 . In some examples, the STA identifiers in the paged IDs field  331  (e.g., paged IDs  1201   a - 1201   n ) may be in a preselected order. In such examples, each STA receiving the PPDU  300  may parse the entire payload or frame body portion  330  to determine if the PPDU  300  is directed to or applies to the STA, even though the PPDU  300  is likely intended for only a small subset of the receiving STAs. 
     In some examples, as described herein, the STA identifiers may be listed in increasing order. In some examples, the STA identifiers maybe listed in decreasing order. In such an example, the receiving STAs may be provided with a simple method of discarding frames not intended for or applying to them with minimal or reduced processing as compared when the STA identifiers in the paged IDs field  331  are not arranged in a deterministic or preselected order. For example, when the paged IDs are listed in increasing order, each receiving STA may parse the paged IDs field  331  and, if the parsed paged ID in the paged ID field  331  is greater than the ID of the STA, the STA may discard or drop the PPDU  300  because each of the remaining IDs in the paged ID field  331  will be greater than the ID of the STA and the PPDU  300  will not apply to or be directed to the STA. Thus, by utilizing deterministic or preselected ordering schemes of the paged IDs  1201   a - 1201   n  in the paged ID field  331 , receiving STAs may be provided with a mechanism for discarding or dropping PPDUs  300  generated by non-associated APs that are not intended for or directed to those STAs. Accordingly, the STAs that drop the PPDUs  300  may re-synchronize with concurrent WUR frames generated by the AP with which the STAs are associated. This also allows the STAs to refrain from processing frames generated by an AP that are intended for other STAs, thereby reducing power consumption by providing a mechanism for early termination of the receiving and processing of such multicast, variable-length Wake-Up WURs. 
     In some examples, WUR APs  104  that generate multicast, variable-length WUR frames may order a list of paged IDs  1201   a - 1201   n  in the paged ID field  331  in increasing order. In some examples, WUR APs  104  may utilize such increasing order in other multicast or variable-length WURs that include a list of paged IDs  1201   a - 1201   n . Accordingly, receiving STAs may discard or drop the received wake up WUR frame (or other WUR frame) when the STA identifies a paged ID  1201  that is greater than its own ID without finding its ID in the paged IDs field  331  or immediately after locating the last paged ID  1201   a - 1201   n  in the paged IDs field  331  and the paged ID  1201   a - 1201   n  is less than the ID of the receiving STA. 
       FIG. 13  illustrates an example of further details of an exemplary structure of paged IDs field of a PPDU of  FIG. 12  for communicating with a WUR device in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. In some examples, the payload or frame body portion  330  may only include the paged IDs field  331  or the paged IDs  1201  in the frame body  330 . In some examples, the payload or frame body portion  330  may include paged IDs field  331  or the paged IDs  1201  in the payload or frame body portion  330  along with control/misc. information  332 . Three optional examples of the paged ID structure  1300  of the payload or frame body portion  330  are included as  1300   a ,  1300   b , and  1300   c.    
     In a first option for the paged ID structure  1300   a , the payload or frame body portion  330  includes the paged IDs  1201  (e.g., paged ID  1201   a ) which has a length of 8 bits. A paged ID  1201   a  of 8-bit length may be sufficient to identify up to 256 unique STAs. In some examples, up to 4096 stations may be indicated by utilizing the address field (having a length of 12 bits) and its MSBs (or another quantity of MSBs) in conjunction with the paged IDs  1201  in the paged IDs field  331 . For example, when the address fields include 12 bits, the 4 MSBs of the address field may be used with or in conjunction with the paged IDs  1201  to identify a specific STA. In some examples, the first listed STA for which the WUR frame is directed or to which the WUR frame applies may be identified in an address field of the PPDU  300 . All additional STAs to which the WUR frame is directed or to which the WUR frame applies may be identified in the paged IDs field  331 . When parsing the received WUR frame, a STA may determine whether or not the ID in the address field of the received WUR frame matches the ID of the STA. When the ID in the address field does match the ID of the STA, the STA continues parsing the received WUR frame through the FCS. When the ID in the address field does not match the ID of the STA, the STA determines whether the 4 MSBs of the ID in the address field match the 4 MSBs of the ID of the STA. If they do match, then the STA continues parsing the WUR frame to determine if the IDs listed in the paged IDs field  331  include the ID of the STA to determine whether the WUR frame is applied to or directed to the STA, as described herein. If the 4 MSBs do not match, then the STA may discard the received WUR frame. One skilled in the art may appreciate that this procedure may be applicable to any combination of address field and paged IDs field  331  lengths, wherein the address field or the address identified in the address field has a length that is greater than or equal to a corresponding length of the paged ID  1201  in the paged IDs field or the paged IDs field itself and wherein the number of MSBs is equal to a difference of the size or length of the address field and the size or length of one of the paged IDs field  331 . For example, if the address field is 16 bits in length and the paged IDs field is 10 bits, then 6 MSBs are to be compared (16−10=6 MSBs). In some examples, more than 256 unique STAs may be identified using orthogonal scheduling, as described herein. Such scheduling may allow use of the smaller, 8-bit length paged ID  1201  while avoiding waking of unintended STAs, thereby reducing field size and potential overhead. However, some flexibility and may be lost as compared to being able to uniquely identify each STA. 
     In a second option for the paged ID structure (e.g., paged ID structure  1300   b ), the payload or frame body portion  330  includes the paged IDs  1201  (e.g., paged ID  1201   b ) which has a length of 16-bits. A paged ID  1201   b  of 16-bit length may include a 12-bit ID field or portion  1310  and a 4-bit miscellaneous field or portion  1315 . The 12-bit ID field  1310  may be sufficient to uniquely identify 2048 STAs. Such a structure may allow the WUR to utilize the same or similar signaling as the main radio and provides for additional flexibility as compared to the single octet of option  1300   a . Additionally, the larger 16-bit structure may provide for communication of extra control information between the STA and the AP with a potential cost of increased overhead as compared to option  1300   a.    
     In a third option for the paged ID structure (e.g., paged ID structure  1300   c ), the payload or frame body portion  330  includes the paged IDs  1201   a - 1201   n  and a miscellaneous field  1320 . In this option, each of the paged IDs  1201   a ,  1201   b , and  1201   n  may be listed adjacently (e.g., contiguously or back-to-back) in the payload or frame body portion  330 , where the payload or frame body portion  330  has a length that is a multiple of 8. Accordingly, the paged IDs  1201   a ,  1201   b , and  1201   n  may have any length (e.g., 8-bits, 12-bits, etc.) and the payload or frame body portion y  330  will be filled or padded with additional bits to obtain a total length that is a multiple of 8. The padding or additional bits may include vendor specific bits, bits used for additional FCS, control bits, miscellaneous bits, etc. Such an arrangement may maximize a number of identifiers included in the frame body while maintaining the constraints on the payload or frame body portion  330 . In some examples, the paged IDs  1201   a - 1201   n  may be of mixed length (e.g., mix of 8-bits, 12-bits, 16-bits, etc.) when such mixing of lengths is indicated in the PPDU  300 . 
     In some examples, the payload or frame body portion  330  may have a maximum length of 8 or 16 octets. Accordingly, with option  1300   a , up to 8 WUR STAs (8-octets) or 16 WUR STAs (16-octets) may be paged with a single wake up WUR frame. With option  1300   b , up to 4 WUR STAs (8-octets) or 8 WUR STAs (16-octets) may be paged with a single wake up WUR frame. 
     In some examples, the payload or frame body portion  330  may include one or more paged IDs, where each paged ID contains a single 8-bit identifier (e.g., option  1300   a ), where the 8-bit identifier is equal to the 8 LSBs of the recipient STA identifier. In some examples, the payload or frame body portion  330  may include one or more paged IDs (e.g., option  1300   b ), where each paged ID contains a 12-bit identifier  1310  and a 4-bit miscellaneous field  1315 , where the 12-bit identifier  1310  is equal to the recipient STA identifier. 
       FIG. 14  illustrates an example of details of an exemplary WUR frame indicating an embedded basic service set identifier (BSSID) field and of an exemplary WUR frame not indicating the embedded BSSID field that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. In some examples, the WUR frame  1400   a  includes the frame control field  910 , the address field  912 , the TSD/TD control field  914 , the payload or frame body portion  330 , an embedded BSSID field  1410 , and the FCS field  340 . The WUR frame  1400   b  includes the frame control field  910 , the address field  912 , the TSD/TD control field  914 , the payload or frame body portion  330 , and the FCS field  340  without the embedded BSSID field  1410  explicitly included in the WUR frame  1400   b.    
     In some examples, the FCS field  340  may include a 16-bit CRC and the FCS may be calculated over the frame control field  910 , the address field  912 , the TSD/TD control field  914 , the payload or frame body portion  330 , and the embedded BSSID field  1410  shown in WUR frame  1400   a . In some examples, the frame control field  910 , the address field  912 , the TSD/TD control field  914 , the payload or frame body portion  330 , and the embedded BSSID field  1410  may be referred to as calculation fields. In some examples, as discussed herein, the payload or frame body portion  330  may be optional, for example, may only be included in the WUR frame  1400   a  when the WUR frame  1400   a  is variable length. Otherwise, the payload or frame body portion  330  may not be included in the WUR frame  1400   a . Similarly, the embedded BSSID field  1410  may only be included in the WUR frame  1400   a  for WUR frames that are not WUR discovery frames (e.g., may only be present in post-association WUR frames). For WUR discovery frames, the embedded BSSID field  1410  may not be included in the WUR frame  1400   a . In some examples, the embedded BSSID field  1410  may be the last field, sequentially, in the calculation fields. 
     In some examples, when the embedded BSSID field  1410  is not included in the WUR frame  1400   b , the embedded BSSID may be obtained from a recent WUR Mode element or a recent WUR Operation element transmitted by the AP  104  to the STA  106 . In some examples the embedded BSSID field  1410  may be obtained from a hash of a BSSID field contained in the WUR Mode element or the WUR Operation element. The AP  104  may include the WUR Operation element in either individually addressed management frames sent to the STA  106  (if the AP  104  wants these frames to be decodable only by the STA  106 , for example, by using an embedded BSSID or BSSID field only known by the STA  106  and providing this information to the STA  106  in an encrypted management frame), or in broadcast management frames (e.g., Beacon, broadcast Probe Response, etc.) so that all STAs  106  that are associated to it, or that intend to associate with the AP  104  are aware of the embedded BSSID or the BSSID from which they can derive the embedded BSSID. The embedded BSSID may comprise, for example, 16 bits randomly selected by the AP  104  from the BSSID that identifies the BSS with which the receive STA  106  is associated or from the BSSID that identifies a non-transmitting BSS when the BSS with which the STA  106  is associated belongs to a multiple BSSID set and the BSSID is not the transmitting BSSID. In some examples, the AP  104  may select any value of 16-bits for the BSSID provided that the selected value is different from all other BSSs in the neighborhood. The AP  104  may request that the STAs  106  provide a reporting or listing of BSSIDs they see in their respective neighborhoods. Alternatively, the STAs  106  may report the observed BSSIDs without prompting by the AP  104 . In some examples, the reporting or listing of BSSIDs may utilize a mechanism similar to BSS color collision reports. 
     In some examples, when the embedded BSSID field  1410  is not included in the WUR frame  1400   b , the embedded BSSID may be obtained from the lowest significant bits (LSBs) of the BSSID. For example, the embedded BSSID may be the 16 LSBs (e.g., BSSID[32:47]) of the BSSID that identifies the BSS with which the STA  106  is associated. Alternatively, these 16 LSBs BSSID[32:47] are from the BSSID that identifies the transmitting BSS when the BSS with which the STA  106  is associated belongs to a multiple BSSID set. 
     In some examples, when the embedded BSSID field  1410  is not included in the WUR frame  1400   b , the embedded BSSID may be a 16-bit field obtained by default from XORing the BSSID. For example, the embedded BSSID may be the 16 bits equal to a result of BSSID[0:15] XOR BSSID[16:31] XOR BSSID[32:47] of the BSSID that identifies the BSS with which the STA  106  is associated. Alternatively, the embedded BSSID is from the BSSID, XORed as described above, that identifies the transmitting BSS when the BSS with which the STA  106  is associated belongs to a multiple BSSID set. 
     In some examples, when the embedded BSSID field  1410  is not included in the WUR frame  1400   b , the embedded BSSID may be obtained from a 48-bit BSSID. For example, the 48-bit BSSID may identify the BSS with which the STA  106  is associated. Alternatively, the 48-bit BSSID IS from the BSSID that identifies the transmitting BSS when the BSS with which the STA  106  is associated belongs to a multiple BSSID set. 
     In some examples, the calculation fields are processed according to the order in which they are transmitted. In some examples, the embedded BSSID may not be present as an independent field in the transmitted WUR frame. For example, the embedded BSSID may be embedded in one or more other fields in the WUR frame that is actually transmitted. Thus, though the WUR frame  1400   a  shows the embedded BSSID as an explicit field  1410 , the embedded BSSID may actually be included in the calculation frames as part of, or embedded in, one or more of the fields that make up the calculation fields (e.g., the frame control field  910 , the address field  912 , the TSD/TD control field  914 , the payload or frame body portion  330 ). In some examples, the FCS  340  may comprise the is complement of the remainder generated by the modulo 2 division of the calculation fields by the corresponding 8, 24, or 32-bit polynomial. 
     In some examples, the FCS  340  may comprise a is compliment of a remainder generated by a modulo 2 division of the calculation fields by the polynomial x 16 +x 8 +x 5 +1, where a shift-register state is preset to all 1 s. 
       FIG. 15  illustrates an example of details of an exemplary processing flow for calculating an FCS that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. As shown, a CRC-16 implementation includes a serial data input. In some examples, the serial data input may consist of the calculation fields ((B L , B L-1  . . . , B 1 , B 0 ), with B L  being the most significant bit of the calculation fields. In some examples, the CRC-16 implementation may be replaced with one of a CRC-8, CRC-24, CRC-32, and CRC-64 implementation. 
     In conveying addressing information to the WUR STA, the AP  104  may utilize mapping from the PCR, which may result in reduced memory consumption and processing as the information for the PCR is already known to the WUR STA. Additionally, the AP  104  may maintain one or more of the following identifiers in certain examples: (1) the BSSID of the BSS, which may have a length of 6 Bytes in certain examples; (2) N−1 other BSSIDs that include non-transmitted BSSIDs, where N equals a total number of BSSIDs including the BSSID of the AP  104  and the non-transmitted BSSIDs in a neighborhood of the AP  104 ; and (3) AIDs for each of the WUR STAB that is associated with (or intends to associate with) the AP  104 , each AID having a length of 12 bits in certain examples. Additionally, the AP  104  may maintain a TIM bitmap that identifies one or more of: (1) an existence of broadcast buffer unit (BU) delivery for WUR STAs (bit 0); (2) an existence of broadcast BU delivery for at least one non-transmitted BSSID (bits 1 to n−1); and (3) an existence of individual BUs for each WUR STA (bit AID), in certain examples. 
     All WUR STAs may maintain each of these identifiers when the PCR of the corresponding WUR STA is activate (e.g., not in a power save mode). In some examples, power saving mechanisms in the PCR may heavily rely on these indications to deliver BUs to the power saving WUR STAs. Furthermore, the WUR STAs, while maintaining as few identifiers as possible, may maintain: (1) the Transmit ID (of length 12 bits), which has a conceptual equivalency with bit 0 of a traffic indication mapping (TIM) bitmap; (2) the Wake Up ID (of length 12 bits), which has a conceptual equivalency with bit(s) equal to the AID of the WUR STA of the TIM bitmap; and (3) the Group ID (of length 12 bits), which has a conceptual equivalency with bits (1 to n−1) of the TIM bitmap. In some examples, the WUR STAs may maintain identifiers for multiple Group IDs. 
       FIG. 16  illustrates an example of an exemplary mapping of a TIM between a primary connecting radio (PCR) and the WUR that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. In some examples, the BSSID of the PCR may be mapped to the WUR at bit 0 as the transmitter identifier (Transmit ID 0). The AID (AID n-AID m) of the PCR may be mapped to the WUR as the Wake-Up ID of the WUR STA (WID n-WID m). The BSSID may be embedded after the 2048 bits of the PCR to WUR mapping shown in the map  1600 . 
       FIG. 17  illustrates an example of an exemplary mapping of a TIM between a PCR and the WUR that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. In some examples, the TIM  1700  may include the BSSID of the PCR mapped to the WUR at bit 0, the AID of the PCR mapped to the WUR as the WID of the WUR STA, and the embedded BSSID after the 2048 of the PCR to WUR mapping shown in the map  1700 . However, the map  1700  shows that the bits 2048 of the PCR to WUR mapping may be hashed using the BSSID, which may result in the assignments between the PCR and the WUR to be randomized. In some examples, the hash function may comprise an XOR of different portions of the BSSID with the PCR mapping. 
     Such hashing may provide for use of the PCR to WUR mapping similar to that of map  1600  without (or with reduced) additional memory requirements and communication changes regarding additional identifier elements as compared to if hashing is not used. Furthermore, such hashing as described herein and depicted in map  1700  may provide for a reduction in memory requirements for a WUR STA to store its Transmit ID and Wake Up ID (e.g., using at most 3 octets and up to eight additional bits of multiple BSSIDs are used). Such hashing may also provide for a reduction in memory requirements for the WUR STA to store values for Group IDs (e.g., using 12 bits for each Group ID, unless the Group IDs are contiguously spaced, which may provide for further reduction in memory requirements, as described herein). Furthermore, randomly distributing the assignments in the PCR to WUR mapping may provide for early packet filtering and reduced collisions, among other benefits. 
     When performing the hashing functions and XORing the PCR TIM with the BSSID to generate the WUR TIM, the AP  104  may generate the identifiers described herein according to the following: The Transmit ID may be generated as being equal to: (1) 12 bits of the BSSID (e.g., BSSID[36:47]) and (2) 12 bits of the BSSID as XORed with other 12-bit blocks of the BSSID (e.g., BSSID[0:11] XOR BSSID[12:23] XOR BSSID[24:35] XOR BSSID [36:47]). In some examples, the Wake-Up ID may be generated based on the AID of the WUR STA and the Transmit ID (e.g., (AID+Transmit ID) mod 212). In some examples, the Group ID may be generated based on the Transmit ID (e.g., Transmit ID n=(n+Transmit ID) mod 212, where n is a maximum number of BSSs identified the TIM bitmap (including both the non-transmitted BSSID and transmitted BSSID) and Group ID=(m+Transmit ID) mod 212, where m is the highest AID that the AP  104  assigned to a WUR STA). In some examples, when the hashing function that generates the Transmit, Wake Up, and Group IDs as described herein is applied to the embedded BSSID, the embedded BSSID may be equal to: (1) 16 bits of the BSSID (e.g., BSSID[20:35] and (2) 16 bits of the BSSID as XORed with other 16-bit blocks of the BSSID (e.g., BSSID[0:15] XOR BSSID[16:31] XOR BSSID[32:47]). In the described examples, the BSSID may correspond to the AID of the transmitting AP  104  unless the AP advertises an alternative WUR BSSID in a transmitted WUR element (e.g., the WUR Mode element or the WUR Operation element). 
     Accordingly, when the WUR STA is operating in WUR mode, the WUR STA may store the Transmit ID (having a 12-bit length), the Wake-Up ID (having a length of up to 12 bits), and the Embedded BSSID (having a 16-bit length). Alternatively, or additionally, the WUR STA may store these IDs plus multiple BSSIDs using an additional 3 bits to identify a non-transmitted BSSID. In some examples, the WUR STA may store Group IDs. When the Group IDs are included, the AP may allocate the Group IDs in a contiguous ID space that can be identified by a Start ID+a Group Bitmap (thus, having a total size of 12 bits plus a size of the bitmap). In such examples, the WUR STA may declare the bitmap size that the WUR STA supports. 
     In some examples, the AP  104  may determine that its BSSID (and the corresponding embedded BSSID) each match with corresponding BSSID and embedded BSSID of another AP in the same neighborhood (e.g., an OBSS AP). In such an example, the AP  104  may be configured to change its hashing function or hash value (e.g., the BSSID that is used in the XORing described herein). In some examples, the AP  104  may advertise an alternative WUR BSSID, for example, in the WUR Mode element or the WUR Operation element, as described herein. In some examples, such advertising of the alternative WUR BSSID may utilize 6 bytes of communication between the PCR and the WUR. Such advertising may indicate that the WUR BSSID is to be used in the XOR hashing function between the PCR and the WUR mapping instead of the BSSID that the AP  104  employs for hashing. In some examples, the AP  104  may change its hashing function altogether (e.g., change the XOR function to Walsh-Hadamard or any other hashing function, or a random selection of 12-bits from the BSSID). Such a change in the hashing function may result in an increase of computation logics as compared to the XORing described herein but may not require a change in the BSSID as used in the hashing function. 
     In some examples, the AP  104  and WUR STAs may use a CRC computation as the hashing function for obtaining one or more of the Transmit ID and/or embedded BSSID. In such examples, the AP  104  and the WUR STAs may use at least a portion of a 32-bit CRC calculated over the BSSID (where the calculation may be performed based on Equation 1 or as described herein, where the BSSID is the calculation fields) to generate the Transmit ID and another portion to generate the embedded BSSID. As an example, the 16 LSBs of the calculated 32-bit CRC can be used as the embedded BSSID and the 12 MSBs can be used as the Transmit ID. In some examples, since the CRC contains 32 bits and 12 bits (e.g., the 12 MSBs or the 12 LSBs) of the 32 bits may be used for the Transmit ID, the embedded BSSID can be constructed to be 20 bits in size and to contain the remaining bits of the CRC (e.g., the 20 LSBs or the 20 MSBs). In general, the bits used for the Transmit ID and for the embedded BSSID may be obtained from any bit location provided that the bits used for the Transmit ID are not used for the embedded BSSID and vice-versa. For example, in some examples, bits used for the Transmit ID may not overlap those bits used for the embedded BSSID. 
     In some examples, the AP  104  and/or the WUR STA may request that communications between the AP  104  and the WUR STA be private. Accordingly, the AP  104  and the WUR STA may authenticate communications using a key known only to the AP  104  and the WUR STA (and, in certain examples, other STAs associated with the AP  104 ). Once the communications between the AP  104  and the WUR STA are authenticated, the WUR STA may request private communications. In response, the AP  104  may transmit the BSSID (or the AID of the AP  104  or a hash function) to the WUR STA in an encrypted frame such that only STAs  106  that are associated with the AP  104  are able to identify the BSSID (or AID or hash function) used in the hashing between the AP  104  and the WUR STA. Accordingly, only WUR STAs associated with the AP  104  are able to figure out communications between the AP  104  and the WUR STA that requests private communications, which may result in hiding of history from other STAs. 
       FIG. 18  shows a block diagram  1800  of a device  1805  that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. The device  1805  may be an example of aspects of an AP (or other transmitting wireless device) as described herein. The device  1805  may include a receiver  1810 , a WUR addressing manager  1815 , and a transmitter  1820 . The device  1805  may also include a processor. Each of these components may be in communication with one another (e.g., via one or more buses). 
     The receiver  1810  may receive information such as packets, user data, or control information associated with various information channels (e.g., control channels, data channels, and information related to addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications, etc.). Information may be passed on to other components of the device. The receiver  1810  may be an example of aspects of the transceiver  2120  described with reference to  FIG. 21 . The receiver  1810  may utilize a single antenna or a set of antennas. 
     The WUR addressing manager  1815  may identify one or more receiving wireless devices for which to send a WUR frame, obtain a BSSID for the AP that is associated with (or intends to be associated with) the one or more receiving wireless devices, the BSSID being known by the one or more receiving wireless devices, perform a hashing function to the BSSID to obtain a hashed BSSID, use a first portion of the hashed BSSID as a first identifier, generate the WUR frame for transmission with an address identifier field that includes either the first identifier or a second identifier, wherein the second identifier is based at least in part on the first identifier, and transmit the WUR frame to the one or more receiving wireless devices. The WUR addressing manager  1815  may be an example of aspects of the WUR addressing manager  2110  described herein. 
     The WUR addressing manager  1815 , or its sub-components, may be implemented in hardware, code (e.g., software or firmware) executed by a processor, or any combination thereof. If implemented in code executed by a processor, the functions of the WUR addressing manager  1815 , or its sub-components may be executed by a general-purpose processor, a DSP, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a FPGA or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components, or any combination thereof designed to perform the functions described in the present disclosure. 
     The WUR addressing manager  1815 , or its sub-components, may be physically located at various positions, including being distributed such that portions of functions are implemented at different physical locations by one or more physical components. In some examples, the WUR addressing manager  1815 , or its sub-components, may be a separate and distinct component in accordance with various aspects of the present disclosure. In some examples, the WUR addressing manager  1815 , or its sub-components, may be combined with one or more other hardware components, including but not limited to an input/output (I/O) component, a transceiver, a network server, another computing device, one or more other components described in the present disclosure, or a combination thereof in accordance with various aspects of the present disclosure. 
     The transmitter  1820  may transmit signals generated by other components of the device. In some examples, the transmitter  1820  may be collocated with a receiver  1810  in a transceiver module. For example, the transmitter  1820  may be an example of aspects of the transceiver  2120  described with reference to  FIG. 21 . The transmitter  1820  may utilize a single antenna or a set of antennas. 
       FIG. 19  shows a block diagram  1900  of a device  1905  that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. The device  1905  may be an example of aspects of a device  1805  or an AP  115  (or other transmitting wireless device) as described herein. The device  1905  may include a receiver  1910 , a WUR addressing manager  1915 , and a transmitter  1950 . The device  1905  may also include a processor. Each of these components may be in communication with one another (e.g., via one or more buses). 
     The receiver  1910  may receive information such as packets, user data, or control information associated with various information channels (e.g., control channels, data channels, and information related to addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications, etc.). Information may be passed on to other components of the device. The receiver  1910  may be an example of aspects of the transceiver  2120  described with reference to  FIG. 21 . The receiver  1910  may utilize a single antenna or a set of antennas. 
     The WUR addressing manager  1915  may be an example of aspects of the WUR addressing manager  1815  as described herein. The WUR addressing manager  1915  may include a receiving device manager  1920 , a BSSID manager  1925 , a hashing manager  1930 , a hashing selection manager  1935 , a frame generation manager  1940 , and a frame transmission manager  1945 . The WUR addressing manager  1915  may be an example of aspects of the WUR addressing manager  2110  described herein. 
     The receiving device manager  1920  may identify one or more receiving wireless devices for which to send a WUR frame. The BSSID manager  1925  may obtain a BSSID for the AP that is associated with (or intends to be associated with) the one or more receiving wireless devices, the BSSID being known by the one or more receiving wireless devices. The hashing manager  1930  may perform a hashing function to the BSSID to obtain a hashed BSSID. The hashing selection manager  1935  may use a first portion of the hashed BSSID as a first identifier (e.g., a transmitter ID of device  1905 ). 
     The frame generation manager  1940  may generate the WUR frame for transmission with one of the first identifier or a second identifier (e.g., a wake up ID of a receiving wireless device, a group ID associated with multiple receiving wireless devices, or a non-transmitted BSSID associated with the neighborhood) that is based on the first identifier in an address identifier field of the WUR frame. The frame transmission manager  1945  may transmit the WUR frame to the one or more receiving wireless devices. 
     The transmitter  1950  may transmit signals generated by other components of the device. In some examples, the transmitter  1950  may be collocated with a receiver  1910  in a transceiver module. For example, the transmitter  1950  may be an example of aspects of the transceiver  2120  described with reference to  FIG. 21 . The transmitter  1950  may utilize a single antenna or a set of antennas. 
       FIG. 20  shows a block diagram  2000  of a WUR addressing manager  2005  that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. The WUR addressing manager  2005  may be an example of aspects of a WUR addressing manager  1815 , a WUR addressing manager  1915 , or a WUR addressing manager  2110  described herein. The WUR addressing manager  2005  may include a receiving device manager  2010 , a BSSID manager  2015 , a hashing manager  2020 , a hashing selection manager  2025 , a frame generation manager  2030 , a frame transmission manager  2035 , a FCS manager  2040 , a WUR identifier manager  2045 , a group identifier manager  2050 , and a non-transmitted BSSID manager  2055 . Each of these modules may communicate, directly or indirectly, with one another (e.g., via one or more buses). 
     The receiving device manager  2010  may identify one or more receiving wireless devices for which to send a WUR frame. The BSSID manager  2015  may obtain a BSSID for the AP that is associated with (or intends to be associated with) the one or more receiving wireless devices, the BSSID being known by the one or more receiving wireless devices. The hashing manager  2020  may perform a hashing function to the BSSID to obtain a hashed BSSID. In some examples, the hashing manager  2020  may calculate a CRC over the BSSID to obtain the hashed BSSID. In some cases, the BSSID is a calculation field used for calculating the CRC. In some cases, a polynomial associated with the CRC over the BSSID is a same polynomial as a polynomial used for a CRC computation for a transmission over a first radio transceiver different from a second radio transceiver used for transmitting the WUR frame The hashing selection manager  2025  may use a first portion of the hashed BSSID as a first identifier. In some examples, the hashing selection manager  2025  may use a second portion of the hashed BSSID as a third identifier. 
     The frame generation manager  2030  may generate the WUR frame for transmission with an address identifier field that includes either the first identifier or a second identifier, wherein the second identifier is based at least in part on the first identifier. In some examples, the frame generation manager  2030  may generate a WUR frame for transmission with the CRC value in an FCS field of the WUR frame. In some examples, the frame generation manager  2030  may generate a WUR frame for transmission with the MIC value in an FCS field of the WUR frame. In some examples, the frame generation manager  2030  may generate the WUR frame for transmission without the third identifier explicitly included in a field of the WUR frame. In some examples, the frame generation manager  2030  may generate a broadcast WUR frame for transmission with the first identifier in the address identifier field. In some examples, the frame generation manager  2030  may generate a variable-length WUR frame for transmission with the second identifier in the address identifier field and a set of identifiers, each identifier of the set of identifiers associated a corresponding receiving wireless device of the one or more receiving wireless devices. In some cases, each identifier of the set of identifiers is listed in an order (e.g., a predefined order known by the receiving wireless devices) within the variable-length WUR frame. In some cases, each identifier of the set of identifiers may be listed in an increasing order. In some cases, each identifier of the set of identifiers may be listed in an decreasing order. The frame transmission manager  2035  may transmit the WUR frame to the one or more receiving wireless devices. 
     The FCS manager  2040  may calculate a CRC over a set of calculation fields that includes a field (e.g., an embedded BSSID field) with the third identifier to obtain to obtain a CRC value. In some cases, the set of calculation fields may also include the first or second identifier in the address identifier field (e.g., the first identifier when the WUR frame is a WUR Beacon frame or the second identifier when the WUR frame is a WUR Wake-Up frame). In some cases, the WUR frame may be generated for transmission with the CRC value in an FCS field of the WUR frame. In some cases, the WUR frame may be generated for transmission without the third identifier being explicitly included in a field of the WUR frame. In other words, the third identifier may be used in a field during the process of performing or calculating a CRC, but the third identifier is not expressly included in a field that is subsequently transmitted with the CRC value in the FCS field of the WUR frame. In some cases, the second portion of the hashed BSSID comprises a most significant bit portion of the hashed BSSID and a length of the second portion is 16 bits. In some examples, the FCS manager  2040  may perform or calculate a MIC over a set of calculation fields that includes a field (e.g., an embedded BSSID field) with the third identifier to obtain to obtain a MIC value. For example, the FCS type may be a MIC based at least in part on the WUR frame being a protected frame type. In some case, the techniques for calculating the MIC may be similar to the techniques for calculating the CRC. 
     The WUR identifier manager  2045  may calculate the second identifier using the first identifier and an association identifier of a receiving wireless device of the one or more receiving wireless devices. In some examples, the WUR identifier manager  2045  may perform a modulo operation on a summation of the first identifier and the association identifier of the receiving wireless device. 
     The group identifier manager  2050  may calculate the second identifier using the first identifier and a value that is greater than or equal to a number of basic services sets available to the one or more receiving wireless devices. In some examples, the group identifier manager  2050  may perform a modulo operation on a summation of the first identifier and the value (e.g., the value that is greater than or equal to the number of basic service sets available to the one or more receiving wireless devices). In some cases, the number of basic service sets is a maximum number of basic service sets identified in a TIM. In some examples, the group identifier manager  2050  may calculate the second identifier using the first identifier and a value greater than a highest association identifier of a receiving wireless device of the one or more receiving wireless devices. In some examples, the group identifier manager  2050  may perform a modulo operation on a summation of the first identifier and the value (e.g., the value that is greater than the highest association identifier of the receiving wireless device). The non-transmitted BSSID manager  2055  may calculate the second identifier using the first identifier and an indication of a non-transmitted BSSID. 
       FIG. 21  shows a diagram of a system  2100  including a device  2105  that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. The device  2105  may be an example of or include the components of device  1805 , device  1905 , or a AP as described herein. The device  2105  may include components for bi-directional voice and data communications including components for transmitting and receiving communications, including a WUR addressing manager  2110 , a network communications manager  2115 , a transceiver  2120 , an antenna  2125 , memory  2130 , a processor  2140 , and an inter-station communications manager  2145 . These components may be in electronic communication via one or more buses (e.g., bus  2150 ). 
     The WUR addressing manager  2110  may identify one or more receiving wireless devices for which to send a WUR frame, obtain a BSSID for the AP that is associated with (or intends to be associated with) the one or more receiving wireless devices, the BSSID being known by the one or more receiving wireless devices, perform a hashing function to the BSSID to obtain a hashed BSSID, use a first portion of the hashed BSSID as a first identifier, generate the WUR frame for transmission with an address identifier field that includes either the first identifier or a second identifier, wherein the second identifier is based at least in part on the first identifier, and transmit the WUR frame to the one or more receiving wireless devices. 
     The network communications manager  2115  may manage communications with the core network (e.g., via one or more wired backhaul links). For example, the network communications manager  2115  may manage the transfer of data communications for client devices, such as one or more UEs  115 . 
     The transceiver  2120  may communicate bi-directionally, via one or more antennas, wired, or wireless links as described above. For example, the transceiver  2120  may represent a wireless transceiver and may communicate bi-directionally with another wireless transceiver. The transceiver  2120  may also include a modem to modulate the packets and provide the modulated packets to the antennas for transmission, and to demodulate packets received from the antennas. 
     In some cases, the wireless device may include a single antenna  2125 . However, in some cases the device may have more than one antenna  2125 , which may be capable of concurrently transmitting or receiving multiple wireless transmissions. 
     The memory  2130  may include RAM and ROM. The memory  2130  may store computer-readable, computer-executable code  2135  including instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to perform various functions described herein. In some cases, the memory  2130  may contain, among other things, a BIOS which may control basic hardware or software operation such as the interaction with peripheral components or devices. 
     The processor  2140  may include an intelligent hardware device, (e.g., a general-purpose processor, a DSP, a CPU, a microcontroller, an ASIC, an FPGA, a programmable logic device, a discrete gate or transistor logic component, a discrete hardware component, or any combination thereof). In some cases, the processor  2140  may be configured to operate a memory array using a memory controller. In other cases, a memory controller may be integrated into processor  2140 . The processor  2140  may be configured to execute computer-readable instructions stored in a memory to perform various functions (e.g., functions or tasks supporting addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications). 
     The inter-station communications manager  2145  may manage communications with other base station  105  and may include a controller or scheduler for controlling communications with UEs  115  in cooperation with other base stations  105 . For example, the inter-station communications manager  2145  may coordinate scheduling for transmissions to UEs  115  for various interference mitigation techniques such as beamforming or joint transmission. In some examples, the inter-station communications manager  2145  may provide an X2 interface within an LTE/LTE-A wireless communication network technology to provide communication between base stations  105 . 
       FIG. 22  shows a flowchart illustrating a method  2200  that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. The operations of method  2200  may be implemented by an AP or its components as described herein. For example, the operations of method  2200  may be performed by a WUR addressing manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . In some examples, an AP may execute a set of instructions to control the functional elements of the AP to perform the functions described below. Additionally or alternatively, a AP may perform aspects of the functions described below using special-purpose hardware. 
     At  2205 , the AP may identify one or more receiving wireless devices for which to send a WUR frame. The operations of  2205  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2205  may be performed by a receiving device manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2210 , the AP may obtain a BSSID for the AP that is associated with (or intends to be associated with) the one or more receiving wireless devices, the BSSID being known by the one or more receiving wireless devices. The operations of  2210  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2210  may be performed by a BSSID manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2215 , the AP may perform a hashing function to the BSSID to obtain a hashed BSSID. The operations of  2215  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2215  may be performed by a hashing manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2220 , the AP may use a first portion of the hashed BSSID as a first identifier. The operations of  2220  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2220  may be performed by a hashing selection manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2225 , the AP may generate the WUR frame for transmission with an address identifier field that includes either the first identifier or a second identifier, wherein the second identifier is based at least in part on the first identifier. The operations of  2225  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2225  may be performed by a frame generation manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2230 , the AP may transmit the WUR frame to the one or more receiving wireless devices. The operations of  2230  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2230  may be performed by a frame transmission manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
       FIG. 23  shows a flowchart illustrating a method  2300  that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. The operations of method  2300  may be implemented by an AP or its components as described herein. For example, the operations of method  2300  may be performed by a WUR addressing manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . In some examples, an AP may execute a set of instructions to control the functional elements of the AP to perform the functions described below. Additionally or alternatively, a AP may perform aspects of the functions described below using special-purpose hardware. 
     At  2305 , the AP may identify one or more receiving wireless devices for which to send a WUR frame. The operations of  2305  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2305  may be performed by a receiving device manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2310 , the AP may obtain a BSSID for the AP that is associated with (or intends to be associated with) the one or more receiving wireless devices, the BSSID being known by the one or more receiving wireless devices. The operations of  2310  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2310  may be performed by a BSSID manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2315 , the AP may perform a hashing function to the BSSID to obtain a hashed BSSID. The operations of  2315  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2315  may be performed by a hashing manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2320 , the AP may use a first portion of the hashed BSSID as a first identifier. The operations of  2320  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2320  may be performed by a hashing selection manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2325 , the AP may use a second portion of the hashed BSSID as a third identifier. The operations of  2325  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2325  may be performed by a hashing selection manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2330 , the AP may calculate a CRC over a set of calculation fields that includes a field with the third identifier to obtain an CRC value. The operations of  2330  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2330  may be performed by an FCS manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2335 , the AP may generate the WUR frame for transmission with an address identifier field that includes either the first identifier or a second identifier, wherein the second identifier is based at least in part on the first identifier. Additionally or alternatively, the AP may generate the WUR frame for transmission with the CRC value in an FCS field of the WUR frame. The operations of  2335  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2335  may be performed by a frame generation manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2340 , the AP may transmit the WUR frame to the one or more receiving wireless devices. The operations of  2340  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2340  may be performed by a frame transmission manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
       FIG. 24  shows a flowchart illustrating a method  2400  that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. The operations of method  2400  may be implemented by an AP or its components as described herein. For example, the operations of method  2400  may be performed by a WUR addressing manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . In some examples, an AP may execute a set of instructions to control the functional elements of the AP to perform the functions described below. Additionally or alternatively, a AP may perform aspects of the functions described below using special-purpose hardware. 
     At  2405 , the AP may identify one or more receiving wireless devices for which to send a WUR frame. The operations of  2405  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2405  may be performed by a receiving device manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2410 , the AP may obtain a BSSID for the AP that is associated with (or intends to be associated with) the one or more receiving wireless devices, the BSSID being known by the one or more receiving wireless devices. The operations of  2410  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2410  may be performed by a BSSID manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2415 , the AP may perform a hashing function to the BSSID to obtain a hashed BSSID. The operations of  2415  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2415  may be performed by a hashing manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2420 , the AP may use a first portion of the hashed BSSID as a first identifier. The operations of  2420  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2420  may be performed by a hashing selection manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2425 , the AP may calculate the second identifier using the first identifier and an association identifier of a receiving wireless device of the one or more receiving wireless devices. The operations of  2425  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2425  may be performed by a WUR identifier manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2430 , the AP may generate the WUR frame for transmission with an address identifier field that includes either the first identifier or a second identifier, wherein the second identifier is based at least in part on the first identifier. For example, the AP may generate the WUR frame for transmission with the second identifier in the address identifier field. The operations of  2430  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2430  may be performed by a frame generation manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2435 , the AP may transmit the WUR frame to the one or more receiving wireless devices. The operations of  2435  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2435  may be performed by a frame transmission manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
       FIG. 25  shows a flowchart illustrating a method  2500  that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. The operations of method  2500  may be implemented by an AP or its components as described herein. For example, the operations of method  2500  may be performed by a WUR addressing manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . In some examples, an AP may execute a set of instructions to control the functional elements of the AP to perform the functions described below. Additionally or alternatively, a AP may perform aspects of the functions described below using special-purpose hardware. 
     At  2505 , the AP may identify one or more receiving wireless devices for which to send a WUR frame. The operations of  2505  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2505  may be performed by a receiving device manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2510 , the AP may obtain a BSSID for the AP that is associated with (or intends to be associated with) the one or more receiving wireless devices, the BSSID being known by the one or more receiving wireless devices. The operations of  2510  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2510  may be performed by a BSSID manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2515 , the AP may perform a hashing function to the BSSID to obtain a hashed BSSID. The operations of  2515  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2515  may be performed by a hashing manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2520 , the AP may use a first portion of the hashed BSSID as a first identifier. The operations of  2520  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2520  may be performed by a hashing selection manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2525 , the AP may calculate the second identifier using the first identifier and a value that is greater than or equal to a number of basic service sets available to the one or more receiving wireless devices. The operations of  2525  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2525  may be performed by a group identifier manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2530 , the AP may generate the WUR frame for transmission with an address identifier field that includes either the first identifier or a second identifier, wherein the second identifier is based at least in part on the first identifier. For example, the AP may generate the WUR frame for transmission with the second identifier in the address identifier field. The operations of  2530  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2530  may be performed by a frame generation manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2535 , the AP may transmit the WUR frame to the one or more receiving wireless devices. The operations of  2535  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2535  may be performed by a frame transmission manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
       FIG. 26  shows a flowchart illustrating a method  2600  that supports addressing for WUR frames in WUR device communications in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. The operations of method  2600  may be implemented by an AP or its components as described herein. For example, the operations of method  2600  may be performed by a WUR addressing manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . In some examples, an AP may execute a set of instructions to control the functional elements of the AP to perform the functions described below. Additionally or alternatively, a AP may perform aspects of the functions described below using special-purpose hardware. 
     At  2605 , the AP may identify one or more receiving wireless devices for which to send a WUR frame. The operations of  2605  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2605  may be performed by a receiving device manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2610 , the AP may obtain a BSSID for the AP that is associated with (or intends to be associated with) the one or more receiving wireless devices, the BSSID being known by the one or more receiving wireless devices. The operations of  2610  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2610  may be performed by a BSSID manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2615 , the AP may perform a hashing function to the BSSID to obtain a hashed BSSID. The operations of  2615  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2615  may be performed by a hashing manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2620 , the AP may use a first portion of the hashed BSSID as a first identifier. The operations of  2620  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2620  may be performed by a hashing selection manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2625 , the AP may calculate the second identifier using the first identifier and an indication of a non-transmitted BSSID. The operations of  2625  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2635  may be performed by a non-transmitted BSSID manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2630 , the AP may generate the WUR frame for transmission with an address identifier field that includes either the first identifier or a second identifier, wherein the second identifier is based at least in part on the first identifier. For example, the AP may generate the WUR frame for transmission with the second identifier in the address identifier field. The operations of  2630  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2630  may be performed by a frame generation manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     At  2635 , the AP may transmit the WUR frame to the one or more receiving wireless devices. The operations of  2635  may be performed according to the methods described herein. In some examples, aspects of the operations of  2635  may be performed by a frame transmission manager as described with reference to  FIGS. 18 through 21 . 
     It should be noted that the methods described herein describe possible implementations, and that the operations and the steps may be rearranged or otherwise modified and that other implementations are possible. Furthermore, aspects from two or more of the methods may be combined. 
     Techniques described herein may be used for various wireless communications systems such as code division multiple access (CDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), frequency division multiple access (FDMA), orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA), and other systems. The terms “system” and “network” are often used interchangeably. A code division multiple access (CDMA) system may implement a radio technology such as CDMA2000, Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA), etc. CDMA2000 covers IS-2000, IS-95, and IS-856 standards. IS-2000 Releases may be commonly referred to as CDMA2000 1×, 1×, etc. IS-856 (TIA-856) is commonly referred to as CDMA2000 1×EV-DO, High Rate Packet Data (HRPD), etc. UTRA includes Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) and other variants of CDMA. A time division multiple access (TDMA) system may implement a radio technology such as Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). An orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system may implement a radio technology such as Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), Evolved UTRA (E-UTRA), IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, Flash-OFDM, etc. 
     The wireless communications system or systems described herein may support synchronous or asynchronous operation. For synchronous operation, the stations may have similar frame timing, and transmissions from different stations may be approximately aligned in time. For asynchronous operation, the stations may have different frame timing, and transmissions from different stations may not be aligned in time. The techniques described herein may be used for either synchronous or asynchronous operations. 
     The description set forth herein, in connection with the appended drawings, describes example configurations and does not represent all the examples that may be implemented or that are within the scope of the claims. The term “exemplary” used herein means “serving as an example, instance, or illustration,” and not “preferred” or “advantageous over other examples.” The detailed description includes specific details for the purpose of providing an understanding of the described techniques. These techniques, however, may be practiced without these specific details. In some instances, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to avoid obscuring the concepts of the described examples. 
     In the appended figures, similar components or features may have the same reference label. Further, various components of the same type may be distinguished by following the reference label by a dash and a second label that distinguishes among the similar components. If just the first reference label is used in the specification, the description is applicable to any one of the similar components having the same first reference label irrespective of the second reference label. 
     Information and signals described herein may be represented using any of a variety of different technologies and techniques. For example, data, instructions, commands, information, signals, bits, symbols, and chips that may be referenced throughout the description may be represented by voltages, currents, electromagnetic waves, magnetic fields or particles, optical fields or particles, or any combination thereof. 
     The various illustrative blocks and modules described in connection with the disclosure herein may be implemented or performed with a general-purpose processor, a DSP, an ASIC, an FPGA or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components, or any combination thereof designed to perform the functions described herein. A general-purpose processor may be a microprocessor, but in the alternative, the processor may be any conventional processor, controller, microcontroller, or state machine. A processor may also be implemented as a combination of computing devices (e.g., a combination of a DSP and a microprocessor, multiple microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in conjunction with a DSP core, or any other such configuration). 
     The functions described herein may be implemented in hardware, software executed by a processor, firmware, or any combination thereof. If implemented in software executed by a processor, the functions may be stored on or transmitted over as one or more instructions or code on a computer-readable medium. Other examples and implementations are within the scope of the disclosure and appended claims. For example, due to the nature of software, functions described herein may be implemented using software executed by a processor, hardware, firmware, hardwiring, or combinations of any of these. Features implementing functions may also be physically located at various positions, including being distributed such that portions of functions are implemented at different physical locations. Also, as used herein, including in the claims, “or” as used in a list of items (e.g., a list of items prefaced by a phrase such as “at least one of” or “one or more of”) indicates an inclusive list such that, for example, a list of at least one of A, B, or C means A or B or C or AB or AC or BC or ABC (i.e., A and B and C). Also, as used herein, the phrase “based on” shall not be construed as a reference to a closed set of conditions. For example, an exemplary step that is described as “based on condition A” may be based on both a condition A and a condition B without departing from the scope of the present disclosure. In other words, as used herein, the phrase “based on” shall be construed in the same manner as the phrase “based at least in part on.” 
     Computer-readable media includes both non-transitory computer storage media and communication media including any medium that facilitates transfer of a computer program from one place to another. A non-transitory storage medium may be any available medium that can be accessed by a general purpose or special purpose computer. By way of example, and not limitation, non-transitory computer-readable media can comprise RAM, ROM, electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), compact disk (CD) ROM or other optical disk storage, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other non-transitory medium that can be used to carry or store desired program code means in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a general-purpose or special-purpose computer, or a general-purpose or special-purpose processor. Also, any connection is properly termed a computer-readable medium. For example, if the software is transmitted from a website, server, or other remote source using a coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twisted pair, digital subscriber line (DSL), or wireless technologies such as infrared, radio, and microwave, then the coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twisted pair, digital subscriber line (DSL), or wireless technologies such as infrared, radio, and microwave are included in the definition of medium. Disk and disc, as used herein, include CD, laser disc, optical disc, digital versatile disc (DVD), floppy disk and Blu-ray disc where disks usually reproduce data magnetically, while discs reproduce data optically with lasers. Combinations of the above are also included within the scope of computer-readable media. 
     The description herein is provided to enable a person skilled in the art to make or use the disclosure. Various modifications to the disclosure will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other variations without departing from the scope of the disclosure. Thus, the disclosure is not limited to the examples and designs described herein, but is to be accorded the broadest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.