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US9985740B2 - Apparatus, system and method of multi-user wireless communication - Google Patents
US9985740B2
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This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 14/749,848, filed Jun. 25, 2015 entitled “Apparatus, System and Method of Multi-User Wireless Communication”, which claims the benefit of and priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/154,902 entitled “Apparatus, System and Method of Multi-User Wireless Communication”, filed Apr. 30, 2015, the entire disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference.
Some embodiments may be used in conjunction with devices and/or networks operating in accordance with existing IEEE 802.11 standards (IEEE 802.11-2012, IEEE Standard for Information technology—Telecommunications and information exchange between systems Local and metropolitan area networks—Specific requirements Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications, Mar. 29, 2012; IEEE802.11ac-2013 (“IEEE P802.11ac-2013, IEEE Standard for Information Technology—Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications—Amendment 4: Enhancements for Very High Throughput for Operation in Bands below 6 GHz”, December, 2013); IEEE 802.11ad (“IEEE P802.11ad-2012, IEEE Standard for Information Technology—Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications—Amendment 3: Enhancements for Very High Throughput in the 60 GHz Band”, 28 December, 2012); IEEE-802.11REVmc (“IEEE 802.11-REVmc™/D3.0, June 2014 draft standard for Information technology—Telecommunications and information exchange between systems Local and metropolitan area networks Specific requirements; Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specification”); IEEE802.11-ay (P802.11ay Standard for Information Technology—Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Specific Requirements Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications—Amendment: Enhanced Throughput for Operation in License-Exempt Bands Above 45 GHz)) and/or future versions and/or derivatives thereof, devices and/or networks operating in accordance with existing Wireless-Gigabit-Alliance (WGA) specifications (Wireless Gigabit Alliance, Inc WiGig MAC and PHY Specification Version 1.1, April 2011, Final specification) and/or future versions and/or derivatives thereof, devices and/or networks operating in accordance with existing Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) Alliance (WFA) Peer-to-Peer (P2P) specifications (including “WiFi Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technical specification, version 1.5, Aug. 4, 2014”) and/or future versions and/or derivatives thereof, devices and/or networks operating in accordance with existing cellular specifications and/or protocols, e.g., 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) and/or future versions and/or derivatives thereof, units and/or devices which are part of the above networks, and the like.
generate an Extended Directional Multigigabit (EDMG) Multi-User (MU) Physical Layer Convergence Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) for a MU transmission, the PPDU comprising a header portion and a data portion, the data portion including a plurality of Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Units (MPDUs) in a plurality of Spatial Streams (SSs) and addressed to a plurality of wireless stations (STAB), wherein:
3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the EDMG-Header A immediately follows the legacy header.
4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication band includes a bonded channel including at least two 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz) channels.
5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the wireless communication band includes the bonded channel including a 4.32 GHz channel consisting of two 2.16 GHz channels.
6. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the wireless communication band includes the bonded channel including a 6.48 GHz channel consisting of three 2.16 GHz channels.
7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the non-legacy header includes MU-MIMO parameters including information relating to the SSs.
8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the information relating to the SSs includes information regarding a number of SSs.
9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the non-legacy header includes information relating to training sequences.
10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the EDMG MU PPDU includes:
11. The apparatus of claim 1, further including a processor, a radio and one or more directional antennas.
12. The apparatus of claim 11, further including an input unit and an output unit.
13. A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one computer processor, cause a wireless station to:
14. The product of claim 13, wherein the header portion comprises a sequence of bits, and wherein a bit of the sequence of bits is to have a first value to indicate the SC modulation scheme, and a second value to indicate the OFDM modulation scheme.
15. The product of claim 13, wherein the EDMG-Header A immediately follows the legacy header.
16. The product of claim 13, wherein the wireless communication band includes a bonded channel including at least two 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz) channels.
17. The product of claim 16, wherein the wireless communication band includes the bonded channel including a 4.32 GHz channel consisting of two 2.16 GHz channels.
18. The product of claim 16, wherein the wireless communication band includes the bonded channel including a 6.48 GHz channel consisting of three 2.16 GHz channels.
19. The product of claim 13, wherein the non-legacy header includes MU-MIMO parameters including information relating to a number of SSs and information relating to training sequences.
20. The product of claim 13, wherein the EDMG MU PPDU includes:
21. A method to be performed at a wireless device including:
generating an Extended Directional Multigigabit (EDMG) Multi-User (MU) Physical Layer Convergence Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) for a MU transmission, the PPDU comprising a header portion and a data portion, the data portion including a plurality of Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Units (MPDUs) in a plurality of Spatial Streams (SSs) and addressed to a plurality of wireless stations (STAB), wherein:
22. The method of claim 21, wherein the header portion comprises a sequence of bits, and wherein a bit of the sequence of bits is to have a first value to indicate the SC modulation scheme, and a second value to indicate the OFDM modulation scheme.
23. The method of claim 21, wherein the EDMG-Header A immediately follows the legacy header.
24. The method of claim 21, wherein the wireless communication band includes a bonded channel including at least two 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz) channels.
25. The method of claim 24, wherein the wireless communication band includes the bonded channel including a 4.32 GHz channel consisting of two 2.16 GHz channels.
26. The method of claim 24, wherein the wireless communication band includes the bonded channel including a 6.48 GHz channel consisting of three 2.16 GHz channels.
27. The method of claim 21, wherein the non-legacy header includes MU-MIMO parameters including information relating to a number of SSs and information relating to training sequences.
28. The method of claim 21, wherein the EDMG MU PPDU includes:
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