公开(公告)号：US11515982B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-29

申请号：US17096934

申请日：2020-11-12

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Bin Tian ,  Stephen Jay Shellhammer ,  Yanjun Sun ,  Alfred Asterjadhi

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W28/06 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for soliciting trigger-based (TB) physical layer protocol convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data units (PPDUs). Some implementations more specifically relate to trigger frame designs that support non-legacy TB PPDU formats. In some aspects, a trigger frame may carry information to be included in a physical layer (PHY) preamble of a TB PPDU solicited by the trigger frame. For example, the information may indicate values of one or more subfields of a universal signal field (U-SIG) associated with the non-legacy TB PPDU format. In some aspects, the information may be carried in a special user information field of the trigger frame. For example, the special user information field may be identified by a special association identifier (AID) value. The special AID value may be different than any AID values assigned to wireless communication devices in a basic service set (BSS) associated with the TB PPDU.

公开(公告)号：US11431539B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-30

申请号：US17145641

申请日：2021-01-11

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Alireza Raissinia ,  Bin Tian ,  Stephen Jay Shellhammer ,  Youhan Kim

IPC: H04L27/26 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H04L69/323

Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for improving the security of secure long training field (LTF) transmissions. In some implementations, a transmitting device may perform windowing on a secure LTF, in the frequency domain, so that the resulting time-domain LTF signal is difficult, if not impossible, to predict by any device that observes a portion of the LTF signal. In some aspects, the transmitting device may negotiate the windowing of secure LTFs with a receiving device based on fine timing measurement (FTM) negotiation frames exchanged at the start of an FTM procedure. In some other aspects, the transmitting device may dynamically or adaptively perform windowing on secure LTFs. In such aspects, the transmitting device may indicate whether windowing is performed on a secure LTF based on information carried in a signal field of a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) that includes the secure LTF.

公开(公告)号：US11363526B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-14

申请号：US17068509

申请日：2020-10-12

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Stephen Jay Shellhammer ,  Bin Tian ,  Lochan Verma

IPC: H04W52/02 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04L5/14 ,  H04L12/825 ,  H04L47/25 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for indicating a data rate of a packet. The transmitting device may select the data rate of a data field of the packet to be transmitted to the receiving device, and may select a pattern to embed within a preamble of the packet based on the selected data rate. In some implementations, the transmitting device may select a first structure including a first number of instances of a sequence or its logical complement if the selected data rate is a low data rate, and may select a second structure including a second number of instances of the sequence or its logical complement if the selected data rate is a high data rate.

公开(公告)号：US11272490B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-08

申请号：US16402492

申请日：2019-05-03

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Lochan Verma ,  Bin Tian ,  Sameer Vermani ,  Lin Yang

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04B7/0452 ,  H04L1/00

Abstract: Techniques for control signaling in extreme high throughput (EHT) environments are described. A message transmitted by an access point (AP) may allocate resources to a plurality of stations (STAs). The AP may be configured to allocate up to 320 MHz of total bandwidth or up to sixteen spatial streams to one or more STAs. In some multiple-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) cases, the spatial configuration field may include a starting spatial stream field and a spatial stream number field. In some non-MU-MIMO cases, the spatial configuration field may be expanded by one bit or more. In some cases, content channels of a resource unit (RU) allocation table may span a frequency segment of 40 MHz.

公开(公告)号：US11245501B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-08

申请号：US16559571

申请日：2019-09-03

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： George Cherian ,  Alfred Asterjadhi ,  Abhishek Pramod Patil ,  Sameer Vermani ,  Bin Tian ,  Stephen Jay Shellhammer ,  Lochan Verma ,  Lin Yang ,  Jialing Li Chen

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W88/08 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for coordination between multiple access points (APs) for communications within a transmission opportunity (TxOP). A first AP may gain channel access for a TxOP, and may coordinate with at least a second AP to allow both the first AP and the second AP to transmit and receive wireless communications during the TxOP. The first AP, upon gaining channel access following a successful contention-based channel access procedure, may initiate a scheduling phase with the second AP to schedule of resources within the TxOP for the first and second APs. The first AP may initiate a multi-AP coordinated transmission phase following the scheduling phase, during which both the first AP and second AP may communicate with one or more associated STAs.

公开(公告)号：US20220038241A1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-03

申请号：US17388344

申请日：2021-07-29

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Sameer VERMANI ,  Alfred Asterjadhi ,  Yanjun Sun ,  Bin Tian ,  Lin Yang ,  Jialing Li Chen ,  George Cherian ,  Youhan Kim

IPC: H04L5/00

Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for generating enhanced sounding packets. Some implementations more specifically relate to sounding packet designs that support enhancements to wireless communication protocols associated with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11be amendment, and future generations, of the IEEE 802.11 standard. In some implementations, an enhanced null data packet announcement (NDPA) frame may be configurable to support multiple versions of the IEEE 802.11 standard. For example, the enhanced NDPA frame may be configured in accordance with a legacy or a non-legacy NDPA frame format. In some other implementations, the enhanced NDPA frame may include a subfield carrying information identifying a particular basic service set (BSS) which may be associated with one or more STA information fields. Still further, in some implementations, an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) PPDU may include signaling to indicate whether the EHT PPDU is formatted as a sounding NDP.

公开(公告)号：US11206554B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-21

申请号：US16515978

申请日：2019-07-18

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Sameer Vermani ,  Bin Tian ,  Lin Yang

IPC: H04W16/28 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L25/02 ,  H04L1/16

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for concurrently transmitting beamformed data from each of a plurality of access points (APs) to a wireless station (STA). In some implementations, the plurality of APs may operate as a distributed antenna array, and carrier signals of the plurality of APs may be synchronized with each other. A beamforming steering matrix may be determined for each of the plurality of APs, and beamformed data may be concurrently transmitted from each of the plurality of APs to the STA based on corresponding ones of the plurality of beamforming steering matrices.

公开(公告)号：US20210359885A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-18

申请号：US17320221

申请日：2021-05-14

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Stephen Jay Shellhammer ,  Bin Tian ,  Sameer Vermani ,  Jialing Li Chen ,  Youhan Kim

IPC: H04L27/26

Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for wireless communication, and particularly, for generating or receiving a multi-generation physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU). The multi-generation PPDU may concurrently include a first generation-specific preamble based on a first generation of a wireless communication specification (such as that defined by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 family of standards) and a second generation-specific preamble based on a second generation of the wireless communication specification in a same transmission. The generation-specific preambles may be generated based on bandwidth portions of a wireless channel that each generation-specific preamble will occupy in the multi-generation PPDU. One or more of the generation-specific preambles may be modified based on an aggregate bandwidth of the multi-generation PPDU. This disclosure includes several options for modifying one or more generation-specific preambles or data fields to accommodate their use in a multi-generation PPDU.

公开(公告)号：US11171814B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-09

申请号：US16786890

申请日：2020-02-10

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Bin Tian ,  Lin Yang ,  Sameer Vermani

IPC: H04L25/02 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04B7/0452 ,  H04B7/0417

Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for providing channel feedback for multiple spatial streams. In some implementations, the techniques involve generating distinct channel estimates for different respective sets of orthogonal spatial streams. In some implementations, the orthogonality of the different sets of orthogonal spatial streams enables the beamformee to distinguish the spatial streams to provide the separate channel estimates. The beamformee may then determine separate correlations for the different respective sets of spatial streams. In some implementations, the beamformee combines the correlations to determine an average correlation for each of a number of sets of frequency tones. The beamformee may then perform an eigenvalue decomposition on a tone-by-tone basis based on the respective average correlation and the channel estimate obtained for the tone. Because the eigenvalue decomposition may be performed on each of the two sets of spatial streams separately, the complexity involved with performing each eigenvalue decomposition is greatly reduced.

公开(公告)号：US11165544B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-02

申请号：US16592689

申请日：2019-10-03

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Lochan Verma ,  Bin Tian ,  Sameer Vermani ,  Youhan Kim ,  Lin Yang

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04B7/0452 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for control signaling in next generation wireless local area network (WLAN) environments. A message transmitted by an access point may allocate resources to a plurality of stations. The access point may be configured to allocate up to 320 MHz of total bandwidth along with coarse punctures. The access point may also allocate up to eight space-time streams to each station in a multi-user multiple-input multiple output (MU-MIMO) transmission, and support simultaneous transmission to up to sixteen stations. To support 320 MHz bandwidth and up to sixteen stations, one or more signaling fields used in other environments may be repurposed to effectively signal the additional resources available in a next generation WLAN.