Wireless device low power wake up

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10129064-B1
Application number	US-201715667574-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Aug 2, 2017
Priority date	Aug 2, 2016
Publication date	Nov 13, 2018
Grant date	Nov 13, 2018

Abstract

A wireless device generates a Legacy preamble, a 20 MHz Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, and a Wake-Up (WU) signal portion. The Legacy Preamble includes a Legacy Short Training Field (L-STF), a Legacy Long Training Field (L-LTF) and a Legacy Signal (L-SIG) field. The 20 MHz OFDM symbol has a duration of 4 μs. The WU signal portion has a frequency bandwidth that is narrower than a frequency bandwidth of the Legacy preamble. The wireless device transmits a frame, which includes transmitting the Legacy preamble, transmitting the 20 MHz OFDM symbol immediately after transmitting the Legacy preamble, and transmitting the WU signal portion immediately after transmitting the 20 MHz OFDM symbol.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method performed by a wireless device, the method comprising:
generating a Legacy preamble including a Legacy Short Training Field (L-STF), a Legacy Long Training Field (L-LTF) and a Legacy Signal (L-SIG) field;
generating a 20 MHz Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol having a duration of 4 μs;
generating a Wake-Up (WU) signal portion having a frequency bandwidth that is narrower than a frequency bandwidth of the Legacy preamble; and
transmitting a frame, including:
transmitting the Legacy preamble,
transmitting the 20 MHz OFDM symbol immediately after transmitting the Legacy preamble, and
transmitting the WU signal portion immediately after transmitting the 20 MHz OFDM symbol.

2. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the 20 MHz OFDM symbol is modulated with Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK).

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the OFDM symbol has a tone spacing of 312.5 kHz.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising transmitting the L-SIG field with extra tones not used to transmit the Legacy preamble.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the extra tones have indexes of −28, −27, 27, and 28.

6. The method of claim 4 , further comprising selecting the contents of the extra tones to reduce a Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) of the frame.

7. The method of claim 4 , wherein the contents of the extra tones are selected according to the contents of the L-SIG field.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining the contents of the L-SIG field according to a length of the frame.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the WU signal portion comprises:
generating WU signals, and
encoding a plurality of bits of the WU signals into a plurality of encoded bits to prevent long periods of zero transmission power during the transmission of the WU signals; and
wherein transmitting the WU signal portion comprises:
transmitting the plurality of encoded bits using On-Off Keying (OOK) immediately after transmitting the 20 MHz OFDM symbol.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein encoding the plurality of bits of the WU signal includes Manchester encoding the plurality of bits to produce the plurality of encoded bits.

11. The method of claim 9 ,
wherein transmitting the plurality of encoded bits using On-Off Keying (OOK) comprises:
transmitting the plurality of encoded bits by transmitting a plurality of OFDM symbols.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the 20 MHz OFDM symbol is a repeated cyclically-shifted L-SIG field corresponding to a repeated cyclically-shifted version of the L-SIG field.

13. The method of claim 12 ,
wherein the L-SIG field includes a Cyclic Prefix at the beginning of the L-SIG field,
wherein the repeated cyclically-shifted L-SIG field includes a Cyclic Prefix at the end of the repeated cyclically-shifted L-SIG field, and
wherein the Cyclic Prefix of the L-SIG field is the same as the Cyclic Prefix of the repeated cyclically-shifted L-SIG field.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the contents of the repeated cyclically-shifted L-SIG field, excluding the CP of the repeated cyclically-shifted L-SIG field, are the same as the contents of the L-SIG field excluding the CP of the L-SIG field.

15. A wireless device comprising:
a transmitter circuit,
wherein the wireless device is to:
generate a Legacy preamble including a Legacy Short Training Field (L-STF), a Legacy Long Training Field (L-LTF) and a Legacy Signal (L-SIG) field;
generate an 20 MHz Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol having a duration of 4 μs;
generating a Wake-Up (WU) signal portion having a frequency bandwidth that is narrower than a frequency bandwidth of the Legacy preamble; and
transmit a frame using the transmitter circuit, wherein transmitting the frame includes:
transmitting the Legacy preamble,
transmitting the 20 MHz OFDM symbol immediately after transmitting the Legacy preamble, and
transmitting the WU signal portion immediately after transmitting the 20 MHz OFDM symbol.

16. The wireless device of claim 15 ,
wherein the 20 MHz OFDM symbol is modulated with Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) and has a tone spacing of 312.5 kHz.

17. The wireless device of claim 15 , wherein transmitting the Legacy preamble comprises transmitting the L-SIG field with extra tones not used to transmit other portions of the Legacy preamble, and the extra tones have indexes of −28, −27, 27, and 28.

18. The wireless device of claim 15 ,
wherein generating the WU signal portion comprises:
generating WU signals; and
encoding a plurality of bits of the WU signals into a plurality of encoded bits to prevent long periods of zero transmission power during the transmission of the WU signals; and

wherein transmitting the WU signal portion comprises:
transmitting the plurality of encoded bits using On-Off Keying (OOK) immediately after transmitting the 20 MHz OFDM symbol.

19. The wireless device of claim 18 ,
wherein encoding the plurality of bits of the WU signal includes Manchester encoding the plurality of bits to produce the plurality of encoded bits, and
wherein transmitting the plurality of encoded bits using On-Off Keying (OOK) comprises transmitting the plurality of encoded bits by transmitting a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols.

20. The wireless device of claim 15 ,
wherein the 20 MHz OFDM symbol is a repeated cyclically-shifted L-SIG field corresponding to a repeated cyclically-shifted version of the L-SIG field,
wherein the L-SIG field includes a Cyclic Prefix (CP) at the beginning of the L-SIG field,
wherein the repeated cyclically-shifted L-SIG field includes a CP at the end of the repeated cyclically-shifted L-SIG field,
wherein the CP of the L-SIG field is the same as the CP of the repeated cyclically-shifted L-SIG field, and
wherein the contents of the repeated cyclically-shifted L-SIG field, excluding the CP of the repeated cyclically-shifted L-SIG field, are the same as the contents of the L-SIG field excluding the CP of the L-SIG field.

Assignees

• Newracom Inc

Inventors

• Lee Dae Won
• Noh Yujin

Classifications

• H04W52/0274

  by switching on or off the equipment or parts thereof · CPC title

• H04W52/0229

  where the received signal is a wanted signal · CPC title

• H04W52/0216

  using a pre-established activity schedule, e.g. traffic indication frame · CPC title

• H04L27/2607

  Cyclic extensions · CPC title

• H04W52/0235

  where the received signal is a power saving command · CPC title