Methods and apparatus for wireless discovery location and ranging within a neighborhood aware network

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10334422-B2
Application number	US-201615172088-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 2, 2016
Priority date	Jun 15, 2015
Publication date	Jun 25, 2019
Grant date	Jun 25, 2019

Abstract

Methods and apparatus for wireless communication in a peer-to-peer network are described herein. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication apparatus is provided. The method includes transmitting during a discovery window, by a first device, a first service discovery frame (SDF) or other action frame to a second device, the first SDF or other action frame comprising ranging information for performing a ranging protocol. The method further includes performing the ranging protocol, by the first device, in accordance with the ranging information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of wireless communication in a neighbor aware network (NAN), comprising:
transmitting during a discovery window, by a first device, a first service discovery frame (SDF) or other action frame to a second device, the first SDF or other action frame comprising at least one attribute that includes ranging information, an indication of a time period outside the discovery window for performing a ranging protocol for determining a range between the first device and the second device, a ranging control field for indicating ranging parameters, a fine time measurement (FTM) parameters field for indicating FTM parameters, and a last move indication present field for indicating whether a last move indication field is present, the ranging control field including a reserved field, a service map present field for indicating whether a service map field is present, and an initiator ranging report field for indicating whether ranging results are requested by a responder device or will be transmitted to the responder device; and
performing the ranging protocol, by the first device, in accordance with the ranging information during the time period indicated in the first SDF or other action frame.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one attribute comprises a medium access control (MAC) address field for identifying a MAC address of a device performing the ranging protocol, a map control field for indicating an availability of a channel and of map control information, and an availability intervals bitmap field for indicating the time period.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the at least one attribute further comprises a service map field and a last move indication field.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the service map field indicates whether ranging is required for a service attribute in the first SDF or other action frame.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein indicating whether ranging is required comprises setting a bit in the service map field such that a bit position of the bit indicates a position of the service attribute for which ranging is required.

6. The method of claim 2 , wherein the ranging control field comprises an availability map field, an initiator/responder field, and a confirm/fail field.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the availability map field indicates whether the availability intervals bitmap field is present.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the initiator/responder field indicates whether the first device is an initiator or a responder.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the confirm/fail field indicates whether a ranging protocol is in process, is successful or fails.

10. The method of claim 6 , wherein the ranging control field further comprises a ranging result capable field.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein performing the ranging protocol comprises performing the ranging protocol without any service when the service map field is not present.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the ranging result capable field indicates whether the first device is capable of providing a ranging result to other devices.

13. The method of claim 2 , wherein the FTM parameters field comprises a burst duration field, a minimum delta FTM field, a FTMs per burst field, and a FTM format and bandwidth field.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ranging protocol comprises a fine time measurement (FTM) protocol.

15. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving a second SDF in response to the first SDF or other action frame, the second SDF or other action frame including ranging information and an indication of a time period outside the discovery window for performing a ranging protocol in accordance with the ranging information of the second SDF or other action frame.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the time period of the second SDF or other action frame is different than the time period in the first SDF or other action frame.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the ranging information of the second SDF or other action frame is different than the ranging information in the first SDF or other action frame.

18. The method of claim 15 , wherein the second SDF or other action frame further comprises a confirmation of the ranging information and the indicated time period in the first SDF or other action frame.

19. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one attribute comprises a ranging setup attribute.

20. A method of wireless communication in a neighbor aware network (NAN), comprising:
receiving during a discovery window, at a first device, a first service discovery frame (SDF) or other action frame from a second device, the first SDF or other action frame comprising ranging information;
transmitting during the discovery window, by the first device, a second SDF or other action frame to the first device in response to the first SDF or other action frame, the second SDF or other action frame comprising at least one attribute that includes ranging information, an indication of a time period outside the discovery window for performing a ranging protocol for determining a range between the first device and the second device in accordance with the ranging information, a ranging control field for indicating ranging parameters, a fine time measurement (FTM) parameters field for indicating FTM parameters, and a last move indication present field for indicating whether a last move indication field is present, the ranging control field including a reserved field, a service map present field for indicating whether a service map field is present, and an initiator ranging report field for indicating whether ranging results are requested by a responder device or will be transmitted to the responder device; and
performing the ranging protocol, by the first device, during the time period indicated in the second SDF or other action frame.

21. The method of claim 20 , wherein the first SDF or other action frame comprises an attribute that includes the ranging information.

22. The method of claim 20 , wherein the at least one attribute comprises a medium access control (MAC) address field for identifying a MAC address of a device performing the ranging protocol, a map control field for indicating an availability of a channel and of map control information, and an availability intervals bitmap field for indicating the time period.

23. The method of claim 22 , wherein the ranging control field comprises an availability map field, an initiator field, and a confirm/fail field.

24. The method of claim 22 , wherein the availability map field indicates whether the availability intervals bitmap field is present.

25. The method of claim 22 , wherein the initiator field indicates whether the first device is an initiator or a responder.

26. The method of claim 22 , wherein the confirm/fail field indicates whether a ranging protocol is in process, is successful or fails.

27. The method of claim 21 , wherein the FTM parameters field comprises a burst duration field, a minimum delta FTM field, a FTMs per burst field, and a FTM format and bandwidth field.

28. The method of claim 20 , wherein the ranging protocol comprises a fine time measurement (FTM) protocol.

29. The method of claim 20 , further comprising receiving a third SDF or other action frame in response to the second SDF or other action frame, the third SDF or other a

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Abraham Santosh Paul
• Raissinia Alireza
• Aldana Carlos Horacio
• Patil Abhishek Pramod
• Cherian George

Classifications

• H04L67/1068 Primary

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• H04L69/28

  Timers or timing mechanisms used in protocols · CPC title

• H04W28/18

  Negotiating wireless communication parameters · CPC title

• H04W4/025

  using location based information parameters · CPC title

• H04W84/12

  WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks] · CPC title