Apparatus and method used in WLANs

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12284637-B2
Application number	US-202117465899-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 3, 2021
Priority date	Sep 3, 2021
Publication date	Apr 22, 2025
Grant date	Apr 22, 2025

Abstract

The application relates to an apparatus and method used in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). The apparatus includes: a Radio Frequency (RF) interface; and processor circuitry coupled with the RF interface and configured to: generate an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) Physical Protocol Data Unit (PPDU); and provide the EHT PPDU to the RF interface for transmitting on a transmission bandwidth, wherein any of distributed Resource Units (dRUs) for transmitting a data portion of the EHT PPDU is associated with a whole or part of an EHT-Short Training Field (STF) sequence constituting the EHT PPDU, and any of the dRUs is a resource unit, subcarriers of which are distributed across one or more frequency sub-blocks within the transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT PPDU.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus, comprising:
a Radio Frequency (RF) interface; and
processor circuitry coupled with the RF interface and configured to:
generate an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) Physical Protocol Data Unit (PPDU); and
provide the EHT PPDU to the RF interface for transmitting on a transmission bandwidth, wherein
any of distributed Resource Units (dRUs) for transmitting a data portion of the EHT PPDU is associated with a whole or part of an EHT-Short Training Field (STF) sequence constituting the EHT PPDU,
any of the dRUs is a resource unit, subcarriers of which are distributed across one or more frequency sub-blocks within the transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT PPDU, and
when the transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT PPDU is 80 MHz and preamble puncturing is not applied, any of the dRUs is associated with the whole of the EHT-STF sequence.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein when the transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT PPDU is 20 MHz or 40 MHz, any of the dRUs is associated with the whole of the EHT-STF sequence.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein when the transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT PPDU is 80 MHz and preamble puncturing is applied, any of the dRUs is associated with an EHT-STF sequence segment, a subcarrier location of which is overlapped with that of the dRU within the transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT PPDU, of the EHT-STF sequence, and a transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT-STF sequence segment is a 20 MHz or 40 MHz.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein any of the dRUs is associated with an EHT-Long Training Field (LTF) sequence constituting the EHT PPDU and the EHT-LTF sequence is a 4× EHT-LTF sequence.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein for an EHT-LTF sequence segment, which is associated with any of the dRUs, of the EHT-LTF sequence, subcarriers for transmitting the EHT-LTF sequence segment have the same subcarrier indices as those corresponding to subcarriers of the dRU.

6. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein an EHT-LTF sequence segment associated with any of the dRUs is generated by sampling the EHT-LTF sequence with subcarrier indices of the dRU.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is used in an Access Point (AP) Station (STA) or a non-AP STA.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein when the apparatus is used in the non-AP STA and the EHT PPDU is used as a trigger based sounding frame, the EHT PPDU contains one or more capability bits to indicate a maximum supported rate in trigger based sounding feedback.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the trigger based sounding feedback is a Single-User (SU), Multi-User (MU), or Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) feedback.

10. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions thereon, the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
generate an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) Physical Protocol Data Unit (PPDU); and
provide the EHT PPDU to a Radio Frequency (RF) interface for transmitting on a transmission bandwidth, wherein
any of distributed Resource Units (dRUs) for transmitting a data portion of the EHT PPDU is associated with a whole or part of an EHT-Short Training Field (STF) sequence constituting the EHT PPDU,
any of the dRUs is a resource unit, subcarriers of which are distributed across one or more frequency sub-blocks within a transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT PPDU, and
when the transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT PPDU is 80 MHz and preamble puncturing is applied, any of the dRUs is associated with an EHT-STF sequence segment, a subcarrier location of which is overlapped with that of the dRU within the transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT PPDU, of the EHT-STF sequence, and a transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT-STF sequence segment is a 20 MHz or 40 MHz.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein when the transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT PPDU is 20 MHz or 40 MHz, any of the dRUs is associated with the whole of the EHT-STF sequence.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein when the transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT PPDU is 80 MHz and preamble puncturing is not applied, any of the dRUs is associated with the whole of the EHT-STF sequence.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein any of the dRUs is associated with an EHT-Long Training Field (LTF) sequence constituting the EHT PPDU and the EHT-LTF sequence is a 4× EHT-LTF sequence.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein for an EHT-LTF sequence segment, which is associated with any of the dRUs, of the EHT-LTF sequence, subcarriers for transmitting the EHT-LTF sequence segment have the same subcarrier indices as those corresponding to subcarriers of the dRU.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein an EHT-LTF sequence segment associated with any of the dRUs is generated by sampling the EHT-LTF sequence with subcarrier indices of the dRU.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein the computer readable storage medium is used in an Access Point (AP) Station (STA) or a non-AP STA.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein when the computer readable storage medium is used in the non-AP STA and the EHT PPDU is used as a trigger based sounding frame, the EHT PPDU contains one or more capability bits to indicate a maximum supported rate in trigger based sounding feedback.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17 , wherein the trigger based sounding feedback is a Single-User (SU), Multi-User (MU), or Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) feedback.

19. A method, comprising:
generating an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) Physical Protocol Data Unit (PPDU); and
transmitting the EHT PPDU on a transmission bandwidth, wherein
any of distributed Resource Units (dRUs) for transmitting a data portion of the EHT PPDU is associated with a whole or part of an EHT-Short Training Field (STF) sequence constituting the EHT PPDU,
any of the dRUs is a resource unit, subcarriers of which are distributed across one or more frequency sub-blocks within a transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT PPDU, and
any of the dRUs is associated with an EHT-Long Training Field (LTF) sequence constituting the EHT PPDU, the EHT-LTF sequence is a 4× EHT-LTF sequence, and an EHT-LTF sequence segment associated with any of the dRUs is generated by sampling the EHT-LTF sequence with subcarrier indices of the dRU.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein when the transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT PPDU is 20 MHz or 40 MHz, any of the dRUs is associated with the whole of the EHT-STF sequence.

21. The method of claim 19 , wherein when the transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT PPDU is 80 MHz and preamble puncturing is not applied, any of the dRUs is associated with the whole of the EHT-STF sequence.

22. The method of claim 19 , wherein when the transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT PPDU is 80 MHz and preamble puncturing is applied, any of the dRUs is associated with an EHT-STF sequence segment, a subcarrier location of which is overlapped with that of the dRU within the transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT PPDU, of the EHT-STF sequence,

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Chen Xiaogang
• Kenney Thomas
• Li Qinghua
• Song Hao

Classifications

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