Configuration of FA PPDU for TB PPDU

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12317240-B2
Application number	US-202117317929-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 12, 2021
Priority date	May 12, 2021
Publication date	May 27, 2025
Grant date	May 27, 2025

Abstract

The disclosure provides techniques for a configuration of frequency domain aggregated (FA) physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) for trigger based (TB) PPDUs. An apparatus for an access point (AP) includes a radio frequency (RF) interface; and processing circuitry coupled with the RF interface. The processing circuitry is configured to: encode a trigger frame to be transmitted via the RF interface to stations (STAs) communicatively connected with the AP, wherein the trigger frame includes signaling to indicate a configuration of frequency domain aggregated (FA) physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) for at least two STAs; and decode an FA PPDU aggregated by composite trigger based (TB) PPDUs from the at least two STAs.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus for an access point (AP), comprising:
a radio frequency (RF) interface; and
processing circuitry coupled with the RF interface and configured to:
encode a trigger frame to be transmitted via the RF interface to stations (STAs) communicatively connected with the AP, wherein the trigger frame comprises signaling to indicate a configuration of frequency domain aggregated (FA) physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) for at least two STAs; and
decode an FA PPDU aggregated by composite trigger based (TB) PPDUs from the at least two STAs,
wherein the trigger frame includes a B54 bit in a common info field, and the B54 bit is set to 1 to indicate a first PPDU in a primary part of the FA PPDU as a high-efficiency (HE) PPDU, or 0 to indicate the first PPDU in the primary part of the FA PPDU as an extremely high throughput (EHT) PPDU;
the trigger frame includes a B39 bit in a user info field, and the B39 bit is set to 0 to indicate that an assigned resource unit (RU) is within the primary part of the FA PPDU, or 1 to indicate that an assigned RU is within a secondary part of the FA PPDU;
the trigger frame includes an uplink bandwidth (UL BW) subfield in the common info field, and the UL BW subfield is used to indicate a bandwidth of the primary part of the FA PPDU; and
the trigger frame includes a UL BW extension subfield in a special user info field, and the UL BW extension subfield is used together with the UL BW subfield to indicate a bandwidth of a solicited TB PPDU from a specified EHT STA.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the signaling specifies each of the at least two STAs using a station identity (AID) of the STA.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein for each of the composite TB PPDUs, one or more resource units (RUs) are allocated to one or more STAs.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the configuration of FA-PPDU is determined by at least one of:
each solicited composite TB PPDU;
a bandwidth of each solicited composite TB PPDU; and
a PPDU type of each solicited composite TB PPDU.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a bandwidth of a transmitting (Tx) mask follows the UL BW extension subfield of the special user info field.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:
B56 of the common info field in the trigger frame is set to 1 to indicate a second PPDU in the secondary part of the FA PPDU as a HE PPDU, or 0 to indicate the second PPDU in the secondary part as an EHT PPDU.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the FA PPDU comprises the first PPDU in the primary part and a second PPDU in a secondary part, and both the primary part and the secondary part have a bandwidth of 160 megahertz (MHz).

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the first PPDU in the primary part is specified as a high-efficiency (HE) PPDU to be transmitted from a HE STA, and the second PPDU in the secondary part is specified as a HE PPDU to be transmitted from an extremely high throughput (EHT) STA.

9. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the first PPDU in the primary part is specified as a high-efficiency (HE) PPDU to be transmitted from a HE STA, and the second PPDU in the secondary part is specified as an extremely high throughput (EHT) PPDU to be transmitted from a 160 MHz capable EHT STA.

10. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the first PPDU in the primary part is specified as a high-efficiency (HE) PPDU to be transmitted from a HE STA, and the second PPDU in the secondary part is specified as an extremely high throughput (EHT) PPDU to be transmitted from a 320 MHz capable EHT STA.

11. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the first PPDU in the primary part is specified as an extremely high throughput (EHT) PPDU to be transmitted from a 160 MHz capable EHT STA, and the second PPDU in the secondary part is specified as another EHT PPDU to be transmitted from another 160 MHz capable EHT STA.

12. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the first PPDU in the primary part is specified as an extremely high throughput (EHT) PPDU to be transmitted from a 160 MHz capable EHT STA, and the second PPDU in the secondary part is specified as another EHT PPDU to be transmitted from a 320 MHz capable EHT STA.

13. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the AP is an extremely high throughput (EHT) AP.

14. An apparatus for a station (STA), comprising:
a radio frequency (RF) interface; and
processing circuitry coupled with the RF interface and configured to:
process a trigger frame received via the RF interface from an access point (AP), wherein the trigger frame comprises signaling to indicate a configuration of FA PPDU for at least two STAs;
determine whether the STA is one of the at least two STAs; and
encode a composite trigger based (TB) PPDU in response to the trigger frame and as configured by the configuration of FA PPDU, when the STA is one of the at least two STAs, wherein the composite TB PPDU is to be aggregated with other composite TB PPDU(s) from other STAs of the at least two STAs,
wherein the trigger frame includes a B54 bit in a common info field, and the B54 bit is set to 1 to indicate a first PPDU in a primary part of the FA PPDU as a high-efficiency (HE) PPDU, or 0 to indicate the first PPDU in the primary part of the FA PPDU as an extremely high throughput (EHT) PPDU;
the trigger frame includes a B39 bit in a user info field, and the B39 bit is set to 0 to indicate that an assigned resource unit (RU) is within the primary part of the FA PPDU, or 1 to indicate that an assigned RU is within a secondary part of the FA PPDU;
the trigger frame includes an uplink bandwidth (UL BW) subfield in the common info field, and the UL BW subfield is used to indicate a bandwidth of the primary part of the FA PPDU; and
the trigger frame includes a UL BW extension subfield in a special user info field, and the UL BW extension subfield is used together with the UL BW subfield to indicate a bandwidth of a solicited TB PPDU from a specified EHT STA.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the processing circuitry is to determine whether the STA is one of the at least two STAs by checking whether a station identity (AID) of the STA is indicated by the signaling for the configuration of FA PPDU.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to parse the signaling together with resource unit (RU) allocation signaling in a user info field matching the AID of the STA.

17. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the configuration of FA-PPDU is determined by at least one of:
each solicited composite TB PPDU;
a bandwidth of each solicited composite TB PPDU; and
a PPDU type of each solicited composite TB PPDU.

18. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the STA is a high-efficiency (HE) STA, and the composite TB PPDU encoded by the HE STA is a HE PPDU.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 , wherein based on the configuration of FA PPDU, the HE PPDU is to be aggregated with one of:
another HE PPDU from an extremely high throughput (EHT) STA;
an EHT PPDU from a 160 megahertz (MHz) capable EHT STA; or
an EHT PPDU from a 320 MHz capable EHT STA.

20. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the STA is an extremely high throughput (EHT) STA, and the composite TB PPDU encoded by the EHT STA is a high-efficiency (HE) PPDU or an EHT PPDU.

21. The apparatus of claim 20 , wherein based on the configuration of FA PPDU:
the HE PPDU encoded by the EHT STA is to be aggregated with another HE PPDU from a HE STA; or
the EHT PPDU encoded by the EHT STA is to be aggregated with a HE PPDU from a

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Chen Xiaogang
• Chen Cheng
• Huang Po-Kai
• Kenney Thomas
• Li Qinghua

Classifications

• H04W88/08

  Access point devices · CPC title

• H04L27/2603

  Signal structure ensuring backward compatibility with legacy system · CPC title

• H04W84/12

  WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks] · CPC title

• H04W88/02

  Terminal devices · CPC title

• H04L5/0094

  Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated · CPC title