Method and apparatus for transmitting PLCP frame in wireless local area network system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12323283-B2
Application number	US-202418405494-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 5, 2024
Priority date	Nov 9, 2009
Publication date	Jun 3, 2025
Grant date	Jun 3, 2025

Abstract

A method of transmitting a Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) frame in a Very High Throughput (VHT) Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system includes generating a MAC Protocol Data Unit (MPDU) to be transmitted to a destination station (STA), generating a PLCP Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) by adding a PLCP header, including an L-SIG field containing control information for a legacy STA and a VHT-SIG field containing control information for a VHT STA, to the MPDU, and transmitting the PPDU to the destination STA. A constellation applied to some of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) symbols of the VHT-SIG field is obtained by rotating a constellation applied to an OFDM symbol of the L-SIGfield.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of transmitting data, the method comprising:
mapping a first orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol to a first binary phase shift keying (BPSK) constellation;
mapping a second OFDM symbol to the first BPSK constellation, the second OFDM symbol comprising an indication of whether the data unit is a Single User-Multiple Input Multiple Output (SU-MIMO) data unit or a multi user-MIMO (MU-MIMO) data unit;
mapping a third OFDM symbol to a second BPSK constellation, rotated by 90 degrees relative to the first BPSK constellation, the third OFDM symbol comprising a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for at least the second OFDM symbol; and
transmitting a data unit comprising the first, second, and third OFDM symbols, the third OFDM symbol being transmitted immediately following the second OFDM symbol.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data unit further comprises a training field following the second and third OFDM symbols.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second BPSK constellation is rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise relative to the first BPSK constellation.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the third OFDM symbol comprises a CRC for a portion of the third OFDM symbol.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second and third OFDM symbols form at least part of a Very High Throughput Signal (VHT-SIG) field and the data unit omits a High Throughput Signal (HT-SIG) field between the first OFDM symbol and the VHT-SIG field.

6. A method of receiving a data unit comprising first, second, and third orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, the third OFDM symbol immediately following the second OFDM symbol, the method comprising:
demodulating the first OFDM symbol using a first binary phase shift keying (BPSK) constellation;
demodulating the second OFDM symbol using the first BPSK constellation and obtaining, from the demodulated second OFDM symbol, an indication of whether the data unit is a Single User-Multiple Input Multiple Output (SU-MIMO) data unit or a multi user-MIMO (MU-MIMO) data unit; and
demodulating the third OFDM symbol using a second BPSK constellation, rotated by 90 degrees relative to the first BPSK constellation, and obtaining, from the demodulated third OFDM symbol, a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for at least the second OFDM symbol.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the data unit further comprises a training field following the second and third OFDM symbols and wherein said demodulating is based on the training field.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the second BPSK constellation is rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise relative to the first BPSK constellation.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein the method comprises obtaining, from the demodulated third OFDM symbol, a CRC for a portion of the third OFDM symbol.

10. The method of claim 6 , wherein the second and third OFDM symbols form at least part of a Very High Throughput Signal (VHT-SIG) field and the data unit omits a High Throughput Signal (HT-SIG) field between the first OFDM symbol and the VHT-SIG field.

11. An apparatus configured to transmit data, the apparatus comprising transmitting circuitry, a processing circuit and memory operatively coupled to the processing circuit, the memory storing program instructions for execution by the processing circuit whereby the apparatus is configured to:
map a first orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol to a first binary phase shift keying (BPSK) constellation;
map a second OFDM symbol to the first BPSK constellation, the second OFDM symbol comprising an indication of whether the data unit is a Single User-Multiple Input Multiple Output (SU-MIMO) data unit or a multi user-MIMO (MU-MIMO) data unit;
map a third OFDM symbol to a second BPSK constellation, rotated by 90 degrees relative to the first BPSK constellation, the third OFDM symbol comprising a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for at least the second OFDM symbol; and
transmit a data unit comprising the first, second, and third OFDM symbols, the third OFDM symbol being transmitted immediately following the second OFDM symbol.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the data unit further comprises a training field following the second and third OFDM symbols.

13. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the second BPSK constellation is rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise relative to the first BPSK constellation.

14. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the third OFDM symbol comprises a CRC for a portion of the third OFDM symbol.

15. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the second and third OFDM symbols form at least part of a Very High Throughput Signal (VHT-SIG) field and the data unit omits a High Throughput Signal (HT-SIG) field between the first OFDM symbol and the VHT-SIG field.

16. An apparatus configured to receive a data unit comprising first, second, and third orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, the third OFDM symbol immediately following the second OFDM symbol, the apparatus comprising a processing circuit and memory operatively coupled to the processing circuit, the memory storing program instructions for execution by the processing circuit whereby the apparatus is configured to:
demodulate the first OFDM symbol using a first binary phase shift keying (BPSK) constellation;
demodulate the second OFDM symbol using the first BPSK constellation and obtaining, from the demodulated second OFDM symbol, an indication of whether the data unit is a Single User-Multiple Input Multiple Output (SU-MIMO) data unit or a multi user-MIMO (MU-MIMO) data unit; and
demodulate the third OFDM symbol using a second BPSK constellation, rotated by 90 degrees relative to the first BPSK constellation, and obtain, from the demodulated third OFDM symbol, a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for at least the second OFDM symbol.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the data unit further comprises a training field following the second and third OFDM symbols and wherein said demodulating is based on the training field.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the second BPSK constellation is rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise relative to the first BPSK constellation.

19. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the method comprises obtaining, from the demodulated third OFDM symbol, a CRC for a portion of the third OFDM symbol.

20. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the second and third OFDM symbols form at least part of a Very High Throughput Signal (VHT-SIG) field and the data unit omits a High Throughput Signal (HT-SIG) field between the first OFDM symbol and the VHT-SIG field.

Assignees

• Ericsson Telefon Ab L M

Inventors

• Lee Dae Won
• Roh Dong Wook
• Kang Byeong Woo
• Seok Yong Ho
• Noh Yu Jin
• Kim Bong Hoe

Classifications

• H04B7/0413

  MIMO systems · CPC title

• H04L27/22

  Demodulator circuits; Receiver circuits · CPC title

• H04W84/12

  WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks] · CPC title

• H04N21/426

  Internal components of the client {; Characteristics thereof} (H04N5/44 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04L1/0061

  Error detection codes · CPC title