Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. An access point (AP) may broadcast or multicast a wakeup transmission to wakeup radios (WURs) of a group of wireless and determine to retransmit the first wakeup transmission (e.g., for redundancy). The AP may transmit a second wakeup transmission to the WURs, the second wakeup transmission including an indication that the second wakeup transmission is a retransmission of the first wakeup transmission. The wireless devices may receive the indication that the second wakeup transmission is a retransmission, and may power up a main radio to receive a beacon based on whether or not the previous or originally wakeup transmission was received (e.g., determined via the indication included in the received wakeup message). In some cases, the AP may identify that some wireless devices failed to receive the first wakeup transmission, and may transmit a second wakeup transmission to those identified stations.
Abstract:
Various aspects of the disclosure relate to distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication such as coordinated beamforming or Joint MIMO. In some aspects, distributed MIMO is used to support communication in a cluster of wireless nodes (e.g., access points). A distributed MIMO scheduling scheme as taught herein is used to schedule sounding operations by the wireless nodes (e.g., access points and/or stations) operating within the cluster.
Abstract:
Methods and systems for sounding a wireless network are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by an access point a message including a beamforming report from a device. The device may be a station that is outside a basic service set of the access point. The method also includes transmitting a message to the device based on the beamforming report. For example, in some aspects, the access point may utilize the beamforming report to perform a coordinated beamforming, multi-access point transmission or a multi-access point MIMO transmission. In some aspects, the access point may transmit an interference nulling signal to the device based on the beamforming report. The nulling signal compensates for another simultaneous transmission by the access point that interferes with the device's reception of a message from an access point with which the device is associated.
Abstract:
Methods and systems provide implementations for distributed MIMO communication. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a network message including data indicative of user data for transmission by a first access point to a first station over the wireless network prior to the transmission, generating precoded second data for transmission to the first station based on the data indicative of the user data, and transmitting, the precoded data to a third device. In some aspects, the precode data is transmitted by a second access point of a basic service set different than that of the first station to the first station as part of a distributed MIMO communication. In some other aspects, the precoded data is transmitted by a cluster controller to another access point having a basic service set different than that of the first station. The other access point may then transmit a signal based on the precode data to the first station simultaneously with the fist access point also transmitting to the first station. The two transmissions may form a portion of a distributed MIMO communication.
Abstract:
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for selectively acquiring communication frames from a transmitting device capable of formatting the communication frames in accordance with a plurality of PHY formats. In some implementations, a STA may filter or discard duplicate frames received from an AP based, at least in part, on a preference of the STA for one of the plurality of PHY formats. The filtering may be performed at the PHY, without forwarding received communication frames to the media access control layer (MAC) for further processing. In some other implementations, an AP may refrain from sending duplicate frames to a STA based, at least in part, on a preferred frame format of the STA. Still further, in some implementations, the STA may dynamically adjust or update its preferred frame format based on changes in the distance, or channel conditions, between the STA and the AP.
Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for high efficiency (HE) basic service set (BSS) operations. In an implementation, a wireless station (STA) can identify a set including one or more modulation coding scheme (MCS) and number of spatial streams (NSS) tuples for HE communications in wireless local area networks (WLANs). The STA can determine whether the set is supported by a BSS and also determine that the STA is to attempt to join the BSS in response to a determination that the set is supported by the BSS. In another implementation, the STA can set a channel width capability for high throughout (HT) communications and very high throughput (VHT) communications in WLANs to be the same as a channel width capability for HE communications in WLANs, and can transmit information that indicates that the STA has the same channel width capability for HT, VHT, and HE communications in WLANs.
Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to providing a mechanism that may be used to flexibly and efficiently signal spatial reuse (SR) and/or transmit opportunity (TXOP) duration information.
Abstract:
A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be configured to transmit a request message to a plurality of access points. The request message may include an address reserved for at least one of an access point feature, an access point service, or an access point vendor. The apparatus may be configured to receive a response message from at least one access point of the plurality of access points. The response message may indicate that the at least one access point has the access point feature, is associated with the access point service, or is associated with the access point vendor.
Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for synchronizing clocks in a Neighbor Aware Network (NAN) Data Link (NDL) cluster. An exemplary apparatus includes a processing system configured to communicate with one or more members of a group, that includes the apparatus, according to a first data communication window (DCW) timeline having a first offset relative to a first clock associated with a first network cluster, to detect a beacon transmitted by a device of a second network cluster, wherein the beacon comprises timing information of a second clock associated with the second network cluster, to determine whether to initiate a move of the group to the second network cluster, to generate a frame to initiate the move of the group to the second network cluster, the frame comprising a first indication of the timing information of the second clock, and an interface configured to output the frame for transmission.
Abstract:
A method for registering a service for proxy advertisement includes selecting, at a client device, a proxy device to proxy advertise the service of the client device to one or more other devices in a network. The method also includes sending registration data from the client device to the proxy device.