Abstract:
A method and apparatus for securing the wireless transmission of an aggregated frame are disclosed. An aggregated frame is generated by aggregating at least one subframe and a security field. The security field is used to secure the entire aggregated frame. The contents of the security field may be generated from a group key or a pairwise key. For example, the security field may include an initialization vector (IV), an extended IV (EIV), a message integrity code (MIC) and an integrity check value (ICV). When a group key is used for a group of receivers, the group key may be changed as a new receiver enters into the group or an existing receiver leaves the group. Alternatively, the group key may be changed periodically. The subframes may be data frames, control frames, management frames, action frames or any type of frames.
Abstract:
An aggregated medium access control (MAC) frame (300-Fig.3) for use with multiple transmission rates in a wireless communication system includes an aggregated header; at least one MAC protocol data unit (MPDU), the MPDUs being grouped together in the fram by transmission rate of the MPDU; and a separating sequence between each rate group. The aggregated header (302) includes a coun field (312) to indicate a number of rates that have been aggregated in the frame and an information group (326) for each rate that has been aggregated in the frame.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for uplink transmission over a non-contentious shared feedback channel are disclosed, wherein the parameters of the uplink transmission are determined by the parameters of a downlink transmission. A new uplink channel, called a physical shared uplink feedback channel (PSUFCH) is used for uplink transmission such as feedback information in response to a downlink transmission on a fast shared data channel. The content of the feedback information may be general, e.g. an ACK/NACK or a channel quality indicator (CQI). The PSUFCH is transmitted using power ramping that terminates upon reception of a downlink ACK (DLACK) from a Node-B. No ambiguity resolution is required due to the non-contentious and deterministic mapping of the uplink channel resources.
Abstract:
Enhancements are provided for the radio link control (RLC) protocol in wireless communication systems where variable RLC packet data unit (PDU) size is allowed. When flexible RLC PDU sizes are configured by upper layers, radio network controller (RNC)/Node B flow control, RLC flow control, status reporting and polling mechanisms are configured to use byte count based metrics in order to prevent possible buffer underflows in the Node B and buffer overflows in the RNC. The enhancements proposed herein for the RLC apply to both uplink and downlink communications.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for reducing transient impacts of beam switching in a switched beam antenna system are disclosed. A switch beam antenna system generates a plurality of beams in a predefined beam pattern and switches the current beam position to one of the plurality of predefined beams in accordance with measurement results for each of the beams. Quality of signals is periodically measured for each of the plurality of predefined beams, and the best beam is determined. The current beam is switched to either the best beam or an intermediate beam in accordance with the separation between the best beam and the current beam.
Abstract:
A method and system for eliminating interference caused by hidden nodes is disclosed. An initiator control message is defined for an initiator, (typically a wireless station (STA)), in order to begin an aggregate frame exchange with at least one responder. The initiator control message includes information on the queue sizes at the initiator. A responder, (typically an access point (AP)), sets up the required protection for the transmission of data by the initiator based on information on the queue sizes indicated in a field of the initiator control message using a responder control message. Other STAs that receive the responder control message set parameters for a wireless medium access accordingly. In another embodiment, multiple receiver aggregate multi-poll (MMP) and power save aggregation descriptor (PSAD) control frames are configured for transmission by a non-AP STA to provide enhanced scheduling and mitigate hidden node problems.
Abstract:
In an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system including at least one base station and at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), sub-carriers are allocated for data transmissions to multiple access WTRUs, where sub-carriers are allocated according to a consecutive sub-carrier allocation (CSA) type and a distributed sub-carrier allocation (DSA) type. Pilot signals with distributed pilot sub-carriers are transmitted and measured at each WTRU to obtain a channel quality metric for each pilot sub-carrier. Each WTRU sends feedback to the base station reporting channel quality based on the measured channel quality metrics. An allocation type is selected and adaptively switched according to channel variations in time and frequency domain.
Abstract:
A method and system for controlling access to a medium in a wireless communication system. A superframe structure is defined in time domain to include a contention free period (CFP) which has at least one scheduled resource allocation (SRA) (3712), at least one management SRA (MSRA) (3718) and a contention period. An extended beacon (EB) (3746) including information about the SRA and MSRA is transmitted for. The architecture reduces station battery consumption, supports higher throughput for non-real time (NRT) traffic and is more efficient for real time (RT) traffic while maintaining full compatibility.
Abstract:
A peer-to-peer communication system using a direct link setup (DLS) is disclosed. A mobile station (STA) establishes a direct communication link with another STA by sending a message requesting a DLS to an access point (AP), (i.e., a centralized controller). The AP may accept or reject the DLS request based on channel measurements. If the DLS request is accepted, the DLS is established such that the STAs may directly communicate with each other. An established DLS connection may be torn down by the AP sending a message including a DLS teardown request to one of the STAs, or based on channel measurements. The system may be an Ad hoc network comprising a plurality of STAs without an AP where each STA maintains a database of one-hop and two-hop STAs, and establishes a direct link to other STAs after informing neighboring STAs of an intention to establish a direct communication link.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for enabling multi-band transmission includes transmitting a beacon on a first radio band and transmitting the beacon on a second radio band. The beacon includes coordination information for transmission on the first and second radio bands.