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Granted Patent B2
US 9,826,435 · App. 15/296,086 · Granted Nov 21, 2017

Apparatus, method and system of communicating over a channel bandwidth

Inventors: Assaf Kasher (Haifa, IL); Carlos Cordeiro (Portland, OR); Solomon B. Trainin (Haifa, IL)
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
H04W28/26H04W72/0446H04W72/0453
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Patent No.
US 9,826,435
App. No.
15/296,086
Granted
Nov 21, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of communicating a wide-bandwidth data frame. For example, an apparatus may include a controller to generate at least one wide-bandwidth data frame to be transmitted over a wide-bandwidth millimeter-Wave (mmWave) channel, the wide-bandwidth mmWave channel including a plurality of mmWave channels; and a transmitter to transmit a plurality of reservation frames over the plurality of mmWave channels, a reservation frame of the plurality of reservation frames including a duration value corresponding to a duration of the wide-bandwidth data frame and a wide-bandwidth indication to indicate that the wide-bandwidth data frames are to be transmitted over the wide-bandwidth mmWave channel, the transmitter to transmit the at least one wide-bandwidth data frame over the wide-bandwidth mmWave channel.

Claims (57)

1. An apparatus comprising logic and circuitry configured to cause a wireless communication station (STA) to:

transmit a first portion of a frame transmission duplicated over a plurality of channels in a frequency band above 45 Gigahertz (GHz), the first portion comprising a Short Training Field (STF), a Channel Estimation (CE) field, a first header field, and a second header field, the first header field comprising an indication of the second header field, the second header field comprising a bandwidth indication of a channel bandwidth comprising the plurality of channels; and

transmit a second portion of the frame transmission over the channel bandwidth, the second portion comprising at least a data field.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first header field comprises a bit with a value of “1” to provide the indication of the second header field.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the bit comprises a reserved bit of the first header field.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first header field comprises a scrambler initialization field, the scrambler initialization field comprising a plurality of bits to indicate the channel bandwidth.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first portion comprises a first CE field, and the second portion comprises a second CE field.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the second CE field comprises a Golay sequence Gu 1024 and a Golay sequence Gu 1024 .

7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the Golay sequence Gu 1024 comprises a first combination of a Golay sequence Ga 256 and a Golay sequence Gb 256 , and the Golay sequence Gv 1024 comprises a second combination of the Golay sequence Ga 256 and the Golay sequence Gb 256 .

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the second portion comprises a Training (TRN) field.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the frame transmission comprises a Request to Send (RTS) transmission or a Clear To Send (CTS) transmission.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of channels comprises at least first and second contiguous channels.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of channels comprises at least first and second non-contiguous channels.

12. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the STA comprises a directional multi-gigabit (DMG) STA.

13. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising a Medium Access Control (MAC), and a Physical Layer (PHY).

14. The apparatus of claim 2 comprising a radio.

15. The apparatus of claim 2 comprising one or more antennas.

16. A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one processor, enable the at least one processor to cause a wireless communication station (STA) to:

transmit a first portion of a frame transmission duplicated over a plurality of channels in a frequency band above 45 Gigahertz (GHz), the first portion comprising a Short Training Field (STF), a Channel Estimation (CE) field, a first header field, and a second header field, the first header field comprising an indication of the second header field, the second header field comprising a bandwidth indication of a channel bandwidth comprising the plurality of channels; and

transmit a second portion of the frame transmission over the channel bandwidth, the second portion comprising at least a data field.

17. The product of claim 16 , wherein the first header field comprises a bit with a value of “1” to provide the indication of the second header field.

18. The product of claim 17 , wherein the bit comprises a reserved bit of the first header field.

19. The product of claim 16 , wherein the first header field comprises a scrambler initialization field, the scrambler initialization field comprising a plurality of bits to indicate the channel bandwidth.

20. The product of claim 16 , wherein the first portion comprises a first CE field, and the second portion comprises a second CE field.

21. The product of claim 20 , wherein the second CE field comprises a Golay sequence Gu 1024 and a Golay sequence Gb 1024 .

22. The product of claim 21 , wherein the Golay sequence Gu 1024 comprises a first combination of a Golay sequence Ga 256 and a Golay sequence Gb 256 , and the Golay sequence Gv 1024 comprises a second combination of the Golay sequence Ga 256 and the Golay sequence Gb 256 .

23. The product of claim 16 , wherein the second portion comprises a Training (TRN) field.

24. The product of claim 16 , wherein the frame transmission comprises a Request to Send (RTS) transmission or a Clear To Send (CTS) transmission.

25. An apparatus comprising logic and circuitry configured to cause a wireless communication station (STA) to:

receive a first portion of a frame transmission duplicated over a plurality of channels in a frequency band above 45 Gigahertz (GHz), the first portion comprising a Short Training Field (STF), a Channel Estimation (CE) field, a first header field, and a second header field, the first header field comprising an indication of the second header field, the second header field comprising a bandwidth indication of a channel bandwidth comprising the plurality of channels; and

receive a second portion of the frame transmission over the channel bandwidth, the second portion comprising at least a data field.

26. The apparatus of claim 25 , wherein the first header field comprises a bit with a value of “1” to provide the indication of the second header field.

27. The apparatus of claim 26 , wherein the bit comprises a reserved bit of the first header field.

28. The apparatus of claim 25 , wherein the first header field comprises a scrambler initialization field, the scrambler initialization field comprising a plurality of bits to indicate the channel bandwidth.

29. The apparatus of claim 25 , wherein the first portion comprises a first CE field, and the second portion comprises a second CE field.

30. The apparatus of claim 29 , wherein the second CE field comprises a Golay sequence Gu 1024 and a Golay sequence Gv l024 .

31. The apparatus of claim 30 , wherein the Golay sequence Gu 1024 comprises a first combination of a Golay sequence Ga 256 and a Golay sequence Gb 256 , and the Golay sequence Gv 1024 comprises a second combination of the Golay sequence Ga 256 and the Golay sequence Gb 256 .

32. The apparatus of claim 25 , wherein the second portion comprises a Training (TRN) field.

33. The apparatus of claim 25 , wherein the frame transmission comprises a Request to Send (RTS) transmission or a Clear To Send (CTS) transmission.

34. The apparatus of claim 25 , wherein the plurality of channels comprises at least first and second contiguous channels.

35. The apparatus of claim 25 , wherein the plurality of channels comprises at least first and second non-contiguous channels.

36. The apparatus of claim 25 , wherein the STA comprises a directional multi-gigabit (DMG) STA.

37. The apparatus of claim 25 comprising a Medium Access Control (MAC), and a Physical Layer (PHY).

38. The apparatus of claim 25 comprising a radio.

39. The apparatus of claim 25 comprising one or more antennas.

40. A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one processor, enable the at least one processor to cause a wireless communication station (STA) to:

receive a first portion of a frame transmission duplicated over a plurality of channels in a frequency band above 45 Gigahertz (GHz), the first portion comprising a Short Training Field (STF), a Channel Estimation (CE) field, a first header field, and a second header field, the first header field comprising an indication of the second header field, the second header field comprising a bandwidth indication of a channel bandwidth comprising the plurality of channels; and

receive a second portion of the frame transmission over the channel bandwidth, the second portion comprising at least a data field.

41. The product of claim 40 , wherein the first header field comprises a bit with a value of “1” to provide the indication of the second header field.

42. The product of claim 41 , wherein the bit comprises a reserved bit of the first header field.

43. The product of claim 40 , wherein the first header field comprises a scrambler initialization field, the scrambler initialization field comprising a plurality of bits to indicate the channel bandwidth.

44. The product of claim 40 , wherein the first portion comprises a first CE field, and the second portion comprises a second CE field.

45. The product of claim 44 , wherein the second CE field comprises a Golay sequence Gu 1024 and a Golay sequence Gv 1024 .

46. The product of claim 45 , wherein the Golay sequence Gu 1024 comprises a first combination of a Golay sequence Ga 256 and a Golay sequence Gb 256 , and the Golay sequence Gv 1024 comprises a second combination of the Golay sequence Ga 256 and the Golay sequence Gb 256 .

47. The product of claim 40 , wherein the second portion comprises a Training (TRN) field.

48. The product of claim 40 , wherein the frame transmission comprises a Request to Send (RTS) transmission or a Clear To Send (CTS) transmission.

49. The product of claim 40 , wherein the plurality of channels comprises at least first and second non-contiguous channels.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 15, 2017
From: KASHER, ASSAF; CORDEIRO, CARLOS; TRAININ, SOLOMON B.
To: INTEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 041574/0646 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation 14583146 · Dec 25, 2014
Related Publication 20170164241A1 · Jun 8, 2017