Enhanced retry count for uplink multi-user transmission

1. A device, the device comprising memory and processing circuitry configured to:

identify a trigger frame received from a first device on a wireless communication channel;

determine a quality of service counter associated with an access category;

cause to send a frame to the first device based at least in part on the trigger frame;

determine an error condition associated with the frame; and

refrain from incrementing the quality of service counter based on the error condition.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the error condition includes a failure to receive an acknowledgment from the first device after causing to send the frame.

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the trigger frame is associated with a transmission duration.

4. The device of claim 1 , wherein the quality of service counter is at least one of a quality of service short retry counter (QSRC), a quality of service long retry counter (QLRC), a quality of service long drop-eligible retry counter (QLDRC), or a quality of service short drop-eligible retry counter (QSDRC).

5. The device of claim 2 , wherein the memory and the processing circuitry are further configured to:

determine a predetermined value is set to false, wherein the quality of service counter is a quality of service short retry counter (QSRC) or a quality of service long retry counter (QLRC); and

refrain from incrementing the quality of service counter.

6. The device of claim 2 , wherein the memory and the processing circuitry are further configured to:

determine a predetermined value is set to true, wherein the quality of service counter is a quality of service short drop-eligible retry counter (QSDRC) or a quality of service long drop-eligible retry counter (QLDRC); and

refrain from incrementing the quality of service counter.

7. The device of claim 1 , wherein the access category is at least one of a voice category, a video category, a best effort category, or a background category.

8. The device of claim 1 , wherein the memory and the processing circuitry are further configured to cause to delay sending the frame on the wireless communication channel by a time delay based at least in part on a backoff window.

9. The device of claim 8 , wherein the backoff window is based on a contention window associated with the access category.

10. The device of claim 1 , further comprising a transceiver configured to transmit and receive wireless signals.

11. The device of claim 9 , further comprising one or more antennas coupled to the transceiver.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions which when executed by one or more processors result in performing operations comprising:

encoding a frame with a quality of service counter update value;

causing to send the frame to one or more devices belonging to a multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO) group; and

causing to send a trigger frame to at least one of the one or more devices.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the operations further comprise determining an error condition associated with at least one data frame from the at least one of the one or more devices.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the quality of service counter update value indicates to the at least one of the one or more devices to refrain from updating its quality of service counter when a transmission error is detected by the at least one of the one or more devices.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the quality of service counter is at least one of a quality of service short retry counter (QSRC), a quality of service long retry counter (QLRC), a quality of service long drop-eligible retry counter (QLDRC), or a quality of service short drop-eligible retry counter (QSDRC).

16. A method comprising:

identifying, by one or more processors, a trigger frame received from a first device on a wireless communication channel;

determining a quality of service counter associated with an access category;

causing to send a frame to the first device based at least in part on the trigger frame;

determining an error condition associated with the frame; and

refraining from incrementing the quality of service counter based on the error condition.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the error condition includes a failure to receive an acknowledgment from the first device after causing to send the frame.

18. The method of claim 16 , wherein the quality of service counter is at least one of a quality of service short retry counter (QSRC), a quality of service long retry counter (QLRC), a quality of service long drop-eligible retry counter (QLDRC), or a quality of service short drop-eligible retry counter (QSDRC).

19. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:

determining a predetermined value is set to false, wherein the quality of service counter is a quality of service short retry counter (QSRC) or a quality of service long retry counter (QLRC); and

refraining from incrementing the quality of service counter.

20. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:

determining a predetermined value is set to true, wherein the quality of service counter is a quality of service short drop-eligible retry counter (QSDRC) or a quality of service long drop-eligible retry counter (QLDRC); and

refraining from incrementing the quality of service counter.