Power savings for multi-link wireless local area network infrastructure

1. A user equipment device (UE), comprising:

one or more radios operably coupled to respective antennas; and

a processor operably coupled to the one or more radios;

wherein the UE is configured to:

establish a connection with an access point through a wireless local area network (WLAN), wherein the connection utilizes a plurality of links;

transmit an indication to the access point through a first link of the plurality of links, the indication specifying one or more available links of the plurality of links, wherein the one or more available links are available for the UE to receive downlink (DL) communications from the access point; and

receive one or more DL communications from the access point through at least one of the one or more available links,

wherein the indication comprises a bit field, and

wherein a bit of the bit field indicates whether a respective link of the plurality of links is available for the UE to receive downlink communications from the access point.

2. The UE of claim 1 ,

wherein the one or more available links comprise at least one link that is different from the first link.

3. The UE of claim 1 ,

wherein the UE is further configured to:

transmit a second indication to the access point indicating at least one of the one or more of the available links that is no longer available to receive downlink communications from the access point.

4. The UE of claim 1 ,

wherein the indication further specifies one or more unavailable links of the plurality of links, wherein the one or more unavailable links are not available for the UE to receive downlink communications from the access point, and

wherein the UE is configured to:

transmit uplink communications to the access point via at least one of the one or more unavailable links.

5. The UE of claim 1 ,

wherein the UE is further configured to:

transmit a second indication to the access point, through one of the plurality of links, indicating whether the UE is in an active mode or a power save mode,

wherein, when the UE is in power save mode, the UE is configured to receive DL communications from the access point by utilizing one or more of:

power save polling (PS-Poll);

unscheduled automatic power save delivery (U-APSD); or

target wakeup times (TWTs).

6. The UE of claim 5 ,

wherein indicating whether the UE is in the active mode or the power save mode comprises indicating, for a respective link of the plurality of links, whether the UE is in the active mode or the power save mode for the respective link.

7. The UE of claim 6 ,

wherein the UE is further configured to:

determine that the first link of the plurality of links has switched from the active mode to the power save mode, and

wherein indicating whether the UE is in the active mode or the power save mode for the respective link further comprises indicating that each link of the plurality of links is in the power save mode based at least in part on determining that the first link of the plurality of links has switched from the active mode to the power save mode.

8. The UE of claim 6 ,

wherein the UE is further configured to:

determine that the first link of the plurality of links has switched from the power save mode to the active mode, and

wherein indicating whether the UE is in the active mode or the power save mode for the respective link further comprises indicating that the respective link is in the active mode based at least in part on determining that the first link of the plurality of links has switched from the power save mode to the active mode.

9. The UE of claim 1 ,

wherein the indication specifies an operating bandwidth for one or more respective links of the plurality of links, and

wherein a null specified bandwidth indicates unavailability of the respective link.

10. The UE of claim 1 ,

wherein the indication further specifies a duration of time for which the one or more available links are available for the UE to receive DL communications from the access point.

11. A wireless access point (AP), comprising:

one or more radios; and

a processor coupled to the one or more radios, wherein the AP is configured to:

establish a connection with a user equipment device (UE) through a wireless local area network (WLAN), wherein the connection utilizes a plurality of links;

receive an indication from the UE through a first link of the plurality of links, the indication specifying one or more available links of the plurality of links, wherein the available links are available for the AP to transmit downlink (DL) communications to the UE; and

transmit one or more DL communications to the UE through at least one of the one or more available links,

wherein the indication comprises a bit field, and

wherein a bit of the bit field indicates whether a respective link of the plurality of links is available for the AP to transmit downlink communications to the UE.

12. The AP of claim 11 ,

wherein the one or more available links comprise at least one link that is different from the first link.

13. The AP of claim 11 , wherein the AP is further configured to:

receive a second indication from the UE, through the first link, indicating whether the UE is in an active mode or a power save mode.

14. The AP of claim 13 , wherein the AP is further configured to:

receive a third indication from the UE, after the second indication and through a second link of the plurality of links, indicating whether the UE is in the active mode or the power save mode; and

determine whether the UE is in the active mode or the power save mode based on the third indication.

15. The AP of claim 13 , wherein the AP is further configured to:

receive a third indication from the UE, through a second link of the plurality of links, indicating that the UE is in the active mode, wherein the third indication is received during a first transmission opportunity after reception of the second indication; and

determine that the UE is in the active mode based on the third indication and responsive to receiving the third indication during the first transmission opportunity after reception of the second indication.

16. The AP of claim 13 ,

wherein the second indication indicates that the UE is switching from the active mode to the power save mode, wherein the AP is further configured to:

complete, based at least in part on receiving the second indication, at least one transmission associated with a current transmission opportunity; and

refrain from initiating a new transmission opportunity.

17. The AP of claim 11 ,

wherein, when the UE is in a power save mode, the AP is configured to transmit DL communications by utilizing one or more of:

power save polling (PS-Poll);

unscheduled automatic power save delivery (U-APSD); or

target wakeup times (TWTs).

18. A method for operating a user equipment device (UE) to communicate over a plurality of links, the method comprising:

establishing a connection with an access point through a wireless local area network (WLAN), wherein the connection utilizes the plurality of links;

transmitting an indication to the access point through a first link of the plurality of links, the indication specifying one or more available links of the plurality of links, wherein the one or more available links are available for the UE to receive downlink (DL) communications from the access point; and

receiving one or more DL communications from the access point through at least one of the one or more available links,

wherein the indication comprises a bit field, and

wherein a bit of the bit field indicates whether a respective link of the plurality of links is available for the UE to receive downlink communications from the access point.

19. The method of claim 18 ,

wherein the one or more available links comprise at least one link that is different from the first link.

20. The method of claim 18 , the method further comprising:

transmitting a second indication to the access point indicating at least one of the one or more of the available links that is no longer available to receive downlink communications from the access point.