IP Library Granted Patent US 10,886,989
Granted Patent B2
US 10,886,989 · App. 16/898,489 · Granted Jan 5, 2021

Apparatus, system and method of communicating a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU)

Inventors: Artyom Lomayev (Nizhny Novgorod, RU); Alexander Maltsev (Nizhny Novgorod, RU); Michael Genossar (Modiin, IL); Claudio Da Silva (Portland, OR); Carlos Cordeiro (Portland, OR)
Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
H04B7/0617H04B7/0456H04B7/0639H04W80/02
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Patent No.
US 10,886,989
App. No.
16/898,489
Granted
Jan 5, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of communicating a Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU). For example, an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) station (STA) may be configured to generate a Physical Layer (PHY) PPDU; generate one or more PPDU waveforms corresponding to one or more respective transmit chains for digital beamforming transmission of the PPDU; and transmit the PPDU via the one or more transmit chains over a channel bandwidth of at least 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz) in a frequency band above 45 GHz.

Claims (2292)

1. An apparatus comprising:

a processor comprising logic and circuitry configured to cause an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) wireless communication station (STA) to:

generate one or more non-EDMG Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) waveforms corresponding to one or more transmit chains, respectively, wherein a non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to a transmit chain of the one or more transmit chains is to be generated by:

determining a first non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain based on a plurality of fields of a non-EDMG control mode PPDU, and based on a transmit chain number of the transmit chain;

determining a second non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain by up-sampling and filtering the first non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain according to an up-sampling factor and a pulse-shaping filter impulse response; and

determining the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain based on the second non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain and according to a channel bandwidth for transmission of the non-EDMG control mode PPDU; and

transmit the non-EDMG control mode PPDU via the one or more transmit chains based on the one or more non-EDMG PPDU waveforms; and

a memory to store information processed by the processor.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to determine the second non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with a transmit chain number i TX as follows:

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

2

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

=

{

r

non

-

EDMG

t

TX

(

1

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

,

n

=

0

,

N

up

,

2

*

N

up

0

,

otherwise

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

3

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

=

k

=

0

K

-

1

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

2

)

(

(

n

-

k

)

T

c

N

up

)

h

S

C

C

B

(

k

)

,

n

=

0

,

1

,

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

=

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

3

)

(

(

n

+

K

-

1

2

)

T

c

N

up

)

,

n

=

0

,

1

,

wherein:

r non-EDMG i TX (1) (nT c ) denotes the first non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX ,

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

u

p

)

denotes the second non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX ,

h SCCB denotes the pulse-shaping filter impulse response,

T c denotes a chip time duration,

N up denotes the up-sampling factor,

K denotes a length of h SCCB in samples, and

r

non

-

EDMG

i

T

X

(

2

)

(

n

T

C

N

u

p

)

=

0

,

for

n

<

0

and

n

length

(

r

non

-

EDMG

i

T

X

(

1

)

)

×

N

u

p

.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 configured to, when the non-EDMG control mode PPDU is to be transmitted over a channel bandwidth of 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz), determine the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX as follows:

r

P

P

D

U

i

TX

(

n

T

c

N

u

p

)

=

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

u

p

)

,

1

i

TX

N

TX

wherein:

r

P

P

D

U

i

TX

(

n

T

c

N

u

p

)

denotes the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX , and

N Tx denotes a total count of the one or more transmit chains.

4. The apparatus of claim 2 configured to, when the non-EDMG control mode PPDU is to be transmitted over a channel bandwidth of 4.32 Gigahertz (GHz), determine the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX as follows:

r

P

P

D

U

i

T

X

(

n

T

c

N

u

p

)

=

r

n

o

n

-

E

D

M

G

i

T

X

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

u

p

+

Δ

t

1

)

·

1

2

exp

(

-

j

2

π

(

Δ

F

2

)

(

T

c

N

u

p

)

n

)

+

r

n

o

n

-

E

D

M

G

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

u

p

+

Δ

t

2

)

·

1

2

exp

(

+

j

2

π

(

Δ

F

2

)

(

T

c

N

u

p

)

n

)

,

1

i

T

X

N

T

X

wherein:

r

P

P

D

U

i

T

X

(

n

T

c

N

u

p

)

denotes the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX ,

N Tx denotes a total count of the one or more transmit chains,

ΔF denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz, and

Δt 1 and Δt 2 are in the range [0, T c ].

5. The apparatus of claim 2 configured to, when the non-EDMG control mode PPDU is to be transmitted over a channel bandwidth of 6.48 Gigahertz (GHz), determine the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX as follows:

r

P

P

D

U

i

TX

(

n

T

c

N

u

p

)

=

r

n

o

n

-

E

D

M

G

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

u

p

+

Δ

t

1

)

·

1

3

exp

(

-

j

2

π

Δ

F

(

T

c

N

u

p

)

n

)

+

r

n

o

n

-

E

D

M

G

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

u

p

+

Δ

t

2

)

·

1

3

+

r

n

o

n

-

E

D

M

G

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

+

Δ

t

3

)

·

1

3

exp

(

+

j

2

π

Δ

F

(

T

c

N

u

p

)

n

)

,

1

i

T

X

N

TX

wherein:

r

P

P

D

U

i

T

X

(

n

T

c

N

u

p

)

denotes the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX ,

N Tx denotes a total count of the one or more transmit chains,

ΔF denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz, and

Δt 1 , Δt 2 , and Δt 3 are in the range [0, T c ].

6. The apparatus of claim 2 configured to, when the non-EDMG control mode PPDU is to be transmitted over a channel bandwidth of 8.64 Gigahertz (GHz), determine the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX as follows:

r

PPDU

i

TX

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

=

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

+

Δ

t

1

)

·

1

4

exp

(

-

j

2

π

(

3

Δ

F

2

)

(

T

c

N

up

)

n

)

+

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

+

Δ

t

2

)

·

1

4

exp

(

-

j

2

π

(

Δ

F

2

)

(

T

c

N

up

)

n

)

+

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

+

Δ

t

3

)

·

1

4

exp

(

+

j

2

π

(

Δ

F

2

)

(

T

c

N

up

)

n

)

+

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

+

Δ

t

4

)

·

1

4

exp

(

+

j

2

π

(

3

Δ

F

2

)

(

T

c

N

up

)

n

)

,

1

i

TX

N

TX

wherein:

r

PPDU

i

TX

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

denotes the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX ,

N Tx denotes a total count of the one or more transmit chains,

ΔF denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz, and

Δt 1 , Δt 2 , and Δt 3 are in the range [0, T c ].

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the up-sampling factor and the pulse-shaping filter impulse response are implementation dependent.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the non-EDMG control mode PPDU is configured for decoding by one or more non-EDMG stations, which are DMG stations.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to cause the EDMG STA to transmit the non-EDMG control mode PPDU over a channel bandwidth of at least 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz) in a frequency band above 45 GHz.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising a radio comprising the one or more transmit chains, the processor configured to cause the radio to transmit the non-EDMG control mode PPDU.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 comprising one or more antennas connected to the radio, and another processor to execute instructions of an operating system.

12. 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 an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) wireless communication station (STA) to:

generate one or more non-EDMG Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) waveforms corresponding to one or more transmit chains, respectively, wherein a non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to a transmit chain of the one or more transmit chains is to be generated by:

determining a first non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain based on a plurality of fields of a non-EDMG control mode PPDU, and based on a transmit chain number of the transmit chain;

determining a second non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain by up-sampling and filtering the first non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain according to an up-sampling factor and a pulse-shaping filter impulse response; and

determining the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain based on the second non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain and according to a channel bandwidth for transmission of the non-EDMG control mode PPDU; and

transmit the non-EDMG control mode PPDU via the one or more transmit chains based on the one or more non-EDMG PPDU waveforms.

13. The product of claim 12 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to determine the second non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with a transmit chain number i TX as follows:

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

2

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

=

{

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

1

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

,

n

=

0

,

N

up

,

2

*

N

up

0

otherwise

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

3

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

=

k

=

0

K

-

1

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

2

)

(

(

n

-

k

)

T

c

N

up

)

h

SCCB

(

k

)

,

n

=

0

,

1

,

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

=

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

3

)

(

(

n

+

K

-

1

2

)

T

c

N

up

)

,

n

=

0

,

1

,

wherein:

r non-EDMG i TX (1) (nT c ) denotes the first non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX ,

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

denote the second non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX ,

h SCCB denotes the pulse-shaping filter impulse response,

T c denotes a chip time duration,

N up denotes the up-sampling factor,

K denotes a length of h SCCB in samples, and

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

2

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

=

0

,

for

n

<

0

and

n

length

(

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

1

)

)

×

N

up

.

14. The product of claim 13 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to, when the non-EDMG control mode PPDU is to be transmitted over a channel bandwidth of 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz), determine the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX as follows:

r

PPDU

i

TX

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

=

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

,

1

i

TX

N

TX

wherein:

r

PPDU

i

TX

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

denotes the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX , and

N Tx denotes a total count of the one or more transmit chains.

15. The product of claim 13 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to, when the non-EDMG control mode PPDU is to be transmitted over a channel bandwidth of 4.32 Gigahertz (GHz), determine the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX as follows:

r

PPDU

i

TX

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

=

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

+

Δ

t

1

)

·

1

2

exp

(

-

j

2

π

(

Δ

F

2

)

(

T

c

N

up

)

n

)

+

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

+

Δ

t

2

)

·

1

2

exp

(

+

j

2

π

(

Δ

F

2

)

(

T

c

N

up

)

n

)

,

1

i

TX

N

TX

wherein:

r

PPDU

i

TX

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

denotes the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX ,

N Tx denotes a total count of the one or more transmit chains,

ΔF denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz, and

Δt 1 and Δt 2 are in the range [0, T c ].

16. The product of claim 13 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to, when the non-EDMG control mode PPDU is to be transmitted over a channel bandwidth of 6.48 Gigahertz (GHz), determine the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX as follows:

r

PPDU

i

TX

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

=

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

+

Δ

t

1

)

·

1

3

exp

(

-

j

2

π

Δ

F

(

T

c

N

u

p

)

n

)

+

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

+

Δ

t

2

)

·

1

3

+

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

+

Δ

t

3

)

·

1

3

exp

(

+

j

2

π

Δ

F

(

T

c

N

up

)

n

)

,

1

i

TX

N

TX

wherein:

r

PPDU

i

TX

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

denotes the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX ,

N Tx denotes a total count of the one or more transmit chains,

ΔF denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz, and

Δt 1 , Δt 2 , and Δt 3 are in the range [0, T c ].

17. The product of claim 13 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to, when the non-EDMG control mode PPDU is to be transmitted over a channel bandwidth of 8.64 Gigahertz (GHz), determine the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX as follows:

r

PPDU

i

TX

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

=

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

+

Δ

t

1

)

·

1

4

exp

(

-

j

2

π

(

3

Δ

F

2

)

(

T

c

N

u

p

)

n

)

+

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

+

Δ

t

2

)

·

1

4

exp

(

-

j

2

π

(

Δ

F

2

)

(

T

c

N

u

p

)

n

)

+

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

+

Δ

t

3

)

·

1

4

exp

(

+

j

2

π

(

Δ

F

2

)

(

T

c

N

up

)

n

)

+

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

+

Δ

t

4

)

·

1

4

exp

(

+

j

2

π

(

3

Δ

F

2

)

(

T

c

N

up

)

n

)

,

1

i

T

X

N

TX

wherein:

r

PPDU

i

TX

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

denotes the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX ,

N Tx denotes a total count of the one or more transmit chains,

ΔF denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz, and

Δt 1 , Δt 2 , and Δt 3 are in the range [0, T c ].

18. The product of claim 12 , wherein the up-sampling factor and the pulse-shaping filter impulse response are implementation dependent.

19. The product of claim 12 , wherein the non-EDMG control mode PPDU is configured for decoding by one or more non-EDMG stations, which are DMG stations.

20. The product of claim 12 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to transmit the non-EDMG control mode PPDU over a channel bandwidth of at least 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz) in a frequency band above 45 GHz.

21. An apparatus comprising:

means for causing an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) wireless communication station (STA) to generate one or more non-EDMG Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) waveforms corresponding to one or more transmit chains, respectively, wherein a non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to a transmit chain of the one or more transmit chains is to be generated by:

determining a first non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain based on a plurality of fields of a non-EDMG control mode PPDU, and based on a transmit chain number of the transmit chain;

determining a second non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain by up-sampling and filtering the first non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain according to an up-sampling factor and a pulse-shaping filter impulse response; and

determining the non-EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain based on the second non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain and according to a channel bandwidth for transmission of the non-EDMG control mode PPDU; and

means for causing the EDMG STA to transmit the non-EDMG control mode PPDU via the one or more transmit chains based on the one or more non-EDMG PPDU waveforms.

22. The apparatus of claim 21 comprising means for causing the EDMG STA to determine the second non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with a transmit chain number i TX as follows:

r

non

-

EDM

G

i

TX

(

2

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

=

{

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

1

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

,

n

=

0

,

N

up

,

2

*

N

up

0

otherwise

r

non

-

EDM

G

i

TX

(

3

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

=

k

=

0

K

-

1

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

2

)

(

(

n

-

k

)

T

c

N

up

)

h

SCCB

(

k

)

,

n

=

0

,

1

,

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

=

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

3

)

(

(

n

+

K

-

1

2

)

T

c

N

up

)

,

n

=

0

,

1

,

wherein:

r non-EDMG i TX (1) (nT c ) denotes the first non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX ,

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

4

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

denote the second non-EDMG waveform corresponding to the transmit chain with the transmit chain number i TX ,

h SCCB denotes the pulse-shaping filter impulse response,

T c denotes a chip time duration,

N up denotes the up-sampling factor,

K denotes a length of h SCCB in samples, and

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

2

)

(

n

T

c

N

up

)

=

0

,

for

n

<

0

and

n

length

(

r

non

-

EDMG

i

TX

(

1

)

)

×

N

up

.

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