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Granted Patent B2
US 11,985,080 · App. 17/313,919 · Granted May 14, 2024

Apparatus, system, and method of communicating an extremely high throughput (EHT) physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU)

Inventors: Xiaogang Chen (Portland, OR); Qinghua Li (San Ramon, CA); Feng Jiang (Santa Clara, CA); Thomas J. Kenney (Portland, OR)
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
H04L5/0007H04L5/0048H04W72/0453
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Patent No.
US 11,985,080
App. No.
17/313,919
Granted
May 14, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

For example, an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) wireless communication station (STA) may be configured to set a Resource Unit (RU) allocation subfield in an EHT Signal (SIG) field to indicate an RU assignment for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) EHT Physical layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) according to a predefined RU allocation table, the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprising a Multiple Resource Unit (MRU) comprising a plurality of RUs; and transmit the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprising the EHT SIG field.

Claims (40)

1. An apparatus comprising:

a processor comprising logic and circuitry configured to cause an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) wireless communication station (STA) to:

set a Resource Unit (RU) allocation subfield in an EHT Signal (SIG) field to indicate an RU assignment for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) EHT Physical layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) according to a predefined RU allocation table, the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprising a Multiple Resource Unit (MRU) comprising a plurality of RUs, wherein the predefined RU allocation table comprises a plurality of RU assignments, which comprise at least one 106-tone RU, the plurality of RU assignments comprising a number-of-entries set to “1” to restrict the plurality of RU assignments to a single user transmission; and

transmit the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprising the EHT SIG field; and

a memory to store information processed by the processor.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the MRU comprises a large MRU, the large MRU comprising an RU of at least 242 tones.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the large MRU comprises a 996+484-tone MRU comprising a 996-tone RU and a 484-tone RU.

4. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the large MRU comprises a 484+242-tone MRU comprising a 484-tone RU and a 242-tone RU.

5. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the large MRU comprises a 2*996-tone MRU comprising two 996-tone RUs.

6. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the large MRU comprises a 3*996-tone MRU comprising three 996-tone RUs.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprises at least one small MRU, the at least one small MRU comprising at least one of a 78-tone MRU or a 132-tone MRU, the 78-tone MRU comprising a combination of a 52-tone RU and a 26-tone RU, the 132-tone RU comprising a combination of a 106-tone RU and a 26-tone RU.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprises the 78-tone MRU and one or more 26-tone RUs.

9. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprises the 78-tone MRU and one or more 52-tone RUs.

10. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprises the 78-tone MRU, one or more 26-tone RUs, and one or more 52-tone RUs.

11. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprises the 78-tone MRU and a 106-tone RU.

12. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprises the 78-tone MRU, a 106-tone RU, and one or more 26-tone RUs.

13. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprises a first 78-tone MRU, and a second 78-tone RU.

14. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprises the 132-tone MRU and one or more 26-tone RUs.

15. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprises the 132-tone MRU and one or more 52-tone RUs.

16. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprises the 132-tone MRU, a 26-tone RU, and a 52-tone RU.

17. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprises the 132-tone MRU and a 106-tone RU.

18. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprises the 78-tone MRU and the 132-tone RU.

19. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the MRU comprises a plurality of non-contiguous RUs.

20. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprises 8 entries to indicate a number of users to be allocated to the RU assignment in a Multi-User Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) transmission of the OFDMA EHT PPDU.

21. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to cause the EHT STA to set a first RU allocation subfield and a second RU allocation subfield in the EHT SIG field, the first RU allocation subfield to indicate a first RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU, the second RU allocation subfield to indicate a second RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU.

22. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to cause the EHT STA to encode the RU allocation subfield together with one or more overflow bits of a Universal Signal (U-SIG) field of the OFDMA EHT PPDU.

23. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to cause the EHT STA to transmit the OFDMA EHT PPDU over a channel bandwidth of 20 Megahertz (MHz), 40 MHz, or 160 MHz.

24. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to cause the EHT STA to transmit the OFDMA EHT PPDU over a 320 Megahertz (MHz) channel bandwidth.

25. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising a radio to transmit the OFDMA EHT PPDU.

26. The apparatus of claim 25 comprising one or more antennas connected to the radio, and another processor to execute instructions of an operating system of the EHT STA.

27. 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 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) wireless communication station (STA) to:

set a Resource Unit (RU) allocation subfield in an EHT Signal (SIG) field to indicate an RU assignment for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) EHT Physical layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) according to a predefined RU allocation table, the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprising a Multiple Resource Unit (MRU) comprising a plurality of RUs, wherein the predefined RU allocation table comprises a plurality of RU assignments, which comprise at least one 106-tone RU, the plurality of RU assignments comprising a number-of-entries set to “1” to restrict the plurality of RU assignments to a single user transmission; and

transmit the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprising the EHT SIG field.

28. The product of claim 27 , wherein the MRU comprises a large MRU, the large MRU comprising an RU of at least 242 tones.

29. The product of claim 27 , wherein the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprises at least one small MRU, the at least one small MRU comprising at least one of a 78-tone MRU or a 132-tone MRU, the 78-tone MRU comprising a combination of a 52-tone RU and a 26-tone RU, the 132-tone RU comprising a combination of a 106-tone RU and a 26-tone RU.

30. The product of claim 27 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EHT STA to encode the RU allocation subfield together with one or more overflow bits of a Universal Signal (U-SIG) field of the OFDMA EHT PPDU.

31. An apparatus for an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) wireless communication station (STA), the apparatus comprising:

means for setting a Resource Unit (RU) allocation subfield in an EHT Signal (SIG) field to indicate an RU assignment for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) EHT Physical layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) according to a predefined RU allocation table, the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprising a Multiple Resource Unit (MRU) comprising a plurality of RUs, wherein the predefined RU allocation table comprises a plurality of RU assignments, which comprise at least one 106-tone RU, the plurality of RU assignments comprising a number-of-entries set to “1” to restrict the plurality of RU assignments to a single user transmission; and

means for causing the EHT STA to transmit the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprising the EHT SIG field.

32. The apparatus of claim 31 , wherein the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprises at least one small MRU, the at least one small MRU comprising at least one of a 78-tone MRU or a 132-tone MRU, the 78-tone MRU comprising a combination of a 52-tone RU and a 26-tone RU, the 132-tone RU comprising a combination of a 106-tone RU and a 26-tone RU.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 3, 2021
From: CHEN, XIAOGANG; LI, QINGHUA; JIANG, FENG; KENNEY, THOMAS J.
To: INTEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 057068/0262 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63021832 · May 8, 2020
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