IP Library Granted Patent US 11,689,405
Granted Patent B2
US 11,689,405 · App. 17/483,442 · Granted Jun 27, 2023

Apparatus, system and method of transmitting a PPDU

Inventors: Alexander Maltsev (Nizhny Novgorod, RU); Carlos Cordeiro (Portland, OR); Artyom Lomayev (Nizhny Novgorod, RU); Michael Genossar (Modiin, IL); Claudio Da Silva (Portland, OR)
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
H04L27/2613H03M13/11H04J13/0014H04L1/0061H04L27/2605
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Patent No.
US 11,689,405
App. No.
17/483,442
Granted
Jun 27, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

An apparatus of a transmitter may include, for example, a Golay builder to build modulated Golay sequences for at least a non-EDMG Short Training Field (L-STF), and a non-EDMG Channel Estimation Field (L-CEF) of a PPDU; a scrambler to generate scrambled bits by scrambling bits of a non-EDMG header (L-header) and a data field of the PPDU; an encoder to encode the scrambled bits into encoded bits according to a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code; a constellation mapper to map the encoded bits into a stream of constellation points according to a constellation scheme; a spreader to spread the stream of constellation points according to a Golay sequence; and a transmit chain mapper to map a bit stream output from the Golay builder and the spreader to a plurality of transmit chains by applying a spatial expansion with relative cyclic shift over the plurality of transmit chains.

Claims (42)

1. An apparatus comprising:

a transmitter comprising logic and circuitry configured to generate a transmission of an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Multi User (MU) Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) for a plurality of users, the transmitter configured to generate a plurality of space-time stream flows corresponding to the plurality of users, respectively, a space-time stream flow corresponding to a user comprising one or more space-time streams corresponding to the user, wherein the transmitter is configured to encode the EDMG OFDM MU PPDU with an independent flow per user, and to maintain a common space-time stream numeration over all users of the plurality of users, the transmitter comprising:

a preamble builder to build symbols of an EDMG Short Training Field (EDMG-STF) and an EDMG Channel Estimation Field (EDMG-CEF) of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user;

a scrambler to generate scrambled bits of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user by scrambling bits of a data field for the user;

a Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) encoder to encode the scrambled bits of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user into encoded bits of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user according to an LDPC code;

a constellation mapper to map the encoded bits of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user into constellation points over one or more spatial streams of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user; and

a spatial mapper to map the plurality of space-time stream flows corresponding to the plurality of users to a plurality of transmit chains, wherein the one or more space-time streams corresponding to the user are based on the symbols of the EDMG-STF and EDMG-CEF of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user, and on the constellation points over the one or more spatial streams of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the transmitter is configured to generate the encoded bits of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user based on a seed value for the user.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the transmitter is configured to generate the encoded bits of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user based on a seed value in an EDMG Header B of the EDMG OFDM MU PPDU.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user comprises no more than two space-time streams corresponding to the user.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more spatial streams of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user comprises no more than two spatial streams.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising a stream parser to divide an output of the LDPC encoder to the one or more spatial streams of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the stream parser is configured to provide the encoded bits of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user to the constellation mapper over the one or more spatial streams of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising a Space Time Block Code (STBC) encoder to spread the constellation points from the one or more spatial streams of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user into a plurality of space-time streams of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein a count of the plurality of space-time streams of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user is double a count of the one or more spatial streams of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising an interleaver to interleave symbols in an OFDM symbol of the one or more spatial streams of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the spatial mapper is to map space-time streams of the plurality of space-time stream flows to the plurality of transmit chains according to a direct mapping scheme by mapping constellation points from each space-time stream directly to the transmit chains.

12. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the spatial mapper is to map space-time streams of the plurality of space-time stream flows to the plurality of transmit chains according to an indirect mapping scheme by mapping constellation points from each space-time stream to each transmit chain.

13. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the spatial mapper is to map space-time streams of the plurality of space-time stream flows to the plurality of transmit chains according to a digital beamforming scheme by multiplying each vector of constellation points from all of the space-time streams by a matrix of steering vectors.

14. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising a combiner to provide a space-time stream of the one or more space-time streams corresponding to the user by combining the symbols of the EDMG-STF and EDMG-CEF of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user, with constellation points for the space-time stream.

15. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the preamble builder is configured to build the symbols of the EDMG-STF and EDMG-CEF of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user in a frequency domain.

16. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit the EDMG OFDM MU PPDU via the plurality of transmit chains in a channel bandwidth of at least 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz) over a frequency band above 45 GHz.

17. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit the EDMG OFDM MU PPDU over a channel bandwidth of 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz), 4.32 GHz, 6.48 GHz, or 8.64 GHz.

18. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising the plurality of transmit chains to transmit the EDMG OFDM MU PPDU.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 comprising a plurality of antennas connected to the plurality of transmit chains, a memory, and a processor to execute instructions of an Operating System (OS).

20. 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 a transmission of an EDMG Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Multi User (MU) Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) for a plurality of users, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to:

generate a plurality of space-time stream flows corresponding to the plurality of users, respectively, a space-time stream flow corresponding to a user comprising one or more space-time streams corresponding to the user, wherein generating the plurality of space-time stream flows corresponding to the plurality of users comprises encoding the EDMG OFDM MU PPDU with an independent flow per user, and maintaining a common space-time stream numeration over all users of the plurality of users, wherein generating the plurality of space-time stream flows corresponding to the plurality of users comprises:

building symbols of an EDMG Short Training Field (EDMG-STF) and an EDMG Channel Estimation Field (EDMG-CEF) of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user;

generating scrambled bits of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user by scrambling bits of a data field for the user;

encoding the scrambled bits of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user into encoded bits of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user according to a Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) code; and

mapping the encoded bits of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user into constellation points over one or more spatial streams of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user; and

map the plurality of space-time stream flows corresponding to the plurality of users to a plurality of transmit chains, wherein the one or more space-time streams corresponding to the user are based on the symbols of the EDMG-STF and EDMG-CEF of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user, and on the constellation points over the one or more spatial streams of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user.

21. The product of claim 20 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to generate the encoded bits of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user based on a seed value for the user.

22. The product of claim 20 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to generate the encoded bits of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user based on a seed value in an EDMG Header B of the EDMG OFDM MU PPDU.

23. An apparatus for generating at an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) wireless communication station (STA) a transmission of an EDMG Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Multi User (MU) Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) for a plurality of users, the apparatus comprising:

means for generating a plurality of space-time stream flows corresponding to the plurality of users, respectively, a space-time stream flow corresponding to a user comprising one or more space-time streams corresponding to the user, wherein generating the plurality of space-time stream flows corresponding to the plurality of users comprises encoding the EDMG OFDM MU PPDU with an independent flow per user, and maintaining a common space-time stream numeration over all users of the plurality of users, wherein generating the plurality of space-time stream flows corresponding to the plurality of users comprises:

building symbols of an EDMG Short Training Field (EDMG-STF) and an EDMG Channel Estimation Field (EDMG-CEF) of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user;

generating scrambled bits of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user by scrambling bits of a data field for the user;

encoding the scrambled bits of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user into encoded bits of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user according to a Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) code; and

mapping the encoded bits of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user into constellation points over one or more spatial streams of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user; and

means for mapping the plurality of space-time stream flows corresponding to the plurality of users to a plurality of transmit chains, wherein the one or more space-time streams corresponding to the user are based on the symbols of the EDMG-STF and EDMG-CEF of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user, and on the constellation points over the one or more spatial streams of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user.

24. The apparatus of claim 23 , wherein the means for generating the plurality of space-time stream flows corresponding to the plurality of users comprises means for providing a space-time stream of the one or more space-time streams corresponding to the user by combining the symbols of the EDMG-STF and EDMG-CEF of the space-time stream flow corresponding to the user with constellation points for the space-time stream.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 18, 2022
From: INTEL IP CORPORATION
To: INTEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 058755/0716 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 30, 2021
From: MALTSEV, ALEXANDER; CORDEIRO, CARLOS; LOMAYEV, ARTYOM; GENOSSAR, MICHAEL; DA SILVA, CLAUDIO
To: INTEL IP CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 058243/0001 →