IP Library Granted Patent US 12,341,721
Granted Patent B2
US 12,341,721 · App. 17/860,735 · Granted Jun 24, 2025

Resource allocation signalng in a wireless local area network preamble

Inventors: Oded Redlich (Hod Hasharon, IL); Genadiy Tsodik (Hod Hasharon, IL); Shimon Shilo (Hod Hasharon, IL); Mengshi Hu (Shenzhen, CN); Jian Yu (Shenzhen, CN)
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
H04L5/0053H04W72/23H04W84/12
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Patent No.
US 12,341,721
App. No.
17/860,735
Granted
Jun 24, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An apparatus for wireless communication. A memory stores instructions; and a processor coupled with the memory, wherein the processor executes the instructions in memory to cause the processor to: generate a signaling field, SIG, in a wireless local area network, WLAN, wherein the SIG includes a resource unit, RU, allocation field, indicating a size and location of an RU in a frequency resource, the SIG further including one or more user fields, a user field including information of a scheduled station, STA; wherein an MRU which includes multiple RUs is assigned to one STA; and transmit the SIG.

Claims (30)

1. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

a memory that stores instructions; and

a processor coupled with the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions in the memory to cause the processor to:

generate a signaling field, SIG, in a wireless local area network, WLAN, the SIG includes a resource unit, RU, allocation field indicating a size and location of an RU in a frequency resource, the SIG further includes one or more user fields, wherein a user field includes information of a scheduled station, STA; wherein an MRU which includes multiple RUs is assigned to a same one or more STAs; and the SIG comprises a Single-RU user field and a MRU user field; the Single-RU user field corresponds to a RU which is not a MRU; a MRU user field corresponds to a MRU, comprising at least the following: a STA identifier, STA ID; and a RU allocation information indicating size and location of each RU comprised in the MRU;

transmit the SIG.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the MRU is a small MRU, which includes combination of 26-RU, 52-RU, or 106-RU in a 20 MHz frequency segment; or the MRU is a large MRU which includes combination of 242-RU, 484-RU, or 996-RU in a transmission bandwidth.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the MRU includes a first RU and a second RU, and the SIG includes a first user field corresponding to the first RU and a second user field corresponding to the second RU, the first user field and the second user field including a same ID of the STA.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3 , the second user field further includes one or any combination of the following:

the number of RUs assigned to the STA; and

the size and location of an RU in the MRU assigned to the STA.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a common field of the SIG includes at least one of information for small MRU allocated in a corresponding 20 MHz frequency segment, and information for a number of a large MRU allocated in a bandwidth of the transmission.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the SIG includes a Common-MRU field indicating at least one of which 26-RUs are included in an MRU in a corresponding 20 MHz frequency segment, and which 242-RUs are included in an MRU in a bandwidth of the transmission.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the SIG includes one or more Common-MRU fields, a Common-MRU field indicating which actual allocated RUs are in an MRU.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the SIG includes puncturing information, indicating a non-contiguous large RU and one or more user-fields corresponding to the non-contiguous large RU, the one or more user-fields include a different station's information.

9. A method for wireless communication, comprising:

generating a signaling field, SIG, in a wireless local area network, WLAN, the SIG including a resource unit, RU, and an allocation field indicating a size and location of an RU in a frequency resource, the SIG further including one or more user fields, a user field including information of a scheduled station, STA; wherein a MRU which includes multiple RUs is assigned to a same one or more STAs; and the SIG comprises a Single-RU user field and a MRU user field; the Single-RU user field corresponds to a RU which is not a MRU; a MRU user field corresponds to a MRU, comprising at least the following: a STA identifier, STA_ID; and a RU c comprised in the MRU;

transmitting the SIG.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the MRU is a small MRU which includes combination of 26-RU, 52-RU, or 106-RU in a 20 MHz frequency segment, and the MRU is a large MRU which includes combination of 242-RU, 484-RU, or 996-RU in a transmission bandwidth.

11. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the MRU includes a first RU and a second RU, an EHT-SIG includes a first user field corresponding to the first RU and a second user field corresponding to the second RU, wherein the first user field and the second user field including a same ID of the STA.

12. The method according to claim 11 , the second user field further includes at least one of:

the number of RUs assigned to the STA; and

the size and location of an RU in the MRU assigned to the STA.

13. The method according to claim 9 , a common field of the SIG includes at least one of information for small MRU allocated in a corresponding 20 MHz frequency segment, and information for a number of the large MRU allocated in a bandwidth of the transmission.

14. The method according to claim 9 , the SIG includes a Common-MRU field indicating which 26-RUs are included in an MRU in a corresponding 20 MHz frequency segment, and indicating which 242-RUs are included in an MRU in a bandwidth of the transmission.

15. The method according to claim 9 , the SIG includes one or more Common-MRU fields, a Common-MRU field indicating which actual allocated RUs are in an MRU.

16. The method according to claim 9 , the SIG includes puncturing information, indicating a non-contiguous large RU and one or more user-fields corresponding to the non-contiguous large RU, the one or more user-fields including a different station's information.

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium configured to store instructions thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

generate a signaling field, SIG, in a wireless local area network, WLAN, the SIG includes a resource unit, RU, allocation field indicating a size and location of an RU in a frequency resource, the SIG further includes one or more user fields, wherein a user field includes information of a scheduled station, STA; wherein an MRU which includes multiple RUs is assigned to a same one or more STAs; and the SIG comprises a Single-RU user field and a MRU user field; the Single-RU user field corresponds to a RU which is not a MRU; a MRU user field corresponds to a MRU, comprising at least the following: a STA identifier, STA ID; and a RU allocation information indicating size and location of each RU comprised in the MRU;

transmit the SIG.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17 , wherein the MRU is a small MRU, which includes combination of 26-RU, 52-RU, or 106-RU in a 20 MHz frequency segment; or the MRU is a large MRU which includes combination of 242-RU, 484-RU, or 996-RU in a transmission bandwidth.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 3, 2025
From: REDLICH, ODED; TSODIK, GENADIY; SHILO, SHIMON; HU, MENGSHI; YU, JIAN
To: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
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Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTEP2020050607 · Jan 10, 2020
Related Publication 20220345276A1 · Oct 27, 2022
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