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US 12,413,339 · App. 18/502,880 · Granted Sep 9, 2025

Modulation of extended long range wireless packets

Inventors: Lin Yang (San Diego, CA); Tzu-Hsuan Chou (San Diego, CA); Bin Tian (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
H04L1/0061H04L1/0059H04L27/2666
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Patent No.
US 12,413,339
App. No.
18/502,880
Granted
Sep 9, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for modulation of extended long range (ELR) wireless packets. A wireless communication device receives an indication to transmit a single-user wireless packet associated with an ELR communication mode. The indication may be of a resource allocation, associated with the ELR communication mode, via which to transmit the packet. The packet may include a preamble portion and a data portion, with at least the data portion associated with a duplication scheme pertaining to the ELR communication mode. The wireless communication device transmits the packet in accordance with the indication. The wireless communication device may transmit the packet using a first quantity of duplications of at least the data portion in accordance with the duplication scheme, with the first quantity of duplications associated with the ELR communication mode.

Claims (61)

1. A wireless communication device, comprising:

a processing system that includes processor circuitry and memory circuitry that stores code, the processing system configured to cause the wireless communication device to:

receive an indication to transmit a single-user wireless packet associated with an extended long range communication mode, wherein the single-user wireless packet includes a preamble portion and a data portion, and wherein at least the data portion is associated with a duplication scheme pertaining to the extended long range communication mode; and

transmit, in accordance with the indication, the single-user wireless packet using a first quantity of duplications of at least the data portion in accordance with the duplication scheme, wherein the first quantity of duplications is associated with the extended long range communication mode.

2. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein the processing system is further configured to cause the wireless communication device to:

produce the first quantity of duplications of at least the data portion according to a blockwise repetition procedure; and

apply a binary convolutional coding (BCC) interleaver, a low-density parity check (LDPC) tone mapper, or both to the data portion.

3. The wireless communication device of claim 2 , wherein the processing system is further configured to cause the wireless communication device to:

apply a scrambling sequence to the first quantity of duplications of at least the data portion prior to applying the BCC interleaver, the LDPC tone mapper, or both to the data portion.

4. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein the processing system is further configured to cause the wireless communication device to:

encode the data portion according to a low-density parity check (LDPC) coding scheme, wherein the LDPC coding scheme is associated with an outer coding of the data portion;

encode LDPC coded bits of the data portion according to a repetition coding scheme, wherein the repetition coding scheme is associated with an inner coding of the data portion; and

produce the first quantity of duplications of at least the data portion in accordance with concatenating the LDPC coding scheme with the repetition coding scheme and repeating LDPC encoded bits by the first quantity.

5. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein the processing system is further configured to cause the wireless communication device to:

duplicate a plurality of symbols of the data portion in a time domain to produce the first quantity of duplications, the single-user wireless packet including a quantity of guard intervals in the time domain corresponding to the first quantity of duplications.

6. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein the processing system is further configured to cause the wireless communication device to:

populate a subset of tones in a frequency domain in accordance with the first quantity of duplications; and

produce the first quantity of duplications in accordance with transforming a frequency domain signal associated with the subset of tones to a time domain signal associated with a plurality of symbols, wherein the plurality of symbols are associated with the first quantity of duplications, and wherein the single-user wireless packet includes a guard interval prior to the plurality of symbols.

7. The wireless communication device of claim 6 , wherein the guard interval comprises a short guard interval of less than one microsecond.

8. The wireless communication device of claim 6 , wherein a quantity of the subset of tones is based at least in part on a resource unit size.

9. The wireless communication device of claim 6 , wherein, to populate the subset of tones, the processing system is configured to cause the wireless communication device to:

populate every fourth tone in a frequency domain resource allocation associated with a 4× symbol.

10. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein the processing system is further configured to cause the wireless communication device to:

modulate at least the data portion of the single-user wireless packet according to a first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and a first resource allocation, the first resource allocation being associated with the first quantity of duplications.

11. The wireless communication device of claim 10 , wherein the first MCS is MCS14 or MCS15 and the first resource allocation includes 26 tones, the first quantity of duplications being extremely high throughout (EHT) duplications.

12. The wireless communication device of claim 10 , wherein the first MCS is MCS14 and the first resource allocation is a quantity of duplications of a resource unit including 52 tones, the quantity of duplications of the resource unit including 52 tones corresponding to the first quantity of duplications.

13. The wireless communication device of claim 10 , wherein the first MCS is MCS15 and the first resource allocation is a quantity of duplications of a first resource unit including 106 tones, the quantity of duplications of the first resource unit including 106 tones corresponding to half of the first quantity of duplications.

14. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein the duplication scheme comprises a coded-bit duplication scheme, a time domain duplication scheme, a frequency domain duplication scheme, or any combination thereof.

15. The wireless communication device of claim 14 , wherein the first quantity of duplications includes a first subset of duplications in accordance with the frequency domain duplication scheme and a second subset of duplications in accordance with the time domain duplication scheme.

16. The wireless communication device of claim 14 , wherein the first quantity of duplications includes a first subset of duplications in accordance with the coded-bit duplication scheme and a second subset of duplications in accordance with the time domain duplication scheme.

17. The wireless communication device of claim 14 , wherein the first quantity of duplications includes a first subset of duplications in accordance with the coded-bit duplication scheme and a second subset of duplications in accordance with the frequency domain duplication scheme.

18. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein, to transmit the single-user wireless packet, the processing system is configured to cause the wireless communication device to:

transmit the single-user wireless packet using the first quantity of duplications of at least the data portion and a signal (SIG) field of the single-user wireless packet in accordance with the duplication scheme, wherein the SIG field of the single-user wireless packet is associated with the extended long range communication mode.

19. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein the processing system is further configured to cause the wireless communication device to:

transmit a request to transmit the single-user wireless packet, wherein receiving the indication to transmit the single-user wireless packet is based at least in part on the request.

20. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein the single-user wireless packet is associated with a single-user physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) format.

21. A wireless communication device, comprising:

a processing system that includes processor circuitry and memory circuitry that stores code, the processing system configured to cause the wireless communication device to:

receive an indication of a resource allocation via which to transmit a single-user wireless packet associated with an extended long range communication mode, wherein the resource allocation is associated with a distributed resource unit including 52 tones and a first frequency range; and

transmit the single-user wireless packet in accordance with the resource allocation, wherein the resource allocation is associated with the extended long range communication mode.

22. The wireless communication device of claim 21 , wherein the processing system is further configured to cause the wireless communication device to:

apply a power backoff in accordance with the resource allocation, wherein the resource allocation being associated with the distributed resource unit including 52 tones and the extended long range communication mode triggers an application of the power backoff; and

transmit the single-user wireless packet in accordance with the power backoff.

23. The wireless communication device of claim 21 , wherein:

the first frequency range is 20 megahertz (MHz).

24. The wireless communication device of claim 21 , wherein the single-user wireless packet is associated with power boosting, range extension, or both relative to other wireless packet transmissions by the wireless communication device.

25. A method for wireless communications at a wireless communication device, comprising:

receiving an indication to transmit a single-user wireless packet associated with an extended long range communication mode, wherein the single-user wireless packet includes a preamble portion and a data portion, and wherein at least the data portion is associated with a duplication scheme pertaining to the extended long range communication mode; and

transmitting, in accordance with the indication, the single-user wireless packet using a first quantity of duplications of at least the data portion in accordance with the duplication scheme, wherein the first quantity of duplications is associated with the extended long range communication mode.

26. The method of claim 25 , further comprising:

producing the first quantity of duplications of at least the data portion according to a blockwise repetition procedure; and

applying a binary convolutional coding (BCC) interleaver, a low-density parity check (LDPC) tone mapper, or both to the data portion.

27. The method of claim 26 , further comprising:

applying a scrambling sequence to the first quantity of duplications of at least the data portion prior to applying the BCC interleaver, the LDPC tone mapper, or both to the data portion.

28. A method for wireless communications at a wireless communication device, comprising:

transmitting an indication to transmit a single-user wireless packet associated with an extended long range communication mode, wherein the single-user wireless packet includes a preamble portion and a data portion, and wherein at least the data portion is associated with a duplication scheme pertaining to the extended long range communication mode; and

receiving, in accordance with the indication, the single-user wireless packet using a first quantity of duplications of at least the data portion in accordance with the duplication scheme, wherein the first quantity of duplications is associated with the extended long range communication mode.

29. The method of claim 28 , wherein receiving the single-user wireless packet comprises:

receiving the single-user wireless packet using the first quantity of duplications of at least the data portion and a signal (SIG) field of the single-user wireless packet in accordance with the duplication scheme, wherein the SIG field of the single-user wireless packet is associated with the extended long range communication mode.

30. The method of claim 28 , further comprising:

receiving a request to transmit the single-user wireless packet, wherein receiving the indication to transmit the single-user wireless packet is based at least in part on the request.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 29, 2023
From: YANG, LIN; CHOU, TZU-HSUAN; TIAN, BIN
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 065700/0058 →
Continuity (1)
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