Apparatus and method for wake-up radio transmission modes

1. An electronic device comprising:

a memory; and

one or more processors communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to:

transmit a first wake-up radio (WUR) packet in a first channel of a wideband basic service set (BSS) communication, wherein the first WUR packet comprises a first WUR beacon and an indication of a first transmission power of the first channel, wherein the first transmission power of the first channel is different than a sum transmission power of the wideband BSS communication that includes the first channel and at least one other channel;

based on a policy, transmit the indication of the first transmission power in one out of every N WUR beacons transmitted, where N is an integer greater than 1; and

transmit, substantially concurrently with the first WUR packet transmission, a second WUR packet in a duplicated WUR transmission mode in a second channel of the wideband BSS communication.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

transmit a third WUR packet in a non-duplicated WUR transmission mode in a third channel of the wideband BSS communication; and

subsequently transmit, after the third WUR packet transmission, a wireless local area network (WLAN) packet.

3. The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein the third WUR packet comprises a second WUR beacon and an indication of a primary channel of a network radio of the electronic device.

4. The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein the first WUR packet comprises an explicit mode indicator, and wherein prior to transmitting the third WUR packet, the one or more processors are configured to:

implicitly assign a station to the third channel based at least in part on a global unique identifier of the station.

5. The electronic device of claim 4 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

implicitly assign a position within the third channel to the station, wherein the third WUR packet is assigned to the position.

6. The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein the first WUR packet comprises an explicit mode indicator, and wherein prior to transmitting the third WUR packet, the one or more processors are further configured to:

explicitly assign the third channel to a station.

7. The electronic device of claim 6 , wherein to explicitly assign the third channel, the one or more processors are configured to:

receive, from the station, a WUR request frame indicating a preferred channel; and

transmit, to the station, a WUR response frame indicating the third channel is explicitly assigned.

8. The electronic device of claim 7 , wherein the WUR request frame indicates a preferred position within the preferred channel, the one or more processors are further configured to:

determine, within the third channel, an assigned position at which the third WUR packet is located; and

transmit the assigned position in the WUR response frame.

9. The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

concurrently transmit with the third WUR packet transmission, a fourth WUR packet in the non-duplicated WUR transmission mode in the third channel of the wideband BSS communication.

10. The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to: assign two or more stations to the third channel of the wideband BSS communication, wherein the third WUR packet comprises a multicast message directed to the two or more stations.

11. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

concurrently transmit with the first WUR packet transmission, a third WUR packet in a duplicated WUR transmission mode in the first channel of the wideband BSS communication.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by one or more processors in an electronic device cause the one or more processors to perform operations for receiving a wake-up radio (WUR) packet, the operations comprising:

receiving a first WUR packet comprising a first WUR beacon that comprises:

an explicit mode indicator on a first channel of a wideband basic service set (BSS) communication; and

an indication of a first transmission power of the first channel, wherein the first transmission power of the first channel is different than a sum transmission power of the wideband BSS communication that includes the first channel and at least one other channel, wherein based on a policy, the indication of the first transmission power is received in one out of every N WUR beacons received, where N is an integer greater than 1; and

determining, based at least in part on the explicit mode indicator, a second channel of the wideband BSS communication to monitor for one or more additional WUR packets;

receiving a second WUR packet on the second channel;

in response to receiving the second WUR packet, waking a main radio of the electronic device; and

receiving a wireless local area network (WLAN) packet using the main radio of the electronic device.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein to determine the second channel of the wideband BSS communication to monitor, the operations comprise:

selecting the second channel of the wideband BSS communication based at least in part on a global unique identifier of the electronic device.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein to determine the second channel of the wideband BSS communication to monitor, the operations comprise:

transmitting, in a WUR request frame, a preferred channel of the wideband BSS communication to monitor for one or more additional WUR packets; and

receiving, in a WUR response frame, a channel index that identifies an assigned channel of the wideband BSS communication, wherein the assigned channel comprises the second channel.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the operations further comprise:

transmitting, in the WUR request frame, a preferred position within the preferred channel to monitor for one or more additional WUR packets; and

receiving, in the WUR response frame, an assigned position in the second channel.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the operations further comprise:

based at least in part on the first transmission power, estimating a distance between the electronic device and a second electronic device from which the first WUR packet is received.

17. A method for an electronic device comprising:

transmitting a first wake-up radio (WUR) packet in a first channel of a wideband basic service set (BSS) communication, wherein the first WUR packet comprises a first WUR beacon and an indication of a first transmission power of the first channel, wherein the first transmission power of the first channel is different than a sum transmission power of the wideband BSS communication that includes the first channel and at least one other channel;

based on a policy, transmitting the indication of the first transmission power in one out of every N WUR beacons transmitted, where N is an integer greater than 1; and

transmitting, substantially concurrently with the first WUR packet transmission, a second WUR packet in a non-duplicated WUR transmission mode in a second channel of the wideband BSS communication.

18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising:

transmitting a third WUR packet and a fourth WUR packet in a duplicated WUR transmission mode in a third channel of the wideband BSS communication.

19. The method of claim 17 , wherein, prior to transmitting the first WUR packet, the method further comprises:

assigning two or more stations to a position within the first channel, wherein the first WUR packet comprises a multicast message directed to the two or more stations.