IP Library Granted Patent US 12,355,689
Granted Patent B2
US 12,355,689 · App. 17/752,763 · Granted Jul 8, 2025

Device, system, and method for power spectrum density (PSD) limited transmissions

Inventors: Rui Cao (Sunnyvale, CA); Yan Zhang (Palo Alto, CA); Dong Wei (Austin, TX); Hongyuan Zhang (Fremont, CA)
Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
H04L5/0044H04B1/69H04L5/0007H04L27/2602H04W80/02
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Patent No.
US 12,355,689
App. No.
17/752,763
Granted
Jul 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A device, a system, and a method for power spectrum density (PSD) limited transmissions are disclosed. In an embodiment, the device includes a wireless network interface device implemented on one or more integrated circuits (ICs), where the wireless network interface device is configured to generate a Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) that includes a base modulation frequency unit, where the base modulation frequency unit is duplicated to unpunctured subchannels of the PPDU with a phase rotation, and transmit the PPDU in accordance with a power spectrum density (PSD) limit.

Claims (54)

1. A device comprising:

a wireless network interface device implemented on one or more integrated circuits (ICs), wherein the wireless network interface device is configured to:

generate a Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) that includes a base modulation frequency unit, wherein the base modulation frequency unit is duplicated to unpunctured subchannels of the PPDU with a phase rotation; and

transmit the PPDU in accordance with a power spectrum density (PSD) limit.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the PPDU is a non-orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (non-OFDMA) PPDU, and wherein:

data is modulated on a basic bandwidth and duplicated across a signal bandwidth; and

at least one of a per-basic bandwidth polarity change and a per-tone phase rotation is applied to the data.

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the phase rotation is defined by:

d′ k+i*N SD /2 =d′ k *e jθ i,k

wherein d′ represents modulated data, k represents a subcarrier of the base modulation frequency unit, i represents an index of the base modulation frequency unit, N SD represents a number of subcarriers included in the base modulation frequency unit, and j represents an imaginary unit that has a property of j 2 =−1.

4. The device of claim 1 , wherein the phase rotation is a per-unit phase rotation that uses one phase rotation defined for the base modulation frequency unit.

5. The device of claim 4 , wherein the base modulation frequency unit is 20 megahertz (MHz), and the one phase rotation is a per-20 MHz phase rotation that uses a gamma rotation defined for a preamble portion of the PPDU.

6. The device of claim 1 , wherein a signal bandwidth of the PPDU is 80 MHz with a punctured 20 MHz subchannel, and wherein the base modulation frequency unit and duplication scheme is at least one of:

242 Resource Unit (RU) modulated via Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) 0 (MCS0) and tri-subcarrier modulation (TCM); and

242 RU modulated via MCS0 and 484 RU modulated with dual-subcarrier modulation (DCM).

7. The device of claim 1 , wherein a signal bandwidth of the PPDU is 80 MHz, and wherein the base modulation frequency unit and duplication scheme is at least one of:

242 RU modulated via MCS0-DCM with four duplicates; and

106 distributed RU (dRU) modulated via MCS0.

8. The device of claim 1 , wherein a signal bandwidth of the PPDU is 160 MHz with at least one punctured 20 MHz subchannel, and wherein the base modulation frequency unit and duplication scheme is at least one of:

242 RU modulated via MCS0 with N duplicates, wherein N=6 for a 120 MHz bandwidth and N=7 for a 140 MHz bandwidth;

484+242 RU modulated via MCS0 with two duplicates for the 120 MHz bandwidth; and

484 RU modulated via MCS0 with three duplicates for the 120 MHz bandwidth.

9. The device of claim 1 , wherein a signal bandwidth of the PPDU is 160 MHz, and wherein the base modulation frequency unit and duplication scheme is at least one of:

242 RU modulated via MCS0 with eight duplicates;

484 RU modulated via MCS0-DCM with four duplicates;

242 RU distributed over 160 MHz and modulated via MCS0; and

242 RU distributed over 80 MHz and duplicated to another 80 MHz.

10. The device of claim 1 , wherein a signal bandwidth of the PPDU is 320 MHz with at least one punctured 20 MHz subchannel, and wherein the base modulation frequency unit and duplication scheme is at least one of:

242 RU modulated via MCS0 with N duplicates, wherein N=10 for a 200 MHz bandwidth, N=12 for a 240 MHz bandwidth, and N=14 for a 280 MHz bandwidth;

484 RU modulated via MCS0 with N duplicates, wherein N=5 for the 200 MHz bandwidth, N=6 for the 240 MHz bandwidth, and N=7 for the 280 MHz bandwidth; and

996 RU modulated via MCS0 with three duplicates for the 240 MHz bandwidth.

11. The device of claim 1 , wherein a signal bandwidth of the PPDU is 320 MHz, and wherein the base modulation frequency unit and duplication scheme is at least one of:

484 RU modulated via MCS0 with eight duplicates;

996 RU modulated via MCS0-DCM with four duplicates; and

484 RU distributed over 320 MHz and modulated via MCS0.

12. The device of claim 1 , wherein the PPDU is transmitted via a punctured Extremely High Throughput (EHT) orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) transmission using dRU for extended range (ER); and

wherein an RU is distributed over a predefined punctured spreading bandwidth within the base modulation frequency unit.

13. The device of claim 1 , wherein the PPDU is transmitted via a punctured EHT OFDMA transmission using dRU for ER; and

wherein an RU is distributed over a predefined contiguous spreading bandwidth within the base modulation frequency unit.

14. The device of claim 1 , wherein the PPDU is transmitted via a punctured EHT OFDMA transmission using dRU for ER; and

wherein an RU is distributed over a predefined base spreading frequency unit.

15. The device of claim 1 , wherein a 20 MHz EHT ER preamble is duplicated across unpunctured 20 MHz subchannels of the PPDU.

16. The device of claim 1 , wherein the base modulation frequency unit of the PPDU is one eighth (⅛) of a signal bandwidth with eight duplicates.

17. The device of claim 1 , wherein the base modulation frequency unit of the PPDU is one fourth (¼) of a signal bandwidth with DCM and with four duplicates.

18. The device of claim 1 , wherein a dRU is spread within one eighth (⅛) of a PPDU bandwidth, and wherein the dRU is duplicated across the PPDU bandwidth.

19. A system comprising:

a first wireless device, wherein the first wireless device includes a wireless network interface device implemented on one or more integrated circuits (ICs), and wherein the wireless network interface device is configured to:

generate a Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) that includes a base modulation frequency unit, wherein the base modulation frequency unit is duplicated to unpunctured subchannels of the PPDU with a phase rotation;

transmit the PPDU in accordance with a power spectrum density (PSD) limit; and

a second wireless device, wherein the second wireless device includes another wireless network interface device implemented on one or more other ICs, and wherein the other wireless network interface device is configured to:

receive the PPDU in accordance with the PSD limit.

20. A method for power spectrum density (PSD) limited transmissions, the method comprising:

generating, by a wireless device, a Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) that includes a base modulation frequency unit, wherein the base modulation frequency unit is duplicated to unpunctured subchannels of the PPDU with a phase rotation; and

transmitting, by the wireless device, the PPDU in accordance with a PSD limit.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 25, 2022
From: CAO, RUI; ZHANG, YAN; WEI, DONG; ZHANG, HONGYUAN
To: NXP USA, INC.
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Continuity (3)
Provisional Application 63214947 · Jun 25, 2021
Provisional Application 63213267 · Jun 22, 2021
Related Publication 20220407644A1 · Dec 22, 2022
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