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US 10,567,128 B2Granted
System and method for OFDMA tone allocation in next generation Wi-Fi networks
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsJung Hoon Suh, Osama Aboul-Magd
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Abstract
An orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) frame tone allocation includes a 256 tone payload consisting of 228 data and pilot tones and 28 null tones. The 28 null tones consist of guard tones and at least one direct current (DC) tone. In one example, the 256 tone payload consists of 224 data tones, 4 common pilot tones, and 28 null tones. In another example, the 256 tone payload consists of 222 data tones, 6 common pilot tones, and 28 null tones. In yet another example, the 256 tone payload may consist of 220 data tones, 8 common pilot tones, and 28 null tones. The OFDMA frame may be a downlink OFDMA frame or an uplink OFDMA frame.
Claims18
A method, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a first mobile device, a downlink orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) frame over a channel spanning at least 20 megahertz (MHz) in the frequency domain, wherein the downlink OFDMA frame carries a 256-tone payload over the channel, the 256-tone payload including data tones, null tones, and pilot tones, based on a set tone allocation;
- and wherein the data tones and the pilot tones are partitioned into a plurality of resource units in the set tone allocation;
- wherein different resource units (RUs) in the downlink OFDMA frame are communicated by an access point (AP) to different mobile devices including the first mobile device, and wherein each of the RUs in the downlink OFDMA frame carries at least two pilot tones;
- and
- performing, by the first mobile device, residual carrier frequency offset estimation on the downlink OFDMA frame by tracking phase components of the pilot tones carried by each of the RUs.
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A first mobile device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a computer readable storage medium storing programming for execution by the processor, the programming including instructions to:
- receive a downlink orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) frame over a channel spanning at least 20 megahertz (MHz) in the frequency domain, wherein the downlink OFDMA frame carries a 256-tone payload over the channel, the 256-tone payload including data tones, null tones, and pilot tones, based on a set tone allocation;
- and wherein the data tones and the pilot tones are partitioned into a plurality of resource units in the set tone allocation;
- wherein different resource units (RUs) in the downlink OFDMA frame are communicated by an access point (AP) to different mobile devices including the first mobile device, and wherein each of the RUs in the downlink OFDMA frame carries at least two pilot tones;
- and
- perform residual carrier frequency offset estimation on the downlink OFDMA frame by tracking phase components of the pilot tones carried by each of the RUs.
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A method, the method comprising:
- transmitting, by an access point (AP), a downlink orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) frame over a channel spanning at least 20 megahertz (MHz) in the frequency domain, wherein the downlink OFDMA frame carries a 256-tone payload over the channel, the 256-tone payload including data tones, null tones, and pilot tones, based on a set tone allocation;
- and wherein the data tones and pilot tones are partitioned into a plurality of resource units in the set tone allocation;
- wherein different resource units (RUs) in the downlink OFDMA frame are communicated by the AP to different mobile devices including a first mobile device, wherein each of the RUs in the downlink OFDMA frame carries at least two pilot tones, and wherein the first mobile device performs residual carrier frequency offset estimation on the downlink OFDMA frame by tracking phase components of the pilot tones carried by each of the RUs.
An access point (AP) comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a computer readable storage medium storing programming for execution by the processor, the programming including instructions to:
- transmit a downlink orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) frame over a channel spanning at least 20 megahertz (MHz) in the frequency domain, wherein the downlink OFDMA frame carries a 256-tone payload over the channel, the 256-tone payload including data tones, null tones, and pilot tones, based on a set tone allocation;
- and wherein the data tones and the pilot tones are partitioned into a plurality of resource units in the set tone allocation;
- wherein different resource units (RUs) in the downlink OFDMA frame are communicated by the AP to different mobile devices including a first mobile device, wherein each of the RUs in the downlink OFDMA frame carries at least two pilot tones, and wherein the first mobile device performs residual carrier frequency offset estimation on the downlink OFDMA frame by tracking phase components of the pilot tones carried by each of the RUs.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.