Channel bonding mode signaling for punctured channels

A wireless communication device, comprising:

• processor electronics configured to
• select a channel bonding mode from a plurality of channel bonding modes, wherein (i) each of the plurality of channel bonding modes indicates at least two wireless communication channels and (ii) at least one of the plurality of channel bonding modes corresponds to a mode that indicates a punctured wireless communication channel, and
• generate a frame to be transmitted from the wireless communication device in accordance with the selected channel bonding mode, wherein (i) the frame includes a preamble portion and a data portion and (ii) the preamble portion includes a first preamble field and a second preamble field, (iii) the first preamble field is a bandwidth field of a high efficiency (HE) signal A (HE-SIG-A) field and the second field is an HE signal B (HE-SIG-B) field, wherein the HE-SIG-A and HE-SIG-B fields include multiple subfields indicating transmission parameters, and (iv) the selected channel bonding mode is indicated by a combination of contents of the first preamble field and the second preamble field, wherein the contents of the first preamble field indicate one of a first set of channel bonding modes corresponding to a primary channel bonding mode, the contents of the second preamble field indicate one of a second set of channel bonding modes corresponding to a secondary channel bonding mode, and each of the channel bonding modes in the first set of channel bonding modes includes at least one HE-SIG-B content channel 1 and at least one HE-SIG-B content channel 2 in a primary 80 MHz channel;
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• transceiver electronics configured to transmit the frame on the wireless communication channels indicated by the selected channel bonding mode identified in the combination of the contents of the first preamble field and the second preamble field.