Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium for communication in a wireless local area network

A method of wireless communication by a station (STA), the method comprising:

• receiving one or more frames intended for a plurality of STAs, the one or more frames comprising:
• (1) information indicating a duration of time useable by the STA for updating at least one network allocation vector (NAV), (2) a field comprising one or more bits associated with at least one bandwidth or channel size available for an UL transmission following communication of at least one frame of the one or more frames, wherein a first range of possible values for the one or more bits of the field is associated with a set of one or more bandwidths or channel sizes that is different from another set of one or more bandwidths or channel sizes associated with a second range of possible values for the one or more bits of the field, (3) information corresponding to a target signal strength of the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame, and (4) information indicating a duration of at least a portion of the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame;
• while maintaining a plurality of NAVs, updating the at least one NAV of the plurality of NAVs based at least in part on (1) the information indicating the duration of time and (2) an identifier of a basic service set (BSS) with which the STA is associated, wherein the plurality of NAVs comprise at least (A) a first NAV for intra-BSS frames and (B) a second NAV for (i) non-intra-BSS frames and (ii) frames not characterized as intra-BSS frames or non-intra-BSS frames;
• for the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame, determining an amount of transmit power to utilize based at least in part on an amount of power loss during downlink (DL) transmission of the at least one frame to the STA and the received information corresponding to the target signal strength, the amount of power loss during the DL transmission of the at least one frame to the STA being based at least in part on a power measurement of the least one frame received by the STA;
• at least in part using the field comprising one or more bits received by the STA, determining which of one or more available resources is/are one or more resources allocated to the STA, wherein each of the one or more available resources corresponds to a subset of bandwidth available for the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame;
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• in accordance with the received information indicating the duration of the at least portion of the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame, transmitting the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame at least in part using (1) the determined one or more resources allocated to the STA and (2) the determined amount of transmit power to utilize for the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame.

An access point (AP) for wireless communication, the AP comprising:

• at least one transceiver;
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• one or more processors configured to at least in part utilize the at least one transceiver to perform one or more communications, the one or more communications comprising:
• transmit one or more frames to at least a station (STA) of a plurality of STAs, the one or more frames comprising:
• (1) information indicating a duration of time useable by the STA for updating at least one network allocation vector (NAV), (2) a field comprising one or more bits associated with at least one bandwidth or channel size available for an UL transmission following communication of at least one frame of the one or more frames, wherein a first range of possible values for the one or more bits of the field is associated with a set of one or more bandwidths or channel sizes that is different from another set of one or more bandwidths or channel sizes associated with a second range of possible values for the one or more bits of the field, (3) information corresponding to a target signal strength of the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame, and (4) information indicating a duration of at least a portion of the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame, wherein transmission of at least some of the one or more frames at least in part results in at least the STA:
• while maintaining a plurality of NAVs, updating the at least one NAV of the plurality of NAVs based at least in part on (A) the information indicating the duration of time and (B) an identifier of a basic service set (BSS) with which the STA is associated, wherein the plurality of NAVs comprise at least (i) a first NAV for intra-BSS frames and (ii) a second NAV for (a) non-intra-BSS frames and (b) frames not characterized as intra-BSS frames or non-intra-BSS frames;
• for the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame, determining an amount of transmit power to utilize based at least in part on an amount of power loss during downlink (DL) transmission of the at least one frame to the STA and the information corresponding to the target signal strength, the amount of power loss during the DL transmission of the at least one frame to the STA being based at least in part on a power measurement of the least one frame;
• at least in part using the field comprising one or more bits received by the STA, determining which of one or more available resources is/are one or more resources allocated to the STA, wherein each of the one or more available resources corresponds to a subset of bandwidth available for the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame;
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• in accordance with the information indicating the duration of the at least portion of the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame, transmitting the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame at least in part using (A) the one or more resources allocated to the STA and (B) the amount of transmit power to utilize for the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame.

A method of wireless communication by an access point (AP), the method comprising:

• transmitting one or more frames to at least a station (STA) of a plurality of STAs, the one or more frames comprising:
• (1) information indicating a duration of time useable by the STA for updating at least one network allocation vector (NAV), (2) a field comprising one or more bits associated with at least one bandwidth or channel size available for an UL transmission following communication of at least one frame of the one or more frames, wherein a first range of possible values for the one or more bits of the field is associated with a set of one or more bandwidths or channel sizes that is different from another set of one or more bandwidth or channel size associated with a second range of possible values for the one or more bits of the field, (3) information corresponding to a target signal strength of the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame, and (4) information indicating a duration of at least a portion of the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame, wherein transmission of at least some of the one or more frames at least in part results in at least the STA:
• while maintaining a plurality of NAVs, updating the at least one NAV of the plurality of NAVs based at least in part on (A) the information indicating the duration of time and (B) an identifier of a basic service set (BSS) with which the STA is associated, wherein the plurality of NAVs comprise at least (i) a first NAV for intra-BSS frames and (ii) a second NAV for (a) non-intra-BSS frames and (b) frames not characterized as intra-BSS frames or non-intra-BSS frames;
• for the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame, determining an amount of transmit power to utilize based at least in part on an amount of power loss during downlink (DL) transmission of the at least one frame to the STA and the information corresponding to the target signal strength, the amount of power loss during the DL transmission of the at least one frame to the STA being based at least in part on a power measurement of the least one frame;
• at least in part using the field comprising one or more bits received by the STA, determining which of one or more available resources is/are one or more resources allocated to the STA, wherein each of the one or more available resources corresponds to a subset of bandwidth available for the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame;
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• in accordance with the information indicating the duration of the at least portion of the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame, transmitting the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame at least in part using (A) the one or more resources allocated to the STA and (B) the amount of transmit power to utilize for the UL transmission following communication of the at least one frame.