Apparatus and method for scheduled uplink multi-user access with concurrent peer-to-peer communications

An electronic device, comprising:

• a transceiver configured to transmit and receive wireless communications;
• and
• one or more processors communicatively coupled to the transceiver and configured to:
• establish one or more peer-to-peer (P2P) connections;
• populate a P2P resource unit (RU) mapping table that includes:
• one or more identifiers corresponding to one or more respective peer devices, and one or more RU allocations with decoding parameters corresponding to the one or more identifiers, wherein the one or more respective peer devices are associated with the one or more established connections;
• receive a trigger frame that includes information used to populate the P2P RU mapping table;
• and
• decode frames of the one or more RU allocations using corresponding decoding parameters.

A method, comprising:

• exchanging a resource unit (RU) Usage Agreement with a second electronic device of N peer devices, wherein the electronic device can process N RUs at a time, where N is an integer;
• receiving, from an access point, a trigger frame that identifies an RU allocated to the electronic device for transmitting infrastructure traffic to the access point;
• determining, based at least on an RU usage policy comprising the RU Usage Agreement, whether to use the allocated RU to transmit peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic to the second electronic device;
• and
• transmitting, based at least on the determination, the P2P traffic to the second electronic device utilizing the allocated RU.