Systems, methods and apparatuses for multiple access point (multi-AP) coordination in wireless local area networks (WLANs)

A station (STA) comprising:

• one or more transceivers configured to establish a multi-access point (AP) communication session with a first AP and a second AP;
• and
• one or more processors configured to:
• measure parameters of a first communication received from the first AP and a second communication received from the second AP, and
• identify membership of the STA in a communication group of a plurality of communication groups based on the measured parameters;
• and
• wherein the one or more transceivers are further configured to provide an identification of the membership of the STA in the communication group to each of the first AP and second AP.

A method for coordinated orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) transmission, the method comprising:

• transmitting, by a first access point (AP) to a plurality of stations (STAs) engaged in a multi-AP communication session with the first AP and a second AP, a cell center/cell edge discovery communication;
• receiving, by the first AP from each of the plurality of STAs, an identification of the respective STA as associated with a cell center or cell edge for the first AP;
• and
• responsive to receipt of the identifications:
• communicating, by the first AP, with one or more STAs associated with the cell center using a first group of resource units, and
• communicating, by the first AP, with one or more STAs associated with the cell edge using a second group of resource units;
• wherein a number of resource units of the first group exceeds a number of resource units of the second group.