Extended long range wireless packet design

An apparatus for wireless communications at a wireless station, comprising:

• a processing system that includes one or more processors and one or more memories coupled with the one or more processors, the processing system configured to cause the apparatus to:
• transmit, in accordance with a data rate associated with extended long range (ELR) communications, and via a frequency band that is at least 2.4 gigahertz or higher in a frequency domain, an (ELR) wireless packet that comprises a preamble and a data field, the preamble comprising a short training field, a long training field, or both dedicated to the (ELR) communications, a duration of the short training field associated with detection of the (ELR) wireless packet and an automatic gain control for the (ELR) wireless packet, the preamble and the data field of the (ELR) wireless packet being transmitted via a first bandwidth that is less than a threshold bandwidth for the (ELR) communications, the first bandwidth being in accordance with a downclocking ratio that is associated with a downclocking of a bandwidth of the ELR wireless packet from a second bandwidth to the first bandwidth.

A method for wireless communication at a wireless station, comprising:

• receiving an indication to transmit an extended long range (ELR) wireless packet comprising a preamble and a data field, the ELR wireless packet associated with a frequency band that is at least 2.4 gigahertz or higher in a frequency domain and associated with orthogonal frequency division (OFDM) communications;
• and
• transmitting, in accordance with the indication and a data rate associated with ELR communications, the ELR wireless packet including the preamble and the data field, the preamble including single legacy short training field (STF) (L-STF), a single legacy long training field (LTF) (L-LTF), a legacy signal (SIG) field (L-SIG), a single repeat of the L-SIG field (RL-SIG), a universal SIG field (U-SIG), a single ELR STF (ELR-STF), one or more ELR LTFs (ELR-LTFs), and an ELR SIG field (ELR-SIG) that is repeated 4 times in the time domain, the data field also being repeated 4 times in the time domain, the data rate being less than a minimum data rate used for a legacy version of an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standard, and the L-STF and L-LTF being transmitted with a higher power than that used for the other fields of the preamble.

A method for wireless communication at a wireless station, comprising:

• transmitting, in accordance with a data rate associated with extended long range (ELR) communications, and via a frequency band that is at least 2.4 gigahertz or higher in a frequency domain, an (ELR) wireless packet that comprises a preamble and a data field, the preamble comprising a short training field, a long training field, or both dedicated to the (ELR) communications, a duration of the short training field associated with detection of the (ELR) wireless packet and an automatic gain control for the (ELR) wireless packet, the preamble and the data field of the (ELR) wireless packet being transmitted via a first bandwidth that is less than a threshold bandwidth for the (ELR) communications, the first bandwidth being in accordance with a downclocking ratio that is associated with a downclocking of a bandwidth of the ELR wireless packet from a second bandwidth to the first bandwidth.