Apparatus, system and method of beamforming
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsSolomon B. Trainin, Carlos Cordeiro, Assaf Kasher
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Abstract
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of beamforming. For example, a first station may be configured to transmit to a second station a plurality of sector sweep (SSW) frames of a first beamforming transmission of a beamforming procedure, a SSW frame of the first beamforming transmission including a duration value to indicate a time until at least a beginning of a second beamforming transmission subsequent to the first beamforming transmission; and to receive from the second station one or more SSW frames of the second beamforming transmission.
Claims25
An apparatus including one or more processors having circuitry, the circuitry to cause a first station to:
- transmit to a second station a plurality of sector sweep (SSW) frames of a first beamforming transmission of a beamforming procedure, a SSW frame of the first beamforming transmission including a duration value to indicate a time until at least a beginning of a second beamforming transmission subsequent to said first beamforming transmission;
- and
- to receive from the second station one or more SSW frames of the second beamforming transmission.
A wireless communication device comprising:
- one or more antennas;
- a memory;
- a processor;
- a transmitter to transmit to a station a plurality of sector sweep (SSW) frames of a first beamforming transmission of a beamforming procedure, a SSW frame of the first beamforming transmission including a duration value to indicate a time until at least a beginning of a second beamforming transmission subsequent to said first beamforming transmission;
- and
- a receiver to receive from the station one or more SSW frames of the second beamforming transmission.
A method to be performed by a first station, the method comprising:
- transmitting to a second station a plurality of sector sweep (SSW) frames of a first beamforming transmission of a beamforming procedure, a SSW frame of the first beamforming transmission including a duration value to indicate a time until at least a beginning of a second beamforming transmission subsequent to said first beamforming transmission;
- and
- receiving from the second station one or more SSW frames of the second beamforming transmission.
A product including one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one computer processor, enable the at least one computer processor to implement a method at a first station, the method comprising:
- transmitting to a second station a plurality of sector sweep (SSW) frames of a first beamforming transmission of a beamforming procedure, a SSW frame of the first beamforming transmission including a duration value to indicate a time until at least a beginning of a second beamforming transmission subsequent to said first beamforming transmission;
- and
- receiving from the second station one or more SSW frames of the second beamforming transmission.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.