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US 2017/0318481 A1Published application
Systems and methods facilitating high throughput control in wireless communications
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorSOLOMON TRAININ
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Abstract
Embodiments include systems and methods for frame tunneling in a wireless communications system comprising digital beam forming. Embodiments comprise a first and second frame control field with the second frame control field comprising a High Throughput Control (HTC) enabling field. If the HTC enabling field is enabled, then an HTC field is sent.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- a wireless station adapted for communications in a wireless network;
- wherein the wireless network uses a High Throughput Control (HTC) field for signaling such that the HTC field can be concatenated with control frames and requires that any station shall assert a network allocation vector (NAV) when any frame of a first type and a first subtype has been received, the first type and the first subtype indicative of a frame with the HTC field;
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- wherein the wireless station is configured to use the frame with the first subtype and is constructed to deliver a Control Frame+HTC to wireless stations operable in the wireless network, thereby enabling in parallel stations operating in the wireless network to be able to assert the NAV from a duration field of the frame.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a wireless station adapted for communications in a wireless network, the wireless station to use a frame format that includes:
- a first control field of the frame, prior to a duration field, defining a subtype using a type field and a subtype field;
- an address1 field following the duration field;
- a second control field following the address1 field comprising a byte count field, a subtype field indicating a control subtype concatenated with the HTC field, and a high throughput control (HTC) enabling field that if set to one will indicate that the HTC field is included in the second control field.
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A method, comprising:
- operating, by a wireless station adapted for communications in a wireless network, wherein the wireless network uses a High Throughput Control (HTC) field for signaling such that the HTC field can be concatenated with control frames and requires that any station shall assert a network allocation vector (NAV) when any frame of a first type and a first subtype has been received, the first type and the first subtype indicative of a frame with the HTC field;
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- generating, by the first station, the frame with a first subtype, the frame being constructed to deliver a Control Frame+HTC to wireless stations operable in the wireless network, thereby enabling in parallel stations operating in the wireless network to be able to assert the NAV from a duration field of the frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.