Reverse direction for multi-user multiple input multiple output communications
AssigneeIntel IP Corporation
InventorsOu Yang, Oren Kedem, Solomon Trainin, Chittabrata Ghosh, Carlos Cordeiro, Laurent Cariou
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Abstract
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to reverse direction multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO). A device may determine a reverse direction indication to be included in a frame for transmission to one or more first devices in a MU-MIMO communication. The device may cause to wirelessly transmit the frame to a first device of the one or more first devices. The device may identify an acknowledgment frame from the at least one of the first devices based at least in part on the reverse direction indication
Claims20
A device, the device comprising a memory and a processing circuitry configured to:
- determine a reverse direction indication to be included in a frame for transmission to one or more first devices in a multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) communication;
- cause to wirelessly transmit the frame to a first device of the one or more first devices;
- and
- identify an acknowledgment frame received from the first devices, wherein the acknowledgement frame includes at least in part an indication of one or more aggregated data frames.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions which when executed by one or more processors result in performing operations comprising:
- identifying a multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) frame received from a device;
- identifying a reverse direction indication included in the MU-MIMO frame;
- and
- causing to aggregate one or more data frames with an acknowledgment frame based at least in part on the reverse direction indication;
- determining if there are additional data frames to be sent;
- and
- causing to send the additional data frames with or without aggregation based at least in part on the reverse direction indication.
A method comprising:
- determining, by one or more processors, a reverse direction indication to be included in a frame for transmission to one or more devices in a multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) communication;
- causing to wirelessly transmit the frame to a device of the one or more devices;
- and
- identifying an acknowledgment frame received from the one or more devices, wherein the acknowledgement frame includes at least in part an indication of one or more aggregated data frames.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.