Techniques for high efficiency basic service set operation

An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

• a transceiver;
• a memory configured to store instructions;
• and
• a processor communicatively coupled with the memory, the processor configured to execute the instructions to:
• identify, at a wireless station (STA), a set including one or more modulation coding scheme (MCS) and number of spatial streams (NSS) tuples for high efficiency (HE) communications in wireless local area networks (WLANs);
• determine whether the set is supported by a basic service set (BSS);
• and
• determine that the STA is to attempt to join the BSS in response to a determination that the set is supported by the BSS.

An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

• a transceiver;
• a memory configured to store instructions;
• and
• a processor communicatively coupled with the memory, the processor configured to execute the instructions to:
• set, at a wireless station (STA), a channel width capability for high throughout (HT) communications and very high throughput (VHT) communications in wireless local area networks (WLANs) to be the same as a channel width capability for high efficiency (HE) communications in WLANs;
• and
• transmit, via the transceiver, information that indicates that the STA has the same channel width capability for HT communications, VHT communications, and HE communications in WLANs.