Device and method of providing grant frame for bandwidth scheduling

The apparatus of 2, further comprising:

• transceiver circuitry, the transceiver circuitry coupled to the processing circuitry;
• and receive antennas, the receive antennas coupled to the transceiver circuitry, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:
• in response to the grant frame, configure the receive antennas to a directional antenna pattern for the bonded channels before the time indicated by the value of the allocation duration field.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by one or more processors of an apparatus of an enhanced directional multi gigabit (EDMG) station (STA), the instructions to configure the one or more processors to:

• decode a non EDMG physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU), the non-EDMG PPDU comprising a legacy header (L-Header), the L-Header comprising a field that indicates a control trailer is present, the non-EDMG PPDU further comprising a grant frame, the grant frame indicating an intent to transmit to the STA on a bonded channel an EDMG PPDU at a time indicated by a value of an allocation duration field, the control trailer indicating the bonded channel, wherein the non-EDMG PPDU is received from a peer STA;
• and
• decode the EDMG PPDU, wherein the EDMG PPDU is received on the bonded channel from the peer STA.

A method performed by an apparatus of an enhanced directional multi gigabit (EDMG) station (STA), the method comprising:

• decoding a non EDMG physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU), the non-EDMG PPDU comprising a legacy header (L-Header), the L-Header comprising a field that indicates a control trailer is present, the non-EDMG PPDU further comprising a grant frame, the grant frame indicating an to transmit to the STA on a bonded channel an EDMG PPDU at a time indicated by a value of an allocation duration field, the control trailer indicating the bonded channel, wherein the non-EDMG PPDU is received from a peer STA;
• and
• decoding the EDMG PPDU, wherein the EDMG PPDU is received on the bonded channel from the peer STA.