Apparatus and method for scheduled uplink multi-user access with concurrent peer-to-peer communications

An electronic device, comprising:

• a transceiver configured to transmit and receive wireless communications;
• and
• one or more processors communicatively coupled to the transceiver and configured to:
• establish one or more peer-to-peer (P2P) connections;
• populate a P2P resource unit (RU) mapping table that includes:
• one or more identifiers corresponding to one or more respective peer devices, and one or more RU allocations with decoding parameters corresponding to the one or more identifiers, wherein the one or more peer devices are associated with the one or more established connections;
• and
• decode frames of the RU allocations using corresponding decoding parameters.

A method, comprising:

• receiving, from an access point, a trigger frame that identifies a resource unit (RU) allocated to the electronic device for transmitting infrastructure traffic to the access point;
• determining, based at least on an RU usage policy, whether to use the allocated RU to transmit peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic to a second electronic device or infrastructure traffic to the access point;
• and
• transmitting, based on the determination, the P2P traffic to the second electronic device utilizing the allocated RU.