Frame exchange method for beamforming

Abstract

A method by a wireless device functioning as a beamformer station in a wireless network to perform a sounding procedure. The method includes generating a NDPA frame, wherein the NDPA frame includes a sounding dialog token field, wherein bit B0 of the sounding dialog token field is set to binary ‘1’ and bit B1 of the sounding dialog token field is set to binary ‘1’ to indicate that the NDPA frame is an extremely high throughput (EHT) NDPA frame and wirelessly transmitting the NDPA frame to one or more beamformee stations. The NDPA frame may include an indication of whether a beamformee station should acknowledge the NDP announcement frame or not. The NDPA frame may be transmitted in a first frequency band, while a beamformed data frame is transmitted in a second frequency band that is a higher frequency band than the first frequency band.

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