Power Savings for Multi-link Wireless Local Area Network Infrastructure

A wireless access point (AP), comprising:

• one or more radios;
• and
• a processor coupled to the one or more radios, wherein the wireless AP is configured to:
• establish a connection with a user equipment device (UE) through a wireless local area network (WLAN), wherein the connection utilizes a plurality of links;
• receive an indication from the UE through a first link of the plurality of links, wherein the indication comprises a bit field, wherein a first bit of the bit field indicates that the first link is available for the UE to receive downlink (DL) communications from the wireless AP;
• and
• transmit one or more DL communications to the UE through the first link.

A method for operating a user equipment device (UE) to communicate over a plurality of links, the method comprising:

• establishing a connection with an access point through a wireless local area network (WLAN), wherein the connection utilizes the plurality of links;
• transmitting an indication to the access point through a first link of the plurality of links, wherein the indication comprises a bit field, wherein a first bit of the bit field indicates that the first link is available for the UE to receive downlink (DL) communications from the access point;
• and
• receiving one or more DL communications from the access point through the first link.