Device, system and method of scheduling communications with a group of wireless communication units
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsMichelle X. Gong, Robert J. Stacey
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Abstract
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of scheduling communications with a group of wireless communication devices. For example, a wireless communication unit may transmit at least one scheduling frame including an indication of a downlink period allocated for simultaneous transmission from the wireless communication unit to at least one group of a plurality of wireless communication devices, wherein the wireless communication unit is to simultaneously transmit a plurality of different wireless communication transmissions to the plurality of wireless communication devices of the group during the downlink period. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims24
A device including a processor, a memory, one or more antennas, and a wireless communication unit, the wireless communication unit capable to:
- transmit a scheduling frame to wireless communication devices of a group of wireless communication devices, the scheduling frame including:
- a downlink transmission period field to indicate a downlink transmission period, during which the wireless communication unit is to simultaneously transmit to the group of wireless communication devices;
- a group address ID field to indicate an address assigned to the group of wireless communication devices;
- prior to transmitting the scheduling frame, reserve a wireless communication medium for a duration including at least a duration of a transmission of the scheduling frame and a duration of the downlink transmission period;
- and
- simultaneously transmit a plurality of different wireless transmissions to respective ones of wireless communication devices of the group during the downlink transmission period.
A device including a processor, a memory, one or more antennas, and a wireless communication unit, the wireless communication unit capable to:
- transmit a scheduling frame to wireless communication devices of a group of wireless communication devices, the scheduling frame including:
- a downlink transmission period field to indicate a downlink transmission period;
- a group address ID field to indicate an address assigned to the group of wireless communication devices;
- and
- an uplink transmission period field to indicate an uplink transmission period, during which the wireless communication unit is to receive an uplink transmission from one or more of the wireless communication devices of the group;
- prior to transmitting the scheduling frame, reserve a wireless communication medium for a duration including at least a duration of a transmission of the scheduling frame and a duration of the downlink transmission period;
- and
- simultaneously receive a plurality of different uplink wireless transmissions from respective ones of wireless communication devices of the group during the uplink transmission period.
A product including one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one computer processor, enable the at least one computer processor to implement a method, the method comprising:
- transmitting a scheduling frame to wireless communication devices of a group of wireless communication devices, the scheduling frame including:
- a downlink transmission period field to indicate a downlink transmission period to simultaneously transmit to the group of wireless communication devices;
- and
- a group address ID field to indicate an address assigned to the group of wireless communication devices;
- prior to transmitting the scheduling frame, reserving a wireless communication medium for a duration including at least a duration of a transmission of the scheduling frame and a duration of the downlink transmission period;
- and
- simultaneously transmitting a plurality of different wireless transmissions to respective ones of wireless communication devices of the group during the downlink transmission period.
A method comprising:
- transmitting a scheduling frame to wireless communication devices of a group of wireless communication devices, the scheduling frame including:
- a downlink transmission period field to indicate a downlink transmission period;
- a group address ID field to indicate an address assigned to the group of wireless communication devices;
- and
- an uplink transmission period field to indicate an uplink transmission period, during which an uplink transmission is to be received from one or more of the wireless communication devices of the group;
- prior to transmitting the scheduling frame, reserving a wireless communication medium for a duration including at least a duration of a transmission of the scheduling frame and a duration of the downlink transmission period;
- and
- simultaneously receiving a plurality of different uplink wireless transmissions from respective ones of wireless communication devices of the group during the uplink transmission period.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.