Abstract: An electronic device (such as an access point) that performs a remedial action is described. This electronic device may transmit, using a first radio in the electronic device, a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) to a recipient electronic device on a first link between the electronic device and the recipient electronic device, where the PPDU includes a PPDU preamble and a set of media access control (MAC) protocol data units (MPDUs). Then, the electronic device may receive, using a second radio in the electronic device, feedback from the recipient electronic device on a second link between the electronic device and the recipient electronic device. Next, the electronic device may perform the remedial action based at least in part on the feedback. For example, the electronic device may abort the PPDU transmission and/or retransmit one or more of the set of MPDUs.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aqueous dispersion. The aqueous dispersion includes a) water; b) a surfactant having at least one ethylenically unsaturated group; and c) polyester particles dispersed in the water. The polyester particles include a water-insoluble polyester having a weight average molecular weight of 20 kiloDaltons or greater, and the polyester particles have an average diameter that is submicron in size. Further, the present disclosure provides a method of making the aqueous dispersion. The method includes a) dissolving a water-insoluble polyester in a water-immiscible solvent to form a polyester solution; b) combining the polyester solution with an aqueous solution including water and a surfactant; and c) removing at least a portion of the water-immiscible solvent to form the aqueous dispersion including polyester particles dispersed in the water.

Abstract: A method for communicating over a WiFi channel.

Abstract: Orthodontic articles and polymerizable resin compositions are described. The orthodontic article comprises a cured composition comprising the reaction product of free-radically polymerizable resin comprising 30 to 70 wt. %, inclusive, of at least one urethane component, and 25 to 70 wt. %, inclusive, of reactive diluent(s) comprising at least one monofunctional (meth)acrylate monomer. The polymerizable resin comprises no greater than 35 wt. % of reactive diluent(s) having a high affinity for water. Reactive diluent(s) such as monofunctional (meth)acrylate monomers having a high affinity for water have low log P values. In one embodiment, the polymerizable resin comprises at least one acidic monomer.

Abstract: An apparatus for a beamformee and a method are provided. The apparatus includes a first beamforming matrix device configured to generate a first beamforming matrix VWB from a channel H; an equivalent channel device configured to generate an equivalent channel {tilde over (H)}k based on the channel H and the first beamforming matrix VWB, where k is a number that indicates a subcarrier index; and a second beamforming matrix device configured to obtain a second beamforming matrix VSC from the equivalent channel {tilde over (H)}k.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods for conducting multilink communications between wireless devices over a wireless local area network (WLAN). A wireless device determines link availability for multiple wireless links of the wireless device. The wireless device transmits link availability information for the multiple wireless links of the wireless device using a first wireless link of the wireless device.

Abstract: An electronic device that communicates frames is described. During operation, the electronic device may transmit the frames addressed to a recipient electronic device and associated with multiple links between the electronic device and the recipient electronic device. Then, the electronic device may receive block acknowledgments for at least a subset of the frames, where a given block acknowledgment is associated with the recipient electronic device and indicates received frames on a given link in the links. Moreover, the electronic device may control an amount of traffic conveyed on the links based at least in part on the block acknowledgments. Next, the electronic device may store a remainder of the frames based at least in part on the block acknowledgments, where the frames include the subset of the frames and the remainder of the frames. Note that the frames may have a common traffic identifier.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an orthodontic article including the reaction product of the polymerizable composition. Further, the present disclosure provides polymerizable compositions and methods of making an orthodontic article. The method includes obtaining a polymerizable composition and selectively curing the polymerizable composition to form an orthodontic article. Further, methods are provided, including receiving, by a manufacturing device having one or more processors, a digital object comprising data specifying an orthodontic article; and generating, with the manufacturing device by an additive manufacturing process, the orthodontic article based on the digital object. A system is also provided, including a display that displays a 3D model of an orthodontic article; and one or more processors that, in response to the 3D model selected by a user, cause a 3D printer to create a physical object of an orthodontic article.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an orthodontic article including the reaction product of the photopolymerizable composition. The photopolymerizable composition includes i) a monofunctional (meth)acrylate monomer whose cured homopolymer has a glass transition temperature of 90 degrees Celsius or greater; ii) a photoinitiator; and iii) a polymerization reaction product of components. The components include 1) an isocyanate; 2) a (meth)acrylate mono-ol; 3) a polycarbonate diol; and 4) a catalyst. Further, the present disclosure provides a method of making an orthodontic article. The method includes obtaining a photopolymerizable composition and selectively curing the photopolymerizable composition to form an orthodontic article.

Abstract: A method of very high throughput (VHT) operation information subfields design for IEEE 802.11 WLAN is proposed. The VHT operation information subfields comprise a channel width, a channel center frequency segment 0 (CCFS0), and a channel center frequency segment 1 (CCFS1). Multiple definitions of the VHT operation information subfields have been adopted by different access points (AP)s and wireless stations (STAs). In accordance with one novel aspect, upon receiving the VHT operation information element broadcasted by an AP, an STA will first check the channel width indicated by the AP. The STA then follows different definitions under different channel widths. Under such method, the STA can support up to 160 MHz operation mode with APs following different definitions and operating up to 160 MHz mode.

Abstract: A method for communicating over a WiFi channel. In some embodiments, the method includes determining, by a non-access point station, that a first skipping criterion is met; in response to determining that the first skipping criterion is met, skipping N1 target wait time service periods, N1 being a positive integer; after skipping N1 target wait time service periods, determining, by the non-access point station, whether a second skipping criterion is met; and in response to determining that the second skipping criterion is met, skipping N2 subsequent target wait time service periods, N2 being a positive integer greater than N1.

Abstract: Disclosed is a data transmission method. The method comprises: reserving a first channel and a second channel, where the first channel is used for transmitting data and the second channel is used for transmitting ACKs; sending data to a receiving end on the first channel that is reserved; receiving an ACK that is sent by the receiving end and corresponds to the data on the second channel that is reserved and determining whether the data needs to be cached based on information carried in the ACK; and if the information carried in the ACK indicates that the receiving end has correctly received the data, clearing the data that is cached by a sending end. Through separate transmission of the data and the ACK, an efficiency problem of the sending end in providing MAC in a wireless system in a condition of a limited cache capacity is resolved.

Abstract: A method in a wireless station in communication with an access point over a communication channel includes receiving a channel estimation matrix; determining a beamforming matrix using the channel estimation matrix, the beamforming matrix being generated for a plurality of down-sampled feedback indices; the beamforming matrix including beamforming weights for one or more antennas associated with the access point, each beamforming weight being a complex value including an amplitude and a phase; setting the phase of the beamforming weight for a last antenna associated with the last feedback index of the beamforming matrix to zero and rotating the phase of each beamforming weight for each of the other antennas; performing smoothing of the beamforming matrix for each feedback index by normalizing each column vector of the beamforming matrix; compressing the smoothed beamforming matrix; and providing the smoothed beamforming matrix as output.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aqueous dispersion. The aqueous dispersion includes a) water; b) a surfactant having at least one ethylenically unsaturated group; and c) polyester particles dispersed in the water. The polyester particles include a water-insoluble polyester having a weight average molecular weight of 20 kiloDaltons or greater, and the polyester particles have an average diameter that is submicron in size. Further, the present disclosure provides a method of making the aqueous dispersion. The method includes a) dissolving a water-insoluble polyester in a water-immiscible solvent to form a polyester solution; b) combining the polyester solution with an aqueous solution including water and a surfactant; and c) removing at least a portion of the water-immiscible solvent to form the aqueous dispersion including polyester particles dispersed in the water.

Abstract: Systems and methods of expanding indication capabilities of existent PPDU preamble fields. The “GI+LTF Size” field is redefined to indicate a new combination of GI duration and HE-LTF size. The redefinition is indicated when the values of the two other existent fields, in combination, indicate an invalid scenario because the two values should have been mutually exclusive. Particularly, the DCM field and the STBC field are both set to the “enabled” mode as an indication for redefine the “GI+LTF Size” field. Upon receiving such a PPDU, a receiver is configured to resolve the PPDU as neither DCM nor STBC is enabled. Rather, the receiver interprets the particular combination of DCM and STBC values as an indication that the “GI+LTF Size” field is redefined to indicate the new combination of GI duration and HE-LTF size.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a photopolymerizable composition. The photopolymerizable composition includes a) 40-60 parts by weight of a monofunctional (meth)acrylate monomer, per 100 parts of the total photopolymerizable composition; b) a photoinitiator; and c) a polymerization reaction product of components. A cured homopolymer of the monofunctional (meth)acrylate monomer has a glass transition temperature of 125 degrees Celsius or greater. The polymerization reaction product of components includes i) a diisocyanate; ii) a hydroxy functional methacrylate; iii) a polycarbonate diol; and iv) a catalyst. The polymerization reaction product includes a polyurethane methacrylate polymer.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a contention method. The contention method includes: receiving, by an access point, an uplink frame transmitted by a station; transmitting, by the access point, a frame responding to the uplink frame. The frame responding to the uplink frame is used to acknowledge the uplink frame and trigger the station to enter the next channel contention period. The contention method can acknowledge the uplink frame and trigger the station to enter the next channel contention period.

Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing block acknowledgment (BA) operations for multi-link wireless communication networks. For example some embodiments relate to an electronic device including a transceiver and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The one or more processors transmit, using the transceiver and to a second electronic device, a first set of one or more frames on a first link and a second set of one or more frames on a second link. The one or more processors receive, using the transceiver and from the second electronic device, a first block acknowledgment (BA) frame on the first link and a second BA frame on the second link. The one or more processors further determine, based on received first BA frame and the second BA frame, a failed or missing frame of the first set of one or more frames transmitted on the first link.

Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for a media access control (MAC) level operation that enables a transmitter and a receiver to select low-density parity check (LDPC) codewords that are HARQ retransmitted. The operations described herein provide for reducing the number of codewords that need to be retransmitted, minimizing the overhead needed to signal the feedback from a receiver to a transmitter, and allowing a transmitter to control which codewords are retransmitted.

Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for a PHY level operation that enables a transmitter and a receiver to select low-density parity check (LDPC) codewords that are HARQ retransmitted. The operations described herein provide for an increased reliability in detecting codewords at the physical (PHY) layer, as the codeword detection does not depend on detection of a media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (MPDU) start position and length. For example, the PHY layer may store failed codewords without instructions from the MAC layer. This providers for faster and simpler implementation of the PHY layer. Additionally, the operations described herein reduce overhead requirements as the MAC layer may stores a bit stream of correctly received codewords, which requires less the storage space required to store failed codewords. Furthermore, a feedback signal transmitted from a receiving device to a transmitting device may further reduce the number of retransmitted codewords.