Abstract: A method of wireless communication comprising decoding in a physical layer circuitry a received wireless signal; outputting a corresponding wireless signal data as one or more data packets, the wireless signal data representing the received wireless signal; determining one or more packet header parameters of the one or more data packets; and if any of the one or more packet header parameters equal any of one or more predetermined values, instruct a medium access control layer circuitry to switch from an inactive mode to an active mode.

Abstract: Provided herein are apparatus and methods for Wi-Fi network profile verification. An apparatus for a wireless communication device includes: a memory; and processor circuitry coupled with the memory, wherein the processor circuitry is to: encode a verification sequence in a probe request for transmission to an AP; decode, in response to the probe request, a probe response received from the AP to obtain a first verification result; determine a second verification result based on the verification sequence and a verification password (VP) obtained from the AP; and determine whether a verification for the AP is successful or not based on the first verification result and the second verification result, and wherein the memory is to store the VP. Other embodiments may also be disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to unequal MCS indication. A device may extract Resource unit (RU) or multi-RU (M-RU) allocation through one or more fields of a received frame from an associated access point (AP). A device may extract MCS information through MCS subfield of a User field of a User Specific Field in EHT-SIG. The device may extract spatial streams information through a spatial streams subfield of the User field of the User Specific Field in EHT-SIG. The device may determine one or more MCS indications based on the MCS information, RU or MRU allocation, and spatial streams information, determine its MCS indication.

Abstract: Various aspects provide a radiohead circuit and a communication device including the radiohead circuit. In an example, the radiohead circuit includes an antenna interface, a radio frequency front end configured to receive a wireless communication signal via the antenna interface, and a processor configured to perform an initial signal detection to detect if a wireless communication signal has been received based on whether a signal the processor received from the radio frequency front end fulfill a predefined radiohead circuit detection criterion, generate an initial signal detection information comprising an information as to whether the wireless communication signal has been received based on the initial signal detection; and provide the initial signal detection information to a communication interface for a final signal detection; the communication interface configured to couple the processor to a radiohead circuit-external processor external to the radiohead circuit.

Abstract: For example, a wireless communication device may be configured to transmit a reservation frame to reserve a wireless communication medium for a Transmit Opportunity (TxOP). For example, the TxOP may be configured to cover a first reserved duration and a second reserved duration. For example, the first reserved duration may be configured for at least one self-transmission of the STA, and the second reserved duration may be configured for communication of at least one non-self-transmission by the STA. For example, the wireless communication device may be configured to transmit the at least one self-transmission during the first duration. For example, the self-transmission may be configured for transmission from a transmitter of the STA to a receiver of the STA.

Abstract: Various principles and methods are described herein to improve wireless communication in a user computing device. Certain aspects of the disclosure describe management of wireless transmissions relative to various regulations related to a specific absorption rate. Other aspects of the disclosure relate to detection of user proximity to a transmitting antenna. Other aspects relate to alternative strategies to improve wireless communication, such as selection of alternate antennas or baseband modems, or changes in device orientation.

Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments may include an apparatus including an integrated Radio Head (RH), the integrated RH including an antenna; a transceiver chain to transmit a Radio Frequency (RF) transmit (Tx) signal via the antenna, and to receive an RF Receive (Rx) signal via the antenna; a Physical layer (PHY) time-domain (TD) processor configured to generate a digital PHY TD Rx signal based on the RF Rx signal, and to cause the transceiver chain to transmit the RF Tx signal based on a digital PHY TD Tx signal; and a digital interface to communicate the digital PHY TD Tx signal and the digital PHY TD Rx signal over a digital link.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices, methods, and systems for adjusting transmit properties based on compliance metrics for human exposure to radiation. As one example, the system determines a first transmission power limit associated with transmissions on a first radio resource, wherein the first transmission power limit is based on a first compliance level threshold of human exposure to emitted radiation when using the first radio resource. The system determines a second transmission power limit associated with transmissions on a second radio resource, wherein the second transmission power limit is based on a second compliance level threshold of human exposure to emitted radiation when transmitting using the second radio resource. The system also controls a wireless device to select either the first radio resource or the second radio resource for a transmission from the wireless device based on the first transmission power limit and the second transmission power limit.

Abstract: For example, an apparatus may be configured to maintain user device information to identify one or more user devices of a user of a computing device; to determine, when the computing device is at a low power mode of operation, that a detected user device of the one or more user devices is within a user detection range from the computing device based on a wireless signal from the user device; based on determination that the user device is within the user detection range from the computing device, to trigger a wireless proximity sensing to detect whether the user is within a wakeup range from the computing device; and based on detection that the user is within the wakeup range from the computing device, to trigger the computing device to wakeup from the low power mode.

Abstract: An apparatus for a communication device, the apparatus may include a processor configured to: obtain channel metrics for a plurality of radio communication channels, each obtained channel metric is associated with a respective radio communication channel of the plurality of radio communication channels, generate a plurality of channel hopping sequences, each channel hopping sequence is representative of an allocation of the plurality of radio communication channels for a plurality of time slots, wherein a number of time slots allocated for each radio communication channel within each channel hopping sequence is based on the respective obtained channel metric, and select one of the plurality of channel hopping sequences based on a predefined criterion to communicate with a further communication device.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to coexistence network integration. A device may transmit a beacon frame or a probe response frame containing a security element that is not a robust security network element (RSNE) element to indicate opportunistic wireless encryption (OWE) support. The device may identify a first association request frame received from a first station device (STA) comprising an RSNE element with OWE Authentication Key Management (AKM) indicating a compatibility of the first STA with OWE. The device may identify a second association request frame from a second station device (STA) indicating no compatibility with OWE. The device may generate one or more encryption keys for securing data transmission with OWE-compatible STAs. The device may transmit encrypted and unencrypted versions of groupcast data frames to the first STA and the second STA.

Abstract: A processor may control a transmitter to send a first signal representing a request for one or more priority rules for data packet prioritization; to receive a second signal in response to the first signal, the second signal representing the one or more priority rules for data packet prioritization, and to receive a third signal representing a data packet including a header and a data payload. The header may comprise a first priority tag representing a first priority level. The processor may be configured to determine from the data payload and the one or more rules for data packet prioritization a second priority tag representing a second priority level and to replace the first priority tag with the second priority tag.

Abstract: For example, an Access Point (AP) may be configured to process network slicing information including slice identification information and Service Level Agreement (SLA) information, wherein the slice identification information is to identify one or more Quality of Service (QoS) network slices. For example, the AP may be configured to determine a configuration of one or more radio resource allocations to be assigned to the one or more QoS network slices, and to transmit a network slicing advertisement including network slicing assignment information to indicate an assignment of the one or more radio resource allocations to the one or more QoS network slices.

Abstract: For example, a wireless communication device may be configured to determine a Concurrent Multiple Band (CMB) routing scheme based on Quality of Service (QoS) requirement information and network condition information, the CMB routing scheme to route a plurality of application streams to a plurality of radios of the wireless communication device for wireless communication over a plurality of wireless communication bands, the plurality of application streams corresponding to one or more applications to be executed by the wireless communication device; and to route the plurality of application streams to the plurality of radios by determining, based on the CMB routing scheme, to which radio of the plurality of radios to route the application stream of the plurality of application streams.

Abstract: Various examples relate to apparatuses, devices, methods and computer-readable media for handling connectivity packages. An apparatus for a gateway device comprises interface circuitry, machine-readable instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the machine-readable instructions to obtain information on a plurality of available connectivity packages, with each connectivity package defining a connection between the gateway device and an endpoint of an internet service provider, and with each connectivity package being characterized by one or more connection performance parameters, select one or more connectivity packages of the available connectivity packages for data traffic of a client device, and route the data traffic of the client device via one or more connections between the gateway device and a corresponding endpoint of the internet service provider associated with a respective connectivity package of the selected one or more connectivity packages.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to enhanced transmission. A device may generate an aggregated medium access control protocol data unit (A-MPDU) frame, wherein the A-MPDU is associated with transmission of n Network Coding (NC) encoded frames. The device may divide the A-MPDU frame into k data frames and (n?k) parity frames within the A-MPDU frame. The device may transmit the k data frames. The device may transmit to a station device (STA) at least one of the (n?k) parity frames separately after the data frames in response to packet drops in the k data frames.

Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments may include an apparatus including a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) buffer configured to buffer compressed Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) values corresponding to an unsuccessfully-decoded transmission of a data block, a bit size of the HARQ buffer is equal to or less than 2.5 times a supported HARQ receive (Rx) size, which is to be reported to a transmitter of the data block; and a decoder configured to decode a retransmission of the data block according to the HARQ scheme based on combined LLR values, which are based on the compressed LLR values and on LLR values corresponding the retransmission of the data block, wherein a HARQ gain of decoding the retransmission of the data block based on the combined LLR values is at least 2 Decibel (dB) for an Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel.

Abstract: For example, a wireless communication device may be configured to, while communicating via a first radio of the wireless communication device over a first network connection in a first WLAN over a first wireless communication frequency band, identify a second WLAN over a second wireless communication frequency band for Concurrent Multiple Band (CMB) network access, the second wireless communication frequency band different from the first wireless communication frequency band; based on identifying the second WLAN, to automatically transmit from a second radio of the wireless communication device user credentials to establish a second network connection with the second WLAN over the second wireless communication frequency band, the second network connection concurrent with the first network connection; and to concurrently communicate over the first and second network connections by routing to the first and second radios a plurality of application streams corresponding to one or more applications.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to security for multi-link operations. A multi-link device (MLD) may establish a first communication link between a first device of the MLD and a first device of a second MLD, and a second communication link between a second device of the MLD and a second device of the second MLD. The MLD may generate a group-addressed message. The MLD may protect the group-addressed message using a first key or a first integrity key. The MLD may protect the group-addressed message using a second key or a second integrity key. The MLD may send, using the first communication link, the group-addressed message protected using the first key or the first integrity key, and may send, using the second communication link, the group-addressed message protected using the second key or the second integrity key.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to enhanced multi-link single-radio (EMLSR). A device may utilize multiple links in a time-shared manner. The device may assign one of the multiple links as a primary link for legacy STAs. The device may assign remaining links as non-primary links. The device may initiate a transmit opportunity (TXOP) on a non-primary link when the primary link is occupied. The device may transmit a control frame from a non-primary link in response to an initial control frame when the primary link is idle, wherein the control frame indicates discontinuation of frame exchange on the non-primary link.