Abstract: For example, an Access Point (AP) may be configured to set an Association Identifier (AID) field to a predefined AID value. For example, the predefined AID value may be configured to indicate that a non-AP station (STA) having latency-sensitive traffic is to be allowed to transmit a non-Trigger-Based (non-TB) Physical layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) including the latency-sensitive traffic according to a channel contention mechanism during a contention-based time period. For example, the AP may be configured to transmit a trigger frame to allocate the contention-based time period. For example, the trigger frame may include the AID field.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to enhanced time synchronization. A device may define a reference device as a reference access point (AP) or a reference AP multi-link device (MLD). The device may cause to send a TSF alignment request frame to a responder AP to align its TSF with an initiator AP for coordinated target wake time (TWT) or a restricted TWT (rTWT) service periods (SPs). The device may identify a TSF alignment response frame received from the responder AP in response to the TSF alignment request frame.

Abstract: For example, a wireless communication station (STA) may be configured to set a channel bandwidth (BW) field to indicate a channel BW. For example, the STA may be configured to set airtime information in an airtime field. For example, the airtime information may be configured to indicate a required time duration for the STA to communicate one or more frame exchanges of a Quality of Service (QoS) flow over the channel BW. For example, the STA may be configured to transmit a frame to an Access Point (AP). For example, the frame may be configured to include the channel BW field and the airtime field.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to link switch parameters. A device may generate a frame to be sent to a second device on a first link. The device may generate announcement information associated with the frame to notify other STAs about a data transmission of the frame. The device may cause to send on the first link the frame to the second device. The device may cause to send the announcement information with the data transmission of the frame.

Abstract: For example, a wireless communication station (STA) may be configured to set flow-group Quality of Service (QoS) information corresponding to a Medium Access Control (MAC) Service Data Unit (MSDU) in a traffic flow belonging to a flow group including a plurality of traffic flows. For example, the flow-group QoS information corresponding to the MSDU may include a flow identifier (ID) to identify the traffic flow, a flow group ID to identify the flow group, and MSDU set information corresponding to an MSDU set including the MSDU. For example, the STA may be configured to transmit a Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) including the MSDU, wherein the PPDU includes the flow-group QoS information corresponding to the MSDU.

Abstract: For example, an apparatus may be configured to cause wireless communication station (STA) to set a cellular Quality of Service (QoS) index value in a cellular QoS index field to indicate a predefined setting of a set of a plurality QoS parameters for a cellular QoS traffic flow to be communicated by the STA over a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). For example, the apparatus may be configured to cause the STA to transmit a Stream Classification Service (SCS) request to an Access Point (AP) of the WLAN, the SCS request including an SCS descriptor element, the SCS descriptor element including the cellular QoS index field.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to security for multi-link operation. A device may determine a multi-link communication with a first multi-link device comprising two or more links associated with two or more station devices (STAs) included in the first multi-link device. The device may determine a first medium access control (MAC) address associated with a first link of the two or more links. The device may determine a second MAC address associated with a second link of the two or more links. The device may generate one or more pairwise security keys to be used in the multi-link communication on the two or more links. The device may cause to send a frame to the first multi-link device using at least one combination of the one or more pairwise security keys.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to mapping traffic identifiers to multiple non-collocated access points to which the station device is concurrently associated. A device may identify a frame received from a first access point to which the station device is associated while being associated to a second access point that is not collocated with the first access point; decode a traffic identifier (TID) in the frame, the TID indicative of a type of traffic associated with the frame; and select, based on the TID, either a first communication link to the first access point or a second communication link to the second access point for the type of traffic.

Abstract: For example, a Next Generation Vehicular (NGV) wireless communication station (STA) may be configured to generate an NGV Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) including an NGV preamble, the NGV preamble comprising a non High-Throughput (non-HT) Short Training Field (L-STF), a non-HT Long Training Field (L-LTF) after the L-STF, a non-HT Signal (L-SIG) field after the L-LTF, a Repeated L-SIG (RL-SIG) field after the L-SIG field, and an NGV Signal (NGV-SIG) field after the RL-SIG field, the NGV-SIG field including a version field configured to identify a version of the NGV PPDU; and to transmit the NGV PPDU over an NGV channel in an NGV wireless communication frequency band; and a memory to store information processed by the processor.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for advertising restricted target wakeup time (TWT) service periods (SP). Apparatuses of a station (STA) are disclosed, where the apparatuses comprise processing circuitry configured to: encode a beacon frame, the beacon frame comprising a target wake time (TWT) element, the TWT element indicating a restricted TWT service period (SP) of an overlapping basic service set (OBSS), the TWT element comprising a field indicating the TWT element is for the OBSS and configure the AP to transmit the beacon frame. The processing circuitry may be further configured to: refrain from transmitting during the TWT SP of the OBSS or end a transmission opportunities (TxOP) before the start of the TWT SP of the OBSS.

Abstract: An access point (AP) may be configured by processing circuitry to operate as a coordinator AP for performing BSS channel level coordination. The coordinator AP is configured to assign non-overlapping channels to one or more coordinated APs of overlapping BSSs to schedule time-sensitive traffic to help ensure bounded latency, jitter and reliability per BSS. In some embodiments, the AP may be configured for performing transmission level coordination and may initiate a coordinated transmission opportunity (TXOP) for resource assignment to control contention access among managed BSSs. To perform the BSS channel level coordination, the coordinator AP is configured to encode a multi-AP trigger frame (M-TF) to initiate the coordinated TXOP. The M-TF may be encoded to include a time-sensitive operation IE indicating how each STA is to access the channel within the coordinated TXOP.

Abstract: Techniques for power saving by remote wireless mobile devices are provided, in particular by stations (STAs) during downlink (DL) multiple-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO) transmissions in an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11ay network when reverse direction (RD) transmissions are either enabled and not enabled. Various embodiments enable each STA in a group of STAs to determine an order in which the STAs are requested to send a block acknowledgement (BACK) and which STAs will be granted an RD transmission. Further, a duration of each RD transmission is provided to each STA. Based on the provided information, each STA can determine times to enter a power saving mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to low latency preemption. A device may divide a first PPDU into a plurality of segmented PPDUs. The device may insert a plurality of time gaps between the plurality of segmented PPDUs, wherein the plurality of time gaps enable preemptive opportunities by a low latency transmitter. The device may identify a preemption request from a low latency transmitter of the one or more station devices during a first time gap between a first segmented PPDU and a second segmented PPDU. The device may preempt the second segmented PPDU based on a preemption bit in order to allow the low latency transmitter to transmit its low latency data.

Abstract: Embodiments of an access point (AP), station (STA) and method of communication are generally described herein. The AP may be configurable to operate as a controlling AP of a multi-AP group. The controlling AP may establish the multi-AP group by: transmitting one or more messages to advertise the multi-AP group; and exchanging signaling with one or more of the other APs of the multi-AP group. The signaling may include at least one message related to one of the other APs joining the multi-AP group. The controlling AP may establish the multi-AP group to enable usage of AP Trigger Frames (AP TFs) for coordination of resources to be used for downlink transmissions of the APs of the multi-AP group.

Abstract: Methods, computer readable media, and apparatus for determining a receive (Rx) number of spatial streams (NSS) for different bandwidths (BWs) and modulation and control schemes (MCSs) are disclosed. An apparatus is disclosed comprising processing circuitry configured to decode a supported HE-MCS and a NSS set field, the supported HE-MSC and NSS set field received from an high-efficiency (HE) station. The processing circuitry may be further configured to determine a first maximum value of N receive (Rx) SS for a MCS and a bandwidth (BW), where the first maximum value of N Rx SS is equal to a largest number of Rx SS that supports the MCS for the BW as indicated by the supported HE-MCS and NSS set field; and, determine additional maximum values based on an operating mode (OM) notification frame, and a value of an OM control (OMC) field. Signaling for BW in 6 GHz is disclosed.

Abstract: Embodiments of an Extremely High Throughput Station (EHT STA) (STA1) configured for operating in a next-generation (NG) wireless local area network (WLAN) are described herein. In some embodiments, the EHT STA encodes a common signal field (SIG) (Coex-SIG) of an EHT PPDU to include a TXOP duration field. The TXOP duration field is more than seven bits to indicate an actual TXOP duration of a transmission from the EHT STA comprising the EHT PPDU transmitted to a second station (STA2). Decoding the TXOP duration field of the EHT PPDU by a third-party station (STA4) causes the third-party station (STA4) to defer a transmission until after an end of the transmission from the second station (STA2).

Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments may include apparatus, system and method of scheduling Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) wireless communications. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a wireless communication Access Point (AP) to allocate at least one Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) enabled (TSN-enabled) Target Wakeup Time (TWT) Service Period (SP) based on one or more timing requirements of a TSN schedule of at least one TSN stream for at least one wireless communication station (STA); to transmit a TWT scheduling message to schedule the TSN-enabled TWT SP, the TWT scheduling message including an indication that the TSN-enabled TWT SP is restricted to only TSN communications; and, during the TSN-enabled TWT SP, to communicate one or more frames of the at least one TSN stream with the at least one STA.

Abstract: Embodiments of a beacon interval with boundary time points (BTPs) to improve latency for time sensitive traffic (TST) in Extremely High Throughout (EHT) WLANS are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a non-access point (AP) station (STA) is configured to decode a beacon frame received from an AP STA. The beacon frame may indicate one or more BTPs within a beacon interval (BI). The non-AP STA may obtain a transmission opportunity (TXOP) for a transmission to the AP STA. The TXOP may be bounded by the one or more BTPs. The non-AP STA may encode a PPDU for transmission to the AP STA during the TXOP.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for high efficiency (HE) beacon and HE formats in a wireless network are disclosed. An apparatus of a high efficiency (HE) access point (AP), where the apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured select a <HE-MCS, NSS=1> tuple from the basic HE-MCS set of tuples, if a basic HE modulation and control scheme (MCS) (HE-MCS) and a number of spatial streams (NSS) set of tuples is not empty, and otherwise select the <HE-MCS, NSS=1> tuple from a mandatory HE-MCS and NSS set of tuples. The processing circuitry may be further configured to encode a beacon frame in a HE single user (SU) physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU), in accordance with the selected <HE-MCS, NSS=1> tuple, and configure the HE AP to transmit the HE SU PPDU. Null data packets formats, methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses are disclosed for multiple 20 MHz operations.

Abstract: A multi-link access point (AP) device is configured for multi-link operation to communicate with a plurality of non-AP stations (STAs) over a plurality of corresponding links. A multi-link policy element is encoded for transmission to the non-AP STAs to signal a multi-link policy. The multi-link policy element comprises a common policy sub-element and a plurality of link-specific policy sub-elements. The common policy sub-element is applicable to all links. Each of the link-specific policy sub-elements is applicable to a single link. The link-specific policy sub-elements comprise at least a first link-specific policy sub-element applicable to a first link and a second link-specific policy sub-element applicable to a second link. The common policy sub-element defines a link policy for all links that have been set up between the multi-link AP device and the non-AP STAs. Each link-specific policy element defines a link policy specific to an associated link.