Abstract: The invention relates to improve use of resource units in MU transmissions of an 802.11 ax network. An un-associated station may receive data frames over a downlink resource unit, RU, assigned to an AID, e.g. 2045, reserved for stations not associated with the AP, The AP may use a downlink RU sharing an allocation scheme feature of an uplink RU previously used by the un-associated station. The AP may also aggregated data frames addressed to several stations within the same downlink RU, for instance to acknowledge frames previously received from the stations. The aggregated data frames may signal which respective response RUs the addressee stations should use for a next multi-user uplink transmission to respond to the AP. These approaches particularly applies to the exchange of management frames for instance to speed up the association procedure of un-associated stations.

Abstract: 802.11ac networks define an operating band made of an ordered series of 20 MHz channels and authorize a restricted number of possible composite channel configurations to be used for data transmission. A method of transmitting data between a source and a receiver in such a wireless network may comprise, at the source: sending, to the receiver, RTS fames to request reservation of a composite channel, the RTS frames including a flag signalling the source supports transmission over un-authorized composite channels, for instance over sub-channels not contiguous within the operating band; receiving, from the receiver in response to the RTS frames, CTS frames acknowledging reservation of un-authorized composite channel configuration, for instance of non-contiguous sub-channels; and then transmitting, to the receiver, data frames on the reserved sub-channels of the un-authorized configuration, for instance on the reserved non-contiguous sub-channels within the operating band.

Abstract: In a multilink system, block acknowledgment is performed at TID level. It is commonly accepted that acknowledgment policy refrains low latency delivery. However, it is often that traffic streams combine low-latency data and data requiring a high level of reliability. A need exists to facilitate the transmission of low-latency data units of a TID when a multilink operation, such as in 802.11be, is implemented with an acknowledgment policy. One specific link from amongst the multiple links may be dedicated to low latency data for which the originator and the recipient no longer take into account the acknowledgment. It turns that the originator can remove the low latency data from its transmit buffer immediately after transmission, while the recipient can deliver these data to the upper layer without waiting for the good reception of all preceding data, according to a sequence numbering. Low-latency services are consequently improved.

Abstract: The present invention provides according to one of its aspects a method of communication in a wireless network comprising an access point and a plurality of stations, the method comprising, at one of the stations: receiving a trigger frame from the access point, the trigger frame reserving a transmission opportunity on at least one communication channel of the wireless network, the transmission opportunity including random resource units that the stations may access using a contention scheme, wherein the trigger frame includes a first indicator specifying a traffic type of data allowed to be sent on at least one of the random resource units; determining, based on the first indicator, eligible resource units, among the resource units in the reserved transmission opportunity, for the station to contend for access for transmitting data; and transmitting data on a determined eligible resource unit using a contention scheme.

Abstract: In a 802.11be multi-AP collaboration, collaborated BSSs obtaining shared resource from a collaborator AP. Co-channel interferences arise from misalignment of PHY preambles between the various collaborated and collaborator BSSs. This misalignment results from the independency of each BSSs during the shared TXOP. To overcome this deficient situation, a synchronization frame is sent by the collaborator AP at a predefined sync time over the shared frequency bands, even if the collaborator AP does not belong to the BSSs operating on these bands. The predefined sync time may derive from the UL Length field specified in the initial trigger frame. Consequently, all the stations are ready to receive the synchronization frame and therefore to start again their MU or P2P transmission a SIFS after the synchronization frame. PHY preambles in adjacent channels are therefore fully aligned.

Abstract: In a 802.11 be multi-AP collaboration, collaborated devices obtaining shared resources announced by a collaborator AP re-announce the shared resource for the stations out of the transmission range of the collaborator AP. Given the short time available, the re-announcing frame binary repeats most of the initial announcement by the collaborator AP, in particular substantially the whole MAC payload thereof. In order to facilitate the identification of the re-announcing, the latter comprises an empty TA field or no TA field in its header. This additionally allows any AP to act as the coordinator AP.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to multi-user (MU) Peer to Peer (P2P) protocols in wireless networks. A first station (STA) may receiving, from an access point (AP), an allocation of a resource unit (RU) for a peer to peer (P2P) communication; transmit, to a peer second STA, a first frame over a first part of the allocated P2P RU; and receive a second frame transmitted by the second STA over a second part of the P2P RU allocated to the first STA by the AP.

Abstract: The invention relates to improve use of resource units in MU transmissions of an 802.11ax network. An un-associated station may receive data frames over a downlink resource unit, RU, assigned to an AID, e.g. 2045, reserved for stations not associated with the AP, The AP may use a downlink RU sharing an allocation scheme feature of an uplink RU previously used by the un-associated station. The AP may also aggregated data frames addressed to several stations within the same downlink RU, for instance to acknowledge frames previously received from the stations. The aggregated data frames may signal which respective response RUs the addressee stations should use for a next multi-user uplink transmission to respond to the AP. These approaches particularly applies to the exchange of management frames for instance to speed up the association procedure of un-associated stations.

Abstract: A communication method in a communication network comprising a plurality of nodes, at least one node comprising a plurality of traffic queues for serving data traffic at different priorities, each traffic queue being associated with a respective queue backoff value computed from respective queue contention parameters having first and second values in, respectively, a first and a second contention modes, obtaining quality of service requirements of data stored in a traffic queue of the node; checking whether the quality of service requirements can be fulfilled when accessing the communication channel using the second contention mode; if the requirements cannot be fulfilled as the result of the checking, disabling access to resource units provided by the other node within one or more transmission opportunities granted to the other node on the communication channel; and transmitting data stored in the traffic queue using the first contention mode.

Abstract: The invention relates in one of its aspects to a method of communication in a wireless network comprising an access point multi-link device, AP MLD, and the wireless network further comprising a first and a second station multi-link devices, STA MLDs. The method comprising: establishing a first link between a station of the first STA MLD and an Access Point of the AP MLD; establishing a second link between a station of the second STA MLD and an Access Point of the AP MLD; establishing a third direct link between station of the first STA MLD and a station of the second STA MLD; and transferring data between the first and the second STA MLDs through the third link.

Abstract: To avoid blocking node AC queues in the degraded MU EDCA mode due to regular OFDMA transmission of data from another AC queue in resource units provided by an AP, the present invention proposes to use a dedicated HEMUEDCATimer for each AC queue, in order for them to be able to exit the degraded MU EDCA mode independently of the other AC queues. In this respect, upon successfully transmitting data stored in two or more traffic queues, in each of one or more accessed resource units provided by the AP within one or more transmission opportunities, the node sets each traffic queue transmitting in the accessed resource unit in the degraded MU EDCA mode for a predetermined degrading duration counted down by a respective timer associated with the transmitting traffic queue. Next, upon expiry of any timer, the node switches back the associated traffic queue to the conventional EDCA mode.

Abstract: In 802.11ax networks with access points, a trigger frame offers scheduled and random resource units to nodes for data uplink communication to the access points. To make more effective the usage of the network, the access point may design the trigger frame to force the nodes to send some categories of data. Resource units may be defined in trigger frames to be dedicated to small packets or to some access category data. Adjusting the time length of the resource units helps restricting the type of data that can be conveyed by the resource units. Also, using various frequency widths for resource units in the same trigger frame helps reducing padding in the resource units when various traffic types coexist.

Abstract: To make effective the usage of wireless networks, and in particular IEEE 802.11 networks, it is described a method of coordinating communications comprising a group of access points, APs, sharing resources during a transmission opportunity, TXOP, gained by a first AP of the group, the first AP is configured to allocate resources to second APs of the group within the TXOP, wherein the group is formed based on the capabilities of the APs to share and/or use shared resources, and/or on the enablement status of the APs of their function to share and/or use shared resources.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a wireless communication method in a wireless network comprising a plurality of access points (APs) sharing a communication channel, each AP is configured to manage stations of a basic service set (BSS), the method comprising at a coordinator AP: signaling to another AP, referred to as coordinated AP, that the coordinator AP has gained access to the communication channel; and sending to the coordinated AP a resource allocation allocating a chunk of the communication channel for stations managed by the coordinated AP.

Abstract: The present invention provides a communication method in a wireless communication network comprising at least one network cell (BSS), each cell comprising at least one station (non-AP) managed by an access point (AP), the method comprising, at the access point: transmitting a Wake-Up radio (WUR) frame to at least one station of the network cell of the access point; transmitting a primary channel radio (PCR) frame including update information, the PCR frame being transmitted to said at least one station of the network cell of the access point.

Abstract: To avoid blocking node AC queues in the degraded MU EDCA mode due to regular OFDMA transmission of data from another AC queue in resource units provided by an AP, the present invention proposes to use a dedicated HEMUEDCATimer for each AC queue, in order for them to be able to exit the degraded MU EDCA mode independently of the other AC queues. In this respect, upon successfully transmitting data stored in two or more traffic queues, in each of one or more accessed resource units provided by the AP within one or more transmission opportunities, the node sets each traffic queue transmitting in the accessed resource unit in the degraded MU EDCA mode for a predetermined degrading duration counted down by a respective timer associated with the transmitting traffic queue. Next, upon expiry of any timer, the node switches back the associated traffic queue to the conventional EDCA mode.

Abstract: A communication method in a communication network comprising a plurality of nodes, at least one node comprising a plurality of traffic queues for serving data traffic at different priorities, each traffic queue being associated with a respective queue backoff value computed from respective queue contention parameters having first and second values in, respectively, a first and a second contention modes, obtaining quality of service requirements of data stored in a traffic queue of the node; checking whether the quality of service requirements can be fulfilled when accessing the communication channel using the second contention mode; if the requirements cannot be fulfilled as the result of the checking, disabling access to resource units provided by the other node within one or more transmission opportunities granted to the other node on the communication channel; and transmitting data stored in the traffic queue using the first contention mode.

Abstract: In 802.11ax networks with access points, a trigger frame offers scheduled and random resource units to nodes for data uplink communication to the access points. To make more effective the usage of the network, the access point may design the trigger frame to force the nodes to send some categories of data. Resource units may be defined in trigger frames to be dedicated to small packets or to some access category data. Adjusting the time length of the resource units helps restricting the type of data that can be conveyed by the resource units. Also, using various frequency widths for resource units in the same trigger frame helps reducing padding in the resource units when various traffic types coexist.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to enhanced multi-user (MU) uplink (UL) protocols in wireless networks that allow a station to choose values for the transmission parameters in a multi-user transmission. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to a method for wireless communication comprising, at a station (STA): receiving, from an access point (AP), a trigger frame allocating a MU RU the STA to trigger a multi-user (MU) transmission, wherein the trigger frame allocates a resource unit of the MU transmission for data transmission from the STA using a set of transmission parameters; choosing, by the STA, values for the set of transmission parameters; and sending a data frame over the resource unit of the MU transmission allocated by the AP to the STA using the values chosen by the STA.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a wireless communication method in a wireless network comprising a plurality of access points (APs) sharing a communication channel, each AP is configured to manage stations of a basic service set (BSS), the method comprising at a coordinator AP: signaling to another AP, referred to as coordinated AP, that the coordinator AP has gained access to the communication channel; and sending to the coordinated AP a resource allocation allocating a chunk of the communication channel for stations managed by the coordinated AP.