Abstract: An apparatus for a wireless network access device includes a first communication interface for wirelessly communicating with a wireless communication device. The apparatus includes a second communication interface for communicating with a network gateway device. The apparatus includes a control module configured to receive a first request for wireless uplink resources from the wireless communication device via the first communication interface. The control module is configured to provide a second request for wired uplink resources to the gateway device via the second communication interface based on the first request for wireless uplink resources. The second request for wired uplink resources is related to uplink resources of a wired uplink channel of the gateway device.

Abstract: Methods, computer readable media, and wireless apparatuses are disclosed for trigger frame recovery. An apparatus of a wireless device is disclosed. The apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to: encode a trigger frame comprising a resource allocation for one or more stations, where the trigger frame comprises a network allocation vector (NAV) duration. The processing circuitry may be further configured to configure the wireless device to transmit the trigger frame to the one or more stations. The processing circuitry may be further configured to configure the wireless device to contend for the wireless medium a first time, encode a retransmission of the trigger frame, and configure the wireless device to transmit the retransmission of the trigger frame to the one or more stations, if a frame is not received from the one or more stations in response to the trigger frame before a trigger frame timeout duration.

Abstract: Computer readable media, methods, and apparatuses for flow control with acknowledgment feedback. An apparatus of a wireless device comprising: memory; and processing circuitry coupled to the memory is disclosed. The processing circuity may be configured to determine based on buffer capacity parameters of a station and a receive buffer state of the station at least one of a size, a modulation and coding scheme (MCS), a bandwidth of a subchannel, or a number of spatial streams (NSS) for a frame. The processing circuitry may be further configured to encode the frame based on the size, the MCS, the bandwidth of the subchannel, and the NSS. The processing circuitry may be further configured to configure the wireless device to transmit the frame in accordance with the size, the MCS, the bandwidth of the subchannel, the NSS, and one or both of orthogonal frequency division multiple-access (OFDMA) or multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO).

Abstract: Computing readable media, apparatuses, and methods for signaling UL frame duration in wireless local-area networks. An apparatus of a wireless device is disclosed. The apparatus comprising processing circuitry, the processing circuitry configured to: encode a trigger frame for an uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) communication, the trigger frame including a media access control (MAC) portion including one or more station identifications and a length field to indicate an UL physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) (UL-PPDU) length, the MAC portion further including a duration field to indicate a time period for other stations to set network allocation vectors. The processing circuitry further configured to: configure the access point to transmit the trigger frame, and decode UL-PPDUs from one or more stations identified by the one or more stations identifications, where a length of each of the UL-PPDUs is to be in accordance with the UL-PPDU length.

Abstract: A source device for sending datagrams contained in an aggregated packet structure comprising transport containers each containing one or more datagram segments of the datagram, the source device comprising a feedback processor configured to receive feedback that a transmission of a transport container has failed or a detector unit that detects that a transmission of a transport container will fail; a disassembler unit that disassembles the failed transport container the transmission of which has failed or will fail; a creating unit that creates at least one new transport container from less than all of the failed transport containers without splitting datagrams; and a sending unit that sends sequence information indicating a conversion between a sequence of the transport containers of the failed datagram and a sequence of the transport containers of the new datagram, where the source device is configured to reformat and retransmit datagrams whose transmission has failed.

Abstract: In one example, a method for synchronizing connectivity in a wireless communication network includes participating in a communication on a management plane between at least one station and a first access point. The management plane includes a first frequency. A service period element specifies a plurality of terms of one or more service periods during which at least one station connects to a second access point over a data plane. The data plane includes a second radio frequency different from the second radio frequency. The method also includes participating in the one or more service periods on the data plane according to the terms specified by the service period element.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and computer readable medium for access categories (ACs) and enhanced distributed channel access functions for trigger frames are disclosed. An apparatus of a wireless device is disclosed. The apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to contend for access to a wireless medium of a channel with a first access category (AC), where the first AC comprises a first transmission opportunity (TXOP) limit, a first contention window minimum (CWmin), a first contention window maximum (CWmax), and a first arbitration inter-frame space (AIFS) number (AIFSN), and where the wireless device is to contend for the wireless medium in accordance with the first CWmin, the first CWmax, and the first AIFSN. The processing circuitry configured to transmit a trigger frame with a second AC to the stations, where the trigger frame is to start a TXOP with the first TXOP limit, when access to the channel is gained with the first AC.

Abstract: Embodiments of a station (STA), access point (AP) and method for aggregation of data packets are generally described herein. The AP may transmit a trigger frame (TF) to an STA that indicates an access class (AC) constraint parameter and a traffic identifier (TID) aggregation limit parameter. The STA may select a group of aggregate TIDs from which medium access control (MAC) protocol data units (MPDUs) may be aggregated into an aggregated MPDU (A-MPDU). The AC constraint parameter may indicate a recommended AC from which at least a portion of the aggregate TIDs are to be selected. The TID aggregation limit parameter may indicate a number of TIDs to be selected for the group of aggregate TIDs.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to analog beamforming for Wi-Fi devices. A device may determine a first analog direction associated with a first antenna of one or more antennas, using an RF chain. The device may determine a second analog direction associated with a second antenna of the one or more antennas, using the RF chain. The device may cause to send a first frame of one or more frames to a responder device using the first analog direction. The device may cause to send a second frame of the one or more frames to the responder device using the second analog direction. The device may identify one or more response frames received from the responder device, wherein at least one of the one or more response frames comprises an indication of an identified transmit direction.

Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of determining one or more link adaptation parameters. For example, an apparatus may be configured to process a first message from a wireless station, the first message including location information corresponding to a location of the wireless station, and an Access Point (AP) identifier to identify an AP; to query a Location-Based Link Status (LB-LS) database (DB) for radio link information corresponding to the AP and to the location; to determine, based on the radio link information, one or more link adaptation parameters corresponding to a wireless link between the AP and the wireless station at the location; and to send to the wireless station a second message comprising the one or more link adaptation parameters.

Abstract: Simultaneous dual band operation (2.4 and 5 GHz) is common in APs on the market today, and tri-band devices are expected in the market soon. Link aggregation can also be applicable to multiple air interfaces in the same band (for instance 2 independent IEEE 802.11ac/ax air interfaces at 5 GHz on 2 different 80MHz channels). One exemplary aspect provides technology that enables significantly higher throughput and/or higher reliability for two stations (STAs) or a STA and the access point (AP) when the devices support simultaneous multi-band operation.

Abstract: Apparatuses, computer readable media, and methods for uplink sounding in wireless networks are disclosed. An apparatus of a wireless device may include processing circuitry configured to: encode an uplink sounding trigger element (USTE) for one or more stations, the USTE comprising one or more uplink (UL) resource allocations for the one or more stations to transmit one or more uplink sounding referee elements (USREs) to the wireless device. The processing circuitry may be further configured to configure the wireless device to transmit the USTE to the one or more stations, and decode the one or more USREs from the one or more station, wherein the one or more USREs are to be received by the wireless device in accordance with a corresponding resource allocation indicated in the USTE.

Abstract: System and techniques for multi-phase wireless sounding are described herein. A first set of stations may be selected by an access point from a plurality of stations known to the access point. The access point may then transmit a first sounding request to members of the first set of stations. The access point may receive a sounding report in response to the first sounding request from members of the first set of stations. The access point may then select a second set of stations from the plurality of stations based on the sounding report. This second set of stations is a proper subset of the first set of stations. The access point may then transmit a second sounding request to the second set of stations.

Abstract: Wireless devices and methods presented in the disclosure provide for block acknowledgements for multi-band transmissions. The block acknowledgements can be coupled (aggregated) for two or more flows across multiple bands by using an acknowledge aggregation methodology. The method creates a single multi-band common acknowledgment that can be sent over one band to acknowledge transmissions over two or more bands.

Abstract: Apparatuses, computer readable media, and methods for waking up Internet of Things (IoT) devices in a high-efficiency wireless local-area network are disclosed. The apparatus of a high-efficiency wireless local-area network (HEW) device may include processing circuitry and transceiver circuitry configured to generate a packet for one or more stations comprising one or more sub-channels. Each sub-channel may include a common wake up physical synchronization in a physical layer and a station dedicated wake up preamble in a media access control (MAC) layer. The station dedicated wake up preamble may include a wake-up identifier for a corresponding station of the one or more stations. The processing circuitry and transceiver circuitry may be further configured to transmit the packet to the one or more stations in accordance with orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA).

Abstract: Densely populated wireless local area networks (WLANs) can encounter issues with processing multiple user (MU) uplink (UL) transmissions sent from many stations (STAs) simultaneously. The access points (AP) or master stations in these densely populated WLANs must manage the UL MU transmissions. To accomplish the management of the UL MU transmissions, a system for dynamically setting UL MU parameters is provided that can modify or set one or more parameters that govern how each STA is to transmit data to the AP. The parameters may be sent to one or more of the STAs in one or more transmissions and may direct how the STAs are to transmit data for at least some portion of time.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, computer readable media for trigger frames for sounding in a wireless network. An apparatus of a wireless device is disclosed, which includes processing circuitry configured to: encode a null data packet (NDP) announcement (NDP-A) including an indication of stations, configure the wireless device to transmit the NDP-A, and encode a high-efficiency (HE) NDP. The processing circuitry may be further configured to configure the wireless device to transmit the HE-NDP and encode a trigger frame (TF) including feedback parameters for the stations and a resource allocation for each of the stations to transmit a feedback report to the wireless device. The feedback report is based on the feedback parameters and the HE-NDP. The processing circuitry may be further configured to configure the wireless device to transmit the trigger frame, and decode the feedback reports from the stations in accordance with the corresponding resource allocation and the feedback parameters.

Abstract: Wireless devices and methods presented in the disclosure provide for block acknowledgements for multi-band transmissions. The block acknowledgements can be coupled (aggregated) for two or more flows across multiple bands by using an acknowledge aggregation methodology. The method creates a single multi-band common acknowledgment that can be sent over one band to acknowledge transmissions over two or more bands.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, computer readable media for coordinated transmission among virtual access points (VAPs). An apparatus of a wireless device comprising processing circuitry is disclosed. The processing circuitry is configured to determine to share a multi-station uplink (UL) and/or downlink (DL) transmission opportunity (TXOP) with two stations that are associated with two virtual access points (VAPs), where each of the two stations is associated with one of the two VAPs. The processing circuitry further configured to determine UL resource allocations for the two stations for a trigger frame based on information received from the two VAPs, and to encode the trigger frame for the multi-station UL TXOP, the trigger frame comprising a common VAP identification (ID) of the two VAPs, UL resource allocations for the two stations, and multi-basic service set (M-BSS) identifications (IDs) for each of the two stations.

Abstract: A device is disclosed that may identify a frame received from an access point. The device may cause to buffer the payload field. The device may determine that a first payload, in a first payload field, corresponds to a multiband link aggregation (MBLA) Ethertype based at least in part on a logical link layer controller (LLC) field and a subnetwork access protocol (SNAP) Ethertype MBLA field in the first payload, wherein the first payload is within the payload field. The device may cause to remove a LLC MBLA header field from the first payload field. The device may cause to buffer a packet in a reordering queue, wherein the packet is in a second payload field that is in the first payload field. The device may order the packet among a plurality of packets in the reordering queue.