Master station and method for HEW communication using a transmission signaling structure for a HEW signal field

摘要

Embodiments of a transmission signaling structure for HEW are defined to carry packet information to configure OFDMA receivers for demodulation of a specific portion of the packet and/or to configure receivers for transmission using specific OFDMA and MU-MIMO resources. In some embodiments, the specific portion of the packet comprises one or more minimum bandwidth units of one or more 20 MHz channels. Each 20 MHz bandwidth structure may comprise several minimum bandwidth units to allow each 20 MHz channel to have a have smaller granularity than 20 MHz.

主权项

1. A communication station arranged to operate as a high-efficiency (HE) master station in a wireless local area network (WLAN), the communication station comprising:
transceiver circuitry; and processing circuitry to configure the transceiver circuitry to:
generate a packet that includes a transmission signaling structure to configure scheduled HE stations for communication on channel resources in accordance with an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technique, the channel resources comprising a plurality of OFDMA blocks within a 20 MHz channel, wherein each scheduled HE station is assigned one of the OFDMA blocks; and transmit the packet including the transmission signaling structure, wherein each OFDMA block comprises one or more resource units having a predetermined bandwidth, the transmission signaling structure configurable to allocate to, the scheduled HE stations, OFDMA blocks having different numbers of the resource units.