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Sounding and tone block allocation for orthogonal frequency multiple access (OFDMA) in wireless local area networks

  • US 10,075,318 B2
  • Filed: 10/17/2016
  • Issued: 09/11/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for simultaneously communicating with multiple communication devices in a communication network, the method comprising:

  • receiving, at a first communication device, sounding feedback packets from a plurality of second communication devices, wherein each sounding feedback packet includes (i) beamforming feedback to be used by the first communication device for beamforming to the corresponding second communication device, and (ii) one or more channel quality indicators (CQIs) corresponding to one or more groups of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) subcarriers associated with the corresponding second communication device;

    selecting, at the first communication device, a group of second communication devices for orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication, wherein the group of second communication device includes two or more second communication devices of the plurality of second communication devices, and wherein the first communication device selects the group of second communication devices based on the received CQIs;

    allocating, at the first communication device, groups of subcarriers to the second communication devices in the group of second communication devices wherein the first communication device uses the received CQIs to allocate the groups of subcarriers; and

    transmitting, from the first communication device to the group of second communication devices, at least one OFDMA data unit that includes respective data directed to the two or more second communication devices of the group, wherein the respective data are transmitted via respective groups of subcarriers that were allocated to the two or more second communication devices of the group.

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