DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SIMULTANEOUSLY COMMUNICATING WITH A GROUP OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES
First Claim
1. An apparatus comprising:
- a wireless communication unit comprising;
a transmitter;
a receiver; and
logic configured to cause the wireless communication unit to;
transmit a frame configured to initiate a sounding feedback sequence of explicit beamforming training with a plurality of wireless communication stations, the frame comprising a sequence of a plurality of Association Identifiers (AIDs) corresponding to said plurality of wireless communication stations;
during a first time period, process reception of a first beamforming feedback frame from a station corresponding to a first AID, which is first in order of said sequence of the plurality of AIDs; and
during one or more subsequent non-overlapping time periods, which are subsequent to said first time period, process reception of one or more subsequent beamforming feedback frames from one or more other stations corresponding to one or more subsequent AIDs in the sequence of the plurality of AIDs.
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Abstract
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of simultaneously communicating with a group of wireless communication devices. For example, a device may include a wireless communication unit to communicate with at least one group of a plurality of wireless communication devices over a wireless communication medium, wherein the wireless communication unit is to reserve the wireless communication medium for a time period, during which the wireless communication unit is to simultaneously transmit two or more different wireless communication transmissions to two or more wireless communication devices of the group, respectively. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
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1. An apparatus comprising:
a wireless communication unit comprising; a transmitter; a receiver; and logic configured to cause the wireless communication unit to; transmit a frame configured to initiate a sounding feedback sequence of explicit beamforming training with a plurality of wireless communication stations, the frame comprising a sequence of a plurality of Association Identifiers (AIDs) corresponding to said plurality of wireless communication stations; during a first time period, process reception of a first beamforming feedback frame from a station corresponding to a first AID, which is first in order of said sequence of the plurality of AIDs; and during one or more subsequent non-overlapping time periods, which are subsequent to said first time period, process reception of one or more subsequent beamforming feedback frames from one or more other stations corresponding to one or more subsequent AIDs in the sequence of the plurality of AIDs. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An apparatus comprising:
a wireless communication unit comprising; a transmitter; a receiver; and logic configured to cause the wireless communication unit to; process a received frame configured to initiate a sounding feedback sequence of explicit beamforming training by a plurality of wireless communication stations, the initiation frame comprising a sequence of a plurality of Association Identifiers (AIDs) corresponding to said plurality of wireless communication stations; and transmit a beamforming feedback frame during a first time period, if an AID corresponding to said wireless communication unit is a first AID, which is first in order in said sequence of the plurality of AIDs, or during a second time period, subsequent to said first time period, if the AID corresponding to said wireless communication unit is a subsequent AID, which is after the first AID in said sequence of the plurality of AIDs. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11)
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12. A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one computer processor, enable the at least one computer processor to implement one or more operations at a wireless communication device, the operations comprising:
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transmitting a frame configured to initiate a sounding feedback sequence of explicit beamforming training with a plurality of wireless communication stations, the frame comprising a sequence of a plurality of Association Identifiers (AIDs) corresponding to said plurality of wireless communication stations; during a first time period, processing reception of a first beamforming feedback frame from a station corresponding to a first AID, which is first in order of said sequence of the plurality of AIDs; and during one or more subsequent non-overlapping time periods, which are subsequent to said first time period, processing reception of one or more subsequent beamforming feedback frames from one or more other stations corresponding to one or more subsequent AIDs in the sequence of the plurality of AIDs. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one computer processor, enable the at least one computer processor to implement one or more operations at a wireless communication device, the operations comprising:
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processing a received frame configured to initiate a sounding feedback sequence of explicit beamforming training by a plurality of wireless communication stations, the initiation frame comprising a sequence of a plurality of Association Identifiers (AIDs) corresponding to said plurality of wireless communication stations; and transmitting a beamforming feedback frame during a first time period, if an AID corresponding to said wireless communication device is a first AID, which is first in order in said sequence of the plurality of AIDs, or during a second time period, subsequent to said first time period, if the AID corresponding to said wireless communication device is a subsequent AID, which is after the first AID in said sequence of the plurality of AIDs. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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