Device, system and method of wireless communication over non-contiguous channels

• US 9,161,339 B2
• Filed: 10/09/2013
• Issued: 10/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Trainin, Solomon, Kasher, Assaf
• Primary Examiner(s): Alia, Curtis A
• Application Number:
  US14/049,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20140036835A1
• Time in Patent Office: 734 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/006 in the downlink, i.e. towards the terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access

Abstract

Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of wireless communication over non-contiguous channels. For example, a device may include a wireless communication unit capable of transmitting symbols of a wireless communication packet to a wireless communication device over a plurality of non-contiguous wireless communication channels.

Claims

1. A product including a non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a machine, result in:

transmitting over a first channel of a plurality of non-contiguous channels at least first signaling information defining first transmission characteristics over the first channel, and transmitting over a second channel of the plurality of non-contiguous channels at least second signaling information defining second transmission characteristics over the second channel, the first signaling information including at least one type of information selected from the group consisting of a bandwidth of the first channel and channel allocation information corresponding to the first channel; and

transmitting symbols of a wireless communication packet over the first and second channels according to the first and second transmission characteristics, respectively.

2. The product of claim 1, wherein the instructions result in:

transmitting over the first channel at least part of the second signaling information; and

transmitting over the second channel at least part of the first signaling information.

3. The product of claim 1, wherein transmitting the first and second signaling information includes transmitting substantially the same signaling information over both the first and second non-contiguous channels.

4. The product of claim 1, wherein transmitting the first and second signaling information includes transmitting different signaling information over the first and second wireless communication channels.

5. The product of claim 1, wherein said instructions result in transmitting said first and second signaling information as part of a preamble of said wireless communication packet.

6. The product of claim 1, wherein said instructions result in transmitting over the first channel first and second information elements including the first and second signaling information, respectively.

7. The product of claim 6, wherein said instructions result in transmitting the first and second information elements over the second channel.

8. The product of claim 1, wherein the first channel includes a first 80 Megahertz (MHz) channel and the second channel includes a second 80 MHz channel.

9. The product of claim 1, wherein the instructions result in communicating over the first channel according to a first back-off mechanism, and communicating over the second channel according to a second back-off mechanism.

10. The product of claim 9, wherein the instructions result in, when a back-off period of the first back-off mechanism is complete, waiting up to a predefined time period for a back-off period of the second back-off mechanism to complete, prior to transmitting over the first channel.

11. The product of claim 10, wherein the instructions result in, when the back-off period of the second back-off mechanism is complete within the predefined time period, transmitting over both the first and second channels.

12. The product of claim 1, wherein at least one channel of the plurality of channels includes two or more contiguous channels, and wherein the instructions result in transmitting a common preamble of the packet over the contiguous channels.

13. The product of claim 1, wherein at least one channel of the plurality of channels has a bandwidth of at least 20 megahertz (MHz).

14. The product of claim 1, wherein the plurality of channels have a total bandwidth of at least 160 megahertz (MHz).