Apparatus, system and method of communication by co-located wireless communication modules

• US 10,980,037 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2019
• Issued: 04/13/2021
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel IP Corporation (Intel Corporation)
• Inventors: Hareuveni, Ofer, Shahar, Itzik, Ouyang, Xuemei
• Primary Examiner(s): Mills, Donald L
• Application Number:
  US16/362,666
• Publication Number:
  US 20190223189A1
• Time in Patent Office: 751 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2433 Allocation of priorities to traffic types
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/283 in response to processing delays, e.g. caused by jitter or round trip time [RTT]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0257 the individual bearer or channel having a maximum bit rate or a bit rate guarantee
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/56 based on priority criteria
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/08 Non-scheduled access, e.g. ALOHA hybrid access H04W74/02

Abstract

Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and methods of communication by co-located wireless communication modules. For example, a device may be configured to receive a latency attribute indicating an allowed latency to transmit a packet using one or more shared resources shared between a plurality of wireless communication modules; receive a first priority level indicating a first transmission priority of the packet; increase the first priority level to a second priority level based on a comparison between the allowed latency and a time from reception of the latency attribute; and send the second priority level to an arbitration module, the second priority level to indicate to the arbitration module a second transmission priority to transmit the packet using the shared resources.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to:

receive a first priority level of a first packet to be transmitted by first wireless communication circuitry using one or more shared resources shared between the first wireless communication circuitry and second collocated wireless communication circuitry;

receive a second priority level of a second packet to be transmitted by the second wireless communication circuitry using the one or more shared resources;

receive from an arbitrator a decision signal indicating am arbitration decision, the arbitration decision to indicate that the first packet is selected from the first and second packets to be transmitted using the one or more shared resources; and

based on the first and second priority levels, invert the arbitration decision into an inverted arbitration decision, the inverted arbitration decision to indicate that the second packet is to be transmitted instead of the first packet.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising:

a first input configured to receive the first priority level;

a second input configured to receive the second priority level;

a third input configured to receive the decision signal; and

decision-inverting circuitry configured to invert the arbitration decision into the inverted arbitration decision.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the decision signal comprises a first signal and a second signal, the first signal comprising a first value to indicate whether or not the first packet is to be deferred, and the second signal comprising a second value to indicate whether or not the second packet is to be deferred, the apparatus is configured to invert the arbitration decision into the inverted arbitration decision by switching the first and second values between the first and second signals.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to invert the arbitration decision into the inverted arbitration decision based on a pattern indicating a sequence of invert decisions corresponding to the first and second priority levels.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the pattern comprises a sequence of bits corresponding to a sequence of contention events, a bit of the bits indicating whether or not to invert the arbitration decision for a respective contention event.

6. The apparatus of claim 4 configured to select the pattern from a plurality of predefined patterns based on values of the first and second priority levels, the plurality of predefined patterns corresponding to a respective plurality of different combinations of values of the first and second priority levels.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to select whether or not to invert the arbitration decision into the inverted arbitration decision based on a win ratio corresponding to values of the first and second priority levels.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 configured to select the win ratio from a plurality of win ratios based on the first and second priority levels, the plurality of win ratios corresponding to a respective plurality of different combinations of values of the first and second priority levels.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to invert the arbitration decision into the inverted arbitration decision based on a Weighted Round Robin (WRR) arbitration scheme.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to invert the arbitration decision into the inverted arbitration decision based on a contention event indicating a contention between the first and second packets.

11. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first and second priority levels comprise quality of service (QoS) levels.

12. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first and second priority levels comprise Bluetooth profiles.

13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first and second wireless communication circuitry comprise first and second different circuity selected from the group consisting of Bluetooth (BT) circuitry, Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) circuitry, and Long Term Evolution (LTE) circuitry.

14. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising:

one or more radios;

one or more antennas;

a memory; and

a processor.

15. 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 processor, enable the at least one processor to cause a decision inverter of a wireless communication device to:

receive a first priority level of a first packet to be transmitted by first wireless communication circuitry of the wireless communication device using one or more shared resources shared between the first wireless communication circuitry and second collocated wireless communication circuitry of the wireless communication device;

receive a second priority level of a second packet to be transmitted by the second wireless communication circuitry using the one or more shared resources;

receive from an arbitrator a decision signal indicating an arbitration decision, the arbitration decision to indicate that the first packet is selected from the first and second packets to be transmitted using the one or more shared resources; and

based on the first and second priority levels, invert the arbitration decision into an inverted arbitration decision, the inverted arbitration decision to indicate that the second packet is to be transmitted instead of the first packet.

16. The product of claim 15, wherein the decision signal comprises a first signal and a second signal, the first signal comprising a first value to indicate whether or not the first packet is to be deferred, and the second signal comprising a second value to indicate whether or not the second packet is to be deferred, the instructions, when executed, cause the decision inverter to invert the arbitration decision into the inverted arbitration decision by switching the first and second values between the first and second signals.

17. The product of claim 15, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the decision inverter to invert the arbitration decision into the inverted arbitration decision based on a pattern indicating a sequence of invert decisions corresponding to the first and second priority levels.

18. The product of claim 15, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the decision inverter to select whether or not to invert the arbitration decision into the inverted arbitration decision based on a win ratio corresponding to values of the first and second priority levels.

19. The product of claim 15, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the decision inverter to invert the arbitration decision into the inverted arbitration decision based on a Weighted Round Robin (WRR) arbitration scheme.

20. The product of claim 15, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the decision inverter to invert the arbitration decision into the inverted arbitration decision based on a contention event indicating a contention between the first and second packets.