SYSTEMS AND METHODS FACILITATING HIGH THROUGHPUT CONTROL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
- a wireless station adapted for communications in a wireless network;
wherein the wireless network uses a High Throughput Control (HTC) field for signaling such that the HTC field can be concatenated with control frames and requires that any station shall assert a network allocation vector (NAV) when any frame of a first type and a first subtype has been received, the first type and the first subtype indicative of a frame with the HTC field; and
wherein the wireless station is configured to use the frame with the first subtype and is constructed to deliver a Control Frame+HTC to wireless stations operable in the wireless network, thereby enabling in parallel stations operating in the wireless network to be able to assert the NAV from a duration field of the frame.
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Abstract
Embodiments include systems and methods for frame tunneling in a wireless communications system comprising digital beam forming. Embodiments comprise a first and second frame control field with the second frame control field comprising a High Throughput Control (HTC) enabling field. If the HTC enabling field is enabled, then an HTC field is sent.
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
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a wireless station adapted for communications in a wireless network; wherein the wireless network uses a High Throughput Control (HTC) field for signaling such that the HTC field can be concatenated with control frames and requires that any station shall assert a network allocation vector (NAV) when any frame of a first type and a first subtype has been received, the first type and the first subtype indicative of a frame with the HTC field; and wherein the wireless station is configured to use the frame with the first subtype and is constructed to deliver a Control Frame+HTC to wireless stations operable in the wireless network, thereby enabling in parallel stations operating in the wireless network to be able to assert the NAV from a duration field of the frame. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An apparatus, comprising:
a wireless station adapted for communications in a wireless network, the wireless station to use a frame format that includes; a first control field of the frame, prior to a duration field, defining a subtype using a type field and a subtype field; an address1 field following the duration field; a second control field following the address1 field comprising a byte count field, a subtype field indicating a control subtype concatenated with the HTC field, and a high throughput control (HTC) enabling field that if set to one will indicate that the HTC field is included in the second control field. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method, comprising:
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operating, by a wireless station adapted for communications in a wireless network, wherein the wireless network uses a High Throughput Control (HTC) field for signaling such that the HTC field can be concatenated with control frames and requires that any station shall assert a network allocation vector (NAV) when any frame of a first type and a first subtype has been received, the first type and the first subtype indicative of a frame with the HTC field; and generating, by the first station, the frame with a first subtype, the frame being constructed to deliver a Control Frame+HTC to wireless stations operable in the wireless network, thereby enabling in parallel stations operating in the wireless network to be able to assert the NAV from a duration field of the frame. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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