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- Nachgewiesen in: USPTO Patent Applications
- Sprachen: English
- Document Number: 20220345263
- Publication Date: October 27, 2022
- Appl. No: 17/726824
- Application Filed: April 22, 2022
- Claim: 1. A method, comprising: distributing a plurality of subcarriers of a resource unit (RU) to generate a distributed-tone RU (dRU) or a distributed-tone multi-RU (dMRU) on an 80 MHz frequency segment or subblock; and communicating with a communication entity using the dRU or the dMRU.
- Claim: 2. The method of claim 1, wherein a repetition period of a plurality of tones of the dRU or the dMRU is 36, and wherein the plurality of tones of the dRU or the dMRU are distributed over ether an orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access (OFDMA) tone plan or a non-OFDMA tone plan.
- Claim: 3. The method of claim 1, wherein a repetition period of a plurality of tones of the dRU is 37, and wherein the plurality of tones of the dRU or the dMRU are distributed over a non-orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access (non-OFDMA) tone plan.
- Claim: 4. The method of claim 1, wherein the dRU or the dMRU is generated based on a subcarrier indices table with parameters RUstart(r) and l(i), and wherein: RUstart(r) denotes a first or starting tone index for the dRU or the dMRU, l(i) denotes one or more tones of the dRU or the dMRU within one repetition distance or one repetition period, r denotes a dRU index, i=mod(k,L)=0,1, 2, . . . , L−1, k=0, 1, . . . , Nst−1, L denotes a number of tones of the dRU or the dMRU within one repetition distance or one repetition period, and Nst denotes a number of subcarriers associated with the dRU or the dMRU.
- Claim: 5. The method of claim 4, wherein a 484-tone dRU is supported in the subcarrier indices table.
- Claim: 6. The method of claim 5, wherein the dRU comprises a 26-tone dRU with the RUstart(r)={V, V+1} and the l(i)={0}, and wherein V=[0, 16, 8, 24, 32, 4, 20, 12, 28, 6, 22, 14, 30, 34, 2, 18, 10, 26].
- Claim: 7. The method of claim 5, wherein the dRU comprises a 52-tone dRU with the RUstart(r)={0, 8, 4, 12, 6, 14, 2, 10, 1, 9, 5, 13, 7, 15, 3, 11} and the l(i)={0, 16}.
- Claim: 8. The method of claim 5, wherein the dRU comprises a 106-tone dRU with the RUstart(r)={0, 4, 6, 2, 1, 5, 7, 3} and the l(i)={0, 8, 16, 24}.
- Claim: 9. The method of claim 5, wherein the dRU comprises a 242-tone dRU with the RUstart(r={0, 2, 1, 3} and the l(i)={0:4:32}.
- Claim: 10. The method of claim 5, wherein the dRU comprises a 484-tone dRU with the RUstart(r)={0, 1} and the l(i)={0:2:34}.
- Claim: 11. The method of claim 4, wherein the dRU comprises a 26-tone dRU with the RUstart(r)={0, 13, 26, 3, 16, 29, 6, 19, 32, 9, 22, 35, 12, 25, 2, 15, 28, 5, 18, 31, 8, 21, 34, 11, 24, 1, 14, 27, 4, 17, 30, 7, 20, 33, 10, 23} and the l(i)={0}.
- Claim: 12. The method of claim 4, wherein the dRU comprises a 52-tone dRU with the RUstart(r)={0, 3, 6, 19, 9, 12, 2, 5, 18, 8, 11, 1, 4, 17, 20, 10} and the l(i)= {0, 13} for dRU1, dRU4, dRU5, dRU7, dRU9, dRU10, dRU11, dRU12, dRU14, dRU15 and dRU16, or {0, 23} for dRU2, dRU3, dRU6, dRU8 and dRU13.
- Claim: 13. The method of claim 4, wherein the dRU comprises a 106-tone dRU with the RUstart(r)={0, 6, 9, 2, 8, 1, 4, 10} and the l(i)= {0, 3, 13, 26} for dRU1, dRU3 and dRU4, {0, 13, 23, 26} for dRU2 and dRU7, or {0, 10, 13, 23} for dRU5, dRU6 and dRU8.
- Claim: 14. The method of claim 4, wherein the dRU comprises a 242-tone dRU with the RUstart(r)={0, 2, 1, 4} and the l(i)= {0, 3, 6, 13, 16, 19, 26, 29, 32} for dRU1, {0, 3, 7, 10, 13, 20, 23, 26, 33} for dRU2, {0, 7, 10, 13, 17, 20, 23, 30, 33} for dRU3, or {0, 3, 6, 13, 16, 19, 23, 26, 29} for dRU4.
- Claim: 15. The method of claim 4, wherein the dRU comprises a 484-tone dRU with the RUstart(r)={0, 1} and the l(i)= {0, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 22, 25, 26, 28, 29, 32, 35} for dRU1, or {0, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 26, 29, 30, 32, 33} for dRU2.
- Claim: 16. The method of claim 1, wherein a tone distribution pattern of the dRU or the dMRU is center-aligned and DC-symmetric.
- Claim: 17. The method of claim 1, wherein a tone distribution pattern of the dRU or the dMRU is center-aligned and DC-asymmetric.
- Claim: 18. The method of claim 1, wherein a tone distribution pattern of the dRU or the dMRU is edge-aligned and DC-symmetric.
- Claim: 19. The method of claim 1, wherein a tone distribution pattern of the dRU or the dMRU is edge-aligned and DC-asymmetric.
- Claim: 20. An apparatus, comprising: a transceiver configured to communicate wirelessly; and a processor coupled to the transceiver and configured to perform operations comprising: distributing a plurality of subcarriers of a resource unit (RU) to generate a distributed-tone RU (dRU) or a distributed-tone multi-RU (dMRU) on an 80 MHz frequency segment or subblock; and communicating, via the transceiver, with a communication entity using the dRU or the dMRU, wherein a repetition period of a plurality of tones of the dRU or the dMRU is 36, and wherein the plurality of tones of the dRU or the dMRU are distributed over ether an orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access (OFDMA) tone plan or a non-OFDMA tone plan.
- Current International Class: 04
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