WO2018226553A1 - Appareil, système et procédé de communication d'une unité de données de protocole de couche physique (ppdu) - Google Patents

Appareil, système et procédé de communication d'une unité de données de protocole de couche physique (ppdu) Download PDF

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WO2018226553A1
WO2018226553A1 PCT/US2018/035792 US2018035792W WO2018226553A1 WO 2018226553 A1 WO2018226553 A1 WO 2018226553A1 US 2018035792 W US2018035792 W US 2018035792W WO 2018226553 A1 WO2018226553 A1 WO 2018226553A1
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  • Embodiments described herein generally relate to communicating a Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU).
  • PPDU Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit
  • a wireless communication network in a millimeter- wave band may provide high-speed data access for users of wireless communication devices.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram illustration of a system, in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic illustration of an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (EDMG) Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) format, which may be implemented in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments.
  • EDMG Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit
  • PPDU Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic flow-chart illustration of a method of communicating a PPDU, in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments.
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic illustration of a product of manufacture, in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments.
  • Discussions herein utilizing terms such as, for example, “processing”, “computing”, “calculating”, “determining”, “establishing”, “analyzing”, “checking”, or the like, may refer to operation(s) and/or process(es) of a computer, a computing platform, a computing system, or other electronic computing device, that manipulate and/or transform data represented as physical (e.g., electronic) quantities within the computer's registers and/or memories into other data similarly represented as physical quantities within the computer's registers and/or memories or other information storage medium that may store instructions to perform operations and/or processes.
  • processing may refer to operation(s) and/or process(es) of a computer, a computing platform, a computing system, or other electronic computing device, that manipulate and/or transform data represented as physical (e.g., electronic) quantities within the computer's registers and/or memories into other data similarly represented as physical quantities within the computer's registers and/or memories or other information storage medium that may store instructions to perform operations and/or processes.
  • references to "one embodiment”, “an embodiment”, “demonstrative embodiment”, “various embodiments” etc., indicate that the embodiment s) so described may include a particular feature, structure, or characteristic, but not every embodiment necessarily includes the particular feature, structure, or characteristic. Further, repeated use of the phrase “in one embodiment” does not necessarily refer to the same embodiment, although it may.
  • Some embodiments may be used in conjunction with various devices and systems, for example, a User Equipment (UE), a Mobile Device (MD), a wireless station (STA), a Personal Computer (PC), a desktop computer, a mobile computer, a laptop computer, a notebook computer, a tablet computer, a server computer, a handheld computer, a handheld device, a wearable device, a sensor device, an Internet of Things (IoT) device, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) device, a handheld PDA device, an on-board device, an off-board device, a hybrid device, a vehicular device, a non-vehicular device, a mobile or portable device, a consumer device, a non-mobile or non-portable device, a wireless communication station, a wireless communication device, a wireless Access Point (AP), a wired or wireless router, a wired or wireless modem, a video device, an audio device, an audio-video (A V) device, a wired or wireless network, a wireless area
  • Some embodiments may be used in conjunction with devices and/or networks operating in accordance with existing IEEE 802.1 1 standards (including IEEE 802.1 1- 2016 ⁇ IEEE 802.11-2016, IEEE Standard for Information technology— Telecommunications and information exchange between systems Local and metropolitan area networks— Specific requirements Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications, December 7, 2016); and/or IEEE 802.1 lay (P802.
  • IEEE 802.1 1 standards including IEEE 802.1 1- 2016 ⁇ IEEE 802.11-2016, IEEE Standard for Information technology— Telecommunications and information exchange between systems Local and metropolitan area networks— Specific requirements Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications, December 7, 2016
  • IEEE 802.1 lay P802.
  • Some embodiments may be used in conjunction with one way and/or two-way radio communication systems, cellular radio-telephone communication systems, a mobile phone, a cellular telephone, a wireless telephone, a Personal Communication Systems (PCS) device, a PDA device which incorporates a wireless communication device, a mobile or portable Global Positioning System (GPS) device, a device which incorporates a GPS receiver or transceiver or chip, a device which incorporates an RFID element or chip, a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) transceiver or device, a Single Input Multiple Output (SIMO) transceiver or device, a Multiple Input Single Output (MISO) transceiver or device, a device having one or more internal antennas and/or external antennas, Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) devices or systems, multi-standard radio devices or systems, a wired or wireless handheld device, e.g., a Smartphone, a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) device, or the like.
  • WAP Wireless Application Protocol
  • Some embodiments may be used in conjunction with one or more types of wireless communication signals and/or systems, for example, Radio Frequency (RF), Infra Red (IR), Frequency-Division Multiplexing (FDM), Orthogonal FDM (OFDM), Orthogonal Frequency -Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), FDM Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM), Time-Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO), Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA), Extended TDMA (E- TDMA), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), extended GPRS, Code-Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Wideband CDMA (WCDMA), CDMA 2000, single- carrier CDMA, multi-carrier CDMA, Multi-Carrier Modulation (MDM), Discrete Multi-Tone (DMT), Bluetooth®, Global Positioning System (GPS), Wi-Fi, Wi-Max,
  • RF Radio Frequency
  • IR Frequency-Division Multiplexing
  • ZigBeeTM Ultra-Wideband (UWB)
  • GSM Global System for Mobile communication
  • 2G 2.5G
  • 3G 3G
  • 4G Fifth Generation
  • 5G Fifth Generation
  • 6G Sixth Generation
  • 3GPP 3GPP
  • LTE Long Term Evolution
  • LTE advanced Long Term Evolution
  • EDGE Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution
  • Other embodiments may be used in various other devices, systems and/or networks.
  • wireless device includes, for example, a device capable of wireless communication, a communication device capable of wireless communication, a communication station capable of wireless communication, a portable or non-portable device capable of wireless communication, or the like.
  • a wireless device may be or may include a peripheral that is integrated with a computer, or a peripheral that is attached to a computer.
  • the term "wireless device” may optionally include a wireless service.
  • the term "communicating" as used herein with respect to a communication signal includes transmitting the communication signal and/or receiving the communication signal.
  • a communication unit which is capable of communicating a communication signal, may include a transmitter to transmit the communication signal to at least one other communication unit, and/or a communication receiver to receive the communication signal from at least one other communication unit.
  • the verb communicating may be used to refer to the action of transmitting or the action of receiving.
  • the phrase "communicating a signal” may refer to the action of transmitting the signal by a first device, and may not necessarily include the action of receiving the signal by a second device.
  • the phrase "communicating a signal” may refer to the action of receiving the signal by a first device, and may not necessarily include the action of transmitting the signal by a second device.
  • the communication signal may be transmitted and/or received, for example, in the form of Radio Frequency (RF) communication signals, and/or any other type of signal.
  • RF Radio Frequency
  • circuitry may refer to, be part of, or include, an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), an integrated circuit, an electronic circuit, a processor (shared, dedicated, or group), and/or memory (shared, dedicated, or group), that execute one or more software or firmware programs, a combinational logic circuit, and/or other suitable hardware components that provide the described functionality.
  • ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
  • the circuitry may be implemented in, or functions associated with the circuitry may be implemented by, one or more software or firmware modules.
  • circuitry may include logic, at least partially operable in hardware.
  • logic may refer, for example, to computing logic embedded in circuitry of a computing apparatus and/or computing logic stored in a memory of a computing apparatus.
  • the logic may be accessible by a processor of the computing apparatus to execute the computing logic to perform computing functions and/or operations.
  • logic may be embedded in various types of memory and/or firmware, e.g., silicon blocks of various chips and/or processors.
  • Logic may be included in, and/or implemented as part of, various circuitry, e.g. radio circuitry, receiver circuitry, control circuitry, transmitter circuitry, transceiver circuitry, processor circuitry, and/or the like.
  • logic may be embedded in volatile memory and/or non-volatile memory, including random access memory, read only memory, programmable memory, magnetic memory, flash memory, persistent memory, and the like.
  • Logic may be executed by one or more processors using memory, e.g., registers, stuck, buffers, and/or the like, coupled to the one or more processors, e.g., as necessary to execute the logic.
  • Some demonstrative embodiments may be used in conjunction with a WLAN, e.g., a WiFi network.
  • Other embodiments may be used in conjunction with any other suitable wireless communication network, for example, a wireless area network, a "piconet", a WPAN, a WVAN and the like.
  • Some demonstrative embodiments may be used in conjunction with a wireless communication network communicating over a frequency band above 45 Gigahertz (GHz), e.g., 60GHz.
  • GHz gigahertz
  • other embodiments may be implemented utilizing any other suitable wireless communication frequency bands, for example, an Extremely High Frequency (EHF) band (the millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band), e.g., a frequency band within the frequency band of between 20Ghz and 300GHz, a frequency band above 45GHz, a 5G frequency band, a frequency band below 20GHz, e.g., a Sub 1 GHz (S1G) band, a 2.4GHz band, a 5GHz band, a WLAN frequency band, a WPAN frequency band, a frequency band according to the WGA specification, and the like.
  • EHF Extremely High Frequency
  • S1G Sub 1 GHz
  • S1G Sub 1 GHz
  • WLAN Wireless Personal Area Network
  • WPAN Wireless Personal Area Network
  • antenna may include any suitable configuration, structure and/or arrangement of one or more antenna elements, components, units, assemblies and/or arrays.
  • the antenna may implement transmit and receive functionalities using separate transmit and receive antenna elements.
  • the antenna may implement transmit and receive functionalities using common and/or integrated transmit/receive elements.
  • the antenna may include, for example, a phased array antenna, a single element antenna, a set of switched beam antennas, and/or the like.
  • DMG directional multi-gigabit
  • DBand directional band
  • DMG communications may involve one or more directional links to communicate at a rate of multiple gigabits per second, for example, at least 1 Gigabit per second, e.g., at least 7 Gigabit per second, at least 30 Gigabit per second, or any other rate.
  • DMG STA also referred to as a "mmWave STA (mSTA)"
  • mmWave STA mmWave STA
  • the DMG STA may perform other additional or alternative functionality.
  • Other embodiments may be implemented by any other apparatus, device and/or station.
  • FIG. 1 schematically illustrates a system 100, in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments.
  • system 100 may include one or more wireless communication devices.
  • system 100 may include a wireless communication device 102, a wireless communication device 140, and/or one more other devices.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may include a mobile device or a non-mobile, e.g., a static, device.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may include, for example, a UE, an MD, a STA, an AP, a PC, a desktop computer, a mobile computer, a laptop computer, an UltrabookTM computer, a notebook computer, a tablet computer, a server computer, a handheld computer, an Internet of Things (IoT) device, a sensor device, a handheld device, a wearable device, a PDA device, a handheld PDA device, an on-board device, an off-board device, a hybrid device (e.g., combining cellular phone functionalities with PDA device functionalities), a consumer device, a vehicular device, a non-vehicular device, a mobile or portable device, a non-mobile or nonportable device, a mobile phone, a cellular telephone, a PCS device, a PDA device which incorporates a wireless communication device, a mobile or portable GPS device, a DVB device, a relatively small computing device, a non-desk
  • device 102 may include, for example, one or more of a processor 191, an input unit 192, an output unit 193, a memory unit 194, and/or a storage unit 195; and/or device 140 may include, for example, one or more of a processor 181, an input unit 182, an output unit 183, a memory unit 184, and/or a storage unit 185.
  • Devices 102 and/or 140 may optionally include other suitable hardware components and/or software components.
  • some or all of the components of one or more of devices 102 and/or 140 may be enclosed in a common housing or packaging, and may be interconnected or operably associated using one or more wired or wireless links. In other embodiments, components of one or more of devices 102 and/or 140 may be distributed among multiple or separate devices.
  • processor 191 and/or processor 181 may include, for example, a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), one or more processor cores, a single-core processor, a dual-core processor, a multiple-core processor, a microprocessor, a host processor, a controller, a plurality of processors or controllers, a chip, a microchip, one or more circuits, circuitry, a logic unit, an Integrated Circuit (IC), an Application-Specific IC (ASIC), or any other suitable multi-purpose or specific processor or controller.
  • Processor 191 may execute instructions, for example, of an Operating System (OS) of device 102 and/or of one or more suitable applications.
  • Processor 181 may execute instructions, for example, of an Operating System (OS) of device 140 and/or of one or more suitable applications.
  • OS Operating System
  • OS Operating System
  • input unit 192 and/or input unit 182 may include, for example, a keyboard, a keypad, a mouse, a touch-screen, a touch-pad, a track-ball, a stylus, a microphone, or other suitable pointing device or input device.
  • Output unit 193 and/or output unit 183 may include, for example, a monitor, a screen, a touch- screen, a flat panel display, a Light Emitting Diode (LED) display unit, a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) display unit, a plasma display unit, one or more audio speakers or earphones, or other suitable output devices.
  • LED Light Emitting Diode
  • LCD Liquid Crystal Display
  • memory unit 194 and/or memory unit 184 includes, for example, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a Read Only Memory (ROM), a Dynamic RAM (DRAM), a Synchronous DRAM (SD-RAM), a flash memory, a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, a cache memory, a buffer, a short term memory unit, a long term memory unit, or other suitable memory units.
  • Storage unit 195 and/or storage unit 185 may include, for example, a hard disk drive, a floppy disk drive, a Compact Disk (CD) drive, a CD-ROM drive, a DVD drive, or other suitable removable or non-removable storage units.
  • Memory unit 194 and/or storage unit 195 may store data processed by device 102.
  • Memory unit 184 and/or storage unit 185 may store data processed by device 140.
  • wireless communication devices 102 and/or 140 may be capable of communicating content, data, information and/or signals via a wireless medium (WM) 103.
  • wireless medium 103 may include, for example, a radio channel, a cellular channel, an RF channel, a WiFi channel, a 5G channel, an IR channel, a Bluetooth (BT) channel, a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Channel, and the like.
  • WM 103 may include one or more directional bands and/or channels.
  • WM 103 may include one or more millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless communication bands and/or channels.
  • mmWave millimeter-wave
  • WM 103 may include one or more DMG channels. In other embodiments WM 103 may include any other directional channels.
  • WM 103 may include any other type of channel over any other frequency band.
  • device 102 and/or device 140 may include one or more radios including circuitry and/or logic to perform wireless communication between devices 102, 140 and/or one or more other wireless communication devices.
  • device 102 may include at least one radio 114
  • device 140 may include at least one radio 144.
  • radio 114 and/or radio 144 may include one or more wireless receivers (Rx) including circuitry and/or logic to receive wireless communication signals, RF signals, frames, blocks, transmission streams, packets, messages, data items, and/or data.
  • Rx wireless receivers
  • radio 1 14 may include at least one receiver 116
  • radio 144 may include at least one receiver 146.
  • radio 114 and/or radio 144 may include one or more wireless transmitters (Tx) including circuitry and/or logic to transmit wireless communication signals, RF signals, frames, blocks, transmission streams, packets, messages, data items, and/or data.
  • Tx wireless transmitters
  • radio 1 14 may include at least one transmitter 118
  • radio 144 may include at least one transmitter 148.
  • radio 114 and/or radio 144, transmitters 118 and/or 148, and/or receivers 116 and/or 146 may include circuitry; logic; Radio Frequency (RF) elements, circuitry and/or logic; baseband elements, circuitry and/or logic; modulation elements, circuitry and/or logic; demodulation elements, circuitry and/or logic; amplifiers; analog to digital and/or digital to analog converters; filters; and/or the like.
  • radio 114 and/or radio 144 may include or may be implemented as part of a wireless Network Interface Card (NIC), and the like.
  • NIC wireless Network Interface Card
  • radios 1 14 and/or 144 may be configured to communicate over a directional band, for example, an mmWave band, a 5G band, and/or any other band, for example, a 2.4GHz band, a 5GHz band, a S1G band, and/or any other band.
  • a directional band for example, an mmWave band, a 5G band, and/or any other band, for example, a 2.4GHz band, a 5GHz band, a S1G band, and/or any other band.
  • radios 114 and/or 144 may include, or may be associated with one or more, e.g., a plurality of, directional antennas.
  • device 102 may include one or more, e.g., a plurality of, directional antennas 107, and/or device 140 may include on or more, e.g., a plurality of, directional antennas 147.
  • Antennas 107 and/or 147 may include any type of antennas suitable for transmitting and/or receiving wireless communication signals, blocks, frames, transmission streams, packets, messages and/or data.
  • antennas 107 and/or 147 may include any suitable configuration, structure and/or arrangement of one or more antenna elements, components, units, assemblies and/or arrays.
  • Antennas 107 and/or 147 may include, for example, antennas suitable for directional communication, e.g., using beamforming techniques.
  • antennas 107 and/or 147 may include a phased array antenna, a multiple element antenna, a set of switched beam antennas, and/or the like.
  • antennas 107 and/or 147 may implement transmit and receive functionalities using separate transmit and receive antenna elements.
  • antennas 107 and/or 147 may implement transmit and receive functionalities using common and/or integrated transmit/receive elements.
  • antennas 107 and/or 147 may include directional antennas, which may be steered to one or more beam directions.
  • antennas 107 may be steered to one or more beam directions 135, and/or antennas 147 may be steered to one or more beam directions 145.
  • antennas 107 and/or 147 may include and/or may be implemented as part of a single Phased Antenna Array (PAA).
  • PAA Phased Antenna Array
  • antennas 107 and/or 147 may be implemented as part of a plurality of PAAs, for example, as a plurality of physically independent PAAs.
  • a PAA may include, for example, a rectangular geometry, e.g., including an integer number, denoted M, of rows, and an integer number, denoted N, of columns.
  • M integer number
  • N integer number
  • any other types of antennas and/or antenna arrays may be used.
  • antennas 107 and/or antennas 147 may be connected to, and/or associated with, one or more Radio Frequency (RF) chains.
  • RF Radio Frequency
  • device 102 may include one or more, e.g., a plurality of, RF chains 109 connected to, and/or associated with, antennas 107.
  • one or more of RF chains 109 may be included as part of, and/or implemented as part of one or more elements of radio 114, e.g., as part of transmitter 118 and/or receiver 1 16.
  • device 140 may include one or more, e.g., a plurality of, RF chains 149 connected to, and/or associated with, antennas 147.
  • one or more of RF chains 149 may be included as part of, and/or implemented as part of one or more elements of radio 144, e.g., as part of transmitter 148 and/or receiver 146.
  • device 102 may include a controller 124
  • device 140 may include a controller 154.
  • Controller 124 may be configured to perform and/or to trigger, cause, instruct and/or control device 102 to perform, one or more communications, to generate and/or communicate one or more messages and/or transmissions, and/or to perform one or more functionalities, operations and/or procedures between devices 102, 140 and/or one or more other devices; and/or controller 154 may be configured to perform, and/or to trigger, cause, instruct and/or control device 140 to perform, one or more communications, to generate and/or communicate one or more messages and/or transmissions, and/or to perform one or more functionalities, operations and/or procedures between devices 102, 140 and/or one or more other devices, e.g., as described below.
  • controllers 124 and/or 154 may include, or may be implemented, partially or entirely, by circuitry and/or logic, e.g., one or more processors including circuitry and/or logic, memory circuitry and/or logic, Media-Access Control (MAC) circuitry and/or logic, Physical Layer (PHY) circuitry and/or logic, baseband (BB) circuitry and/or logic, a BB processor, a BB memory, Application Processor (AP) circuitry and/or logic, an AP processor, an AP memory, and/or any other circuitry and/or logic, configured to perform the functionality of controllers 124 and/or 154, respectively. Additionally or alternatively, one or more functionalities of controllers 124 and/or 154 may be implemented by logic, which may be executed by a machine and/or one or more processors, e.g., as described below.
  • MAC Media-Access Control
  • PHY Physical Layer
  • BB baseband
  • AP Application Processor
  • controllers 124 and/or 154 may be implemented
  • controller 124 may include circuitry and/or logic, for example, one or more processors including circuitry and/or logic, to cause, trigger and/or control a wireless device, e.g., device 102, and/or a wireless station, e.g., a wireless STA implemented by device 102, to perform one or more operations, communications and/or functionalities, e.g., as described herein.
  • a wireless device e.g., device 102
  • a wireless station e.g., a wireless STA implemented by device 102
  • controller 124 may include at least one memory, e.g., coupled to the one or more processors, which may be configured, for example, to store, e.g., at least temporarily, at least some of the information processed by the one or more processors and/or circuitry, and/or which may be configured to store logic to be utilized by the processors and/or circuitry.
  • controller 154 may include circuitry and/or logic, for example, one or more processors including circuitry and/or logic, to cause, trigger and/or control a wireless device, e.g., device 140, and/or a wireless station, e.g., a wireless STA implemented by device 140, to perform one or more operations, communications and/or functionalities, e.g., as described herein.
  • a wireless device e.g., device 140
  • a wireless station e.g., a wireless STA implemented by device 140
  • controller 154 may include at least one memory, e.g., coupled to the one or more processors, which may be configured, for example, to store, e.g., at least temporarily, at least some of the information processed by the one or more processors and/or circuitry, and/or which may be configured to store logic to be utilized by the processors and/or circuitry.
  • device 102 may include a message processor 128 configured to generate, process and/or access one or messages communicated by device 102.
  • message processor 128 may be configured to generate one or more messages to be transmitted by device 102, and/or message processor 128 may be configured to access and/or to process one or more messages received by device 102, e.g., as described below.
  • message processor 128 may include at least one first component configured to generate a message, for example, in the form of a frame, field, information element and/or protocol data unit, for example, a MAC Protocol Data Unit (MPDU); at least one second component configured to convert the message into a PHY Protocol Data Unit (PPDU), for example, by processing the message generated by the at least one first component, e.g., by encoding the message, modulating the message and/or performing any other additional or alternative processing of the message; and/or at least one third component configured to cause transmission of the message over a wireless communication medium, e.g., over a wireless communication channel in a wireless communication frequency band, for example, by applying to one or more fields of the PPDU one or more transmit waveforms.
  • message processor 128 may be configured to perform any other additional or alternative functionality and/or may include any other additional or alternative components to generate and/or process a message to be transmitted.
  • device 140 may include a message processor 158 configured to generate, process and/or access one or messages communicated by device 140.
  • message processor 158 may be configured to generate one or more messages to be transmitted by device 140, and/or message processor 158 may be configured to access and/or to process one or more messages received by device 140, e.g., as described below.
  • message processor 158 may include at least one first component configured to generate a message, for example, in the form of a frame, field, information element and/or protocol data unit, for example, a MAC Protocol Data Unit (MPDU); at least one second component configured to convert the message into a PHY Protocol Data Unit (PPDU), for example, by processing the message generated by the at least one first component, e.g., by encoding the message, modulating the message and/or performing any other additional or alternative processing of the message; and/or at least one third component configured to cause transmission of the message over a wireless communication medium, e.g., over a wireless communication channel in a wireless communication frequency band, for example, by applying to one or more fields of the PPDU one or more transmit waveforms.
  • message processor 158 may be configured to perform any other additional or alternative functionality and/or may include any other additional or alternative components to generate and/or process a message to be transmitted.
  • message processors 128 and/or 158 may include, or may be implemented, partially or entirely, by circuitry and/or logic, e.g., one or more processors including circuitry and/or logic, memory circuitry and/or logic, Media-Access Control (MAC) circuitry and/or logic, Physical Layer (PHY) circuitry and/or logic, BB circuitry and/or logic, a BB processor, a BB memory, AP circuitry and/or logic, an AP processor, an AP memory, and/or any other circuitry and/or logic, configured to perform the functionality of message processors 128 and/or 158, respectively. Additionally or alternatively, one or more functionalities of message processors 128 and/or 158 may be implemented by logic, which may be executed by a machine and/or one or more processors, e.g., as described below.
  • At least part of the functionality of message processor 128 may be implemented as part of radio 1 14, and/or at least part of the functionality of message processor 158 may be implemented as part of radio 144.
  • message processor 128 may be implemented as part of controller 124, and/or at least part of the functionality of message processor 158 may be implemented as part of controller 154.
  • message processor 128 may be implemented as part of any other element of device 102, and/or the functionality of message processor 158 may be implemented as part of any other element of device 140.
  • controller 124 and/or message processor 128 may be implemented by an integrated circuit, for example, a chip, e.g., a System on Chip (SoC).
  • SoC System on Chip
  • the chip or SoC may be configured to perform one or more functionalities of radio 1 14.
  • the chip or SoC may include one or more elements of controller 124, one or more elements of message processor 128, and/or one or more elements of radio 114.
  • controller 124, message processor 128, and radio 1 14 may be implemented as part of the chip or SoC.
  • controller 124, message processor 128 and/or radio 114 may be implemented by one or more additional or alternative elements of device 102.
  • controller 154 and/or message processor 158 may be implemented by an integrated circuit, for example, a chip, e.g., a System on Chip (SoC).
  • SoC System on Chip
  • the chip or SoC may be configured to perform one or more functionalities of radio 144.
  • the chip or SoC may include one or more elements of controller 154, one or more elements of message processor 158, and/or one or more elements of radio 144.
  • controller 154, message processor 158, and radio 144 may be implemented as part of the chip or SoC.
  • controller 154, message processor 158 and/or radio 144 may be implemented by one or more additional or alternative elements of device 140.
  • device 102 and/or device 140 may include, operate as, perform the role of, and/or perform one or more functionalities of, one or more STAs.
  • device 102 may include at least one STA
  • device 140 may include at least one STA.
  • device 102 and/or device 140 may include, operate as, perform the role of, and/or perform one or more functionalities of, one or more DMG STAs.
  • device 102 may include, operate as, perform the role of, and/or perform one or more functionalities of, at least one DMG STA
  • device 140 may include, operate as, perform the role of, and/or perform one or more functionalities of, at least one DMG STA.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may include, operate as, perform the role of, and/or perform one or more functionalities of, any other wireless device and/or station, e.g., a WLAN STA, a WiFi STA, and the like.
  • device 102 and/or device 140 may be configured operate as, perform the role of, and/or perform one or more functionalities of, an access point (AP), e.g., a DMG AP, and/or a personal basic service set (PBSS) control point (PCP), e.g., a DMG PCP, for example, an AP/PCP STA, e.g., a DMG AP PCP STA.
  • AP access point
  • PBSS personal basic service set
  • PCP personal basic service set
  • AP/PCP STA e.g., a DMG AP PCP STA.
  • device 102 and/or device 140 may be configured to operate as, perform the role of, and/or perform one or more functionalities of, a non-AP STA, e.g., a DMG non-AP STA, and/or a non-PCP STA, e.g., a DMG non-PCP STA, for example, a non-AP/PCP STA, e.g., a DMG non- AP/PCP STA.
  • a non-AP STA e.g., a DMG non-AP STA
  • a non-AP/PCP STA e.g., a DMG non- AP/PCP STA.
  • device 102 and/or device 140 may operate as, perform the role of, and/or perform one or more functionalities of, any other additional or alternative device and/or station.
  • a station may include a logical entity that is a singly addressable instance of a medium access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) interface to the wireless medium (WM).
  • the STA may perform any other additional or alternative functionality.
  • an AP may include an entity that contains a station (STA), e.g., one STA, and provides access to distribution services, via the wireless medium (WM) for associated STAs. The AP may perform any other additional or alternative functionality.
  • a personal basic service set (PBSS) control point may include an entity that contains a STA, e.g., one station (STA), and coordinates access to the wireless medium (WM) by STAs that are members of a PBSS.
  • STA station
  • WM wireless medium
  • the PCP may perform any other additional or alternative functionality.
  • a PBSS may include a directional multi-gigabit (DMG) basic service set (BSS) that includes, for example, one PBSS control point (PCP).
  • DMG directional multi-gigabit
  • PCP PBSS control point
  • DS distribution system
  • intra-PBSS forwarding service may optionally be present.
  • a PCP/AP STA may include a station (STA) that is at least one of a PCP or an AP.
  • the PCP/AP STA may perform any other additional or alternative functionality.
  • a non-AP STA may include a STA that is not contained within an AP.
  • the non-AP STA may perform any other additional or alternative functionality.
  • a non-PCP STA may include a STA that is not a PCP.
  • the non-PCP STA may perform any other additional or alternative functionality.
  • a non PCP/AP STA may include a STA that is not a PCP and that is not an AP.
  • the non-PCP/AP STA may perform any other additional or alternative functionality.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to communicate over a Next Generation 60 GHz (NG60) network, an Enhanced DMG (EDMG) network, and/or any other network.
  • NG60 Next Generation 60 GHz
  • EDMG Enhanced DMG
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may perform Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MFMO) communication, for example, for communicating over the NG60 and/or EDMG networks, e.g., over an NG60 or an EDMG frequency band.
  • MFMO Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to operate in accordance with one or more Specifications, for example, including one or more IEEE 802.11 Specifications, e.g., an IEEE 802.11-2016 Specification, an IEEE 802.1 lay Specification, and/or any other specification and/or protocol.
  • IEEE 802.11 Specifications e.g., an IEEE 802.11-2016 Specification, an IEEE 802.1 lay Specification, and/or any other specification and/or protocol.
  • Some demonstrative embodiments may be implemented, for example, as part of a new standard in an mmWave band, e.g., a 60GHz frequency band or any other directional band, for example, as an evolution of an IEEE 802.11-2016 Specification and/or an IEEE 802. Had Specification.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured according to one or more standards, for example, in accordance with an IEEE 802.1 lay Standard, which may be, for example, configured to enhance the efficiency and/or performance of an IEEE 802.1 lad Specification, which may be configured to provide Wi-Fi connectivity in a 60 GHz band.
  • IEEE 802.1 lay Standard which may be, for example, configured to enhance the efficiency and/or performance of an IEEE 802.1 lad Specification, which may be configured to provide Wi-Fi connectivity in a 60 GHz band.
  • Some demonstrative embodiments may enable, for example, to significantly increase the data transmission rates defined in the IEEE 802.1 lad Specification, for example, from 7 Gigabit per second (Gbps), e.g., up to 30 Gbps, or to any other data rate, which may, for example, satisfy growing demand in network capacity for new coming applications.
  • Gbps Gigabit per second
  • Some demonstrative embodiments may be implemented, for example, to allow increasing a transmission data rate, for example, by applying MDVIO and/or channel bonding techniques.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to communicate MIMO communications over the mmWave wireless communication band.
  • device 102 and/or device 140 may be configured to support one or more mechanisms and/or features, for example, channel bonding, Single User (SU) MIMO, and/or Multi-User (MU) MDVIO, for example, in accordance with an IEEE 802. Hay Standard and/or any other standard and/or protocol.
  • SU Single User
  • MU Multi-User
  • device 102 and/or device 140 may include, operate as, perform a role of, and/or perform the functionality of, one or more EDMG STAs.
  • device 102 may include, operate as, perform a role of, and/or perform the functionality of, at least one EDMG STA
  • device 140 may include, operate as, perform a role of, and/or perform the functionality of, at least one EDMG STA.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may implement a communication scheme, which may include Physical layer (PHY) and/or Media Access Control (MAC) layer schemes, for example, to support one or more applications, and/or increased transmission data rates, e.g., data rates of up to 30 Gbps, or any other data rate.
  • PHY Physical layer
  • MAC Media Access Control
  • the PHY and/or MAC layer schemes may be configured to support frequency channel bonding over a mmWave band, e.g., over a 60 GHz band, SU MEVIO techniques, and/or MU ⁇ techniques.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to implement one or more mechanisms, which may be configured to enable SU and/or MU communication of Downlink (DL) and/or Uplink frames (UL) using a MIMO scheme.
  • DL Downlink
  • UL Uplink frames
  • device 102 and/or device 140 may be configured to implement one or more MU communication mechanisms.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to implement one or more MU mechanisms, which may be configured to enable MU communication of DL frames using a MIMO scheme, for example, between a device, e.g., device 102, and a plurality of devices, e.g., including device 140 and/or one or more other devices.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to communicate over an NG60 network, an EDMG network, and/or any other network and/or any other frequency band.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to communicate DL MFMO transmissions and/or UL MIMO transmissions, for example, for communicating over the NG60 and/or EDMG networks.
  • Some wireless communication Specifications may be configured to support a SU system, in which a STA may transmit frames to a single STA at a time. Such Specifications may not be able, for example, to support a STA transmitting to multiple STAs simultaneously, for example, using a MU- ⁇ scheme, e.g., a DL MU- ⁇ , or any other MU scheme.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to communicate over a channel bandwidth, e.g., of at least 2.16GHz, in a frequency band above 45GHz
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to implement one or more mechanisms, which may, for example, enable to extend a single-channel BW scheme, e.g., a scheme in accordance with the IEEE 802.1 lad Specification or any other scheme, for higher data rates and/or increased capabilities, e.g., as described below.
  • a single-channel BW scheme e.g., a scheme in accordance with the IEEE 802.1 lad Specification or any other scheme, for higher data rates and/or increased capabilities, e.g., as described below.
  • the single-channel BW scheme may include communication over a 2.16 GHz channel (also referred to as a "single-channel” or a "DMG channel”).
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to implement one or more channel bonding mechanisms, which may, for example, support communication over a channel BW (also referred to as a "wide channel", an "EDMG channel”, or a "bonded channel") including two or more channels, e.g., two or more 2.16 GHz channels, e.g., as described below.
  • a channel BW also referred to as a "wide channel", an "EDMG channel”, or a "bonded channel
  • channels e.g., two or more 2.16 GHz channels, e.g., as described below.
  • the channel bonding mechanisms may include, for example, a mechanism and/or an operation whereby two or more channels, e.g., 2.16 GHz channels, can be combined, e.g., for a higher bandwidth of packet transmission, for example, to enable achieving higher data rates, e.g., when compared to transmissions over a single channel.
  • channels e.g., 2.16 GHz channels
  • Some demonstrative embodiments are described herein with respect to communication over a channel BW including two or more 2.16 GHz channels, however other embodiments may be implemented with respect to communications over a channel bandwidth, e.g., a "wide" channel, including or formed by any other number of two or more channels, for example, an aggregated channel including an aggregation of two or more channels.
  • device 102 and/or device 140 may be configured to implement one or more channel bonding mechanisms, which may, for example, support an increased channel bandwidth, for example, a channel BW of 4.32 GHz, a channel BW of 6.48 GHz, a channel BW of 8.64 GHz, and/or any other additional or alternative channel BW, e.g., as described below.
  • channel bonding mechanisms may, for example, support an increased channel bandwidth, for example, a channel BW of 4.32 GHz, a channel BW of 6.48 GHz, a channel BW of 8.64 GHz, and/or any other additional or alternative channel BW, e.g., as described below.
  • device 102 and/or device 140 may be configured to implement one or more channel bonding mechanisms, which may, for example, support an increased channel bandwidth, for example, a channel BW of 4.32 GHz, e.g., including two 2.16Ghz channels according to a channel bonding factor of two, a channel BW of 6.48 GHz, e.g., including three 2.16Ghz channels according to a channel bonding factor of three, a channel BW of 8.64 GHz, e.g., including four 2.16Ghz channels according to a channel bonding factor of four, and/or any other additional or alternative channel BW, e.g., including any other number of 2.16Ghz channels and/or according to any other channel bonding factor.
  • a channel BW of 4.32 GHz e.g., including two 2.16Ghz channels according to a channel bonding factor of two
  • a channel BW of 6.48 GHz e.g., including three 2.16Ghz channels according to a channel bonding
  • device 102 and/or device 140 may be configured to communicate one or more transmissions over one or more channel BWs, for example, including a channel BW of 2.16GHz, a channel BW of 4.32GHz, a channel BW of 6.48GHz, a channel BW of 8.64GHz and/or any other channel BW.
  • channel BWs for example, including a channel BW of 2.16GHz, a channel BW of 4.32GHz, a channel BW of 6.48GHz, a channel BW of 8.64GHz and/or any other channel BW.
  • introduction of MEVIO may be based, for example, on implementing robust transmission modes and/or enhancing the reliability of data transmission, e.g., rather than the transmission rate, compared to a Single Input Single Output (SISO) case.
  • SISO Single Input Single Output
  • STBC Space Time Block Coding
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to generate, process, transmit and/or receive a Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) having a PPDU format (also referred to as "EDMG PPDU format”), which may be configured, for example, for communication between EDMG stations, e.g., as described below.
  • PHY Physical Layer
  • PPDU Protocol Data Unit
  • EDMG PPDU format PPDU format
  • a PPDU may include at least one non-EDMG fields, e.g., a legacy field, which may be identified, decodable, and/or processed by one or more devices ("non-EDMG devices", or “legacy devices"), which may not support one or more features and/or mechanisms ("non-legacy" mechanisms or "EDMG mechanisms").
  • the legacy devices may include non-EDMG stations, which may be, for example, configured according to an IEEE 802.11-2016 Standard, and the like.
  • a non-EDMG station may include a DMG station, which is not an EDMG station.
  • FIG. 2 schematically illustrates an EDMG PPDU format 200, which may be implemented in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments.
  • devices 102 (Fig. 1) and/or 140 (Fig. 1) may be configured to generate, transmit, receive and/or process one or more EDMG PPDUs having the structure and/or format of EDMG PPDU 200.
  • devices 102 (Fig. 1) and/or 140 (Fig. 1) may communicate EDMG PPDU 200, for example, as part of a transmission over a channel, e.g., an EDMG channel, having a channel bandwidth including one or more 2.16GHz channels, e.g., as described below.
  • a channel e.g., an EDMG channel, having a channel bandwidth including one or more 2.16GHz channels, e.g., as described below.
  • EDMG PPDU 200 may include a non-EDMG portion 210 ("legacy portion"), e.g., as described below.
  • non-EDMG portion 210 may include a non-EDMG (legacy) Short Training Field (STF) (L-STF) 202, a non-EDMG (Legacy) Channel Estimation Field (CEF) (L-CEF) 204, and/or a non- EDMG header (L-header) 206.
  • STF Short Training Field
  • L-STF Long Term Evolution
  • CEF Channel Estimation Field
  • L-header non-EDMG header
  • EDMG PPDU 200 may include an EDMG portion 220, for example, following non-EDMG portion 210, e.g., as described below.
  • EDMG portion 220 may include a first EDMG header, e.g., an EDMG-Header-A 208, an EDMG- STF 212, an EDMG-CEF 214, a second EDMG header, e.g., an EDMG-Header-B 216, a Data field 218, and/or one or more beamforming training fields, e.g., a TRN field 224.
  • a first EDMG header e.g., an EDMG-Header-A 208, an EDMG- STF 212, an EDMG-CEF 214
  • a second EDMG header e.g., an EDMG-Header-B 216
  • a Data field 218 e.g., a Data field 224.
  • EDMG portion 220 may include some or all of the fields shown in Fig. 2 and/or one or more other additional or alternative fields.
  • Header B field 216 may be included, for example, in EDMG MU PPDUs, for example, on a per STA basis.
  • Header B field 216 corresponding to a STA addressed by the EDMG MU PPDU may include, for example, information relating to a transmission of a data unit, for example, a PHY Service Data Unit (PSDU) to the STA.
  • PSDU PHY Service Data Unit
  • EDMG Header B field 216 may include any other additional or alternative fields and/or information.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to generate, transmit, receive and/or process one or more transmissions, e.g., including one or more EDMG PPDUs, e.g., as described below.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to generate, transmit, receive and/or process one or more transmissions, e.g., including one or more EDMG PPDUs, for example, according to an EDMG transmission mode for Control PHY, e.g., in accordance with an IEEE 802. Hay Specification and/or any other specification.
  • one or more transmissions e.g., including one or more EDMG PPDUs, for example, according to an EDMG transmission mode for Control PHY, e.g., in accordance with an IEEE 802. Hay Specification and/or any other specification.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to generate, transmit, receive and/or process one or more transmissions of PPDUs, e.g., Control PHY EDMG PPDUs, for example, by transmission over a 2.16 GHz bandwidth, a 4.32 GHz bandwidth, a 6.48 GHz bandwidth, a 8.64 GHz bandwidth, and/or any other channel bandwidth, e.g., as described below.
  • PPDUs e.g., Control PHY EDMG PPDUs
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to generate, transmit, receive and/or process one or more transmissions of PPDUs, e.g., Control PHY EDMG PPDUs, for example, using single or multiple transmit chains and/or antennas.
  • PPDUs e.g., Control PHY EDMG PPDUs
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to generate, transmit, receive and/or process one or more transmissions of PPDUs, e.g., Control PHY EDMG PPDUs, for example, which may be configured to support simultaneous PPDU transmission, for example, over multiple transmit chains, e.g., as described below.
  • PPDUs e.g., Control PHY EDMG PPDUs
  • control PHY EDMG PPDUs for example, which may be configured to support simultaneous PPDU transmission, for example, over multiple transmit chains, e.g., as described below.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to generate, transmit, receive and/or process one or more transmissions of PPDUs, e.g., Control PHY EDMG PPDUs, for example, according to an EDMG PPDU transmission mode, which may be configured to allow and/or support, for example, Control PHY EDMG PPDU transmission, for example, over multiple transmit chains and/or antennas, e.g., as described below.
  • PPDUs e.g., Control PHY EDMG PPDUs
  • an EDMG PPDU transmission mode which may be configured to allow and/or support, for example, Control PHY EDMG PPDU transmission, for example, over multiple transmit chains and/or antennas, e.g., as described below.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to generate, transmit, receive and/or process one or more transmissions of PPDUs, e.g., Control PHY EDMG PPDUs, for example, according to an EDMG PPDU transmission mode (also referred to as "Control PHY EDMG PPDU transmission mode"), which may be configured to allow and/or support, for example, simultaneous beamforming training of multiple transmit chains and/or antennas, e.g., as described below.
  • PPDU transmission mode also referred to as "Control PHY EDMG PPDU transmission mode”
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to generate, transmit, receive and/or process one or more transmissions of PPDUs, e.g., Control PHY EDMG PPDUs, for example, according to an EDMG PPDU transmission mode, which may be configured to allow and/or support, for example, Control PHY EDMG PPDU transmission, for example, over at least a 2.16 GHz channel, a 4.32 GHz channel, a 6.48 GHz channel, and/or a 8.64 GHz channel, for example, using single or multiple transmit chains, and/or beamforming training of single transmit chains or antennas and/or simultaneous training of multiple transmit chains and/or antennas, e.g., as described below.
  • PPDUs e.g., Control PHY EDMG PPDUs
  • an EDMG PPDU transmission mode which may be configured to allow and/or support, for example, Control PHY EDMG PPDU transmission, for example, over at least a 2.16 GHz channel, a 4.32
  • the EDMG PPDU transmission mode may support transmission of Control PHY EDMG PPDUs over any other additional or alternative channel BW, for example, using single or multiple transmit chains, and/or beamforming training of single transmit chains and/or antennas and/or simultaneous training of multiple transmit chains and/or antennas.
  • an EDMG PPDU transmission mode may be defined, for example, at a Single Carrier (SC) chip rate equal to 1.76 GHz, e.g., as described below. In other embodiments, any other chip rate may be used.
  • SC Single Carrier
  • an EDMG PPDU transmission mode may be applied, for example, to transmission of a PPDU including a preamble, one or more data fields, and/or an EDMG-TRN field, e.g., including one or more of the fields described above with reference to Fig. 2.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to generate, transmit, receive and/or process one or more transmissions of PPDUs, e.g., Control PHY EDMG PPDUs, for example, including a TRN field, e.g., TRN field 224 (Fig. 2), which may be defined, for example, on a per transmit chain basis, for example, using an orthogonal sequence.
  • a TRN field e.g., TRN field 224 (Fig. 2)
  • the configuration of the TRN field may provide a technical benefit, for example, at least with respect to allowing and/or supporting training of several chains or antennas, e.g., simultaneously.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to generate, transmit, receive and/or process an EDMG PPDU transmission over a 2.16 GHz channel, a 4.32 GHz channel, a 6.48 GHz channel, a 8.64 GHz channel, and/or any other channel bandwidth, for example, using ⁇ transmit chains, e.g., as described below.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to generate, transmit, receive and/or process a Control mode EDMG PPDU, which may be configured for transmission, reception, encoding, decoding and/or processing by EDMG STAs, e.g., as described below.
  • a Control mode EDMG PPDU which may be configured for transmission, reception, encoding, decoding and/or processing by EDMG STAs, e.g., as described below.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to generate, transmit, receive and/or process an EDMG control mode PPDU (also referred as "Control mode EDMG PPDU") including at least a preamble and a data field, e.g., as described below.
  • EDMG control mode PPDU also referred as "Control mode EDMG PPDU”
  • a Control mode EDMG PPDU may include, for example, at least a preamble, and a data field, e.g., data field 218 (Fig. 2), e.g., as described below.
  • the Control mode EDMG PPDU may optionally include, for example, a TRN field, e.g., TRN field 224 (Fig. 2), e.g., as described below.
  • a TRN field e.g., TRN field 224 (Fig. 2), e.g., as described below.
  • the preamble for the Control mode EDMG PPDU may include, for example, an L-STF, e.g., L-STF 202 (Fig. 2), an L- CEF, e.g., L-CEF 204 (Fig. 2), an L-Header, e.g., L-Header 206 (Fig. 2), and/or an EDMG Header-A, e.g., EDMG Header A 208 (Fig. 2).
  • L-STF e.g., L-STF 202 (Fig. 2)
  • an L- CEF e.g., L-CEF 204
  • L-Header e.g., L-Header 206
  • EDMG Header-A e.g., EDMG Header A 208
  • the Control mode EDMG PPDU may include any other additional or alternative fields.
  • the preamble and data part of the Control mode EDMG PPDU may be defined, for example, at a SC chip rate equal to 1.76GHz and/or any other chip rate.
  • the preamble and data part of the control mode EDMG PPDU may be defined, for example, to include, for example, the following modulated fields:
  • XnT c r L _ STF (nT c ) + r L _ CEF (nT c - t L _ CEF ) + r L _ Header (nT c - t L
  • Header 1 L - CEF + ' ⁇ L - CEF 15 a tota l duration of L-STF and L-CEF field of the PPDU;
  • tEDMG-Header-A t L-HeaJer + T L-Header ⁇ & total duration of L-STF, L-CEF, and L-
  • tData t EDMG-Header-A + T EDMG-Header-A 3 ⁇ 4 tOtal duration of L-STF, L-CEF, L-
  • n denotes an index, for example, an index in time.
  • the index n may include a chip index in time, for example, according to a chip rate, e.g., a SC chip rate. In one example, the index n may include a chip index in time, for example, according to a ship rate of 1.76 GHz. In other embodiments, any other index may be used.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to generate, transmit, receive and/or process a PPDU, e.g., a Control mode EDMG PPDU, which may be transmitted via N3 ⁇ 4 transmit chains, wherein N3 ⁇ 4 is an integer equal to or greater than 1, e.g., as described below.
  • a PPDU e.g., a Control mode EDMG PPDU
  • N3 ⁇ 4 is an integer equal to or greater than 1, e.g., as described below.
  • the total number of transmit chains ⁇ may be maintained constant during transmission, for example, over the different fields of the EDMG PPDU.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to generate, transmit, receive and/or process at least a portion of a PPDU, e.g., a Control mode EDMG PPDU, e.g., a preamble and/or a data portion of the control mode EDMG PPDU, which may be transmitted, e.g., in duplicate, via the NT X transmit chains, e.g., as described below.
  • a transmission of the preamble and/or the data portion of the PPDU, e.g., the Control mode EDMG PPDU, via an ⁇ -th transmit chain, wherein 1 ⁇ i TX ⁇ N TX , may include, for example, a cyclic shift, which may be configured, for example, to be dependent at least on the particular transmit chain number of the ⁇ -th transmit chain to be used, e.g., as described below.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to generate, transmit, receive and/or process one or more transmissions, e.g., including one or more EDMG PPDUs, for example, according to a Control PHY EDMG PPDU waveform, which may be applied to one or more of the fields of the EDMG PPDU, e.g., as follows: ⁇ i ⁇ N TX— TX wherein:
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to generate, transmit, receive and/or process a PPDU, e.g., a Control mode EDMG PPDU, having a preamble and data part of the PPDU transmitted using multiple transmit chains, for example, according to a spatial expansion mechanism, e.g., as described below.
  • a PPDU e.g., a Control mode EDMG PPDU
  • a preamble and data part of the PPDU transmitted using multiple transmit chains for example, according to a spatial expansion mechanism, e.g., as described below.
  • a spatial expansion with Cyclic Shift Diversity may be applied, for example, to transmit the preamble and data part of the control mode EDMG PPDU, for example, using multiple transmit chains, e.g., as described below.
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control a wireless station implemented by device 102, e.g., an EDMG STA, to generate an EDMG control mode PPDU (also referred as "Control mode EDMG PPDU") including at least a preamble and a data field, e.g., as described below.
  • a wireless station implemented by device 102
  • EDMG STA e.g., an EDMG STA
  • Control mode EDMG PPDU also referred as "Control mode EDMG PPDU”
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 to generate one or more EDMG PPDU waveforms corresponding to one or more respective transmit chains for transmission of the EDMG control mode PPDU, e.g., as described below.
  • an EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to a transmit chain of the one or more transmit chains may include a cyclic time shift of the preamble and data field, e.g., as described below.
  • the cyclic time shift may be based on a transmit chain number of the transmit chain, e.g., as described below.
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 to transmit the EDMG control mode PPDU via the one or more transmit chains over a channel bandwidth of at least 2.16 GHz in a frequency band above 45GHz, e.g., as described below.
  • transmission of the EDMG control mode PPDU via the transmit chain may be based on the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, e.g., as described below.
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 to transmit the EDMG control mode PPDU over a channel bandwidth of 2.16GHz, 4.32GHz, 6.48GHz, or 8.64GHz.
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 to transmit the EDMG control mode PPDU over any other channel bandwidth.
  • the cyclic time shift may include a cyclic time shift ⁇ 'TM in SC chip units, wherein irx denotes the transmit chain number.
  • the preamble and/or data part of a PPDU waveform for an i T x-th transmit chain may include, for example, the cyclic shift , which may be configured, for example, to be dependent at least on the particular transmit chain number of the z ' rx-th transmit chain to be used, e.g., as described below.
  • the cyclic shift T 1 TM may be implemented to include a time shift, which may be, for example, defined in SC chip units, e.g., as described below.
  • the cyclic time shift may be defined, e.g., as follows:
  • N c denotes a factor value
  • T c denotes a SC chip time duration
  • the SC chip time duration T c may be determined, e.g., as follows:
  • F c is a SC chip rate, for example, 1.76GHz or any other chip rate.
  • the cyclic shift may be defined in any other manner.
  • the factor value N c may be equal to 4. In other embodiments, the factor value N c may include any other value.
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 to determine a preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, and to determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain based on the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, e g., as described below.
  • the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain may be determined, for example, by applying to the preamble and data field a spatial expansion with Cyclic Shift Diversity (CSD) according to the cyclic time shift , e.g., as follows:
  • CSD Cyclic Shift Diversity
  • ⁇ ⁇ denotes a total count of the one or more transmit chains
  • rEDMG-Pream-Da ⁇ n T c denotes the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain number i TX
  • rEDMG-Pre am -Data ⁇ nT c denotes the preamble and data field
  • T c denotes a SC chip time duration
  • the preamble and/or the data part of the PPDU waveform for the z ' rx-th transmit chain may be determined based on the cyclic shift , e.g., according to Equation 5.
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 to generate one or more preamble-data waveforms corresponding to the one or more transmit chains, e.g., as described below.
  • a preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain may include the cyclic time shift, which may be based on the transmit chain number of the transmit chain, e.g., as described below.
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 to generate the one or more EDMG PPDU waveforms corresponding to the one or more transmit chains by up-sampling and filtering the one or more preamble-data waveforms, e.g., as described below.
  • the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain may be based on up-sampling and filtering the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, e.g., as described below.
  • the EDMG PPDU waveform for the ⁇ -th transmit chain may be determined, for example, by up- sampling and/or filtering, and/or performing an appropriate carrier frequency shift of the ) W Ve f° rm ' ⁇ ⁇ > if required.
  • an up-sampling procedure may be applied, for example, by a factor oiN up , e.g., as described below.
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 to determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain based on an up-sampled and filtered waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, which is defined, e.g., as follows:
  • nT c denotes the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain number i x
  • hscc B denotes a response of a pulse shaping filter
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • N up denotes a factor value
  • K denotes a length of the pulse shaping filter in samples
  • the filtering procedure may be performed, for example, with the pulse shaping filter h sc CB , which may be defined, for example, at a N H/) X 1.76 GHz sampling rate and/or any other sampling rate, e.g., according to Equation 6.
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 to perform a filtering procedure, for example, with a pulse shaping filter, denoted, h SCCB , which may be defined, for example, at a 1.76 GHz sampling rate, e.g., as follows:
  • the pulse shaping filter impulse response h SCCB definition may be implementation specific.
  • the pulse shaping filter impulse response h sc CB and/or the parameter N up may be defined according to any suitable configuration, for example, in an implementation specific manner.
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 to transmit the EDMG control mode PPDU over a channel bandwidth of 2.16GHz, and to determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to include, for example, the following waveform for the preamble and data field: wherein: denotes an up-sampled and filtered waveform corresponding to a transmit chain number i TX , and
  • T c denotes a SC chip time duration.
  • a waveform of the EDMG preamble and data part of the EDMG PPDU for the ⁇ -th transmit chain may be defined, for example, based on the channel bandwidth, e.g., as described below.
  • a waveform of the EDMG preamble and data part of the EDMG PPDU for the hx-th transmit chain for example, for transmission over a channel bandwidth including a plurality of 2.16GHz channel bandwidths may be defined, for example, as a combination of a plurality of waveforms corresponding to the plurality of 2.16Ghz channel bandwidths, e.g., as described below.
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 to, when the channel bandwidth includes a 4.32GHz bandwidth, determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to include, for example, the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • AF denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz, or any other spacing
  • a waveform of the EDMG preamble and data part of the EDMG PPDU for the ⁇ -th transmit chain for example, for transmission, e.g., duplicate transmission, over a 4.32GHz channel, may be defined, for example, according to Equation 9.
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 to, when the channel bandwidth includes a 6.48GHz bandwidth, determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to include, for example, the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • T c denotes a SC chip time duration
  • ⁇ denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz
  • ⁇ , ⁇ 2 , and ⁇ 3 are in the range [0, T c ],
  • a zero delay may correspond to the primary channel.
  • a waveform of the EDMG preamble and data part of the EDMG PPDU for the ⁇ -th transmit chain for example, for transmission, e.g., duplicate transmission, over a 6.48GHz channel, may be defined, for example, according to Equation 10.
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 to, when the channel bandwidth includes a 8.64GHz bandwidth, determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to include, for example, the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • AF denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz
  • ⁇ , ⁇ 2 , ⁇ 3 , and U are in the range [0, T c ].
  • a zero delay may correspond to the primary channel.
  • a waveform of the EDMG preamble and data part of the EDMG PPDU for the ⁇ -th transmit chain for example, for transmission, e.g., duplicate transmission, over a 8.64GHz channel, may be defined, for example, according to Equation 11.
  • a waveform of the EDMG preamble and data part of the EDMG PPDU for the ⁇ -th transmit chain may be defined, for example, based on one or more of the above definitions.
  • EDMG PPDU for example, TRN field 224 (Fig. 2), e.g.,
  • the TRN field may be, for example, filtered and/or resampled, for example, with a conversion rate ratio of N UP INCB, or any other conversion rate ratio, e.g., as described below.
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 to generate the EDMG control mode PPDU including a TRN field, e.g., TRN field 224 (Fig. 2), e.g., as described below.
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102to generate the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain by concatenating a waveform for the preamble and data field, e.g., data field 218 (Fig. 2), with a waveform for the TRN field, e.g., TRN field 224 (Fig. 2), e.g., as described below.
  • a waveform for the preamble and data field e.g., data field 218 (Fig. 2)
  • TRN field 224 e.g., as described below.
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 to generate the waveform for the TRN field by filtering and resampling a TRN field corresponding to the number of the transmit chain, e.g., as described below.
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 to determine the waveform for the TRN field based on the following resampling procedure:
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • N denotes a factor value
  • NCB denotes a channel bonding factor
  • hscc B denotes a response of a pulse shaping filter
  • K denotes a length of the pulse shaping filter in sampl I X 3
  • a Control mode EDMG PPDU waveform for the z ' rx-th transmit chain may be determined, for example, by concatenating the preamble and data part, e.g., as defined above, with the TRN field, e.g., as defined above, for example, as follows:
  • t TRN t Oata + r Date is a total duration of the L-STF, L-CEF, L-Header, EDMG-
  • N T is a total number of transmit chains.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to transmit the preamble and data part of the PPDU, e.g., the Control Mode EDMG PPDU, over multiple transmit chains, e.g., N TX transmit chains, for example, by duplication and cyclic shift of a replica for a given transmit chain with the index i x by T l TM , which may be, for example, equal to 4 chips, or any other value, e.g., as described above.
  • N TX transmit chains e.g., N TX transmit chains, for example, by duplication and cyclic shift of a replica for a given transmit chain with the index i x by T l TM , which may be, for example, equal to 4 chips, or any other value, e.g., as described above.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to transmit the preamble and data part of the Control Mode EDMG PPDU over a channel bandwidth which is greater than 2.16 GHz, for example, over a channel with a channel bandwidth of 4.32GHz, 6.48 GHz, 8.64GHz and/or any other channel bandwidth, for example, by applying a duplicate transmission scheme.
  • the duplicate transmission scheme may include duplicating a transmission over a plurality of 2.16GHz channels forming a channel bandwidth, e.g., of 4.32GHz, 6.48GHz, and/or 8.64GHz.
  • devices 102 and/or 140 may be configured to transmit TRN units, e.g., EDMG TRN units, for different transmit chains, for example, by applying orthogonal Golay sequences, e.g., in accordance with an IEEE 802.11-2016 Specification and/or any other Golay sequences.
  • orthogonal Golay sequences e.g., in accordance with an IEEE 802.11-2016 Specification and/or any other Golay sequences.
  • using the orthogonal Golay sequences may allow and/or support, for example, simultaneous beamforming training of multiple transmit chains and/or antennas.
  • Fig. 3 schematically illustrates a method of communicating a PPDU, in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments.
  • one or more of the operations of the method of Fig. 3 may be performed by one or more elements of a system, e.g., system 100 (Fig. 1), for example, one or more wireless devices, e.g., device 102 (Fig. 1), and/or device 140 (Fig. 1), a controller, e.g., controller 124 (Fig. 1) and/or controller 154 (Fig. 1), a radio, e.g., radio 1 14 (Fig. 1) and/or radio 144 (Fig. 1), and/or a message processor, e.g., message processor 128 (Fig. 1) and/or message processor 158 (Fig. 1).
  • a system e.g., system 100 (Fig. 1)
  • wireless devices e.g., device 102 (Fig. 1), and/or device 140 (Fig. 1)
  • a controller e.g., controller 124 (Fig
  • the method may include generating a PPDU, e.g., an EDMG control mode PPDU, including at least a preamble and a data field.
  • controller 124 Fig. 1
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 (Fig. 1) to generate the EDMG control mode PPDU including at least a preamble and a data field, e.g., as described above.
  • the method may include generating one or more EDMG PPDU waveforms corresponding to one or more respective transmit chains for transmission of the EDMG PPDU, e.g., the EDMG control mode PPDU.
  • controller 124 Fig. 1
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 (Fig 1) to generate the one or more EDMG PPDU waveforms corresponding to the one or more respective transmit chains for transmission of the EDMG control mode PPDU, e.g., as described above.
  • an EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to a transmit chain of the one or more transmit chains may include a cyclic time shift of the preamble and data field, the cyclic time shift may be based on a transmit chain number of the transmit chain, e.g., as described above.
  • the method may include transmitting the EDMG PPDU, e.g., the EDMG control mode PPDU, via the one or more transmit chains over a channel bandwidth of at least 2.16 GHz in a frequency band above 45GHz.
  • controller 124 Fig. 1
  • controller 124 may be configured to cause, trigger, and/or control the wireless station implemented by device 102 (Fig. 1) to transmit the EDMG control mode PPDU via the one or more transmit chains over a channel bandwidth of at least 2.16 GHz in a frequency band above 45GHz, e.g., as described above.
  • transmission of the EDMG control mode PPDU via the transmit chain may be based on the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, e.g., as described above.
  • Product 400 may include one or more tangible computer-readable (“machine-readable”) non- transitory storage media 402, which may include computer-executable instructions, e.g., implemented by logic 404, operable to, when executed by at least one computer processor, enable the at least one computer processor to implement one or more operations at device 102 (Fig. 1), device 140 (Fig. 1), radio 114 (Fig. 1), radio 144 (Fig. 1), transmitter 118 (Fig. 1), transmitter 148 (Fig. 1), receiver 116 (Fig. 1), receiver 146 (Fig. 1), message processor 128 (Fig. 1), message processor 158 (Fig.
  • Non-transitory machine- readable medium and “computer-readable non-transitory storage media” may be directed to include all machine and/or computer readable media, with the sole exception being a transitory propagating signal.
  • product 400 and/or machine readable storage media 402 may include one or more types of computer-readable storage media capable of storing data, including volatile memory, non-volatile memory, removable or non-removable memory, erasable or non-erasable memory, writeable or re- writeable memory, and the like.
  • machine readable storage media 402 may include, RAM, DRAM, Double-Data-Rate DRAM (DDR-DRAM), SDRAM, static RAM (SRAM), ROM, programmable ROM (PROM), erasable programmable ROM (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable ROM (EEPROM), Compact Disk ROM (CD-ROM), Compact Disk Recordable (CD-R), Compact Disk Rewriteable (CD-RW), flash memory (e.g., NOR or NAND flash memory), content addressable memory (CAM), polymer memory, phase-change memory, ferroelectric memory, silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (SONOS) memory, a disk, a floppy disk, a hard drive, an optical disk, a magnetic disk, a card, a magnetic card, an optical card, a tape, a cassette, and the like.
  • RAM random access memory
  • DDR-DRAM Double-Data-Rate DRAM
  • SDRAM static RAM
  • ROM read-only memory
  • the computer-readable storage media may include any suitable media involved with downloading or transferring a computer program from a remote computer to a requesting computer carried by data signals embodied in a carrier wave or other propagation medium through a communication link, e.g., a modem, radio or network connection.
  • a communication link e.g., a modem, radio or network connection.
  • logic 404 may include instructions, data, and/or code, which, if executed by a machine, may cause the machine to perform a method, process and/or operations as described herein.
  • the machine may include, for example, any suitable processing platform, computing platform, computing device, processing device, computing system, processing system, computer, processor, or the like, and may be implemented using any suitable combination of hardware, software, firmware, and the like.
  • logic 404 may include, or may be implemented as, software, a software module, an application, a program, a subroutine, instructions, an instruction set, computing code, words, values, symbols, and the like.
  • the instructions may include any suitable type of code, such as source code, compiled code, interpreted code, executable code, static code, dynamic code, and the like.
  • the instructions may be implemented according to a predefined computer language, manner or syntax, for instructing a processor to perform a certain function.
  • the instructions may be implemented using any suitable high-level, low-level, object- oriented, visual, compiled and/or interpreted programming language, such as C, C++, Java, BASIC, Matlab, Pascal, Visual BASIC, assembly language, machine code, and the like.
  • Example 1 includes an apparatus comprising logic and circuitry configured to cause an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) station (STA) to generate an EDMG control mode Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) comprising at least a preamble and a data field; generate one or more EDMG PPDU waveforms corresponding to one or more respective transmit chains for transmission of the EDMG control mode PPDU, an EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to a transmit chain of the one or more transmit chains comprising a cyclic time shift of the preamble and data field, the cyclic time shift is based on a transmit chain number of the transmit chain; and transmit the EDMG control mode PPDU via the one or more transmit chains over a channel bandwidth of at least 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz) in a frequency band above 45GHz, transmission of the EDMG control mode PPDU via the transmit chain is based on the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain.
  • DMG
  • Example 2 includes the subject matter of Example 1, and optionally, wherein the cyclic time shift comprises a cyclic time shift 73 ⁇ 4 in Single Carrier (SC) chip units, wherein i TX denotes the transmit chain number.
  • Example 3 includes the subject matter of Example 2, and optionally, wherein the cyclic time shift 73 ⁇ 4 is (ITX-J) X N C X T C , wherein N C denotes a factor value, and T C denotes a SC chip time duration.
  • Example 4 includes the subject matter of Example 3, and optionally, wherein the factor value N C is equal to 4.
  • Example 5 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 2-4, and optionally, wherein the apparatus is configured to cause the EDMG STA to determine a preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, and to determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain based on the preamble- data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain determined by applying to the preamble and data field a spatial expansion with Cyclic Shift Diversity (CSD) according to the cyclic time shift as follows:
  • CSD Cyclic Shift Diversity
  • ⁇ ⁇ denotes a total count of the one or more transmit chains
  • r E DMG-Pream-Data denotes the preamble and data field
  • T C denotes a SC chip time duration
  • N length r EDMG _ Pream _ Dcm ).
  • Example 6 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 1-5, and optionally, wherein the apparatus is configured to cause the EDMG STA to:
  • preamble-data waveforms corresponding to the one or more transmit chains, a preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain comprising the cyclic time shift, which is based on the transmit chain number of the transmit chain;
  • Example 7 includes the subject matter of Example 6, and optionally, wherein the apparatus is configured to cause the EDMG STA to determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain based on an up-sampled and filtered waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, which is defined as follows: e
  • hscc B denotes a response of a pulse shaping filter
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • N up denotes a factor value
  • K denotes a length of the pulse shaping filter in sampl
  • Example 8 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 1-7, and optionally, wherein the apparatus is configured to cause the EDMG STA to transmit the EDMG control mode PPDU over a channel bandwidth of 2.16GHz, and to determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field: r 3 ⁇ 4x (4)
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • Example 9 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 1-7, and optionally, wherein the apparatus is configured to cause the EDMG STA to transmit the EDMG control mode PPDU over a channel bandwidth comprising a plurality of 2.16GHz channel bandwidths.
  • Example 10 includes the subject matter of Example 9, and optionally, wherein the apparatus is configured to cause the EDMG STA to determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise an up-sampled and filtered waveform corresponding to the transmit chain duplicated, with time delay, over the plurality of 2.16GHz channel bandwidths.
  • Example 1 1 includes the subject matter of Example 9 or 10, and optionally, wherein the apparatus is configured to cause the EDMG STA to, when the channel bandwidth comprises a 4.32GHz bandwidth, determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • AF denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz
  • Example 12 includes the subject matter of Example 9 or 10, and optionally, wherein the apparatus is configured to cause the EDMG STA to, when the channel bandwidth comprises a 6.48GHz bandwidth, determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • T C denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • ⁇ denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz
  • ⁇ , ⁇ 2 , and ⁇ 3 are in the range [0, T c ],
  • Example 13 includes the subject matter of Example 9 or 10, and optionally, wherein the apparatus is configured to cause the EDMG STA to, when the channel bandwidth comprises a 8.64GHz bandwidth, determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • AF denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz
  • ⁇ , ⁇ 2 , ⁇ 3 , and ⁇ 4 are in the range [0, T c ].
  • Example 14 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 1-13, and optionally, wherein the apparatus is configured to cause the EDMG STA to generate the EDMG control mode PPDU comprising a training (TRN) field, and to generate the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain by concatenating a waveform for the preamble and data field with a waveform for the TRN field.
  • TRN training
  • Example 15 includes the subject matter of Example 14, and optionally, wherein the apparatus is configured to cause the EDMG STA to generate the waveform for the TRN field by filtering and resampling a TRN field corresponding to the number of the transmit chain.
  • Example 16 includes the subject matter of Example 14 or 15, and optionally, wherein the apparatus is configured to cause the EDMG STA to determine the waveform for the TRN field based on the following resampling procedure:
  • T C denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • N U p denotes a factor value
  • NCB denotes a channel bonding factor
  • hscc B denotes a response of a pulse shaping filter
  • K denotes a length of the pulse shaping filter in sampl
  • Example 17 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 1-16, and optionally, wherein the apparatus is configured to cause the EDMG STA to transmit the EDMG control mode PPDU over a channel bandwidth of 2.16GHz, 4.32GHz, 6.48GHz, or 8.64GHz.
  • Example 18 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 1-17, and optionally, comprising a radio.
  • Example 19 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 1-18, and optionally, comprising one or more antennas.
  • Example 20 includes a system of wireless communication comprising an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) wireless communication station (STA), the EDMG STA comprising a radio; a memory; a processor; one or more antennas; and a controller configured to cause the EDMG STA to generate an EDMG control mode Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) comprising at least a preamble and a data field; generate one or more EDMG PPDU waveforms corresponding to one or more respective transmit chains for transmission of the EDMG control mode PPDU, an EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to a transmit chain of the one or more transmit chains comprising a cyclic time shift of the preamble and data field, the cyclic time shift is based on a transmit chain number of the transmit chain; and transmit the EDMG control mode PPDU via the one or more transmit chains over a channel bandwidth of at least 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz) in a frequency band above 45
  • DMG
  • Example 21 includes the subject matter of Example 20, and optionally, wherein the cyclic time shift comprises a cyclic time shift 73 ⁇ 4 in Single Carrier (SC) chip units, wherein i TX denotes the transmit chain number.
  • Example 22 includes the subject matter of Example 21, and optionally, wherein the cyclic time shift is ( ⁇ -1) x N c x T c , wherein N c denotes a factor value, and T c denotes a SC chip time duration.
  • Example 23 includes the subject matter of Example 22, and optionally, wherein the factor value N c is equal to 4.
  • Example 24 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 21-23, and optionally, wherein the controller is configured to cause the EDMG STA to determine a preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, and to determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain based on the preamble- data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain determined by applying to the preamble and data field a spatial expansion with Cyclic Shift Diversity (CSD) according to the cyclic time shift as follows: wherein ⁇ ⁇ denotes a total count of the one or more transmit chains, r3 ⁇ 4r (l)
  • EDMG-Pream-Data ( «r c ) denotes the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain number i x
  • fEDMG-Pream-Data denotes the preamble and data field
  • T c denotes a SC chip time duration
  • N length (r EDMG _ Pream _ Data ).
  • Example 25 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 20-24, and optionally, wherein the controller is configured to cause the EDMG STA to:
  • preamble-data waveforms corresponding to the one or more transmit chains, a preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain comprising the cyclic time shift, which is based on the transmit chain number of the transmit chain;
  • the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain is based on up-sampling and filtering the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain.
  • Example 26 includes the subject matter of Example 25, and optionally, wherein the controller is configured to cause the EDMG STA to determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain based on an up-sampled and filtered waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, which is defined as follows: ⁇ .
  • hsccB denotes a response of a pulse shaping filter
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • N denotes a factor value
  • K denotes a length of the pulse shaping filter in samples, and )* N v ⁇
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • Example 28 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 20-26, and optionally, wherein the controller is configured to cause the EDMG STA to transmit the EDMG control mode PPDU over a channel bandwidth comprising a plurality of 2.16GHz channel bandwidths.
  • Example 29 includes the subject matter of Example 28, and optionally, wherein the controller is configured to cause the EDMG STA to determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise an up-sampled and filtered waveform corresponding to the transmit chain duplicated, with time delay, over the plurality of 2.16GHz channel bandwidths.
  • Example 30 includes the subject matter of Example 28 or 29, and optionally, wherein the controller is configured to cause the EDMG STA to, when the channel bandwidth comprises a 4.32GHz bandwidth, determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • ⁇ denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz
  • Example 31 includes the subject matter of Example 28 or 29, and optionally, wherein the controller is configured to cause the EDMG STA to, when the channel bandwidth comprises a 6.48GHz bandwidth, determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • AF denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz
  • ⁇ , ⁇ 2 , and ⁇ 3 are in the range [0, T c ],
  • Example 32 includes the subject matter of Example 28 or 29, and optionally, wherein the controller is configured to cause the EDMG STA to, when the channel bandwidth comprises a 8.64GHz bandwidth, determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • ⁇ denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz
  • ⁇ , ⁇ 2 , ⁇ 3 , and ⁇ 4 are in the range [0, T c ].
  • Example 33 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 20-32, and optionally, wherein the controller is configured to cause the EDMG STA to generate the EDMG control mode PPDU comprising a training (TRN) field, and to generate the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain by concatenating a waveform for the preamble and data field with a waveform for the TRN field.
  • TRN training
  • Example 34 includes the subject matter of Example 33, and optionally, wherein the controller is configured to cause the EDMG STA to generate the waveform for the TRN field by filtering and resampling a TRN field corresponding to the number of the transmit chain.
  • Example 35 includes the subject matter of Example 33 or 34, and optionally, wherein the controller is configured to cause the EDMG STA to determine the waveform for the TRN field based on the following resampling procedure:
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • N U p denotes a factor value
  • NCB denotes a channel bonding factor
  • hscc B denotes a response of a pulse shaping filter
  • K denotes a length of the pulse shaping filter in sampl ' ⁇
  • Example 36 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 20-35, and optionally, wherein the controller is configured to cause the EDMG STA to transmit the EDMG control mode PPDU over a channel bandwidth of 2.16GHz, 4.32GHz, 6.48GHz, or 8.64GHz.
  • Example 37 includes a method to be performed at an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) wireless communication station (STA), the method comprising generating an EDMG control mode Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) comprising at least a preamble and a data field; generating one or more EDMG PPDU waveforms corresponding to one or more respective transmit chains for transmission of the EDMG control mode PPDU, an EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to a transmit chain of the one or more transmit chains comprising a cyclic time shift of the preamble and data field, the cyclic time shift is based on a transmit chain number of the transmit chain; and transmitting the EDMG control mode PPDU via the one or more transmit chains over a channel bandwidth of at least 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz) in a frequency band above 45GHz, transmission of the EDMG control mode PPDU via the transmit chain is based on the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit
  • Example 38 includes the subject matter of Example 37, and optionally, wherein the cyclic time shift comprises a cyclic time shift in Single Carrier (SC) chip units, wherein hx denotes the transmit chain number.
  • SC Single Carrier
  • Example 39 includes the subject matter of Example 38, and optionally, wherein the cyclic time shift Tjjg is (hx-1) X N C X T c , wherein N c denotes a factor value, and T c denotes a SC chip time duration.
  • Example 40 includes the subject matter of Example 39, and optionally, wherein the factor value N c is equal to 4.
  • Example 41 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 38-40, and optionally, comprising determining a preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, and determining the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain based on the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain determined by applying to the preamble and data field a spatial expansion with Cyclic Shift Diversity (CSD) according to the cyclic time shift Tjg as follows:
  • CSD Cyclic Shift Diversity
  • ⁇ denotes a total count of the one or more transmit chains
  • ( «r c ) denotes the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain number i TX , r EDMG - Pream -.
  • Data (nT c ) denotes the preamble and data field
  • T c denotes a SC chip time duration
  • N length r EDMG _ Pream _ Dcm ).
  • Example 42 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 37-41, and optionally, comprising:
  • the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain is based on up-sampling and filtering the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain.
  • Example 43 includes the subject matter of Example 42, and optionally, comprising determining the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain based on an up-sampled and filtered waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, which is defined as follows: p,2 *N, tp ...
  • hscc B denotes a response of a pulse shaping filter
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • N denotes a factor value
  • K denotes a length of the pulse shaping filter in samples
  • Example 44 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 37-43, and optionally, comprising transmitting the EDMG control mode PPDU over a channel bandwidth of 2.16GHz, and determining the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • EDMG-Pream-Data denotes an up-sampled and filtered waveform corresponding to a transmit chain number i TX , and
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • Example 45 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 37-43, and optionally, comprising transmitting the EDMG control mode PPDU over a channel bandwidth comprising a plurality of 2.16GHz channel bandwidths.
  • Example 46 includes the subject matter of Example 45, and optionally, comprising determining the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise an up-sampled and filtered waveform corresponding to the transmit chain duplicated, with time delay, over the plurality of 2.16GHz channel bandwidths.
  • Example 47 includes the subject matter of Example 45 or 46, and optionally, comprising, when the channel bandwidth comprises a 4.32GHz bandwidth, determining the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • AF denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz
  • Example 48 includes the subject matter of Example 45 or 46, and optionally, comprising, when the channel bandwidth comprises a 6.48GHz bandwidth, determining the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • T C denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • AF denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz
  • ⁇ , ⁇ 2 , and ⁇ 3 are in the range [0, T c ].
  • Example 49 includes the subject matter of Example 45 or 46, and optionally, comprising, when the channel bandwidth comprises a 8.64GHz bandwidth, determining the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • T C denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • AF denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz
  • ⁇ , ⁇ 2 , ⁇ 3 , and ⁇ 4 are in the range [0, T c ].
  • Example 50 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 37-49, and optionally, comprising generating the EDMG control mode PPDU comprising a training (TRN) field, and generating the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain by concatenating a waveform for the preamble and data field with a waveform for the TRN field.
  • TRN training
  • Example 51 includes the subject matter of Example 50, and optionally, comprising generating the waveform for the TRN field by filtering and resampling a TRN field corresponding to the number of the transmit chain.
  • Example 52 includes the subject matter of Example 50 or 51, and optionally, comprising determining the waveform for the TRN field based on the following resampling procedure:
  • T C denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • N U p denotes a factor value
  • NCB denotes a channel bonding factor
  • hscc B denotes a response of a pulse shaping filter
  • K denotes a length of the pulse shaping filter in sampl ' ⁇
  • Example 53 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 37-52, and optionally, comprising transmitting the EDMG control mode PPDU over a channel bandwidth of 2.16GHz, 4.32GHz, 6.48GHz, or 8.64GHz.
  • Example 54 includes 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 an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) station (STA) to generate an EDMG control mode Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) comprising at least a preamble and a data field; generate one or more EDMG PPDU waveforms corresponding to one or more respective transmit chains for transmission of the EDMG control mode PPDU, an EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to a transmit chain of the one or more transmit chains comprising a cyclic time shift of the preamble and data field, the cyclic
  • DMG Enhanced Direction
  • Example 55 includes the subject matter of Example 54, and optionally, wherein the cyclic time shift comprises a cyclic time shift 73 ⁇ 4 in Single Carrier (SC) chip units, wherein i TX denotes the transmit chain number.
  • SC Single Carrier
  • Example 56 includes the subject matter of Example 55, and optionally, wherein the cyclic time shift 73 ⁇ 4? is (hx-l) X N C X T c , wherein N c denotes a factor value, and T c denotes a SC chip time duration.
  • Example 57 includes the subject matter of Example 56, and optionally, wherein the factor value N c is equal to 4.
  • Example 58 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 55-57, and optionally, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to determine a preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, and to determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain based on the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain determined by applying to the preamble and data field a spatial expansion with Cyclic Shift Diversity (CSD) according to the cyclic time shift as follows:
  • CSD Cyclic Shift Diversity
  • ⁇ denotes a total count of the one or more transmit chains
  • ( «r c ) denotes the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain number i TX , r EDMG - Pream -.
  • Data (nT c ) denotes the preamble and data field
  • T c denotes a SC chip time duration
  • N length r EDMG _ Pream _ Dcm ).
  • Example 59 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 54-58, and optionally, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to:
  • preamble-data waveforms corresponding to the one or more transmit chains, a preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain comprising the cyclic time shift, which is based on the transmit chain number of the transmit chain;
  • the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain is based on up-sampling and filtering the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain.
  • Example 60 includes the subject matter of Example 59, and optionally, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain based on an up-sampled and filtered waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, which is defined as follows:
  • rEDMG-Prea i -Data ( n T c ) denotes the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain number i TX ,
  • hscc B denotes a response of a pulse shaping filter
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • K denotes a length of the pulse shaping filter in samples, and 0 and n ⁇ length (r t ⁇ 0)
  • Example 61 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 54-60, and optionally, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to transmit the EDMG control mode PPDU over a channel bandwidth of 2.16GHz, and to determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • EDMG-Pream-Data denotes an up-sampled and filtered waveform corresponding to a transmit chain number i TX , and
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • Example 62 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 54-60, and optionally, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to transmit the EDMG control mode PPDU over a channel bandwidth comprising a plurality of 2.16GHz channel bandwidths.
  • Example 63 includes the subject matter of Example 62, and optionally, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise an up- sampled and filtered waveform corresponding to the transmit chain duplicated, with time delay, over the plurality of 2.16GHz channel bandwidths.
  • Example 64 includes the subject matter of Example 62 or 63, and optionally, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to, when the channel bandwidth comprises a 4.32GHz bandwidth, determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • ⁇ denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz
  • ⁇ 0 and At 2 is in the range [0, T c ], or ⁇ is in the range [0, T c ] and ⁇ 2 0.
  • Example 65 includes the subject matter of Example 62 or 63, and optionally, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to, when the channel bandwidth comprises a 6.48GHz bandwidth, determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field: +
  • EDMG-Pream-Data denotes an up-sampled and filtered waveform
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • AF denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz
  • ⁇ , ⁇ 2 , and ⁇ 3 are in the range [0, T c ],
  • Example 66 includes the subject matter of Example 62 or 63, and optionally, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to, when the channel bandwidth comprises a 8.64GHz bandwidth, determine the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • AF denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz
  • ⁇ , ⁇ 2 , ⁇ 3, and U are in the range [0, T c ].
  • Example 67 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 54-66, and optionally, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to generate the EDMG control mode PPDU comprising a training (TRN) field, and to generate the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain by concatenating a waveform for the preamble and data field with a waveform for the TRN field.
  • TRN training
  • Example 68 includes the subject matter of Example 67, and optionally, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to generate the waveform for the TRN field by filtering and resampling a TRN field corresponding to the number of the transmit chain.
  • Example 69 includes the subject matter of Example 67 or 68, and optionally, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to determine the waveform for the TRN field based on the following resampling procedure:
  • T C denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • N U p denotes a factor value
  • NCB denotes a channel bonding factor
  • hscc B denotes a response of a pulse shaping filter
  • K denotes a length of the pulse shaping filter in samples
  • Example 70 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 54-69, and optionally, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the EDMG STA to transmit the EDMG control mode PPDU over a channel bandwidth of 2.16GHz, 4.32GHz, 6.48GHz, or 8.64GHz.
  • Example 71 includes an apparatus of wireless communication by an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) wireless communication station (STA), the apparatus comprising means for generating an EDMG control mode Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) comprising at least a preamble and a data field; means for generating one or more EDMG PPDU waveforms corresponding to one or more respective transmit chains for transmission of the EDMG control mode PPDU, an EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to a transmit chain of the one or more transmit chains comprising a cyclic time shift of the preamble and data field, the cyclic time shift is based on a transmit chain number of the transmit chain; and means for transmitting the EDMG control mode PPDU via the one or more transmit chains over a channel bandwidth of at least 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz) in a frequency band above 45GHz, transmission of the EDMG control mode PPDU via the transmit chain is based on the EDMG PPDU wave
  • Example 72 includes the subject matter of Example 71, and optionally, wherein the cyclic time shift comprises a cyclic time shift in Single Carrier (SC) chip units, wherein hx denotes the transmit chain number.
  • Example 73 includes the subject matter of Example 72, and optionally, wherein the cyclic time shift 73 ⁇ 4 is ( ⁇ -l) X N C X T c , wherein N c denotes a factor value, and T c denotes a SC chip time duration.
  • Example 74 includes the subject matter of Example 73, and optionally, wherein the factor value N c is equal to 4.
  • Example 75 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 72-74, and optionally, comprising means for determining a preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, and determining the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain based on the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, the preamble-data waveform corresponding to the transmit chain determined by applying to the preamble and data field a spatial expansion with Cyclic Shift Diversity (CSD) according to the cyclic time shift as follows:
  • CSD Cyclic Shift Diversity
  • ⁇ ⁇ denotes a total count of the one or more transmit chains
  • r E DMG-Pream-Data denotes the preamble and data field
  • T c denotes a SC chip time duration
  • N length r EDMG _ Pream _ Dcm ).
  • Example 76 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 71-75, and optionally, comprising means for:
  • Example 77 includes the subj ect matter of Example 76, and optionally, comprising means for determining the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain based on an up-sampled and filtered waveform corresponding to the transmit chain, which is defined as follows: e
  • hscc B denotes a response of a pulse shaping filter
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • N denotes a factor value
  • K denotes a length of the pulse shaping filter in sampl
  • Example 78 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 71-77, and optionally, comprising means for transmitting the EDMG control mode PPDU over a channel bandwidth of 2. 16GHz, and determining the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field: ' EDMG-Pream-Data EDMG-Pream-Data (nT c ),l ⁇ i IX ⁇ N T wherein: denotes an up-sampled and filtered waveform
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • Example 79 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 71-77, and optionally, comprising means for transmitting the EDMG control mode PPDU over a channel bandwidth comprising a plurality of 2.16GHz channel bandwidths.
  • Example 80 includes the subject matter of Example 79, and optionally, comprising means for determining the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise an up-sampled and filtered waveform corresponding to the transmit chain duplicated, with time delay, over the plurality of 2.16GHz channel bandwidths.
  • Example 81 includes the subject matter of Example 79 or 80, and optionally, comprising means for, when the channel bandwidth comprises a 4.32GHz bandwidth, determining the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • Example 82 includes the subject matter of Example 79 or 80, and optionally, comprising means for, when the channel bandwidth comprises a 6.48GHz bandwidth, determining the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • AF denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz
  • ⁇ , ⁇ 2 , and ⁇ 3 are in the range [0, T c ],
  • Example 83 includes the subject matter of Example 79 or 80, and optionally, comprising means for, when the channel bandwidth comprises a 8.64GHz bandwidth, determining the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain to comprise the following waveform for the preamble and data field:
  • T c denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • AF denotes a sub-channel spacing equal to 2.16 GHz
  • ⁇ , ⁇ 2 , ⁇ 3 , and ⁇ 4 are in the range [0, T c ].
  • Example 84 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 71-83, and optionally, comprising means for generating the EDMG control mode PPDU comprising a training (TRN) field, and generating the EDMG PPDU waveform corresponding to the transmit chain by concatenating a waveform for the preamble and data field with a waveform for the TRN field.
  • TRN training
  • Example 85 includes the subject matter of Example 84, and optionally, comprising means for generating the waveform for the TRN field by filtering and resampling a TRN field corresponding to the number of the transmit chain.
  • Example 86 includes the subject matter of Example 84 or 85, and optionally, comprising means for determining the waveform for the TRN field based on the following resampling procedure:
  • T C denotes a Single Carrier (SC) chip time duration
  • N U p denotes a factor value
  • NCB denotes a channel bonding factor
  • hscc B denotes a response of a pulse shaping filter
  • K denotes a length of the pulse shaping filter in sampl
  • Example 87 includes the subject matter of any one of Examples 71-86, and optionally, comprising means for transmitting the EDMG control mode PPDU over a channel bandwidth of 2.16GHz, 4.32GHz, 6.48GHz, or 8.64GHz.

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Certains exemples de modes de réalisation concernent des appareils, des dispositifs, des systèmes et des procédés de communication d'une unité de données de protocole de couche physique (PHY) (PPDU). Par exemple, une station (STA) multi-gigabit directionnelle (DMG) améliorée (EDMG) peut être configurée pour : générer une PPDU en mode de commande EDMG; générer une ou plusieurs formes d'ondes de PPDU EDMG correspondant à une ou plusieurs chaînes de transmission respectives permettant une transmission de la PPDU en mode de commande EDMG; et transmettre la PPDU en mode de commande EDMG par l'intermédiaire desdites une ou plusieurs chaînes de transmission sur une largeur de bande de canal d'au moins 2,16 Gigahertz (GHz) dans une bande de fréquences supérieure à 45 GHz.
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