According to an example embodiment of this invention, a method may include by a processor, receiving a configuration of a flexible muting pattern, wherein the muting pattern comprises a fixed part and an optional part; determining to activate the optional part of the flexible muting pattern; and preparing a message indicating to a network element that the optional part of the flexible muting pattern is activated. Apparatus and computer readable media are also described.

An aspect of this disclosure relates to a relay node, and a method of wireless communications by the relay node, including attempting to decode first code block groups of a transport block received in a resource allocation and according to a first encoding configuration. The aspects include identifying a symbol in the resource allocation that includes both of a first part of a successfully decoded one, and a first part of an unsuccessfully decoded one, of the plurality of first code block groups, and determining a modified transmit configuration for the symbol. Further, the aspects include encoding a second part of the successfully decoded one according to the first encoding configuration to define a second code block group that is outside of the symbol. Additionally, the aspects include transmitting the transport block including the one or more second code block groups and the symbol according to the modified transmit configuration.

Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of communicating a Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU). For example, an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) station (STA) may be configured to encode a Physical Layer (PHY) Service Data Unit (PSDU) of at least one user in an EDMG PM Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) according to an EDMG Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) encoding scheme, which is based at least on a count of one or more spatial streams for transmission to the user; and transmit the EDMG PPDU in a transmission over a channel bandwidth in a frequency band above 45 Gigahertz (GHz).

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. The method may include receiving an UL grant for each CC of a plurality of CCs. In an aspect, each UL grant may include a number of transport blocks (TBs) assigned to each CC. The method may further include sorting CCs among the plurality of CCs as a function at least in part based on the number of TB for each of the CCs, and transmitting one or more packet data units (PDUs) using a subset of CCs of the plurality of CCs. In an aspect, the subset of CCs may be based at least in part on the sorting, and any CC of the plurality of CCs in which only medium access control (MAC) padding PDUs would be transmitted may not be included in the subset of CCs.

A reception-transmission device includes a first interface circuit, for transforming at least one first WLAN signal to at least one first Ethernet frame when receiving the at least one first WLAN signal, and for transforming at least one second Ethernet frame to at least one second WLAN signal when receiving the at least one second Ethernet frame. The reception-transmission device includes a reception-transmission circuit, coupled to the first interface circuit, for transmitting the at least one first WLAN signal to the first interface circuit when receiving the at least one first WLAN signal, and for transmitting the at least one second WLAN signal to a WLAN when receiving the at least one second WLAN signal.

Methods, apparatus, and systems for joint transmission are provided. In one aspect, a joint transmission method includes: sending, by a first AP, a first PPDU to a first STA and a second STA, and sending, by a second AP, a second PPDU to the first STA. A sending time of sending the first PPDU is same as a sending time of sending the second PPDU. The first PPDU includes a first preamble field and a first data field, and the second PPDU includes a second preamble field and a second data field. The first preamble field is same as the second preamble field. The first data field carries first data information sent to the first STA and second data information sent to the second STA, and the second data field carries the first data information.

A wireless communication device generates physical layer (PHY) protocol service data units (PSDUs), and, in response to determining that the PHY data unit is to be transmitted according to a HARQ process, generates HARQ coding units of a common length, each of the HARQ coding units including a respective set of one or more PSDUs, and individually encodes the HARQ coding units. The wireless communication device also generates a HARQ signal field to the included in a PHY preamble of the PHY data unit. The HARQ signal field includes i) a common information subfield to indicate one or more parameters that commonly apply to each of at least some of the one or more HARQ coding units and ii) a respective HARQ coding unit information subfield for each of the HARQ coding units to indicate one or more parameters that apply to only the corresponding HARQ coding unit.

Systems, apparatus and methods for wireless local area network (WLAN) communication which support real-time application (RTA) packets. The access point (AP) schedules multiple-user (MU) multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) transmissions for uplink (UL) or downlink (DL) for RTA packets by allocating resources to packet transmissions before RTA packet arrival. The AP contends for channel access before the expected time of arrival of the RTA packet in the DL or UL direction. The operations reduce RTA packet latency on the WLAN.

For example, an EDMG STA may generate an LDPC coded bit stream for a user based on data bits for the user in an EDMG PPDU, the LDPC coded bit stream for the user including a concatenation of a plurality of LDPC codewords, a count of the plurality of LDPC codewords is based at least on a codeword length for the user and on a code rate for the user; generate encoded and padded bits for the user by concatenating the LDPC coded bit stream with a plurality of coded pad zero bits, a count of the coded pad zero bits is based at least on a count of one or more spatial streams for the user and on the count of the plurality of LDPC codewords for the user; and distribute the encoded and padded bits for the user to the one or more spatial streams for the user.

The disclosure relates to a method for serially transmitting a frame from a transmitter to at least one receiver via a bus line, as well as a subscriber station for a bus system. According to said method, stuff bits for generating additional signal edges are inserted into the frame by the transmitter according to a predetermined rule, and the stuff bits are removed again by the receiver when evaluating a received frame, a CRC calculation logic of a CRC generator calculating a CRC checksum that is comprised by said frame, and a value of “1” being inserted into said CRC calculation logic in an additional evaluation step if a value of “0 . . . 0” has been determined for the CRC checksum in the running calculation executed by the CRC calculation logic.