A first communication device receives a sounding packet that was transmitted by a second communication device over a communication channel, and performs a channel estimation on a subchannel block of the communication channel to determine steering matrix feedback information for the subchannel block. The subchannel block spans a contiguous partial bandwidth of the communication channel and does not span an entire bandwidth of the communication channel. The first communication device transmits a communication frame to the second communication device, the communication frame i) including the steering matrix feedback information for the subchannel block, and ii) not including steering matrix feedback information for the one or more other subchannel blocks of the communication channel.

A communication device that forms a first Basic Service Set (BSS) communicates a radio frame including a preamble and a data field of a physical layer (PHY). The preamble includes an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) Signal Field (EHT-SIG-A). The EHT-SIG-A includes a subfield for setting a BSS color, and if the communication device and a first other communication device are to cooperatively transmit the radio frame to a second other communication device, a value of this subfield is set, without changing the BSS color used in a first BSS, based on the BSS color of a second BSS to which the second other communication device belongs.

The present disclosure provides a method for estimating timing and/or frequency of a wireless signal; the method including the steps: receiving a digitally modulated signal; extracting a plurality of signal samples associated with a short training field (STF) of a PHY protocol data unit (PPDU) of an 802.11 frame; performing correlation operations on the plurality of signal samples to generate a predetermined number of correlation peaks; comparing the generated correlation peaks with a variable dynamic threshold; and calculating timing and/or frequency of the digitally modulated signal using the outcome of the comparing step.

Throughput between a transmitter and a receiver is increased by performing a three-stage joint channel optimization in which training sequences are used for calculating a pre-equalization estimate in the first stage, a look up table for pre-distortion in the second stage and a further updating the pre-equalization estimate and the look up table based on a third stage in which the training sequence used for the updating is pre-equalized and pre-distorted using previously calculated values prior to transmitting from the transmitter to the receiver.

A method for generating a beamforming training (BFT) unit includes generating a physical layer (PHY) preamble of the BFT unit and generating a first encoding block and a second encoding block using PHY data and MAC data, including at least one of i) using a number of padding bits in a PHY layer of the BFT unit such that the BFT unit consists of the PHY preamble, the first encoding block, and the second encoding block, and ii) generating a MAC protocol data unit (MPDU) having a length such that the BFT unit consists of the PHY preamble, the first encoding block, and the second encoding block.

A communication device that forms a first Basic Service Set (BSS) communicates a radio frame including a preamble and a data field of a physical layer (PHY). The preamble includes an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) Signal Field (EHT-SIG-A). The EHT-SIG-A includes a subfield for setting a BSS color, and if the communication device and a first other communication device are to cooperatively transmit the radio frame to a second other communication device, a value of this subfield is set, without changing the BSS color used in a first BSS, based on the BSS color of a second BSS to which the second other communication device belongs.

A communication device communicates a radio frame including a preamble and a data field of a physical layer (PHY). The preamble includes an L-STF (Legacy Short Training Field), an L-LTF (Legacy Long Training Field), an L-SIG (Legacy Signal Field), an EHT-SIG-A (Extremely High Throughput Signal A Field), an EHT-STF, and an EHT-LTF, and the EHT-SIG-A includes a field indicating a standard that the radio frame complies with.

A communication device communicates a radio frame including a preamble and a data field of a physical layer (PHY). The preamble includes an L-STF (Legacy Short Training Field), an L-LTF (Legacy Long Training Field), an L-SIG (Legacy Signal Field), an EHT-SIG-A (Extremely High Throughput Signal A Field), an EHT-STF, and an EHT-LTF, and the EHT-SIG-A includes a field indicating a standard that the radio frame complies with.

For example, a wireless communication device may be configured to generate a Short Training Field (STF) according to a millimeter Wave (mmWave) Physical layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) format. For example, the STF may include a plurality of repetitions of an STF structure. For example, the STF structure may include a plurality of repetitions of a short training Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, which may include a training sequence over a plurality of OFDM tones. For example, the wireless communication device may be configured to transmit an mm Wave PPDU including the STF according to the mmWave PPDU format over an mmWave wireless communication channel in an mmWave frequency band.

For example, a millimeterWave (mmWave) wireless communication station (STA) may be configured to transmit a preamble of a packet via a plurality of antennas of the mmWave STA over a mmWave wireless communication channel; and to transmit a Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) Training (TRN) field of the packet over the mmWave wireless communication channel, the MIMO TRN field is after the preamble, the MIMO TRN field including a sequence of a plurality of MIMO TRN subfields transmitted via the plurality of antennas of the mmWave STA. For example, a MIMO TRN subfield of the plurality of MIMO TRN subfields may include a plurality of TRN sequences simultaneously transmitted via the plurality of antennas, respectively.