Arent Fox, LLP and Qualcomm, Incorporated
Backoff mechanism techniques for spatial reuse
Techniques for reducing delay in scheduling traffic transmission in an overlapping basic service set (OBSS) environment by modifying backoff mechanisms are disclosed. In some examples, a device (e.g., station (STA), access point (AP)) decodes at least a portion of a preamble of a packet to determine whether the packet is sent by a member of an OBSS (e.g., STA, AP from a different BSS). Backoff operations are typically deferred as a result of the decoding. Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method, apparatus, and system in which the backoff operations are resumed prior to expiration of the period reserved for an OBSS packet by the network allocation vector (NAV). That is, the device may not honor the NAV of the OBSS packet, and instead perform spatial reuse by transmitting another packet (or signal) on the same frequency channel during the NAV of the OBSS packet.
QUALCOMM Incorporated
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Simone George Qingjiang Alfred Gang Gwendolyn Denise Yan
Merlin Cherian Tian Asterjadhi Ding Barriac Zhou