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Apparatus, system and method of multi user (MU) fine timing measurement (FTM)

US10230504B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Intel IP Corporation · US

Inventors

Yuval Amizur · Kfar Sava, IL
Leor Banin · Netanya, IL
Nir Dvorecki · Herzliya, IL

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 30, 2016
Grant date	Mar 12, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 10, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04W56/001
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of Multi User (MU) Fine Timing Measurement (FTM). For example, a wireless station may be configured to transmit a trigger frame including a resource allocation of a plurality of resource slots to a plurality of wireless stations; to process a plurality of Non-Data Packet (NDP) transmissions from the plurality of wireless stations according to the resource allocation; to transmit an NDP; and to transmit a MU FTM message including timing information corresponding to the NDP and timing information corresponding to the plurality of NDP transmissions from the plurality of wireless stations.

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