| CPC H04J 11/00 (2013.01) [H04L 1/009 (2013.01); H04L 1/1854 (2013.01); H04L 1/0041 (2013.01); H04L 1/1819 (2013.01); H04L 69/324 (2013.01)] | 15 Claims |

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1. A method performed by a wireless communication device, the method comprising:
receiving capability information of a receiving device from the receiving device, the capability information including a plurality of respective required additional processing times for a plurality of transmission formats;
generating a High Efficiency Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Protocol Data Unit (HE PPDU) frame;
creating a padded frame by appending an addition to the generated HE PPDU frame, the addition including padding bits, an extension having a non-zero signal strength, or both; and
transmitting the padded frame;
wherein the addition provides the required additional processing time, and wherein each transmission format is a combination of two or more transmission types, each transmission type comprising a modulation type, a coding rate, a bandwidth, a type of Forward Error Correction, a frame data rate, an encoding type, whether Space Frequency Block Coding is used, or whether Space Time Block Coding is used.
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