CPC H04W 72/044 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0037 (2013.01); H04W 74/0808 (2013.01)] | 15 Claims |
1. A wireless network device for channel puncturing, the wireless network device comprising:
at least one processor; and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to the at least one processor and storing programming instructions for execution by the at least one processor, wherein the programming instructions instruct the wireless network device to:
transmit a packet over a channel,
wherein the channel comprises one or more channel segments and each channel segment comprises multiple sub-channels, and
wherein:
a preamble of the packet comprises information indicating, for transmitting the packet, at least one of the sub-channels that are used or the sub-channels that are punctured,
the information comprises a plurality of bits,
the one or more channel segments comprise a first channel segment and a second channel segment, and
the wireless network device is operable such that if all sub-channels associated with a certain content channel in the first channel segment are punctured, the bits indicate, in the second channel segment, a lowest sub-channel or a highest sub-channel that is associated with the same content channel and that is used to indicate allocations of a user within the packet.
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