US 12,082,020 B2
Identifying nulling wireless nodes for distributed MIMO communication in a wireless node cluster
Yan Zhou, San Diego, CA (US); George Cherian, San Diego, CA (US); Abhishek Pramod Patil, San Diego, CA (US); Alfred Asterjadhi, San Diego, CA (US); and Venkata Ramanan Venkatachalam Jayaraman, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 10, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/926,479.
Application 16/926,479 is a continuation of application No. 15/916,141, filed on Mar. 8, 2018, granted, now 10,750,395.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/471,945, filed on Mar. 15, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/601,116, filed on Mar. 11, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0413278 A1, Dec. 31, 2020
Int. Cl. H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04B 7/024 (2017.01); H04B 7/0413 (2017.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04B 17/336 (2015.01); H04B 17/373 (2015.01); H04J 11/00 (2006.01); H04B 17/21 (2015.01)
CPC H04W 24/10 (2013.01) [H04B 7/024 (2013.01); H04B 7/0413 (2013.01); H04B 7/0632 (2013.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04B 17/336 (2015.01); H04B 17/373 (2015.01); H04J 11/0053 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 17/21 (2015.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
an interface; and
a processing system configured to:
obtaining information from a station (STA) via the interface; and
output, via the interface for multicast transmission via a multi-user (MU) physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) to a plurality of access points (APs), a medium access control (MAC) header that includes the information, wherein the information comprises: a received signal strength indication (RSSI) and an indication of an AP of the plurality of APs identified to perform a nulling operation for the STA.