| CPC H04L 5/0044 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0007 (2013.01); H04L 5/0053 (2013.01); H04W 56/001 (2013.01)] | 17 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
allocating, within a user information field of a trigger frame, a legacy preamble puncturing pattern to each of a plurality of client devices wherein each of the plurality of client devices is allocated with at least one respective corresponding non-overlapping sub-channel;
receiving, from each of the plurality of client devices on their respective corresponding non-overlapping sub-channel, a respective corresponding preamble; and
performing time and frequency synchronization for each of the plurality of client devices based on their respective corresponding preamble wherein the respective corresponding preamble is extracted from a Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) received in response to the trigger frame.
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