Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Time synchronization of stations
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Application No.: US15535146Application Date: 2014-12-17
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Publication No.: US10542512B2Publication Date: 2020-01-21
- Inventor: Thomas Nilsson , Dzevdan Kapetanovic , Leif Wilhelmsson
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Withrow & Terranova, PLLC
- International Application: PCT/EP2014/078153 WO 20141217
- International Announcement: WO2016/095979 WO 20160623
- Main IPC: H04W56/00
- IPC: H04W56/00

Abstract:
There is provided a method for time synchronization of stations (STAs) in a wireless local area network. An access point (AP) transmits a request to at least two STAs for the at least two STAs to transmit a response to the AP, the request indicating which frequency sub-band each of the at least two STAs is to use for transmitting the response. Responses to the request are received from the at least two STAs, wherein each of the responses comprises orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) symbols. For each of the at least two STAs, a time delay is determined based on the responses. Then, control signalling is transmitted to the at least two STAs, the control signalling comprising time alignment commands for the at least two STAs, wherein each time alignment command is based on the time delay for one of the at least two STAs.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170353938A1 TIME SYNCHRONIZATION OF STATIONS Public/Granted day:2017-12-07
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