Secondary Channel Access During Bursts of Beacons and Groupcast

Abstract: enabling secondary channel access during beacon and groupcast traffic and shortening the periods of beacon and groupcast traffic may be provided. enabling secondary channel access can include advertising a capability to exchange traffic on secondary channels during beacon period. during a beacon period, beacons and groupcast traffic are transmitted on a primary channel and traffic is exchanged with the one or more clients on one or more secondary channels. enabling secondary channel access between obsss can include one bss transmitting beacons and groupcast traffic on a primary channel and another bss exchanging traffic on secondary channels. shortening beacon periods can include offsetting or otherwise organizing delivery traffic indication map (dtim) beacons and groupcast traffic.

Inventor(s): Brian D. Hart, Matthew A. Silverman

CPC Classification: H04W72/121 (for groups of terminals or users)

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