SENSING MEASUREMENT REPORT FRAME FORMAT

Abstract

There is provided a method and apparatus associated with a sensing measurement report frame format. A method includes receiving, by an access point (AP) or a station (STA), a request for at least one sensing measurement report. The method also includes transmitting, by the AP or the STA, a sensing measurement report frame that includes a category field, a public action field, and at least one measurement set-up identifier field and at least one sensing measurement report element. The sensing management report frame can include a category field, a public action field, a dialog token field, a measurement set-up identifier field, and a sensing measurement report element.

Description

Claims

1. A method comprising: receiving, by an access point (AP) or a station (STA), a request to transmit at least one sensing measurement report; andtransmitting, by the AP or the STA, a sensing measurement report frame comprising a category field, a public action field, and at least one measurement set-up identifier field and at least one sensing measurement report element.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the sensing measurement report frame comprises a category field, a public action field, a dialog token field, a measurement set-up identifier field, and a sensing measurement report element.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein each of the category field, the public action field, the dialog token field, and the measurement set-up identifier field are one octet.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the sensing measurement report frame comprises a category field, a public action field, and a plurality of sensing measurement reports, each sensing measurement report of the plurality of sensing measurement reports comprising a measurement set-up identifier field, a measurement instance identifier field, and a sensing measurement report field.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the sensing measurement report frame comprises a category field, a public action field, a measurement set-up identifier field, a measurement instance identifier field, and a plurality of sensing measurement reports, each sensing measurement report of the plurality of sensing measurement reports comprising a station identifier field and a sensing measurement report field.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the station identifier field comprises an association identifier (AID) field.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one sensing measurement report element comprises an element identifier field, a length field, an element identifier field, a sensing measurement report type field, a sensing measurement report control field, and a sensing measurement report field.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the sensing measurement report control field comprises a feedback bandwidth subfield, an initiator to responder (I2R) number of space time streams (N_STS) subfield, a responder to initiator (R2I) N_STS subfield, a number of subcarrier groups (Ng) subfield, a scale factor subfield, and a channel state information (CSI) feedback (FB) bit size subfield.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the sensing measurement report control field comprises a feedback bandwidth subfield, an I2R N_STS subfield, an R2I N_STS subfield, and a number of truncated channel impulse response (TCIR) taps subfield.

10. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor and at least one machine-readable medium storing executable instructions which when executed by the at least one processor configure the apparatus for: receiving, by an access point (AP) or a station (STA), a request to transmit at least one sensing measurement report; andtransmitting, by the AP or the STA, a sensing measurement report frame comprising a category field, a public action field, and at least one measurement set-up identifier field and at least one sensing measurement report element.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the sensing measurement report frame comprises a category field, a public action field, a dialog token field, a measurement set-up identifier field, and a sensing measurement report element.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the sensing measurement report frame comprises a category field, a public action field, and a plurality of sensing measurement reports, each sensing measurement report of the plurality of sensing measurement reports comprising a measurement set-up identifier field, a measurement instance identifier field, and a sensing measurement report field.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the sensing measurement report frame comprises a category field, a public action field, a measurement set-up identifier field, a measurement instance identifier field, and a plurality of sensing measurement reports, each sensing measurement report of the plurality of sensing measurement reports comprising a station identifier field and a sensing measurement report field.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the at least one sensing measurement report element comprises an element identifier field, a length field, an element identifier field, a sensing measurement report type field, a sensing measurement report control field, and a sensing measurement report field.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing executable instructions which when executed by a processor of a device configure the device for: receiving, by an access point (AP) or a station (STA), a request to transmit at least one sensing measurement report; andtransmitting, by the AP or the STA, a sensing measurement report frame comprising a category field, a public action field, and at least one measurement set-up identifier field and at least one sensing measurement report element.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the sensing measurement report frame comprises a category field, a public action field, a dialog token field, a measurement set-up identifier field, and a sensing measurement report element.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the sensing measurement report frame comprises a category field, a public action field, and a plurality of sensing measurement reports, each sensing measurement report of the plurality of sensing measurement reports comprising a measurement set-up identifier field, a measurement instance identifier field, and a sensing measurement report field.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the sensing measurement report frame comprises a category field, a public action field, a measurement set-up identifier field, a measurement instance identifier field, and a plurality of sensing measurement reports, each sensing measurement report of the plurality of sensing measurement reports comprising a station identifier field and a sensing measurement report field.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the at least one sensing measurement report element comprises an element identifier field, a length field, an element identifier field, a sensing measurement report type field, a sensing measurement report control field, and a sensing measurement report field.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the sensing measurement report control field comprises a feedback bandwidth subfield, an initiator to responder (I2R) number of space time streams (N_STS) subfield, an responder to initiator (R2I) N_STS subfield, a number of subcarrier groups (Ng) subfield, a scale factor subfield, and a channel state information (CSI) feedback (FB) bit size subfield.