WLAN Trigger Frame Aggregation for Multi-Event Sensing Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current WLAN sensing mechanisms lack an efficient method to aggregate and report multiple measurement results, leading to resource overhead and inefficiencies in feedback processes.

Innovation Solution

A communication method and apparatus that utilize a trigger frame to initiate a measurement report frame containing multiple measurement results, including channel state information (CSI), optimizing resource usage by enabling delayed feedback operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If multiple measurement results are reported separately in individual frames, then each measurement result can be及时反馈 (timely feedback), but resource overhead increases due to multiple separate transmissions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefeedback delayVSAvoidresource overhead
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple measurement results into a single measurement report frame. The trigger frame includes a measurement token field that can indicate multiple measurement instances, and the responder aggregates these results in one report frame rather than sending separate frames for each measurement, thereby reducing the number of transmissions and resource overhead while maintaining timely feedback through the token-based triggering mechanism

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses a trigger frame with a measurement token field that is prepared in advance to indicate multiple measurement instances. This preliminary indication allows the responder to pre-prepare an aggregated report containing multiple measurement results, enabling efficient batch reporting that reduces subsequent transmission overhead while ensuring timely delivery of all measurement data

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP4447361B1Communication method and communication apparatus
Publication Date: 2026.01.21 BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO LTD
  • EP4447361B1 patent drawingFigure 1(a)~1(c)
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AI summary

Provided are a communication method and a communication apparatus. The communication method comprises: determining a trigger frame, the trigger frame comprising information of a plurality of sensing measurement events needing to feed back sensing measurement results, the plurality of sensing measurement events corresponding to at least one sensing measurement process; and sending the trigger frame.