HEW COMMUNICATION STATION AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING LONGER DURATION OFDM SYMBOLS USING MINIMUM BANDWIDTH UNITS HAVING TONE ALLOCATIONS

摘要

Embodiments of a communication station and method for communicating in a wireless network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the communication station may be to communicate longer-duration orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols on channel resources in accordance with an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technique. The channel resources may comprise one or more minimum bandwidth units with each minimum band-width unit having a predetermined number of data subcarriers. The station may also configure the minimum bandwidth units in accordance with one of a plurality of subcarrier allocations for one of a plurality of interleaver configurations for communication of the longer-duration OFDM symbols. The longer-duration OFDM symbols may have symbols duration that is either 2× or 4× the standard OFDM symbol duration.