US Patent 10469631 Systems and methods for multi-user resource assignments

In an example of multi-user wireless communications, an access point may send a downlink frame, including a common field and a user specific field, to multiple stations. The common field and the user specific field are located in a header field called a high efficiency signal-B (HE SIG-B) field. The common field includes information for all of the stations. The user specific field includes multiple sub-fields. At least one of the multiple sub-fields is for each of the stations. The stations may decode their respective portions of the downlink frame based on the common field and their respective sub-field(s). Some or all of the stations may generate and transmit their respective uplink frames, for multi-user transmission such as OFDMA, based on the common field and their respective sub-field(s) included in the downlink frame. The downlink frame may be a trigger frame. Other methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.