Wireless device, communication device, wireless control method, communication control method, and program
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsShigeru Sugaya, Yusuke Tanake, Yuichi Morioka
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Abstract
There is provided a wireless device configured to perform both multi-user spatial multiplex communication and single user communication with a communication device. The wireless device is configured to set a first waiting time for the single user communication, and count the first waiting time in a period in which a second waiting time for the multi-user spatial multiplex communication is counted. The wireless device then transmits data through the single user communication after the first waiting time expires.
Claims9
A wireless device, comprising:
- circuitry configured to perform multi-user spatial multiplex communication and single-user communication with a communication device;
- set a first waiting time for the single user communication;
- count the first waiting time in a period in which a second waiting time for the multi-user spatial multiplex communication is counted;
- receive, from the communication device, a trigger frame causing transmission of data using the multi-user spatial multiplex communication;
- suspend counting the first waiting time in response to receiving the trigger frame;
- restart to count the suspended first waiting time without resetting the first waiting time, based on a lapse of time for reception of a response frame from the communication device, wherein the response frame is responded to transmission of the data using the multi-user multiplex communication caused by the trigger frame;
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- transmit the data to the communication device by the single-user communication after the first waiting time expired.
A method performed by a wireless device, the method comprising:
- performing multi-user spatial multiplex communication and single user communication with a communication device;
- setting a first waiting time for the single user communication;
- counting the first waiting time in a period in which a second waiting time for the multi-user spatial multiplex communication is counted;
- receiving, from the communication device, a trigger frame causing transmission of data using the multi-user spatial multiplex communication;
- suspending counting the first waiting time in response to receiving the trigger frame;
- restarting to count the suspended first waiting time without resetting the first waiting time, based on a lapse of a time for reception of a response frame from the communication device, wherein the response frame is responded to transmission of the data using the multi-user spatial multiplex communication caused by the trigger frame;
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- transmitting the data to the communication device by the single-user communication after the first waiting time expired.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer-program instructions, which when executed by a wireless device, cause the wireless device to:
- perform multi-user spatial multiplex communication and single-user communication with a communication device;
- set a first waiting time for the single user communication;
- count the first waiting time in a period in which a second waiting time for the multi-user spatial multiplex communication is counted;
- receive, from the communication device, a trigger frame causing transmission of data using the multi-user spatial multiplex communication;
- suspend counting the first waiting time in response to receiving the trigger frame;
- restart to count the suspended first waiting time without resetting the first waiting time, based on a lapse of a time for reception of a response frame from the communication device, wherein the response frame is responded to transmission of the data using the multi-user spatial multiplex communication caused by the trigger frame;
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- transmit the data to the communication device by the single-user communication after the first waiting time expired.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.