Apparatus for channel access in WLAN system and operating method of the apparatus
AssigneesSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Seoul National University R&Db Foundation
InventorsJonghun Han, Saewoong Bahk, Jongyeon Park
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Abstract
An operating method of an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) is provided. The operating method includes: based on at least one non-AP MLD and at least one single link device (SLD) attempting channel access through a first link of the AP MLD, identifying a contention window of the at least one non-AP MLD, based on a ratio of, with respect to the first link, an idle time of the at least one non-AP MLD to an idle time of the at least one SLD; and transmitting a beacon frame including information about the contention window to the at least one non-AP MLD.
Claims16
An operating method of an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD), the operating method comprising:
- based on at least one non-AP MLD and at least one single link device (SLD) attempting channel access through a first link of the AP MLD, identifying a contention window of the at least one non-AP MLD, based on a ratio of, with respect to the first link, an idle time of the at least one non-AP MLD to an idle time of the at least one SLD;
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- transmitting a beacon frame comprising information about the contention window to the at least one non-AP MLD.
An access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) comprising:
- a transceiver;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- based on at least one non-AP MLD and at least one single link device (SLD) attempting channel access through a first link of the AP MLD, identify a contention window of the at least one non-AP MLD, based on a ratio of, with respect to the first link, an idle time of the at least one non-AP MLD to an idle time of the at least one SLD;
- and
- control the transceiver to transmit a beacon frame comprising information about the contention window to the at least one non-AP MLD.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.