Device-to-device communication method, access point, and first station
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsHongjia SU, Jun ZHU, Yingpei LIN, Dengyu QIAO
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Abstract
The present invention provides a device-to-device communication method, an access point, and a first station, to reduce channel contention overheads of device-to-device communication, and improve a system throughput rate. The method includes: determining, by an access point, a time window used for device-to-device communication between stations; and sending, by the access point, a downlink frame including the time window, where the downlink frame is configured to instruct a station having a device-to-device communication capability to perform device-to-device communication within the time window.
Claims19
A device-to-device communication method, comprising:
- determining, by an access point, a time window used for device-to-device communication between stations;
- and
- sending, by the access point, a downlink frame comprising the time window, wherein the downlink frame is configured to instruct a station having a device-to-device communication capability to perform device-to-device communication within the time window.
A device-to-device communication method, comprising:
- receiving, by a first station, a downlink frame that is sent by an access point and comprises a time window, wherein the downlink frame is configured to instruct a station having a device-to-device communication capability to perform device-to-device communication within the time window, wherein the first station has a device-to-device communication capability;
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- performing, by the first station, device-to-device communication within the time window.
A device-to-device communication method, comprising:
- generating, by a station, a request frame, the request frame being configured to request a time window from an access point, the time window being for device-to-device communication between stations;
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- sending, by the station, the request frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.