Abstract:
A wireless communication method and apparatus in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system are disclosed. A wireless communication method according to one embodiment may include generating a high-efficiency Wi-Fi (HEW) frame including at least one of an HEW-SIG-A field and an HEW-SIG-B field which include channel information for communications according to an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) mode, and transmitting the generated HEW frame to a reception apparatus.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a frame transmission method and a communication device performing the same. The communication device transmits a null data packet (NDP)-announcement (NDP-A) including information on a plurality of communication devices participating in interference alignment and transmits an NDP including a common signal field and a common training field commonly applied to the plurality of communication devices.
Abstract:
Provided is slot use control apparatus and method, including an access point (AP) to control a slotted channel access of a station (STA) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) includes generating a synchronization (synch) frame including an identification value indicating an STA allocated to a slot, and broadcasting the generated synch frame when a channel is in an idle state at a start point of the slot.
Abstract:
Provided is a sector discovery apparatus and method, the method including setting, by an AP in a WLAN system, an omni-beacon interval for transmitting an omnidirectional beacon and sector beacon intervals for transmitting a sector beacon with respect to one of a plurality of sectors which are spatially divided, transmitting the sector beacon to a current sector among the plurality of sectors, transmitting, to the current sector, a transmission frame indicating sectorized transmission or a transmission frame indicating omnidirectional transmission, in a sector interval between the sector beacon intervals, and receiving, from a terminal located in the current sector, a response frame indicating an association performed by receiving the transmission frame indicating the sectorized transmission.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for close-proximity communication. The close-proximity communication method performed by a transmitter includes generating a physical layer (PHY) frame including a PHY preamble, a frame header, and a payload field, and transmitting the generated PHY frame to a receiver, in which the frame header may include a media access control (MAC) header, a header check sequence (HCS), and a Reed-Solomon (RS) parity bit.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a protocol for transmitting data through cooperation between access points in an overlapped basic service set (OBSS) environment. A cooperative beamforming communication method may include negotiating, by a first access point, a cooperative transmit beamforming with a second access point having an OBSS area with the first access point; transmitting, by the first access point, a clear-to-send (CTS) to the second access point; and performing, by the first access point, the cooperative transmit beamforming with the second access point during a cooperative transmit beamforming duration determined through the negotiation after a predetermined time interval is elapsed, when transmission of the CTS is completed.
Abstract:
A method for cooperative beamforming communication, is described including negotiating, at a first access point, a cooperative transmit beamforming with a second access point having an overlapped basic service set (OBSS) area with the first access point, and transmitting, from the first access point, a clear-to-send (CTS) signal to the second access point. The method, upon detecting at the first access point a completion of transmission of the CTS signal, performs at the first access point the cooperative transmit beamforming with the second access point during a time duration of the cooperative transmit beamforming and after a predetermined time interval has elapsed.
Abstract:
A scanning method in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system is provided. The scanning method includes transmitting by a station a probe request frame via a channel, and receiving by the station a probe response frame from a target access point (AP) to respond to the probe request frame. The probe request frame includes at least one of information regarding a response reception time and preference information regarding the target AP.
Abstract:
A frame scheduling method performed by a wireless local area network (WLAN) terminal that transmits a frame in a WLAN system is provided. The method includes enqueuing a transmission target frame to a first stage queue corresponding to the transmission target frame among a plurality of first stage queues generated by recipient addresses and traffic identifiers (TIDs) of reception stations, dequeuing, by a first stage scheduler, a first frame from a queue selected from among the plurality of first stage queues and transmitting the same to one of a plurality of second stage queues, and transmitting, by a second stage scheduler, a second frame of a queue selected from among the plurality of second stage queues.
Abstract:
A channel access method and apparatus are disclosed. The channel access method by an access point (AP) having a sector antenna in a wireless local access network (WLAN), may include transmitting a sector beacon with respect to any one sector among a plurality of sectors, transmitting and receiving data with at least one station in any one sector during a pre-scheduled sector interval, sequentially performing transmission of the sector beacon and transmission and reception of the data with respect to remaining sectors of the plurality of sectors excluding the any one sector, transmitting an omni beacon with respect to all of the plurality of sectors, and transmitting and receiving data with respect to at least one station of the plurality of sectors during a pre-scheduled Basic Service Set (BSS) interval.