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:
Disclosed are a frame transmission method and a communication device performing the same. The communication device may transmit a null data packet (NDP)-announcement (NDP-A) including information on a plurality of communication devices participating in interference alignment and transmit an NDP including a common signal field and a common training field commonly applied to the plurality of communication devices.
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 and receiving, by the station, a probe response frame from an access point (AP). The AP determines whether to transmit the probe response frame in response to the probe request frame using information indicated by the probe request frame.
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:
Provided is a data transmission apparatus including a queue management unit to manage at least one queue in which information associated with at least one buffer descriptor (BD) is stored, a scheduler to estimate information to be transmitted among information associated with at least one media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (MPDU) using at least one transmission bitmap (Tx bitmap), a data transmitter to read the estimated information from information associated with a BD indicated in the at least one Tx bitmap, and transmit the read information to a physical layer, and a physical layer management unit to generate information associated with a presentation protocol data unit (PPDU) based on the transmitted information, and transmit the generated information over the air, wherein the at least one BD includes information associated with the at least one MPDU.
Abstract:
Provided is a data transmission method and system in a wireless local area network (WLAN) supporting a multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO), the method including determining a type of a first frame to be transmitted to at least one reception terminal, setting, based on a result of the determining, user identification (ID) information indicating an order of the at least one reception terminal, transmitting the first frame to the at least one reception terminal corresponding to the user ID information, receiving, from the at least one reception terminal, a second frame corresponding to the first frame, extracting, based on the received second frame, a beamforming parameter of the at least one reception terminal, and transmitting, to a physical (PHY) layer, the user ID information and the beamforming parameter corresponding to the at least one reception terminal.