Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method thereof having transmission strategy adjusting mechanism
The present invention discloses a wireless communication apparatus having transmission strategy adjusting mechanism that includes a receiving circuit, a detection circuit, a statistics circuit, a strategy determining circuit and a transmission circuit. The receiving circuit receives communication behaviors of external apparatuses. The detection circuit detects inter frame spaces (IFS) corresponding to the communication behaviors and records related time lengths and a set of communication parameters. The statistics circuit performs statistics on the inter frame space according to a plurality of time intervals to generate Inter frame space statistics data. The strategy determining circuit analyzes at least one of the time lengths, communication parameters and Inter frame space statistics data according to at least one application requirement to generate a transmission parameter adjusting signal. The transmission circuit receives the transmission parameter adjusting signal to adjust transmission parameters related to the IFS length to perform data transmission.
1 . A wireless communication apparatus having transmission strategy adjusting mechanism comprising:
a receiving circuit configured to receive data of a plurality of communication behaviors among a plurality of external apparatuses;
a detection circuit configured to detect a plurality of inter frame spaces (IFS) comprised by the communication behaviors and record related time lengths and a set of communication parameters;
a statistics circuit configured to perform statistics on the inter frame spaces according to a plurality of time intervals to generate a plurality of inter frame space statistics data;
a strategy determining circuit configured to analyze at least the related time length and the inter frame space statistics data of the inter frame spaces according to an application requirement to generate a transmission parameter adjusting signal, wherein the related time lengths at least comprise an inter frame space time length;
a transmission circuit configured to receive the transmission parameter adjusting signal to adjust a plurality of transmission parameters related to the inter frame space time length according to the transmission parameter adjusting signal generated based on the analysis of the related time lengths and the inter frame space statistics data of the inter frame spaces to perform data transmission such that the adjusted transmission parameters satisfy the application requirement; and
the strategy determining circuit further determines a minimum time length from the inter frame space statistics data and adjusts the transmission parameters of the transmission circuit so that the inter frame space time length that the transmission circuit performs data transmission is smaller than or equal to the minimum time length.
2 . The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the communication parameters comprises access point group identification information, station identification information, frame attribute information, channel information or a combination thereof.
3 . The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the related time length further comprises a subsequent frame section time length, and the inter frame space statistics data comprises an inter frame space time length occurrence times in each of the time intervals, an inter frame space time length average, a subsequent frame section time length average or a combination thereof.
4 . The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the application requirement comprises a station aggressive transmission requirement such that the strategy determining circuit determines a minimum time length from the inter frame space statistics data and adjusts the transmission parameters of the transmission circuit so that the inter frame space time length that the transmission circuit performs data transmission is smaller than or equal to the minimum time length.
5 . The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the application requirement comprises an illegal communication reacting transmission requirement such that the strategy determining circuit analyzes the related time lengths and the inter frame space statistics data of the inter frame spaces and looks for an illegal communication behavior from the communication behaviors that has access point group identification information and frame attribute information same with those of the wireless communication apparatus and has station identification information different from that of the wireless communication apparatus.
6 . The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the strategy determining circuit is configured to analyze the set of the communication parameters according to an emergency transmission requirement such that the strategy determining circuit identifies access point group identification information, frame attribute information and station identification information of the communication behaviors, to adjust the transmission parameters of the transmission circuit according to a relation between an emergency level of under-transmission data and the communication behaviors.
7 . The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the strategy determining circuit is configured to analyze the set of the communication parameters according to a channel switching requirement such that the strategy determining circuit looks for channel information of the communication behaviors to determine whether a channel switching is performed on the transmission circuit according to the channel information.
8 . The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the strategy determining circuit is configured to analyze the set of the communication parameters according to an average station resource scheduling requirement such that strategy determining circuit identifies station identification information and frame attribute information of each of the communication behaviors to determine whether one of the external apparatuses occupies channel resource exceeding a threshold value to perform resource scheduling on the external apparatuses.
9 . The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the wireless communication apparatus is an access point apparatus or a station apparatus.
10 . The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the transmission parameters comprise a backoff time, a contention window, an arbitration inter frame space (AIFS) or a combination thereof.
11 . A wireless communication method having transmission strategy adjusting mechanism and used in a wireless communication apparatus, the wireless communication method comprises:
receiving data of a plurality of communication behaviors among a plurality of external apparatuses by a receiving circuit;
detecting a plurality of inter frame spaces comprised by the communication behaviors and record related time lengths and a set of communication parameters by a detection circuit;
performing statistics on the inter frame spaces according to a plurality of time intervals to generate a plurality of inter frame space statistics data by a statistics circuit;
analyzing at least the related time lengths and the inter frame space statistics data of the inter frame spaces according to an application requirement to generate a transmission parameter adjusting signal by a strategy determining circuit, wherein the related time lengths at least comprise an inter frame space time length;
receiving the transmission parameter adjusting signal to adjust a plurality of transmission parameters related to the inter frame space time length according to the transmission parameter adjusting signal generated based on the analysis of the related time lengths and the inter frame space statistics data of the inter frame spaces to perform data transmission by a transmission circuit such that the adjusted transmission parameters satisfy the application requirement; and
the strategy determining circuit further determines a minimum time length from the inter frame space statistics data and adjusts the transmission parameters of the transmission circuit so that the inter frame space time length that the transmission circuit performs data transmission is smaller than or equal to the minimum time length.
12 . The wireless communication method of claim 11 , wherein the communication parameters comprises access point group identification information, station identification information, frame attribute information, channel information or a combination thereof.
13 . The wireless communication method of claim 11 , wherein the related time length further comprises a subsequent frame section time length, the inter frame space statistics data comprises an inter frame space time length occurrence times in each of the time intervals, an inter frame space time length average, a subsequent frame section time length average or a combination thereof.
14 . The wireless communication method of claim 11 , wherein the application requirement comprises a station aggressive transmission requirement such that the strategy determining circuit determines a minimum time length from the inter frame space statistics data and adjusts the transmission parameters of the transmission circuit so that the inter frame space time length that the transmission circuit performs data transmission is smaller than or equal to the minimum time length.
15 . The wireless communication method of claim 11 , wherein the application requirement comprises an illegal communication reacting transmission requirement such that the strategy determining circuit analyzes the related time lengths and the inter frame space statistics data of the inter frame spaces and looks for an illegal communication behavior from the communication behaviors that has access point group identification information and frame attribute information same with those of the wireless communication apparatus and has station identification information different from that of the wireless communication apparatus.
16 . The wireless communication method of claim 11 , wherein the strategy determining circuit is configured to analyze the set of the communication parameters according to an emergency transmission requirement such that the strategy determining circuit identifies access point group identification information, frame attribute information and station identification information of the communication behaviors, to adjust the transmission parameters of the transmission circuit according to a relation between an emergency level of under-transmission data and the communication behaviors.
17 . The wireless communication method of claim 11 , wherein the strategy determining circuit is configured to analyze the set of the communication parameters according to a channel switching requirement such that the strategy determining circuit looks for channel information of the communication behaviors to determine whether a channel switching is performed on the transmission circuit according to the channel information.
18 . The wireless communication method of claim 11 , wherein the strategy determining circuit is configured to analyze the set of the communication parameters according to an average station resource scheduling requirement such that strategy determining circuit identifies station identification information and frame attribute information of each of the communication behaviors to determine whether one of the external apparatuses occupies channel resource exceeding a threshold value to perform resource scheduling on the external apparatuses.
19 . The wireless communication method of claim 11 , wherein the wireless communication apparatus is an access point apparatus or a station apparatus.
20 . The wireless communication method of claim 11 , wherein the transmission parameters comprise a backoff time, a contention window, an arbitration inter frame space or a combination thereof.