Method and apparatus for transmitting wireless frame, and communication network element
View Patent ↗It is disclosed a method for transmitting wireless frame, including: the wireless frame is transmitted by using any access category. The wireless frame is a beginning frame for performing channel information measurement. It is further disclosed an apparatus for transmitting wireless frame, including: a selection unit and a transmitting unit, where the selection unit is configured to select any access category for a beginning frame for performing the channel information measurement; and the transmitting unit is configured to transmit the beginning frame. It is further disclosed a communication network element provided with the apparatus for transmitting wireless frame mentioned above. It is ensured that the wireless frames subsequent to the frame exchange sequence for performing the channel information measurement may be smoothly transmitted, and the channel information measurement may be smoothly performed, and thereby transmitting communication data based on the acquired channel information. The support of each communication network elements to the MIMO and beam forming is further ensured, and an effective supplement to the existing protocols is provided.
1. A method for wireless communication between an access point (AP) and one or more stations (STA) in a wireless local area network (WLAN), comprising:
selecting, by the AP, an access category from a plurality of access categories comprising at least one of the following: Access Category voice (AC_VO), Access Category video (AC_VI), Access Category besteffort (AC_BE) and Access Category background (AC_BK);
transmitting, by the AP using the selected access category, a wireless frame, to at least one of the STAs, so as to notify the STA to measure channel information;
receiving, by the AP, the measured channel information from the STA;
initiating, by the AP, data communication to the STA based on the received channel information,
wherein the wireless frame is a beginning frame of a frame exchange sequence for performing channel information measurement.
2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
in a multi-frame exchange sequence for performing the channel information measurement, transmitting another wireless frame which is transmitted by the beginning frame's transmitting party by using the same access category as that of the beginning frame.
3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the transmitting the wireless frame by using any access category comprises:
when there is no data to be transmitted in a data queue for a certain access category, transmitting the beginning frame by using the access category.
4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the transmitting the wireless frame by using any access category comprises:
when there is no data to be transmitted in a data queue for more than two access categories, transmitting the beginning frame by using an access category with a highest priority.
5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
before transmitting the beginning frame, transmitting a Request To Send (RTS) or a Clear To Send (CTS) by using a same access category as that used for transmitting the beginning frame.
6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the beginning frame is a Null Data Packet Announcement (NDPA) frame or a Sounding Poll frame.
7. An access point (AP), comprising:
a processor, and
a memory containing programs, which when executed, cause the processor to:
select an access category from a plurality of access categories comprising at least one of the following: Access Category voice (AC_VO), Access Category video (AC_VI), Access Category besteffort (AC_BE) and Access Category background (AC_BK);
transmit a wireless frame to at least one of the STAs using the selected access category, so as to notify the STA to measure channel information;
receive the measured channel information from the STA;
initiate data communication to the STA based on the received channel information, wherein the wireless frame is a beginning frame of a frame exchange sequence for performing channel information measurement.
8. The AP according to claim 7 , wherein in a multi-frame exchange sequence for performing the channel information measurement, a same access category is selected as that of the beginning frame for another wireless frame which is transmitted by the beginning frame's transmitting party.
9. The AP according to claim 7 , wherein the there is no data to be transmitted in a data queue for a certain access category, the access category is selected, and the beginning frame is transmitted; or
when there is no data to be transmitted in a data queue for more than two access categories, an access category with a highest priority is selected, and the beginning frame is transmitted.
10. The AP according to claim 7 , wherein the beginning frame is a Null Data Packet Announcement (NDPA) frame or a Sounding Poll frame.