Method for setting service period in wireless communication system and apparatus for same
Disclosed is a method for setting a service period (SP) of a station (STA) in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for supporting the method. More particularly, the method comprises a step of transmitting a trigger frame to an access point (AP) and starting the service period. The trigger frame may be a data frame that includes data to be transmitted to the AP or a null frame for triggering the data transmission of the AP.
1. A method of setting an SP (service period) of an STA (station) in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of:
receiving a beacon from an access point (AP), the beacon comprising a traffic indication map (TIM) element which indicates the AP has data to be received by the STA;
transmitting a trigger frame to the AP; and
starting the service period to receive data from the AP,
wherein the trigger frame comprises a frame body field which includes a service period field information element (IE) and information related to automatic power saving delivery (APSD) downlink delivery, the service period field IE indicating a length of a service period,
wherein the information related to the APSD downlink delivery comprises downlink data size limitation information of the APSD and an access category field indicating access categories capable of being delivered or triggered by the STA,
wherein the access category field consists of data bits as many as the number of the access categories, and wherein each of the bits indicates whether a corresponding access category is possible to be delivered or triggered by the STA or not.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the trigger frame is either a data frame containing data to be transmitted to the AP or a null frame triggering data transmission of the AP, and the trigger frame comprises a frame type field and wherein the frame type field indicates whether the trigger frame is the data frame or the null frame.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the access categories comprise a background category, a best effort category, a video category and a voice category.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the service period field determines the maximum number of data units to be received from the AP at the STA during the service period.
5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the data units correspond to at least one selected from the group consisting of a MSDUs (MAC service data unit), an A-MSDUs (Aggregate-MSDU) and a MMPDUs (MAC management protocol data unit).
6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the service period ends when the maximum number of the data units are received by the STA.
7. An STA (station) device setting an SP (service period) in a wireless communication system, comprising:
a transceiver configured to transceive a radio signal with an AP (access point); and
a processor configured to control the transceiver to,
receive a beacon from an access point (AP), the beacon comprising a traffic indication map (TIM) element which indicates the AP has data to be received by the STA; and
transmit a trigger frame to the AP to start the service period,
wherein the trigger frame comprises a frame body field which includes a service period field information element (IE) and information related to automatic power saving delivery (APSD) downlink delivery, the service period field IE indicating a length of a service period,
wherein the information related to the APSD downlink delivery comprises downlink data size limitation information of the APSD and an access category field indicating access categories capable of being delivered or triggered by the STA,
wherein the access category field consists of data bits as many as the number of the access categories, and wherein each of the bits indicates whether a corresponding access category is possible to be delivered or triggered by the STA or not.