Granted Patent B2

US 10,154,482 · App. 15/520,822 · Granted Dec 11, 2018

Inventors: Jeongki Kim (Seoul, KR); Kiseon Ryu (Seoul, KR); Jinsoo Choi (Seoul, KR); Hangyu Cho (Seoul, KR)

Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.

H04W72/044H04W72/04H04W84/12H04W88/08

Abstract

Claims (37)

1. A method of transmitting a frame by a station (STA) in a wireless LAN system supporting a high efficiency physical layer protocol data unit (HE PPDU), comprising:

setting a first duration field included in an HE-SIG A field; and

transmitting a frame including the HE-SIG A field and a MAC header,

wherein in setting of the first duration field included in the HE-SIG A field, the first duration field is set to indicate a transmission opportunity (TXOP) value using a smaller number of bits than a second duration field included in the MAC header, and

wherein a granularity of a time unit used for indicating the TXOP value in the first duration field is set to be different from a granularity of a time unit used in the second duration field.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the granularity of the time unit used in the first duration field varies depending on the TXOP value to be indicated through the first duration field.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first duration field includes at least one bit indicating the granularity that is determined according to the TXOP value.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein remaining bits of the first duration field indicate how many number of time units based on the indicated granularity are included in the TXOP value.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first duration field is set to 5, 6 or 7 bits and a most significant bit (MSB) of the first duration field is used to indicate the granularity of the time unit.

6. The method according to claim 5 ,

wherein the first duration field is set to 5 bits and the granularity indicated by the MSB is one of 32 μs and 512 μs, or

wherein the first duration field is set to 6 bits and the granularity indicated by the MSB is one of 16 μs and 256 μs, or

wherein the first duration field is set to 7 bits and the granularity indicated by the MSB is one of 8μs and 128 μs.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein both the TXOP value indicated by the first duration field and a TXOP value indicated by the second duration field are set for transmission of a same frame, and

wherein the TXOP value indicated by the first duration field is greater than or equals to the TXOP value indicated by the second duration field.

8. A station (STA) transmitting a frame in a wireless LAN system supporting a high efficiency physical layer protocol data unit (HE PPDU), comprising:

a processor for setting a first duration field included in an HE-SIG A field; and

a transmitter for transmitting a frame including the HE-SIG A field and a MAC header,

wherein in setting of the first duration field included in the HE-SIG A field, the first duration field is set to indicate a transmission opportunity (TXOP) value using a smaller number of bits than a second duration field included in the MAC header, and

wherein a granularity of a time unit used for indicating the TXOP value in the first duration field is set to be different from a granularity of a time unit used in the second duration field.

9. A method of managing a network allocation vector (NAV) by a station (STA) in a wireless LAN system supporting a high efficiency physical layer protocol data unit (HE PPDU), comprising:

receiving a frame including an HE-SIG A field and a MAC header; and

performing NAV management based on one of a first duration field included in the HE-SIG A field and a second duration field included in the MAC header,

wherein the first duration field is set to indicate a transmission opportunity (TXOP) value using a smaller number of bits than the second duration field included in the MAC header, and

wherein a granularity of a time unit used for indicating the TXOP value in the first duration field is set to be different from a granularity of a time unit used in the second duration field.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the performing of NAV management comprises setting, updating or resetting a time where channel access is restricted in order to protect a TXOP of a transmitter of the frame or a receiver of the frame when the STA is not designated as the receiver of the frame.

11. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the performing of NAV management comprises:

performing NAV management based on the second duration field when the MAC header has been successfully decoded and

performing NAV management based on the first duration field when decoding of the MAC header has been failed.

12. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the granularity used in the first duration field varies depending on the TXOP value to be indicated through the first duration field.

13. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the first duration field includes at least one bit indicating the granularity that is determined according to the TXOP value and remaining bits of the first duration field indicate how many number of time units based on the indicated granularity are included in the TXOP value.

14. The method according to claim 9 ,

wherein the first duration field is set to 5 bits and a most significant bit (MSB) of the first duration field indicates one of granularities 32 μs and 512 μs, or

wherein the first duration field is set to 6 bits and the MSB of the first duration field indicates one of granularities 16 μs and 256 μs, or

wherein the first duration field is set to 7 bits and the MSB of the first duration field indicates one of granularities 8 μs and 128 μs.

15. The method according to claim 9 , wherein both the TXOP value indicated by the first duration field and a TXOP value indicated by the second duration field are set for transmission of a same frame, and

wherein the TXOP value indicated by the first duration field is greater than or equals to the TXOP value indicated by the second duration field.

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