Ack transmission using multilink
In a wireless local area network system, a receiving device may receive a Block Acknowledgment Request (BAR) frame including information related to a link for which an ACK is requested, and transmit a Block ACK (BA) frame on the basis of the BAR frame. The receiving device is a Multi-Link Device (MLD), which supports communication over multiple links. Each link of the multiple links can be configured based on 2.4 GHz band, 5 GHz band, and/or 6 GHz band defined in a conventional wireless local area network system.
1. A method performed in a wireless local area network system, the method comprising:
receiving, by a station (STA) included in a multi-link device (MLD), first data through a first link among a plurality of links related to a multi-link operation;
receiving, by the STA, a first physical protocol data unit (PPDU) including a first block acknowledgment request (BAR),
wherein the first PPDU includes a legacy signal (L-SIG) field, a repeated L-SIG field being contiguous to the L-SIG field, and a universal signal (U-SIG) field being contiguous to the repeated L-SIG field,
wherein the L-SIG field includes a length field whose value is set to satisfy a condition that a remainder is zero when the length field is divided by three,
wherein the remainder is used to differentiate the first PPDU from a High Efficiency (HE) PPDU,
wherein the U-SIG field includes three-bit information related to a physical version of the first PPDU,
wherein the first BAR frame includes information related to a link for which a block acknowledgement (BA) frame for the first data is requested,
wherein the first BAR frame further includes a block acknowledgment (BA) control field, and a BA information field being contiguous to the BA control field,
wherein the BA control field includes a BA type field, and a traffic identifier (TID) information field, wherein the BA type field has a length of 4 bits,
wherein a value of the BA type field is set based on whether the STA supports the multilink operation,
wherein the TID information field includes information related to at least one TID for the BA frame, and
wherein the BA information field includes a BA bitmap identifying at least one link to which the BA frame is to be transmitted; and
transmitting, by the STA, the BA frame through at least one link which is set based on the BA information field.
2. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein second data is received by the STA,
wherein a second BAR frame is received by the STA,
wherein the second BAR frame includes information related to a link for which a BA frame for the second data is requested.
3. A station (STA) in a wireless local area network system, the STA comprising:
a transceiver for transmitting and receiving a radio signal; and
a processor coupled to the transceiver, the processor is configured to:
receive, via the transceiver, first data through a first link among a plurality of links related to a multi-link operation, wherein the STA is included a multi-link device (MLD);
receive, via the transceiver, a first physical protocol data unit (PPDU) including a first block acknowledgment request (BAR) frame,
wherein the first PPDU includes a legacy signal (L-SIG) field, a repeated L-SIG field being contiguous to the L-SIG field, and a universal signal (U-SIG) field being contiguous to the repeated L-SIG field,
wherein the L-SIG field includes a length field whose value is set to satisfy a condition that a remainder is zero when the length field is divided by three,
wherein the remainder is used to differentiate the first PPDU from a High Efficiency (HE) PPDU,
wherein the U-SIG field includes three-bit information related to a physical version of the first PPDU,
wherein the first BAR frame includes information related to a link for which a block acknowledgement (BA) frame for the first data is requested,
wherein the first BAR frame further includes a block acknowledgment (BA) control field, and a BA information field being contiguous to the BA control field,
wherein the BA control field includes a BA type field, and a traffic identifier (TID) information field,
wherein the BA type field has a length of 4 bits,
wherein a value of the BA type field is set based on whether the STA supports the multi-link operation,
wherein the TID information field includes information related to at least one TID for the BA frame,
wherein the BA information field includes a BA bitmap identifying at least one link to which the BA frame is to be transmitted; and
transmit the BA frame through at least one link which is set based on the BA information field.
4. The STA receiving device of claim 3 ,
wherein second data is received by the STA,
wherein a second BAR frame is received by the STA,
wherein the second BAR frame includes information related to a link for which a BA frame for the second data is requested.