Granted Patent B2

US 12,501,382 · App. 18/017,781 · Granted Dec 16, 2025

Inventors: Akira Kishida (Musashino, JP); Kengo Nagata (Musashino, JP); Yasuhiko Inoue (Musashino, JP); Yusuke Asai (Musashino, JP); Yasushi Takatori (Musashino, JP)

Assignee: NTT, Inc.

H04W56/0015H04W76/15

Abstract

Claims (22)

1 . A base station comprising:

a first wireless signal processing circuit configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal using a first channel, store first time information, and accumulate a first traffic;

a second wireless signal processing circuit configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal using a second channel different from the first channel, store second time information, and accumulate a second traffic; and

processing circuitry configured to:

establish a multi-link with a terminal apparatus by using the first wireless signal processing circuit and the second wireless signal processing circuit;

synchronize the first time information and the second time information based on shared time information for synchronizing the multi-link;

transmit a beacon signal by using the first wireless signal processing circuit, the beacon signal being capable of indicating the first time information, first information indicating that the first traffic is being accumulated, and second information indicating that the second traffic is being accumulated;

receive a frame by using the second wireless signal processing circuit, the frame requesting a transmission of the second traffic from the terminal apparatus based on the beacon signal; and

transmit the second traffic to the terminal apparatus based on the frame by using the second wireless signal processing circuit.

2 . The base station according to claim 1 , wherein the beacon signal is transmitted from the first wireless processing circuit, and not transmitted from the second wireless processing circuit.

3 . The base station according to claim 1 , wherein the first time information and the second time information have the same time information.

4 . A terminal apparatus comprising:

a first wireless signal processing circuit configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal using a first channel, and store first time information;

a second wireless signal processing circuit configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal using a second channel that is different from the first channel, and store second time information; and

processing circuitry configured to establish a multi-link with a base station by using the first wireless signal processing circuit and the second wireless signal processing circuit, and synchronize the first time information and the second time information, wherein

in the base station, a first traffic associated with the first wireless signal processing circuit is accumulated, and a second traffic associated with the second wireless signal processing circuit is accumulated,

the processing circuitry is further configured to:

receive a beacon signal by using the first wireless processing circuit, the beacon signal including the first time information, first information indicating whether the first traffic is accumulated or not, and second information indicating whether the second traffic is accumulated or not,

transmit a frame to the base station by using the second wireless signal processing circuit, the frame requesting a transmission of the second traffic based on the beacon signal, and

receive the second traffic transmitted from the base station based on the frame by using the second wireless signal processing circuit.

5 . The terminal apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the beacon signal is received by the first wireless processing circuit, and not received by the second wireless processing circuit.

6 . The terminal apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the first time information and the second time information have the same time information.

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