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US 12,538,358 · App. 18/260,419 · Granted Jan 27, 2026

Method and device for configuring spatial reuse field in wireless LAN system

Inventors: Eunsung Park (Seoul, KR); Jinyoung Chun (Seoul, KR); Jinsoo Choi (Seoul, KR); Dongguk Lim (Seoul, KR); Insun Jang (Seoul, KR); Jeongki Kim (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04W74/0816H04W74/0866H04W84/12
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Patent No.
US 12,538,358
App. No.
18/260,419
Granted
Jan 27, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Proposed are a method and a device for configuring a spatial reuse field in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a reception STA receives a trigger frame from a transmission STA. The reception STA transmits a TB PPDU to the transmission STA through a preconfigured frequency band. The trigger frame includes a common information field and a special user information field. The common information field includes a first to a fourth spatial reuse field. Values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields are configured to 0 or 15.

Claims (65)

1 . A method in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, the method comprising:

receiving, by a receiving station (STA), a trigger frame from a transmitting STA; and

transmitting, by the receiving STA, an Extreme High Throughput Trigger Based Physical Protocol Data Unit (EHT TB PPDU) through a preset frequency band to the transmitting STA,

wherein the trigger frame includes a common information field and a special user information field,

wherein the common information field includes first to fourth spatial reuse fields,

wherein, based on values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 0, an Overlapping Basic Service Set (OBSS) High Efficiency (HE) STA performs OBSS Preamble Detection (PD) for the preset frequency band, but is not allowed to perform spatial reuse and obtain basic service set (BSS) color information by decoding the EHT TB PPDU, and

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 15, the OBSS HE STA is prohibited from performing spatial reuse with the OBSS PD for the preset frequency band, and is not allowed to obtain the BSS color information by decoding the EHT TB PPDU.

2 . The method of claim 1 ,

wherein, based on the preset frequency band being a 20 MHz band, the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields are spatial reuse values for the 20 MHz band,

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 0, the OBSS HE STA performs the OBSS PD for the 20 MHz band, but is not allowed to perform the spatial reuse,

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 15, the OBSS HE STA is prohibited from performing spatial reuse with the OBSS PD for the 20 MHz band.

3 . The method of claim 1 ,

wherein, based on the preset frequency band being a 40 MHz band, the values of the first and third spatial reuse fields are spatial reuse values for a first 20 MHz subchannel having a low frequency in the 40 MHz band, and the values of the second and fourth spatial reuse fields are spatial reuse values for a second 20 MHz subchannel having a high frequency in the 40 MHz band,

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 0, the OBSS HE STA performs the OBSS PD for the 40 MHz band, but is not allowed to perform spatial reuse,

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 15, the OBSS HE STA is prohibited from performing spatial reuse with the OBSS PD for the 40 MHz band.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein, based on the EHT TB PPDU being transmitted in a 2.4 GHz band, the spatial reuse value for the second 20 MHz subchannel is set equal to the spatial reuse value for the first 20 MHz subchannel.

5 . The method of claim 1 ,

wherein, based on the preset frequency band being a 80 MHz band, the value of the first spatial reuse field is a spatial reuse value for the lowest first 20 MHz subchannel in the 80 MHz band, the value of the second spatial reuse field is a spatial reuse value for a second 20 MHz subchannel that is second lowest in the 80 MHz band, the value of the third spatial reuse field is a spatial reuse value for a third 20 MHz subchannel that is second highest in the 80 MHz band, and the value of the fourth spatial reuse field is a spatial reuse value for a fourth 20 MHz subchannel that is the highest in the 80 MHz band,

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 0, the OBSS HE STA performs the OBSS PD for the 80 MHz band, but is not allowed to perform spatial reuse,

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 15, the OBSS HE STA is prohibited from performing spatial reuse with the OBSS PD for the 80 MHz band.

6 . The method of claim 1 ,

wherein, based on the preset frequency band being a 160 MHz band, the value of the first spatial reuse field is a spatial reuse value for the lowest first 40 MHz subchannel in the 160 MHz band, the value of the second spatial reuse field is a spatial reuse value for a second 40 MHz subchannel that is second lowest in the 160 MHz band, the value of the third spatial reuse field is a spatial reuse value for a third 40 MHz subchannel that is second highest in the 160 MHz band, and the value of the fourth spatial reuse field is a spatial reuse value for the a fourth 40 MHz subchannel that is the highest in the 160 MHz band,

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being are set to 0, an OBSS HE STA performs the OBSS PD for the 160 MHz band, but is not allowed to perform spatial reuse,

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 15, the OBSS HE STA is prohibited from performing spatial reuse with the OBSS PD for the 160 MHz band.

7 . The method of claim 1 ,

wherein, based on the preset frequency band being a 320 MHz band, the value of the first spatial reuse field is a spatial reuse value representing a first 40 MHz subchannel having the lowest frequency within each 160 MHz channel of the 320 MHz band, the value of the second spatial reuse field is a spatial reuse value representing a second 40 MHz subchannel having a second lowest frequency within each 160 MHz channel of the 320 MHz band, the value of the third spatial reuse field is a spatial reuse value representing a third 40 MHz subchannel having a second highest frequency within each 160 MHz channel of the 320 MHz band, and the value of the fourth spatial reuse field is a spatial reuse value representing a fourth 40 MHz subchannel having the highest frequency within each 160 MHz channel of the 320 MHz band,

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 0, the OBSS HE STA performs the OBSS PD for the 320 MHz band, but is not allowed to perform spatial reuse,

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 15, the OBSS HE STA is prohibited from performing spatial reuse with the OBSS PD for the 320 MHz band.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the special user information field includes fifth and sixth spatial reuse fields.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the EHT TB PPDU includes a Universal-Signal (U-SIG) field,

wherein the U-SIG field includes seventh and eighth spatial reuse fields,

wherein the seventh spatial reuse field is configured by duplicating the fifth spatial reuse field,

wherein the eighth spatial reuse field is configured by duplicating the sixth spatial reuse field.

10 . A receiving station (STA) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, the receiving STA comprising:

a memory;

a transceiver; and

a processor being operatively connected to the memory and the transceiver,

wherein the processor is configured to:

receive a trigger frame from a transmitting STA; and

transmit an Extreme High Throughput Trigger Based Physical Protocol Data Unit (EHT TB PPDU) through a preset frequency band to the transmitting STA,

wherein the trigger frame includes a common information field and a special user information field,

wherein the common information field includes first to fourth spatial reuse fields,

wherein, based on values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 0, an Overlapping Basic Service Set (OBSS) High Efficiency (HE) STA performs OBSS Preamble Detection (PD) for the preset frequency band, but is not allowed to perform spatial reuse and obtain basic service set (BSS) color information by decoding the EHT TB PPDU, and

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 15, the OBSS HE STA is prohibited from performing spatial reuse with the OBSS PD for the preset frequency band, and is not allowed to obtain the BSS color information by decoding the EHT TB PPDU.

11 . A method in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, the method comprising:

transmitting, by a transmitting station (STA), a trigger frame to a receiving STA; and

receiving, by the transmitting STA, an Extreme High Throughput Trigger Based Physical Protocol Data Unit (EHT TB PPDU) from the receiving STA through a preset frequency band,

wherein the trigger frame includes a common information field and a special user information field,

wherein the common information field includes first to fourth spatial reuse fields,

wherein, based on values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 0, an Overlapping Basic Service Set (OBSS) High Efficiency (HE) STA performs OBSS Preamble Detection (PD) for the preset frequency band, but is not allowed to perform spatial reuse and obtain basic service set (BSS) color information by decoding the EHT TB PPDU, and

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 15, the OBSS HE STA is prohibited from performing spatial reuse with the OBSS PD for the preset frequency band, and is not allowed to obtain the BSS color information by decoding the EHT TB PPDU.

12 . The method of claim 11 ,

wherein, based on the preset frequency band being a 20 MHz band, the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields are spatial reuse values for the 20 MHz band,

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 0, the OBSS HE STA performs the OBSS PD the 20 MHz band, but is not allowed to perform spatial reuse,

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 15, the OBSS HE STA is prohibited from performing spatial reuse with the OBSS PD for the 20 MHz band.

13 . The method of claim 11 ,

wherein, based on the preset frequency band being a 40 MHz band, the values of the first and third spatial reuse fields are spatial reuse values for a first 20 MHz subchannel having a low frequency in the 40 MHz band, and the values of the second and fourth spatial reuse fields are spatial reuse values for a second 20 MHz subchannel having a high frequency in the 40 MHz band,

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 0, the OBSS HE STA performs the OBSS PD for the 40 MHz band, but is not allowed to perform spatial reuse,

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 15, the OBSS HE STA is prohibited from performing spatial reuse with the OBSS PD for the 40 MHz band.

14 . The method of claim 13 ,

wherein, based on the EHT TB PPDU being transmitted in a 2.4 GHz band, the spatial reuse value for the second 20 MHz subchannel is set equal to the spatial reuse value for the first 20 MHz subchannel.

15 . The method of claim 11 ,

wherein, based on the preset frequency band being a 80 MHz band, the value of the first spatial reuse field is a spatial reuse value for the lowest first 20 MHz subchannel in the 80 MHz band, the value of the second spatial reuse field is a spatial reuse value for a second 20 MHz subchannel that is second lowest in the 80 MHz band, the value of the third spatial reuse field is a spatial reuse value for a third 20 MHz subchannel that is second highest in the 80 MHz band, and the value of the fourth spatial reuse field is a spatial reuse value for a fourth 20 MHz subchannel that is the highest in the 80 MHz band,

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 0, an OBSS HE STA can perform the OBSS HE STA performs the OBSS PD for the 80 MHz band, but is not allowed to perform spatial reuse,

wherein, based on the values of the first to fourth spatial reuse fields being set to 15, the OBSS HE STA is prohibited from performing spatial reuse with the OBSS PD for the 80 MHz band.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 5, 2023
From: PARK, EUNSUNG; CHUN, JINYOUNG; CHOI, JINSOO; LIM, DONGGUK; JANG, INSUN; KIM, JEONGKI
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2021-0008446 · Jan 21, 2021 · national
KR 10-2021-0013420 · Jan 29, 2021 · national
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