Granted Patent B2

US 12,193,116 · App. 18/384,678 · Granted Jan 7, 2025

Inventors: Woojin Ahn (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Juhyung Son (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Geonjung Ko (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Jinsam Kwak (Gyeonggi-do, KR)

Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.

H04W80/02H04L5/0055H04W28/0268H04W40/244H04W72/0446H04W74/00H04W74/08H04W74/0808H04W84/12

Abstract

Claims (32)

1. A wireless communication terminal that wirelessly communicates with a base wireless communication terminal, the wireless communication terminal comprising:

a transceiver; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to: receive a trigger frame from the base wireless communication terminal,

transmit, to the base wireless communication terminal, a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) based on the trigger frame using the transceiver,

switch a parameter set, which is a set of parameters used for a channel access, from a first parameter set to a second parameter set based on whether the base wireless communication terminal triggers a multi-user uplink transmission participation of the wireless communication terminal,

when a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (MPDU) included in the PPDU does not request an immediate response, set a second parameter set timer for an access category of the MPDU when the transmission of the PPDU ends,

when the MPDU included in the PPDU requests an immediate response, set the second parameter set timer for the access category of the MPDU for which an ACK is received when the immediate response is received,

when the second parameter set timer expires, terminate an application of the second parameter set, and

access a channel according to an access category priority of data to be transmitted to the base wireless communication terminal by the wireless communication terminal and the parameter set.

2. The wireless communication terminal of claim 1 , wherein the MPDU included in the PPDU is a quality of service (QOS) data frame.

3. The wireless communication terminal of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to receive a beacon frame from the base wireless communication terminal and obtain information indicating a period of the second parameter set timer from the beacon frame.

4. The wireless communication terminal of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to calculate a random integer value within a contention window (CW), set a backoff timer based on the random integer value, and access the channel based on the backoff timer and a predetermined slot time, wherein the parameter set comprises a minimum value (CWmin) of the CW and a maximum value (CWmax) of the CW.

5. The wireless communication terminal of claim 4 , wherein the processor is configured to

if a size of the CW is greater than the CWmax of the CW according to the access category of the data to be transmitted, set the size of the CW to the CWmax.

6. The wireless communication terminal of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to operate a plurality of queues that are classified according to an access category of data stored in a queue and performs backoff procedure of accessing a channel based on a time corresponding to a backoff timer in each of the plurality of queues, and

when there is no data stored in the queue and the backoff timer corresponding to the queue is 0, perform no operation at a slot boundary of the backoff timer,

wherein the backoff timer is set based on a random integer value calculated in a contention window (CW), and is reduced when the channel is idle for a predetermined slot time.

7. The wireless communication terminal of claim 6 , wherein when there is no data stored in the queue and the backoff timer corresponding to the queue is 0, the processor is configured to maintain the backoff timer to be 0.

8. A method of a wireless communication terminal that wirelessly communicates with a base wireless communication terminal, the method comprising:

receiving a trigger frame from the base wireless communication terminal;

transmitting, to the base wireless communication terminal, a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) based on the trigger frame;

switching a parameter set, which is a set of parameters used for a channel access, from a first parameter set to a second parameter set based on whether the base wireless communication terminal triggers a multi-user uplink transmission participation of the wireless communication terminal;

when a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (MPDU) included in the PPDU does not request an immediate response, setting a second parameter set timer for an access category of the MPDU when the transmission of the PPDU ends;

when the MPDU included in PPDU requests the immediate response, setting the second parameter set timer for the access category of the MPDU for which an ACK is received when the immediate response is received;

when the second parameter set timer expires, terminating an application of the second parameter set;

accessing a channel according to an access category of data to be transmitted to the base wireless communication terminal and the parameter set; and

transmitting the data through the channel.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the MPDU included in the PPDU is a quality of service (QOS) data frame.

10. The method of claim 8 , the method further comprising:

receiving a beacon frame from the base wireless communication terminal; and

obtaining information indicating a period of the second parameter set timer from the beacon frame.

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