Method for indicating channel access type in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor
The invention relates to a method for a station (STA) to perform channel access in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: receiving a beacon frame including a traffic indication map (TIM); a step of checking, if the TIM indicates to the STA that buffered traffic exists, information relating to a PS-poll transmission type; and a step of transmitting a PS-poll frame according to either a first type or second type of transmission indicated by the information relating to the PS-poll frame transmission type. The first type of transmission involves transmitting the PS-poll frame after performing contention, and the second type of transmission involves transmitting the PS-poll frame in the time interval set for the STA.
1. A method for performing channel access by at least one station (STA) in a wireless communication system, comprising:
receiving a beacon frame containing a traffic indication map (TIM);
checking, when the TIM indicates that buffered traffic for a STA is present, one or more bitmaps indicating a PS-Poll transmission type for one or more STAs, including the STA, wherein the one or more bitmaps are included in PS-Poll transmission type information; and
transmitting a PS-Poll frame according to one of a first transmission type and a second transmission type indicated by the one or more bitmaps,
wherein the first transmission type represents transmission of the PS-Poll frame after implementation of contention, and the second transmission type represents transmission of the PS-Poll frame in a time interval configured for the STA.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more bitmaps comprise a first bitmap indicating a PS-Poll transmission type for each of the one or more STAs individually.
3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the first bitmap indicates whether each of the one or more STAs, in which the TIM indicates that buffered traffic is present, corresponds to the first transmission type or the second transmission type.
4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the first bitmap is contained in one of the beacon frame and a TIM information element.
5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more bitmaps comprise a second bitmap indicating a PS-Poll transmission type for at least one group with which each of the one or more STAs are associated.
6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the second bitmap indicates whether each of the at least one group, in which the beacon frame indicates that buffered traffic is present, corresponds to the first transmission type or the second transmission type.
7. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the second bitmap is contained in the beacon frame.
8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the PS-Poll transmission type information comprises a first bitmap indicating a PS-Poll transmission type for one or more STAs belonging to at least one group on an STA-by-STA basis, a second bitmap indicating a PS-Poll transmission type for the one or more STAs belonging to the at least one group on a group-by-group basis, and a third bitmap indicating whether a paged group is related to the first bitmap or the second bitmap.
9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the PS-Poll transmission type of a STA belonging to a group is determined through the second bitmap when a bit corresponding to the group in the third bitmap is set to 0, and is determined through the first bitmap when the bit corresponding to the group in the third bitmap is set to 1.
10. The method according to claim 8 , wherein a size of the second bitmap is determined according to the number of bits set to 0 in the third bitmap.
11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, when the STA transmits the PS-Poll frame according to the second transmission type, the STA is maintained in an awake state in the time interval configured for the STA.
12. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the beacon frame contains information about the time interval configured for the STA and an entire time interval for the second transmission type.
13. A station (STA) in a wireless communication system comprising:
a transceiver for transmitting and receiving a radio frequency signal; and
a processor,
wherein the processor receives a beacon frame containing a traffic indication map (TIM), checks, when the TIM indicates that buffered traffic for a STA is present, one or more bitmaps indicating a PS-Poll transmission type for one or more STAs, including the STA, wherein the one or more bitmaps are included in PS-Poll transmission type information, and transmits a PS-Poll frame according to one of a first transmission type and a second transmission type indicated by one or more bitmaps, wherein the first transmission type represents transmission of the PS-Poll frame after implementation of contention, and the second transmission type represents transmission of the PS-Poll frame in a time interval configured for the STA.