Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Shenzhen Jdl Environmental Protection Ltd.

Mao Yang

Yunbo Li

Bo Li

Zhongjiang Yan

Jian Yu

Yuchen Guo

Ming Gan

Guogang Huang

Rong Li

Zhimin Liao

Aiguo Wan

Yuhe Huang

Jingkui Guo

Jijun Wu

Xiao Han

Meilu Lin

Dandan Liang

Yanchun Li

Mingjie Dong

Mengshi Hu

Yiqing Li

Ying Wang

Yifan Zhou

Weimin Wu

Xun Zhou

Yuxin Lu

Limin Liao

Embodiments of this application provide a communication method between multi-link devices and an apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies, to reduce power consumption of a station multi-link device. The method includes: a multi-link device includes a plurality of STAs, one STA operates on one of a plurality of links, and the STA determines a primary link in the plurality of links. A STA operating on the primary link in the multi-link device may receive information sent by the AP indicating whether the STA operating on the primary link has a downlink traffic, and/or information indicating whether a STA operating on a link other than the primary link has a downlink traffic. Therefore, the STA operating on the primary link may determine a link on which the STA having a downlink traffic operates in the multi-link device.

Communication method between multi-link devices and apparatus

This application provides a beacon frame transmission control method and a related apparatus. The method includes: generating, by a master access point AP, indication information used to indicate a transmission time period of a beacon frame of at least one secondary AP; and sending, by the master AP, the indication information to the at least one secondary AP, where the master AP and the at least one secondary AP belong to a same AP collaboration group, and transmission time periods of beacon frames of APs in the AP collaboration group are different. According to technical solutions provided in this application, transmission robustness of the beacon frame can be improved.

Beacon frame transmission control method and related apparatus

A ML entity performs a backoff procedure of the primary link based on the backoff counter of the primary link; and when a count value of the backoff counter is 0, the ML entity sends a first PPDU on each first link in K first links, where the K first links include the primary link and K−1 first nonprimary links, and the first nonprimary link is in an idle state in a first inter-frame space before a time point at which the count value of the backoff counter decreases to 0.

Communication method and apparatus

Flexible scheduling of a slave AP in a unified frame format in a multi-AP coordinated transmission scenario provides an information transmission method. A first access point (AP) generates a slave trigger frame, where the slave trigger frame includes trigger type information and AP indication information. The trigger type information is used to indicate a type of the slave trigger frame. The AP indication information includes an identifier of a second AP. The identifier of the second AP is used to indicate the second AP. The slave trigger frame is used to trigger the second AP to send a physical protocol data unit (PPDU). The PPDU carries a frame corresponding to a type of the slave trigger frame. The first AP sends the slave trigger frame to the second AP.

Transmission and receiving method; and apparatus for using trigger frames to schedule a second access point

Embodiments of this application disclose a channel puncture mode indication method and a related apparatus, which are applied to a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, for example, a WLAN system supporting 802.11be. The method includes: An access point sends a multi-user request to send MU-RTS frame, where the MU-RTS frame includes a common information field, the common information field includes channel puncture information, and the channel puncture information indicates whether at least one 20 MHz channel is occupied.

Channel puncture mode indication method and related apparatus

A method for determining a receiving status of a data frame and a first multi-link device. The method includes sending data frames to a second multi-link device over multiple links; receiving, over a first link in the multiple links, a block acknowledgment (BA) frame, where a bitmap in the BA frame indicates a receiving status of a data frame transmitted over the first link and indicates a receiving status of a data frame transmitted over a second link in the multiple links, and determining, based on a first time and a second time, a receiving status of a data frame corresponding to a first bit.

Method for determining receiving status of data frame and communication apparatus

Embodiments of this application disclose a spatial reuse indication method and a wireless communications apparatus, thereby reducing a quantity of nodes that can participate in spatial reuse, reducing mutual interference between nodes in spatial reuse, and improving spatial reuse system performance. The method in some implementations includes a first access point generates a spatial reuse limitation indication and a spatial reuse group indication. The spatial reuse limitation indication can be used to indicate whether only a node in a spatial reuse group is allowed for spatial reuse and to indicate the spatial reuse group. The spatial reuse group includes one or more basic service sets. The first access point sends the spatial reuse limitation indication and the spatial reuse group indication.

Spatial reuse indication method and wireless communications apparatus

This application discloses example device-to-device (D2D) transmission methods and communication apparatuses. One example method includes receiving, by a station, a trigger frame sent by an access point, where the trigger frame includes a user information field, the user information field includes an identifier of the station, resource allocation information, first indication information, and second indication information, the first indication information indicates that a resource unit indicated by the resource allocation information is used for D2D transmission, and the second indication information indicates that the station is a sender or a receiver of the D2D transmission. The D2D transmission is performed by the station on the resource unit indicated by the resource allocation information.

Device-to-device D2D transmission method and communication apparatus

Embodiments of this application disclose a channel access method and a related product. The method is applied to a network device. The network device includes a plurality of panels. An example method includes: generating a backoff count value of each of the plurality of panels; and if a backoff count value of any one of the plurality of panels backs off to zero, sending a frame.

Channel access method and related product

This application relates to the field of wireless communication, and in particular, to an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) hybrid transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: An access point may send a trigger frame, to schedule stations supporting different standards to perform OFDMA uplink transmission, where the stations supporting different standards support different bandwidth sizes. The stations receiving the trigger frame send a trigger-based physical layer protocol data unit (TB PPDU) to the access point, where the TB PPDU includes uplink data of the stations supporting different standards, and the stations of different standards may send the uplink data by using RUs located in bandwidths respectively supported by the stations. Therefore, a channel can be fully utilized to improve frequency domain resource utilization.

Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) hybrid transmission method and apparatus

A link identifier indication method includes: A multi-link device working on a plurality of links sends a radio frame, where the radio frame includes link information of at least one link in the plurality of links, and link information of one link is used to indicate the link and corresponds to a link identifier of the link; a receiving device that receives the radio frame may determine the link identifier of the link corresponding to the link information, so that in communication of the multi-link device, a link can be identified by using the link identifier.

Link identifier indication method, transceive capability indication method, and related device

A method and device for uplink orthogonal frequency division multiple access random access, the method including receiving, by a station (STA), a first trigger frame sent by an access point AP, the STA supporting n resource units RUs, where n>1 and is an integer, the first trigger frame including information used to determine a number k of random access resource units (RA-RUs) allocated by the AP, where k is an integer >0, and setting, by the STA, in response to the STA determining that a first parameter is greater than or equal to a value of an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) random access backoff (OBO) counter, the value of the OBO counter to 0, and randomly selecting, by the STA, i RA-RUs from the k RA-RUs to send uplink data, where i≤n, and where the first parameter is associated with k.

Method for uplink orthogonal frequency division multiple random access and apparatus

This application discloses a scheduling method, an access point, and a station. The method includes: generating, by an access point AP, a first frame, where the first frame includes reservation information of each of at least one trigger frame, a first trigger frame is any one of the at least one trigger frame, and reservation information of the first trigger frame includes an identifier of the first trigger frame, start time of the first trigger frame, and a constraint condition of a station STA corresponding to the first trigger frame; and broadcasting, by the AP, the first frame to at least one STA. Therefore, by using the method provided in the present invention, dynamic network changes can be supported through unified scheduling of the AP, and this is favorable to coordination between the AP and the STA, thereby better reducing power consumption of the STA.

Scheduling method, access point, and station

The embodiments of the application provides a resource allocation method. In an example method, a trigger frame is sent by an access point to a station. The trigger frame includes one user information field, and the user information field may indicate a plurality of resource units allocated to the station.

Resource allocation method, communication apparatus, and related device

A coordinated multi-access-point transmission method, where a first access point (AP) sends, to a second AP, transmission control information that carries link transmission direction information, and the first AP and the second AP pre-coordinate a transmission direction of a first link and a transmission direction of a second link, where concurrent transmission is performed on the first link and the second link. Further, the first AP completes data transmission on the first link based on the transmission control information, and the second AP completes data transmission on the second link based on the transmission control information.

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