Lg Electronics Inc.

Saehee Bang

Jinmin Kim

Jinsoo Choi

Kiseon Ryu

Jeongki Kim

Hangyu Cho

Suhwook Kim

Sungjin Park

Kyungtae Jo

A method performed by a first STA in a wireless local area network (WLAN) according to various embodiments may comprise transmitting or receiving a TWT setup request message and a TWT setup response message. The first STA may perform a TWT operation on the basis of the TWT setup request message and the TWT setup response message. The TWT setup request message and the TWT setup response message may be transmitted or received through a first link included in multiple links. The first STA may set the first link to be in an awake state in order to perform the TWT operation through the first link.

Method and apparatus for transmitting or receiving information relating to link in wireless LAN system

A method and an apparatus for receiving an ACK frame in a WLAN system are proposed. Specifically, a first STA transmits a plurality of first MPDUs in a first transmitting TDD slot to a second STA. The first STA receives a first ACK frame for the plurality of first MPDUs from the second STA in a first receiving TDD slot. The first STA transmits a second MPDU to the second STA in a second transmitting TDD slot. The first STA receives a second ACK frame for the second MPDU from the second STA in a second receiving TDD slot.

Method for receiving ack frame in WLAN system and apparatus therefor

A method for supporting TDD in a wireless LAN system of the present specification comprises the steps of: transmitting, by a first wireless terminal, a first frame including a first information element defining a structure of a TDD service period (SP) for TDD channel access, wherein the structure of the TDD SP includes a plurality of consecutive and adjacent TDD intervals, and each of the plurality of TDD intervals includes at least one TDD slot; and transmitting, by the first wireless terminal, a second frame including a second information element defining a schedule for TDD channel access of a second wireless terminal within the TDD SP, to the second wireless terminal, wherein the second information element includes: first information defining an operation type of each of a plurality of TDD slots included in at least one TDD interval for the second wireless terminal within the TDD SP; and second information associated with a duration to which the second information element is applied, and the plurality of TDD slots defined by the first information are repeated during the duration.

Method for supporting TDD scheduling in wireless LAN system and wireless terminal using same

Provided are a method for beamforming training and an apparatus using the same. An STA receives a beacon frame from an AP during a BTI. The STA transmits SSW frames during an A-BFT. The beacon frame comprises an A-BFT length indicating the number of a plurality of SSW slots included in the A-BFT, a FSS field indicating the number of the SSW frames allowed in one SSW slot among the plurality of SSW slots, and information about the type of the SSW frames used in one SSW slot. The information about the type of the SSW frames indicates that the SSW frames are determined to be one from among first type SSW frames and second type SSW frames. The second type SSW frames have a smaller size than that of the first type SSW frames. If the SSW frames are determined to be the second type SSW frames, the FSS field indicates the number of the second type SSW frames that can be transmitted in one SSW slot.

Beamforming training

A method for transmitting a frame on the basis of spatial reuse performed by an SR STA including a plurality of directional antenna modules in a wireless LAN system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: performing a legacy backoff procedure by counting down a first backoff value set on the basis of a set of legacy EDCA parameters in order to transmit an omnidirectional frame, wherein the set of the legacy EDCA parameters includes a legacy CWmin value and a legacy CWmax value corresponding to each of a plurality of ACs; performing an SR backoff procedure by counting down a second backoff value set on the basis of a set of SR EDCA parameters in order to transmit a directional frame when an interference frame that is not intended to be received by an SR STA is received, wherein the set of the SR EDCA parameters includes an SR_CWmax value corresponding to each of the plurality of ACs, and the SR_CWmax value is set to a value smaller than the legacy CWmax value; and transmitting the directional frame when the SR backoff procedure is completed.

Method for transmitting frame on basis of spatial reuse in wireless LAN system and wireless terminal using same

A method for frame retransmission performed by a first wireless terminal in a wireless LAN system comprises the steps of: dividing an MSDU received from an upper layer of a first wireless terminal into multiple MPDUs; transmitting the multiple divided MPDUs to a second wireless terminal, wherein each of the multiple divided MPDUs includes division information and transmission sequence information; if an ACK frame for notifying of successful reception of the multiple divided MPDUs is not received until a preset time elapses, transmitting, to the second wireless terminal, a BAR frame for determining at least one MPDU to be retransmitted by the first wireless terminal among the multiple divided MPDUs; receiving a BA frame from the second wireless terminal in response to the BAR frame, wherein the BA frame includes frame information indicating a last MPDU successfully received by the second wireless terminal among the multiple divided MPDUs; and performing a retransmission procedure on the basis of the frame information.

Method for retransmitting frame in wireless LAN system, and wireless terminal using same

A method for transmitting a frame in a wireless LAN system, according to one embodiment of the present specification, comprises the steps of: a wireless terminal determining whether a channel is usable based on directional CCA which confirms the state of individual channels; determining, as a primary AC, the first AC type from a plurality of AC types to complete a first back-off process, when either a first channel or a second channel is determined as usable; and determining a primary AC from the plurality of AC types once again by performing a second back-off process, when transmission of traffic data included in a transmission que corresponding to the primary AC using at least one directional antenna module associated with at least one channel is determined to be impossible.

Method for transmitting frame in wireless LAN system and wireless terminal using same

Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a signal based on a power saving (PS) mode in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system. Specifically, a first station (STA) determines the PS mode in a time division duplex (TDD)-based service period (SP), and transmit the signal to the second STA or receive the signal from the second STA based on the PS mode. The SP includes a plurality of TDD slots. The plurality of TDD slots include an unassigned TDD slot, an assigned Tx TDD slot, and an assigned Rx TDD slot. In the unassigned TDD slot, a PS mode of the first STA is determined as a doze state, and a PS mode of the second STA is determined an awake or doze state. In the assigned Rx TDD slot, the PS mode of the first STA is determined as the awake state, and the PS mode of the second STA is determined as the awake state. In the assigned Tx TDD slot, the PS mode of the first STA is determined as the awake or doze state, and the PS mode of the second STA is determined as the awake state.

Method for transmitting/receiving signal based on PS mode in WLAN system and apparatus thereof

A method for transmitting a frame on the basis of multiple channelized channels in a wireless LAN system according to one embodiment of the present specification comprises the steps of: configuring, by a first wireless terminal, a control mode physical protocol data unit (PPDU) including encoding information on a channel bandwidth formed on the basis of first to sixth channels sequentially arranged on the frequency axis, wherein five bits are assigned for the encoding information and each of the first to sixth channels has a bandwidth of 2.16 GHz; and transmitting, by the first wireless terminal, the control mode PPDU to a second wireless terminal on the basis of the channel bandwidth.

Method for transmitting frame on basis of multiple channelized channels in wireless LAN system, and wireless terminal using same

A method for multi-user transmission in a wireless LAN system according to one embodiment of the present specification comprises the steps of: individually performing, by a STA including a first directional antenna and a second directional antenna, a first countdown procedure for the first directional antenna and a second countdown procedure for the second directional antenna according to a directional CCA operation for the first and second directional antennas; determining the first directional antenna as a primary antenna when the first countdown procedure is completed before the second countdown procedure; determining whether the second directional antenna is idle from a threshold time before a completion time point of the first countdown procedure to the completion time point; and transmitting multiple streams on the basis of the first and second directional antennas according to the result of the determination.

Method for multi-user transmission in wireless LAN system and wireless terminal using same

The present specification relates to a method for transmitting and receiving signals by a station in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system. More specifically, the present specification proposes a method for providing information on a primary channel and information on a channel for transmitting signals when a station transmits signals by bonding or combining a plurality of channels, and suggests a method for transmitting and receiving signals on the basis of such method for providing information, and an apparatus therefor.

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