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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2019
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Hyoung Jin Kwon, Daejeon, KR;
Jae Seung Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Min ho Cheong, Seoul, KR;
Hee Jung Yu, Daejeon, KR;
Sok Kyu Lee, Daejeon, KR;
ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus and a method of controlling slot-based channel access by an access point (AP) to manage a network in a wireless local area network (WLAN) environment and a slot-based channel access terminal are disclosed. A slot-based channel access control apparatus of a WLAN system according to an exemplary embodiment determines one of each terminal and a group of terminals as a slot allocation target, allocates a slot defined in a beacon interval to the determined terminal or group to distinguish channel access time, and transmits a beacon including information on the allocated slot.