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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2018
Applicant:
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NEC CORPORATION, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 74/02 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/0808 (2013.01); H04W 16/14 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 74/02 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
A wireless communication system according to the present disclosure includes an access point (AP) and a terminal (STA) that belong to a BSS. The STA compatible with IEEE 802.11ax switches, under an environment where the AP and the STA compatible with IEEE 802.11ax enable OBSS_PD-based SR, an NAV used for virtual carrier sense according to whether only the STA compatible with IEEE 802.11ax is present as the STA or both the STA compatible with IEEE 802.11ax and the STA incompatible with IEEE 802.11ax are present as the STAs.