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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2013
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Jae Seung Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Mln Ho Cheong, Daejeon, KR;
Hyoung Jin Kwon, Daejeon, KR;
Hee Jung Yu, Daejeon, KR;
Jae Woo Park, Daejeon, KR;
Sok Kyu Lee, Daejeon, KR;
ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for allocating a flexible transmission slot in a wireless local area network (LAN) system are disclosed. A flexible transmission slot allocation method of an access point (AP) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system according to an exemplary embodiment includes transmitting a beacon including a traffic indication map (TIM) bit to a station, receiving a power save poll (PS-Poll) from the station in a slot implicitly allocated by the TIM bit, and transmitting an acknowledgement (ACK) including transmission slot allocation information on downlink data to the station.