Electronic device and method for adaptively enabling trigger-enabled target wake time communication based on radio resource contention detection

Abstract

An electronic device includes: a wireless communication circuit; a memory storing at least one instruction; and a processor configured to execute the at least one instruction to: broadcast, using the wireless communication circuit and based on a time interval, a first signal including first data that may include time information; detect, during a time span corresponding to the time information, at least one second external electronic device from among the plurality of external electronic devices that uses a radio resource for communication with at least one of the electronic device and the first external electronic device, wherein the time span occurs after the broadcasting of the first signal; determine a number of detections made by the detecting of the at least one second external electronic device, during the time span; and based on the number of detections exceeding a threshold value, perform, using the wireless communication circuit, communication with the first external electronic device based on a trigger frame signal received from the first external electronic device.