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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2014
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, Guangdong, CN;
Qingyong Chen, Shenzhen, CN;
Jianjun Yang, Shenzhen, CN;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention discloses a method and a device for allocating a group identifier, which can allocate a non-conflict GID to a non-AP STA in an area covered by multiple BSS networks, so that the problem of GID conflict which is occurred when allocating the GID for the non-AP STA can be reduced. A method provided by the embodiment of the present invention includes: dividing all group identifiers (GIDs) into N parts according to number of the GIDs, and respectively allocating the N parts to N basic service set (BSS) networks, which communicate in a multi user-multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) mode, where the N BSS networks have a common area, N is a natural number which is bigger than 1.