METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING CHANNEL ACCESS IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM

• US 20150181620A1
• Filed: 06/18/2013
• Published: 06/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Seok, Yongho
• Application Number:
  US14/408,920
• Publication Number:
  US 20150181620A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0058 Allocation criteria
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0216 using a pre-established activity schedule, e.g. traffic indication frame
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/004 in the uplink, i.e. towards network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0816 with collision avoidance
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically, provides a method and a device for controlling channel access in a wireless LAN system. A method for controlling channel access by a station (STA) in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: transmitting a first frame, to an access point (AP), for starting a transmission opportunity (TXOP); and receiving a second frame if the second frame responding to the first frame is transmitted from the AP, wherein the second frame can be transmitted from the AP on the basis of whether a duration of the TXOP overlaps a predetermined time set by the AP.

Claims

1. A method of controlling channel access at a station (STA) of a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting a first frame for initiating a transmission opportunity (TXOP) to an access point (AP); and

receiving a second frame, in response to the first frame from the AP,

wherein the second frame includes information indicating a channel access allowance time of the STA.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the first frame is a request to send (RTS) frame,

when a duration of the TXOP does not overlap a predetermined time set by the AP, the AP transmits a clear to send (CTS) frame as the second frame, and

when the duration of the TXOP overlaps the predetermined time set by the AP, the AP does not transmit the CTS frame in response to the first frame.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein, when the CTS frame in response to the RTS frame is not received, the STA transmits a new RTS frame via a backoff process.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the first frame is a request to send (RTS) frame,

when a duration of the TXOP overlaps a predetermined time set by the AP, the AP transmits a clear to send (CTS) frame as the second frame, and

a duration field of the CTS frame is set to 0 or a value indicating a duration less than the duration of the TXOP.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein, after the CTS frame has been transmitted, the AP transmits a channel access control frame including information indicating a channel access allowance time of the STA.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the channel access allowance time of the STA is a target beacon transmission time.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first frame is transmitted when a medium is determined to be in an idle state after the STA has changed from a doze state to an awake state.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the first frame is a power save-poll (PS-Poll) frame,

the second frame is an ACK frame,

the ACK in response to the PS-Poll frame includes information indication whether a data frame buffered at the AP is present or not.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein a more data (MD) field of the ACK frame is set to a value indicating whether the data frame buffered at the AP is present or not.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the STA operates as a non-traffic indication map (non-TIM) STA which is allowed not to check a beacon frame from the AP.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the STA receives a beacon frame from the AP at the channel access allowance time of the STA, and the STA operates as a TIM STA.

4. (canceled)

13. A method of controlling channel access of a station (STA) at an access point (AP) of a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving a first frame for initiating a transmission opportunity (TXOP) of the STA from the STA; and

transmitting a second frame in response to the first frame to the STA,

wherein the second frame includes information indicating a channel access allowance time of the STA.

14. A station (STA) apparatus for controlling channel access in a wireless communication system, the STA apparatus comprising:

a transceiver; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to transmit a first frame for initiating a transmission opportunity (TXOP) to an access point (AP) using the transceiver and to receive a second frame in response to the first frame from the AP using the transceiver, and

wherein the second frame includes information indicating a channel access allowance time of the STA.

15. An access point (AP) apparatus for controlling channel access of a station (STA) in a wireless communication system, the STA apparatus comprising:

a transceiver; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to receive a first frame for initiating a transmission opportunity (TXOP) of the STA from the STA using the transceiver and to transmit a second frame in response to the first frame to the STA using the transceiver,

wherein the second frame includes information indicating a channel access allowance time of the STA.