METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING MULTIUSER UPLINK IN WIRELESS LAN

• US 20160278081A1
• Filed: 10/21/2014
• Published: 09/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: CHUN, Jinyoung, LEE, Wookbong, CHOI, Jinsoo, LIM, Dongguk, CHO, Hangyu
• Application Number:
  US15/034,826
• Publication Number:
  US 20160278081A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0094 Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0005 synchronizing of arrival of multiple uplinks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/1268 of uplink data flows
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/08 Non-scheduled access, e.g. ALOHA hybrid access H04W74/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A method and a device for transmitting a multiuser uplink in the wireless LAN are disclosed. A method for receiving each uplink frame from a plurality of STAs in the wireless LAN can comprise the steps of: transmitting, by an AP, a downlink PPDU to the plurality of STAs on an overlapping time resource; and receiving, by the AP, each uplink frame from each of the plurality of STAs on an overlapping time resource through each uplink transmission resource with respect to each of the plurality of STAs, as the response to the downlink PPDU.

Claims

1-8. -8. (canceled)

9. A method for a uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) transmission in a wireless local area network, the method comprising:

receiving, by a receiving station, from an access point (AP), a UL transmission indication frame for requesting a plurality of stations simultaneous UL MU transmissions, the UL transmission indication frame including identification information and resource allocation information, the identification information including a plurality of identifiers identifying the plurality of stations, the resource allocation information including frequency resources allocated to the plurality of stations; and

when the receiving station confirms that the receiving station is one of the plurality of stations indicated by the identification information, transmitting, by the receiving station, to the AP, a UL physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) by using a frequency resource allocated to the receiving station,

wherein an interframe space between the UL transmission indication frame and the UL PPDU is a short inter frame space (SIFS).

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the UL transmission indication frame further includes UL frame length information indicating a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) to be used for the UL PPDU.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving, by the receiving station, from the AP, an ACK frame for acknowledging the UL PDDU,

wherein an interframe space between the UL PPDU and the ACK frame is a SIFS.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the UL PPDU includes a legacy-short training field (L-STF), a legacy-long training field (L-LTF), a legacy-signal (L-SIG), a high efficiency-signal-A (HE-SIG A), a high efficiency-short training field (HE-STF), a high efficiency-long training field (HE-LTF) and a data field.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) size of the HE-LTF is four times greater than an IFFT size of the L-LTF.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the plurality of identifiers in the identification information indicate a plurality of association identifiers (AIDs) for the plurality of stations.

15. A device for a uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) transmission in a wireless local area network, the device comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit configured to transmit and receive a radio signal; and

a processor operatively coupled to the RF unit and configured to;

control the RF unit to receive, from an access point (AP), a UL transmission indication frame for requesting a plurality of stations simultaneous UL MU transmissions, the UL transmission indication frame including identification information and resource allocation information, the identification information including a plurality of identifiers identifying the plurality of stations, the resource allocation information including frequency resources allocated to the plurality of stations; and

control the RF unit to transmit, to the AP, a UL physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) by using a frequency resource allocated to the receiving station when the device confirms that the device is one of the plurality of stations indicated by the identification information,

wherein an interframe space between the UL transmission indication frame and the UL PPDU is a short inter frame space (SIFS)

16. The device of claim 15, wherein the UL transmission indication frame further includes UL frame length information indicating a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) to be used for the UL PPDU.

17. The device of claim 15, wherein the processor is configured to control the RF unit to receive, from the AP, an ACK frame for acknowledging the UL PDDU,

wherein an interframe space between the UL PPDU and the ACK frame is a SIFS.

18. The device of claim 15, wherein the UL PPDU includes a legacy-short training field (L-STF), a legacy-long training field (L-LTF), a legacy-signal (L-SIG), a high efficiency-signal-A (HE-SIG A), a high efficiency-short training field (HE-STF), a high efficiency-long training field (HE-LTF) and a data field.

19. The device of claim 18, wherein an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) size of the HE-LTF is four times greater than an IFFT size of the L-LTF.

20. The device of claim 15, wherein the plurality of identifiers in the identification information indicate a plurality of association identifiers (AIDs) for the plurality of stations.