WO2011099791A2 - Procédé et appareil d'accès par canal dans un système de réseau local sans fil - Google Patents

Procédé et appareil d'accès par canal dans un système de réseau local sans fil Download PDF

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WO2011099791A2
WO2011099791A2 PCT/KR2011/000895 KR2011000895W WO2011099791A2 WO 2011099791 A2 WO2011099791 A2 WO 2011099791A2 KR 2011000895 W KR2011000895 W KR 2011000895W WO 2011099791 A2 WO2011099791 A2 WO 2011099791A2
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  • the present invention relates to wireless communication and, more particularly, to a channel access method and apparatus in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system.
  • WLAN wireless local area network
  • WLAN wireless local area network
  • PDAs personal digital assistants
  • PMPs portable multimedia players
  • IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 802
  • the early WLAN technique supported the rate of 1 ⁇ 2Mbps through frequency hopping, spread spectrum, infrared communications, and the like, by using a 2.4GHz frequency based on IEEE 802.11, and recently, a maximum rate of 54Mbps can be supported by employing orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) technology to the WLAN.
  • OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplex
  • IEEE 802.11 are putting standards of various techniques, such as improvement of quality of service (QoS), allowing for compatibility of access point (AP) protocols, achievement of security enhancement, measurement radio resource measurement, wireless access vehicular environment, ensuring fast roaming, establishing a mesh network, interworking with an external network, wireless network management, and the like, into practical use or are still developing them.
  • QoS quality of service
  • AP access point
  • IEEE 802.11b supports a maximum of 11Mbs communication speed by using the frequency band of 2.4 GHz.
  • IEEE 802.11a which has been commercialized following the IEEE 802.11b, uses the frequency band of 5 GHz, rather than 2.4 GHz, to reduce the influence of interference compared with the considerably congested frequency band of 2.4 GHz, and has a communication speed increased up to a maximum 54 Mbps by using the OFDM technique.
  • IEEE 802.11a has shortcomings in that its communication distance is shorter than that of IEEE 802.11b.
  • IEEE 802.11g uses the frequency band of 2.4 GHz, like IEEE 802.11b does, to implement a communication speed of a maximum 54 Mbps and satisfies backward compatibility, and as such, IEEE 802.11g has come into prominence. Also, IEEE 802.11b is superior to IEEE 802.11a in terms of the communication distance.
  • IEEE 802.11n has been lately stipulated as a technique standard to overcome the limitation of the communication speed which has been admitted as a weak spot of the WLAN. IEEE 802.11n aims to increase the speed and reliability of a network and extend an operation distance of a wireless network.
  • IEEE 802.11n supports high throughput (HT) of more than a maximum 540 Mbps as a data processing speed, and is based on a multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) technique using multiple antennas at both ends of a transmission unit and a reception unit to minimize a transmission error and optimize a data rate.
  • IEEE 802.11n standard can use orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) to increase the speed as well as using a coding scheme in which several duplicates are transmitted to enhance data reliability.
  • OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplex
  • VHT very high throughput
  • IEEE 802.11 TGac conducting standardization of VHT wireless LAN system, is actively doing research on a scheme of using channel bandwidths of 8x8 MIMO and 80 MHz or higher in order to provide throughput of 1Gbps or faster.
  • a basic access mechanism of an IEEE 802.11 MAC is a CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance) combined with binary exponential backoff.
  • the CSMA/CA mechanism is also called a DCF (Distributed Coordination Function) of IEEE 802.11 MAC, basically employing a “listen before talk” access mechanism.
  • a station STA first listens to a radio channel or a medium before starting a transmission. Upon listening, when it is detected that the medium is not is use, the listening station starts its transmission. Meanwhile, when it is detected that the medium is in use, the station enters a delay period determined by a binary exponential backoff algorithm, rather than starting its transmission.
  • the CSMA/CA mechanism includes virtual carrier sensing as well as physical carrier sensing in which the station (STA) directly listens to a medium).
  • the virtual carrier sensing is to complement the limitation of the physical carrier sensing such as a hidden node problem, or the like.
  • IEEE 802.11 MAC uses an NAC (Network Allocation Vector).
  • the NAV is a value for the station (STA), which currently uses the medium or has authority to use the medium, to indicate a time remaining for the medium to be available, to other stations (STA).
  • the value set as the NAV corresponds to a period during which the medium is due to be used by the station (STA) which transmits a corresponding frame.
  • One of procedures for setting the NAV is a procedure of exchanging an RTS (Request To Send) frame and a CTS (Clear To Send) frame.
  • the RTS frame and the CTS frame include information informing reception stations (STA) about an upcoming frame transmission to delay a frame transmission by the reception stations.
  • the information may be included in a duration field of each of the RTS frame and the CTS frame.
  • STA source station
  • STA transmits an actual frame desired to be transmitted to a target station (STA).
  • a channel can be obtained by aggregating a plurality of subchannels. For example, a channel of 80 MHz may be obtained by aggregating four 20 MHz channels.
  • the channel access method may include control frames for reserving a wireless medium, solving a concealment node problem, virtual carrier sensing, a method for transmitting the control frame, and a method for generating and transmitting the control frame.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a channel access method in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system and an apparatus for supporting the same.
  • WLAN wireless local area network
  • a channel access method performed by an originating station in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system using a multi-channel including a plurality of subchannels includes transmitting RTS (Request To Send) frames to a destination station via the plurality of subchannels, respectively, receiving CTS (Clear To Send) frames transmitted by the destination station via the plurality of subchannels in response to the RTS frames, and transmitting data via the subchannels via which the CTS frames have been received.
  • RTS Request To Send
  • CTS Call To Send
  • the subchannels, via which the CTS frames have been received may be contiguous subchannels.
  • Each of the RTS frames may include at least one of information regarding a frequency bandwidth intended to be used for the transmission of the data, information indicating subchannels for transmitting the data by the originating station, and information regarding as to whether or not the plurality of the subchannels constituting the multi-channel are available to be used.
  • Each of the CTS frames may include at least one of information regarding a frequency bandwidth permitted for the transmission of the data, information indicating subchannels permitted for the transmission of the data, and information regarding whether or not the plurality of the subchannels constituting the multi-channel are available to be used.
  • the first duration information may be information as a reference for NAV setting of a station which transmits a frame via one of the plurality of subchannels
  • the second duration information may be information as a reference for NAV setting of a station which transmits a frame via two or more contiguous subchannels among the plurality of subchannels.
  • the second duration information may be a duration starting from an RTS frame transmission time point at which the originating station transmits the data to a point in time at which a reception acknowledge response with respect to the transmission of the data is received from the destination station.
  • the second duration information may be a transmission opportunity (TXOP) period obtained by the originating station.
  • TXOP transmission opportunity
  • the RTS frame may further include information indicating an access category of the data.
  • the method may further include receiving the CTS frames, and transmitting a CTS-to-self frame before transmitting the data, wherein the CTS-to-self frame may include a receiver address (RA) field in which a MAC address of the originating station is set as an RA.
  • RA receiver address
  • the third station may set an NAV based on third duration information included in the CTS-to-self frame.
  • the method and apparatus for preventing a collision, reserving a wireless medium, solving a concealment node problem, and detecting virtual carrier sensing are provided to be applicable to a wireless LAN system using a channel obtained by aggregating a plurality of subchannels.
  • the channel access method including novel control frames proposed by the present invention and the method for transmitting the control frames guarantee the backward compatibility.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates the configuration of a wireless local area network (WLAN) system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
  • WLAN wireless local area network
  • FIG. 2 illustrates a schematic block diagram of a multi-radio unification protocol.
  • FIG. 3 is a diagram of a channel access and data transmission mechanism in the WLAN system.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates a channel access procedure and a data frame transmission process.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates an example of a WLAN system environment.
  • FIG. 6 shows an example of a case in which a transmission of a CTS frames fails in the environment of FIG. 5.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates the operations of the AP and the STAs.
  • FIG. 8 illustrates another example of a method for transmitting a control frame and data.
  • FIG. 9 illustrates another example of a method for transmitting a control frame and data.
  • FIG. 10 and FIG. 11 illustrate an example of an RTS frame format proposed by the present invention.
  • FIG. 12 illustrates an example of a CTS frame format proposed by the present invention.
  • FIG. 13 is a schematic block diagram of a wireless apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates the configuration of a wireless local area network (WLAN) system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
  • WLAN wireless local area network
  • a WLAN system includes one or more of basic service sets (BSSs).
  • BSS refers to a set of stations (STAs) that can communicate with each other in synchronization, rather than a concept indicating a particular area.
  • STAs stations
  • a BSS that supports data processing at a high speed of 1 GHz or faster is called a VHT BSS.
  • a VHT system including one or more VHT BSSs may use a channel bandwidth of 80 MHz, but it is merely illustrative.
  • the VHT system may use a channel bandwidth of 120 MHz, 160 MHz, or larger.
  • the VHT system has a multi-channel environment including a plurality of subchannels each having a channel bandwidth of a certain size, e.g., a channel bandwidth of 20 MHz.
  • the BSS may be divided into an infrastructure BSS and an independent BSS (IBSS).
  • FIG. 1 illustrates the infrastructure BSS.
  • the infrastructure BSS (BSS1 and BSS2) includes one or more stations (STAs) (STA1, STA3, STA4), an access point (AP) as a station (STA) providing a distribution service, and a distribution system connecting a plurality of APs (AP1 and AP2).
  • the IBSS not including an AP, includes every station (STA) as a mobile station.
  • the IBSS establishes a self-contained network, not allowing an access to a distribution system (DS).
  • DS distribution system
  • a station is a certain function medium including a medium access control (MAC) following the stipulation of IEEE 802.11 standard and a physical layer interface with respect to a wireless medium.
  • a station includes both AP and non-AP stations in a broad sense.
  • a station supporting high speed data processing of 1 GHz or faster in a multi-channel environment (to be described) is called a VHT station.
  • a station for radio communications may include a processor and a radio frequency (RF) unit, and may further include a user interface, a display unit, and the like.
  • the processor a function unit configured to generate a frame to be transmitted via a wireless network or process a frame received via the wireless network, performs various functions to control a station.
  • the RF unit which is functionally connected with the processor, is configured to transmit and receive frames via the wireless network for the station.
  • a mobile terminal manipulated by a user is a non-AP STA (STA1, STA3, STA4), and simply referring to a station may indicate a non-AP STA.
  • the non-AP STA may be referred to by other names such as terminal, wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), user equipment (UE), mobile station (MS), mobile terminal, mobile subscriber unit, or the like.
  • WTRU wireless transmit/receive unit
  • UE user equipment
  • MS mobile station
  • mobile terminal mobile subscriber unit, or the like.
  • a non-AP STA supporting high speed data processing at 1GHz or faster in a multi-channel environment is called a non-AP VHT STA.
  • the APs are functional entities for providing an access to the DS by way of a wireless medium for an STA (Associated Station) associated thereto.
  • STA Associated Station
  • the AP may be also called by other names such as centralized controller, base station (BS), node-B, base transceiver system (BTS), site controller, and the like, than the named of AP.
  • BS base station
  • BTS base transceiver system
  • site controller and the like
  • a plurality of infrastructure BSSs may be connected via the DS.
  • the plurality of BSSs connected via the DS is called an extended service set (ESS).
  • STAs included in the ESS may communicate with each other, and a non-AP STA may move from one BSS to another BSS within the same ESS while seamlessly performing communication.
  • the DS is a mechanism allowing one AP to communicate with another AP.
  • an AP may transmit a frame for STAs associated to the BSS managed by the AP, transfer a frame when one STA moves to another BSS, or transmit or receive frames to and from an external network such as a wireline network.
  • the DS may not be necessarily a network. Namely, the DS is not limited to any form so long as it can provide a certain distribution service stipulated in IEEE 802.11 standard.
  • the DS may be a wireless network such as a mesh network or a physical structure connecting the APs.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates a schematic block diagram of a multi-radio unification protocol (MUP), an example of a protocol applicable to a VHT system including a plurality of network interface cards (NICs) each having an independent radio interface.
  • MUP multi-radio unification protocol
  • NICs network interface cards
  • a station (STA) supporting the MUP includes a plurality of network interface cards (NICs).
  • NICs network interface cards
  • FIG. 2 the respective NICs are illustrated to be separated, which means that MAC/PHY modules in the respective NICs are independently operated.
  • the NICs discriminately illustrated in FIG. 2 are logical entities operating according to an individual MAC/PNY protocol.
  • the plurality of NICs can be implemented as function entities which are physically differentiated or may be integrated into a single physical entity so as to be implemented.
  • the plurality of NICs may be classified into a primary radio interface and one or more secondary radio interfaces.
  • the plurality of secondary radio interfaces may be classified into first, second, third secondary radio interfaces, or the like.
  • the classification of the primary and secondary radio interfaces and/or the classification of the secondary radio interfaces may be policy-oriented or may be adaptively determined in consideration of a channel environment.
  • the plurality of NICs are integrally or collectively managed through the MUP.
  • the NICs are recognized as if it is a single unit to the exterior.
  • the VHT system includes a virtual-medium access control (V-MAC), and through the V-MAC, an upper layer cannot recognize that is it operated by the plurality of NICs in a multi-radio channel In this manner, in the VHT system, the upper layer cannot recognize the multi-radio through the V-MAC. Namely, a virtual Ethernet address is provided.
  • V-MAC virtual-medium access control
  • the exemplary embodiments (to be described) relates to a WLAN system using a joint channel in which four contiguous subchannels each having a channel bandwidth of 20 MHz are combined (namely, a joint channel using a channel bandwidth of 80 MHz), but they are merely illustrative. Namely, it will be obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art that the exemplary embodiments of the present invention can be applicable in the same manner to a VHT system including a plurality of subchannels, e.g., three or fiver or more subchannels. Also, the exemplary embodiments of the present invention are not limited to the VHT system having subchannels whose bandwidth is 20 MHz. For example, the bandwidths of the subchannels may be 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 40, MHz, or 80 MHz.
  • FIG. 3 is a diagram of a channel access and data transmission mechanism in the WLAN system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 3 shows an example of a channel access mechanism for solving a problem caused by a collision with a legacy station possibly generated when the existing EDCA channel access mechanism is applied in a WLAN system including only VHT stations or a WLAN system in which the legacy station and an VHT station coexist.
  • the channel access mechanism may be called a frequency-selective EDCA.
  • the legacy station may be a conventional STA, besides a VHT STA, supporting IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 802.11 a/b/g/n. This is the same in the followings.
  • the entire joint channel may not be used to considerably degrade throughput of the VHT system.
  • one or more legacy STAs are operated in a certain subchannel among subchannels which are used by the VHT STA or desired to be used by the VHT STA
  • all the subchannels constituting the channel or the joint channel must be in an idle state in which they are not occupied. Namely, there must be no collision with the legacy STA with respect to all the subchannel constituting the joint channel in order for the VHT STA to successfully access the channel.
  • a channel access mechanism in which an RTS frame is transmitted as a subchannel unit in order to prevent the problem of reduction in the throughput due to the collision with the legacy STA Namely, an originating STA does not transmit RTS frames by using the entire multi-channel but transmits the RTS frames in units of the subchannels.
  • a destination STA transmits CTS frames via the subchannels, via which the RTS frames have been received, in response to the RTS frames. In this case, the destination STA may transmit the CTS frames through some of the subchannels, via which, the RTS frames have been received.
  • the originating STA ay transmit a data frame, or the like, via the subchannels, via which the CTS frames have been received.
  • the originating STA when it wants to transmit data, it transmits RTS frames by using the entire multi-channel.
  • the entire multi-channel is not regarded as a single channel but the respective subchannels are regarded as independent channels and RTS frames are transmitted via the respective subchannels.
  • the process of transmitting of RTS frames by subchannels is illustrated to include a PLCP (Physical Layer Convergence Procedure) preamble, a PLCP header, and a single PPDU (PLCP Protocol Data Unit).
  • PLCP Physical Layer Convergence Procedure
  • PLCP header Physical Layer Convergence Procedure
  • PPDU PLCP Protocol Data Unit
  • a third subchannel and a fourth subchannel, among the entire subchannels, are used by a legacy STA.
  • the third and fourth subchannels may be used by different legacy STAs.
  • the reason for using the third and fourth subchannels is illustrative, and the present invention is not limited thereto.
  • the RTS frames may not be successfully transmitted via the subchannels (e.g., a collision may occur), and a destination VHT STA may successfully receive the RTS frames transmitted via the first and second subchannels.
  • the destination STA Upon receiving the RTS frames via some of the entire subchannels or via the entire subchannels, the destination STA transmits CTS frames by subchannels by using the corresponding subchannels.
  • the transmission process of the CTS frames is illustrated as the PLCP (Physical Layer Convergence Procedure) preamble, the PLCP header, and the single PPDU (PLCP Protocol Data Unit) via the first and third subchannels.
  • PLCP Physical Layer Convergence Procedure
  • the source VHT STA may transmit data, or the like, by using the corresponding subchannels (i.e., the first and second subchannels).
  • the transmission process of data via the first and second subchannels are illustrated as the PLCP (Physical Layer Convergence Procedure) preamble, the PLCP header, and the single PPDU (PLCP Protocol Data Unit) in the first and second subchannels.
  • the data is transmitted via the first and second subchannels, which is merely illustrative.
  • the data may be transmitted one, two, or four subchannels according to circumstances. Namely, when one subchannel has a subchannel bandwidth of 20 MHz as in the example of FIG. 3, a data transmission may be made by using a bandwidth of 20 MHz, 40 MHz, or 80 MHz.
  • the data when data is transmitted by using the bandwidth of 40 MHz, the data may be transmitted by using two subchannels each having 20 MHz bandwidth, and in this case, the data must be transmitted via contiguous subchannels (namely, continued in terms of frequency band).
  • subchannels via which the destination STA transmits the CTS frames may be limited to contiguous subchannels.
  • the destination STA when the destination STA normally receives the RTS frames via the first and third subchannels and transmits CTS frames in response, the destination STA cannot transmit the CTS frames via the first and third subchannels because the first and third subchannels are not contiguous (namely, they are non-contiguous in terms of the frequency band). In this case, the destination STA may transmit the CTS frames via the first subchannel.
  • the plurality of VHT STA or the VHT STA and the legacy STA may transmit data, or the like, by using the entire joint channel.
  • the subchannel information is further included in the RTS frames or the CTS frames, a coexistence with the legacy STA can be more effectively guaranteed, the reliability of the data transmission can be enhanced, and the subchannels to be used for a data transmission and reception can be more adaptively determined according to the circumstances of the respective subchannels.
  • NAV setting of the legacy STAs may be problematic.
  • the legacy STAs set the NAV based on a duration field of the multi-channel RTS and that of the multi-channel CTS transmitted via the respective subchannels constituting the multi-channel.
  • an RTS transmitter which has transmitted the RTS frame, knows that protection has failed.
  • the STA i.e., the originating STA or the RTS frame transmitter
  • the STA fails to receive the CTS frame, it does not transmit a frame.
  • the legacy STAs in a state in which the originating STA transmits the RTS frame, when there is no data transmission after the lapse of 2x SIFS+CTS, the legacy STAs reset the NAV, which has been set by the legacy STAs themselves. In this manner, the legacy STAs can perform channel accessing again.
  • the legacy STAs cannot reset the NAV according to the conventional rule. Namely, when the multi-channel RTS frames/multi-channel CTS frames are not normally exchanged between the VHT STAs, in other words, when the multi-channel CTS transmission fails, the legacy STAs cannot recognize it, so they cannot perform resetting.
  • the present proposes a new format of the RTS frame and an RTS frame/CTS frame exchanging mechanism.
  • an RTS frame, a CTS frame, and a CTS-to-self frame are sequentially transmitted and received.
  • the RTS frame and the CTS frame exchanged in this case may be the multi-channel RTS frame and the multi-channel CTS frame transmitted via the respective subchannels as described above with reference to FIG. 3.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates a channel access procedure and a data frame transmission process according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
  • an originating STA 10 intends to transmit a data frame 440 to a destination STA 20.
  • the originating STA 10 may be called by other names such as source STA, resource, RTS transmitter, transmitter, and the like, and the destination STA 20 may be called by other names such as recipient, receiver, CTS transmitter.
  • a 11ac STA 30 is a VHT STA supporting IEEE 802.11ac standard and is located in the vicinity of the originating STA 10.
  • the presence of an STA_A near an STA_B means that the STA_A is present within the coverage of the STA_B. Namely, when the STA_A is located within the coverage in which the STA_A can receive a frame transmitted by the STA_B, it is expressed such that the STA_A is present near the STA_B.
  • 11a/11n/11ac STAs 40 are STA(s) located near the destination STA 20.
  • the STAs 40 may be legacy STAs supporting the IEEE 802.11 a/n standard or VHT STAs supporting the IEEE 802.11ac standard.
  • 11a & 11n STAs 50 may be STAs located near the originating STA 10, which are IEEE 802.11 legacy STAs.
  • the STAs 30 may be VHT STAs located in the vicinity of the originating STA 10
  • the STAs 50 are legacy STAs located in the vicinity of the originating STA 10.
  • the STAs 40 are STAs located in the vicinity of the destination STA 20.
  • the STAs 40 may be legacy STAs or VHT STAs.
  • the STAs 40 may be located outside the coverage of the originating STA 10.
  • the originating STA 10 transmits an RTS frame 410.
  • the RTS frame 410 includes a duration field (duration1) for NAV setting of the STAs 50 near the originating STA 10 and a duration field (duration2) for NAV setting of the STAs 30 near the originating STA 10.
  • the STAs 50 receive the RTS frame 410 and set the NAV until such time as a CTS-to-self frame 430 is transmitted based on the duration1.
  • the STAs 30 receive the RTS frame 410 and set the NAV based on the duration2.
  • the duration2 may be a period required for the originating STA 10 to complete the entire transmission.
  • the duration2 may be a TXOP (transmission opportunity) period obtained by the originating STA 10 from an enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) procedure.
  • EDCA enhanced distributed channel access
  • the destination STA 20 Upon receiving the RTS frame 410, the destination STA 20 transmits a CTS frame 420.
  • a duration field (duration3) of the CTS frame 420 may be used for NAV setting of the STAs 40.
  • the duration3 may be set as a time obtained by subtracting an SIFS (short interframe space) and a CTS frame transmission time from the duration2.
  • the originating STA 10 transmits the CTS-to-self frame 430.
  • the CTS-to-self frame 430 is a CTS frame in which an RA field is set as a MAC address of the originating STA.
  • the CTS-to-self frame 430 can recognize both legacy STA and VHT STA.
  • a duration field (duration4) to be used in the CTS-to-self frame 430 may be set as a time obtained by subtracting the SIFS and CTS-to-self frame transmission time from the duration3.
  • the STAs 50 may receive the CTS-to-self frame 430 and set the NAV based on the duration4.
  • the originating STA 10 transmits a data frame 440 and receives a reception acknowledgement response ACK frame 450 from the destination STA 20.
  • the originating STA 10 cannot recognize the RTS frame 410 proposed by the present invention as the conventional RTS frame, it can perform NAV setting for virtual carrier sensing (CS) and collision prevention. Namely, the RTS frame 410 newly proposed by the present invention and the backward compatibility of the data transmission method can be guaranteed.
  • CS virtual carrier sensing
  • the originating STA 10 may exchange the conventional RTS frame and CTS frame which can be recognized by the legacy STAs, instead of transmitting the CTS-to-self frame 430.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates an example of a WLAN system environment according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
  • a circle indicated by a solid line denotes the coverage of an AP 500 and a circle indicated by a dotted line denotes the coverage of an STA1 510.
  • a signal transmitted by the AP 500 may be received by an STA present within the coverage indicated by the solid line, while an STA located outside the coverage cannot receive the signal transmitted by the AP 500.
  • STA1 510 and STA2 520 are VHT STAs
  • STA3 530 and STA4 540 are legacy STAs.
  • STA1 510, STA2 520, and STA4 540 are located within the coverage of the AP 500, while the STA3 530 are located outside the coverage of the AP 500.
  • FIG. 6 shows an example of a case in which a transmission of a CTS frames fails in the environment of FIG. 5.
  • the AP 500 wants to transmit a data frame (not shown) to the STA1 510.
  • the AP 500 exchanges an RTS frame and a CTS frame with the STA1 510 and transmits a CTS-to-self frame. Thereafter, the AP 500 transmits the data frame to the STA1 510 and receives an ACK frame, as a reception acknowledgement response, from the STA1 510.
  • the AP 500 transmits an RTS frame 610, a transmission of a CTS frame 620 of the STA1 510 fails.
  • a method for setting the NAV by a different STA when a transmission of the CTS frame 620 of the STA1 510 fails in the example of FIG. 6 will now be described.
  • the STA2 520 and the STA4 540 must be able to reset the NAV.
  • the STA3 530 located outside the coverage of the AP 500, cannot receive the RTS frame 610, and does not set the NAV because the CTS frame 620 is not transmitted.
  • the STA4 540 Upon receiving the RTS frame 610, the STA4 540 sets the NAV during the duration2, and thereafter, the STA4 540 may set the NAV or attempt channel accessing according to the state of the wireless medium (WM).
  • the STA2 520 may set the NAV based on the duration2, or afterward, when there is no frame transmission after 2xSIFT + CTS frame transmission time, the STA2 520 may reset the NAV.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates the operations of the AP and the STAs according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
  • the AP 50 intends to transmit a data frame 740 to the STA1 510.
  • the AP 500 exchanges an RTS frame 710 and a CTS frame 740 with the STA1 510 and transmits a CTS-to-self frame 730. Thereafter, the AP 500 transmits the data frame 740 to the STA1 510 and receives an ACK frame 750, as a reception acknowledgement response, from the STA1 510.
  • the STA2 520 is a VHT STA located within the coverage of the AP 500 but located outside the coverage of the STA1 510.
  • the STA2 520 can receive the RTS frame 710 and the CTS-to-self frame 730 transmitted by the AP 500 but cannot receive the CTS frame 720 transmitted by the STA1 510.
  • the RTS frame 710 has two duration fields.
  • the STA2 may set the NAV up to a point in time at which the AP 500 finishes a transmission (i.e., the point in time at which the ACK frame 750 is received).
  • the STA2 520 may set a NAV 715 of 4xSIFT+CTS frame transmission time+CTS-to-self frame transmission time+Data frame transmission time+ACK frame transmission time (duration2)
  • the STA4 540 may set the NAV 717 of 2xSIFT + CTS frame transmission time (duration1).
  • the STA2 520 may reset the NAV after 2xSIFT + CTS frame transmission time.
  • the NAV 715 in FIG. 7 shows the example.
  • the STA1 510 transmits the CTS frame 720.
  • the STA3 530 may set a NAV 725 based on the duration3 set in the duration field of the duration2 - (SIFT+CTS frame transmission time).
  • FIG. 8 illustrates another example of a method for transmitting a control frame and data according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
  • the embodiment of FIG. 8 is similar to that of FIG. 4, except that the transmission of CTS-to-self frame 430 is omitted.
  • the originating STA 10 transmits an RTS frame 810, and receives a CTS frame 820 from the destination STA 20 in response.
  • the RTS frame 810 includes two duration fields.
  • the duration1 set in the first duration field may be used for NAV setting of a legacy STA.
  • the duration2 set in the second duration field may be used for NAV setting of a VHT STA.
  • the duration3 set in the duration field of the CTS frame 820 may be used for NAV setting of an STA overhearing the CTS frame.
  • the STAs located within the coverage of the originating STA 10 may set a NAV based on the duration1 or duration2 of the RTS frame 810.
  • the VHT STAs e.g., VHT STAs 30
  • the legacy STAs e.g., legacy STAs 50
  • the difference between the embodiment of FIG. 8 and the embodiment of FIG. 4 will now be described.
  • the CTS-to-self frame which can be recognized even by the legacy STAs 50 is transmitted for the NAV setting of the legacy STAs 50.
  • the CTS-to-self frame can be also used for NAV resetting of the VHT STA as described above with reference to FIG. 7.
  • the example of FIG. 8 proposes a method for omitting the transmission of the CTS-to-self frame.
  • the originating STA 10 receives the CTS frame 820, and immediately transmits a data frame 840, without transmitting a CTS-to-self frame.
  • the data frame 840 is transmitted in the format which can be recognized even by the legacy STAs.
  • the data frame 840 is transmitted without being precoded so that the legacy STAs can recognize it. Accordingly, NAV setting of the legacy STA can be possible even without transmitting the CTS-to-self frame.
  • FIG. 8 shows an example of a NAV 845 setting of the legacy STAs 50. Namely, the legacy STAs can set NAV setting by using the duration information of the duration field included in the data frame 840, and if necessary, the VHT STA can also reset the NAV.
  • FIG. 9 illustrates another example of a method for transmitting a control frame and data according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
  • the data frame 840 in FIG. 8 is transmitted as a data block 940
  • an ACK frame 850 in FIG. 8 is transmitted as a block ACK (BA) 950.
  • a first data block (Data 1) may be transmitted in the form which can be recognized by a legacy STA, and the subsequent data blocks may be transmitted regardless of whether or not the legacy STA can recognize them or not.
  • the data blocks starting from the data 2 may be transmitted in the format for the VHT STA.
  • FIG. 10 illustrates an example of an RTS frame format proposed by the present invention.
  • a frame control field includes frame control information
  • an RA field includes a receiver address (RA) and a TA field includes a transmitter address (TA). These are the same as the RTS frame of the conventional IEEE 802.11 standard.
  • a duration1 field includes duration information used for NAV setting of a legacy STA, and the RTS frame 1000 proposed by the present invention further includes a control info frame 1010.
  • the control info field 1010 may include a bandwidth info subfield 1012 and a duration2 subfield 1014.
  • the bandwidth info subfield 1012 includes information indicating the bandwidth of a channel for transmitting a data frame.
  • the duration2 subfield 1014 includes the foregoing duration2 information and may be used for NAV setting of a VHT STA.
  • the RTS frame 1000 proposed by the present invention includes two duration fields; the duration1 field for a legacy STA, the duration2 field for a VHT STA.
  • the two duration fields may be included in various forms in the RTS frame.
  • the duration2 may be set as a period (e.g., TXOP time) until such time as a data transmission of an STA transmitting the RTS frame 1000 is finished.
  • An access category subfield may be further included in the control info field 1010, and FIG. 11 shows an example thereof.
  • the access category subfield 1116 in FIG. 11 includes access category information.
  • a channel bandwidth designated in the CTS frame is smaller than a channel bandwidth designated in the bandwidth info subfield 1112 of the control info field 1110 of the RTS frame (e.g., although 80 MHz is designated in the RTS, but 40 MHz is designated in the CTS)
  • time required for sending a packet having the same size is lengthened.
  • the access category subfield 1116 provides the access category information to thus allow for adjusting the time of TXOP.
  • FIG. 12 illustrates an example of a CTS frame format proposed by the present invention.
  • a CTS frame 1200 proposed by the present invention further includes a control info field 1210, compared with the conventional CTS frame.
  • the control info field 1210 includes a bandwidth info 1212 indicating a channel bandwidth available for a frame transmission.
  • the RTS frame formats and CTS frame formats illustrated in FIGS. 10 to 12 can be used in the exemplary embodiments of the present invention described above with reference to FIGS. 3 to 9.
  • FIG. 13 is a schematic block diagram of a wireless apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
  • a wireless apparatus 1300 may be an AP station or a non-AP station.
  • the wireless apparatus 1300 includes a processor 1310, a memory 1320, and an RF unit 1330.
  • the RF unit 1330 transmitting and receiving a radio signal, implements a physical layer of IEEE 802.11 standard.
  • the processor 1310 functionally connected to the RF unit 1330, implements a MAC layer and a physical layer of IEEE 802.11 standard.
  • the processor 1310 may generate the RTS frame or the CTS frame proposed by the present invention and transmit the generate RTS frame or the CTS frame to a counterpart STA via the RF unit 1330 to implement the foregoing channel access, the control frame transmission/reception and data transmission method.
  • the processor 1310 and/or the RF unit 1330 may include an ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit), a chip set, a logical circuit and/or a data processing device.
  • the memory 1320 may include a ROM (read-only memory), a RAM(random access memory), a flash memory, a memory card, a storage medium, and/or any other storage device.
  • the foregoing schemes may be implemented by modules (processes, functions, or the like) performing the foregoing functions.
  • the modules can be stored in the memory 1320 and executed by the processor 1310.
  • the memory 1320 may be provided within or outside the processor 1310, or may be connected to the processor 1310 by means of a well-known unit.

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La présente invention se rapporte à un procédé et à un appareil d'accès par canal dans un système de réseau local sans fil (WLAN). Un procédé d'accès par canal selon l'invention, exécuté par une station d'origine dans un système de réseau local sans fil (WLAN) via un canal multiple comprenant une pluralité de canaux secondaires consiste : à transmettre des trames RTS (demande de transmettre) à une station de destination via la pluralité de canaux secondaires, respectivement ; à recevoir des trames CTS (prêt à émettre) transmises par la station de destination via la pluralité de canaux secondaires en réponse aux trames RTS ; et à transmettre des données via les canaux secondaires au moyen desquels les trames CTS ont été reçues.
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