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- the present invention relates to wireless communications, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for receiving a frame.
- a plurality of STAs in a WLAN system may use a distributed coordination function (DCF) as a method for sharing a wireless medium.
- DCF is a channel access method based on carrier sensing multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA / CA).
- the STA when an STA operates under a DCF access environment, if the medium is not in use (ie, idle) for more than a DCF interframe space (DIFS) period, the STA may transmit a medium access control (MAC) that has imminent transmission. protocol data unit). If it is determined that the medium is in use by a carrier sensing mechanism, the STA may determine the size of a content window (CW) by a random backoff algorithm and perform a backoff procedure. The STA may select a random value in CW to perform a backoff procedure and determine a backoff time based on the selected random value.
- MAC medium access control
- the STA having the shortest backoff time among the plurality of STAs may access the medium and the remaining STAs stop the remaining backoff time and transmission of the STA accessing the medium is completed. You can wait until. After the frame transmission of the STA accessing the medium is completed, the remaining STAs may compete with the remaining backoff time to acquire transmission resources. In this manner, in an existing WLAN system, one of a plurality of STAs that want to access a channel performs communication with an AP by occupying all transmission resources.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for receiving a frame.
- a method for receiving a frame in a WLAN wherein an AP transmits an uplink transmission scheduling frame to a plurality of STAs.
- the method may include transmitting an acknowledgment frame to each of the plurality of STAs, wherein the uplink transmission scheduling program is performed.
- the frame includes uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) transmission STA information and UL MU transmission resource information, wherein the UL MU transmission STA information includes information indicating the plurality of STAs, and the UL MU transmission resource information Indicates a transmission resource of the uplink frame, and the adjustment information may include information for adjusting a resource for transmission of the uplink frame.
- UL uplink
- MU multi-user
- the AP is a radio frequency (RF) implemented to transmit or receive a radio signal
- RF radio frequency
- the processor transmits an uplink transmission scheduling frame to a plurality of STAs and schedules the uplink transmission from each of the plurality of STAs.
- the uplink transmission scheduling frame may include uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) transmission STA information and UL MU transmission resource information, and the UL MU.
- the transmission STA information includes information indicating the plurality of STAs, the UL MU transmission resource information indicates a transmission resource of the uplink frame, and the adjustment information adjusts a resource for transmission of the uplink frame. May contain information.
- Communication efficiency can be improved by receiving a plurality of frames on the overlapped time resources from the plurality of STAs.
- WLAN wireless local area network
- FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an interval between frames.
- FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a UL MU transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a UL MU transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a UL MU transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 6 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a UL MU transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 7 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a UL MU transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a UL MU transmission preset procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 9 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a UL MU transmission preset procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 10 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a UL MU transmission preset procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 11 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a PPDU format for transmission of a frame according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 12 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a sink PPDU and an NDP according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 13 is a block diagram illustrating a wireless device to which an embodiment of the present invention can be applied.
- WLAN wireless local area network
- BSS infrastructure basic service set
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- the WLAN system may include one or more infrastructure BSSs 100 and 105 (hereinafter, BSS).
- BSSs 100 and 105 are a set of APs and STAs such as an access point 125 and a STA1 (station 100-1) capable of successfully synchronizing and communicating with each other, and do not indicate a specific area.
- the BSS 105 may include one or more joinable STAs 105-1 and 105-2 to one AP 130.
- the BSS may include at least one STA, APs 125 and 130 for providing a distribution service, and a distribution system (DS) 110 for connecting a plurality of APs.
- STA STA
- APs 125 and 130 for providing a distribution service
- DS distribution system
- the distributed system 110 may connect several BSSs 100 and 105 to implement an extended service set (ESS) 140 which is an extended service set.
- ESS 140 may be used as a term indicating one network in which one or several APs 125 and 230 are connected through the distributed system 110.
- APs included in one ESS 140 may have the same service set identification (SSID).
- the portal 120 may serve as a bridge for connecting the WLAN network (IEEE 802.11) with another network (for example, 802.X).
- a network between the APs 125 and 130 and a network between the APs 125 and 130 and the STAs 100-1, 105-1 and 105-2 may be implemented. However, it may be possible to perform communication by setting up a network even between STAs without the APs 125 and 130.
- a network that performs communication by establishing a network even between STAs without APs 125 and 130 is defined as an ad-hoc network or an independent basic service set (BSS).
- FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an IBSS.
- the IBSS is a BSS operating in an ad-hoc mode. Since IBSS does not contain an AP, there is no centralized management entity. That is, in the IBSS, the STAs 150-1, 150-2, 150-3, 155-4, and 155-5 are managed in a distributed manner. In the IBSS, all STAs 150-1, 150-2, 150-3, 155-4, and 155-5 may be mobile STAs, and access to a distributed system is not allowed, thus making a self-contained network. network).
- a STA is any functional medium that includes medium access control (MAC) conforming to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standard and a physical layer interface to a wireless medium. May be used to mean both an AP and a non-AP STA (Non-AP Station).
- MAC medium access control
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- the STA may include a mobile terminal, a wireless device, a wireless transmit / receive unit (WTRU), a user equipment (UE), a mobile station (MS), a mobile subscriber unit ( It may also be called various names such as a mobile subscriber unit or simply a user.
- WTRU wireless transmit / receive unit
- UE user equipment
- MS mobile station
- UE mobile subscriber unit
- It may also be called various names such as a mobile subscriber unit or simply a user.
- An access point (AP) operating in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system may transmit data through the same time resource to each of a plurality of stations (STAs). If the transmission from the AP to the STA is called downlink transmission, the transmission of such an AP may be expressed in terms of DL MU transmission (or downlink multi-user transmission).
- the AP may perform DL MU transmission based on MU multiple input multiple output (MUMI), and this transmission may be expressed by the term DL MU MIMO transmission.
- the AP may perform DL MU transmission based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access (OFDMA), and this transmission may be expressed by the term DL MU OFDMA transmission.
- OFDMA orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access
- the AP may transmit a downlink frame to each of the plurality of STAs through each of the plurality of frequency resources on the overlapped time resources.
- the PPDU may be a data unit including a PPDU header and a physical layer service data unit (PDSU) (or MAC protocol data unit (MPDU)).
- the PPDU header may include a PHY header and a PHY preamble, and the PDSU (or MPDU) may include or indicate a frame.
- transmission from the STA to the AP may be referred to as uplink transmission, and transmission of data from the plurality of STAs to the AP on the same time resource is called UL MU transmission (or uplink multi-user transmission).
- UL MU transmission or uplink multi-user transmission
- the UL MU transmission may be supported in the WLAN system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
- Each of the PPDUs, frames, and data transmitted through uplink transmission may be expressed in terms of uplink PPDU, uplink frame, and uplink data.
- Uplink transmission by each of the plurality of STAs may be performed in a frequency domain or a spatial domain.
- different frequency resources may be allocated as uplink transmission resources for each of the plurality of STAs based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDMA).
- OFDMA orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
- Each of the plurality of STAs may transmit an uplink frame to the AP through different allocated frequency resources.
- the transmission method through these different frequency resources may be represented by the term UL MU OFDMA transmission method.
- a different space time stream (or spatial stream) is allocated to each of the plurality of STAs so that each of the plurality of STAs is mutually different.
- the uplink frame may be transmitted to the AP through another space-time stream.
- the transmission method through these different spatial streams may be represented by the term UL MU MIMO transmission method.
- FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an interval between frames.
- a time interval between two frames transmitted on a medium may be referred to as interframe space (IFS).
- IFS interframe space
- Priority of the STA occupying the wireless medium may be determined based on different lengths of IFS.
- Frames transmitted on the medium may be transmitted based on different lengths of IFS. For example, different IFSs can be used for the transmission of frames on the medium.
- SIFS short inter frame symbol
- RTS request to send
- CTS clear to send
- ACK acknowledgment
- FSF point coordination function
- PCF point coordination function
- DIFS used for frame transmission of an STA performing DCF based channel access.
- each IFS is as shown in Equations 1 to 3 below, and the numerical values in parentheses next to each parameter may be general numerical values for each parameter.
- the value of each parameter may vary depending on the capability or communication environment of the STA.
- Each equation is described in the 9.3.7 DCF timing relation of the IEEE P802.11-REVmcTM / D2.0 document published in October 2013, and the parameters used in each equation are IEEE P802.11-REVmcTM / D2.0 documents. 6.5.4 PLME-CHARACTERISTICS.confirm in and the 6.5 PLME SAP interface in IEEE Std 802.11ac TM -2013.
- SIFS (16 ⁇ s) aRxRFDelay (0.5) + aRxPLCPDelay (12.5) + aMACProcessingDelay (1 or ⁇ 2) + aRxTxTurnaroundTime ( ⁇ 2)
- aRxTxTurnaroundTime aTxPLCPDelay (1) + aRxTxSwitchTime (0.25) + aTxRampOnTime (0.25) + aTxRFDelay (0.5)
- SIFS may be a value in consideration of a radio frequency (RF) stage delay, a delay of a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) stage, a medium access control (MAC) processing delay, and a transition time from Rx to Tx.
- RF radio frequency
- PLCP physical layer convergence protocol
- MAC medium access control
- SIFS is a time when the first symbol of the transmission frame of the STA is transmitted to the medium (or air interface) from the time of receiving the last symbol of the STA's received frame from the medium (or air interface) Can be until.
- PIFS (25 ⁇ s) aSIFSTime + aSlotTime
- aSlotTime aCCATime ( ⁇ 4) + aRxTxTurnaroundTime ( ⁇ 2) + aAirPropagationTime ( ⁇ 1) + aMACProcessingDelay ( ⁇ 2)
- aAirProgationTime may be twice the propagation time (or propagation delay) for signal transmission on the maximum distance between the slot-synchronized STAs of the longest distance in the communication range.
- aAirProgationTime may be a value of 1 ⁇ s or less.
- the radio wave may be propagated at 300 m / ⁇ s.
- DIFS distributed (coordination function) interframe space
- 34 ⁇ s aSIFSTime + 2 ⁇ aSlotTime
- values of SIFS, PIFS, and DIFS may vary depending on the capability of the STA and / or the wireless communication environment.
- SIFS may have a value of up to 16 ⁇ s
- PIFS may have a value of at least 16 ⁇ s and up to 25 ⁇ s, depending on the capability of the STA and / or the wireless communication environment.
- FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a UL MU transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- an AP may transmit information about a resource (eg, a space-time stream or a frequency resource) for transmitting an uplink frame to a plurality of STAs and transmit timing of the uplink frame. Information must be sent.
- a resource eg, a space-time stream or a frequency resource
- the AP includes a plurality of STAs based on information on whether there is uplink data pending in the STA included in (or combined with) the BSS, and information on channel conditions between the STA and the AP included in (or combined with) the BSS.
- the UL MU transmission can be scheduled.
- FIG 3 illustrates a method of allocating an uplink transmission resource to each of a plurality of STAs of an AP and receiving an uplink frame from each of the plurality of STAs.
- the AP may transmit a resource request announcement (RRA) frame 300 to the plurality of STAs.
- RRA resource request announcement
- the RRA frame 300 may be used to trigger (or announce) a request for uplink transmission resource to each of the plurality of STAs.
- the RRA frame 300 may be transmitted based on broadcast, multicast or unicast. A specific transmission method of the RRA frame 300 will be described later.
- Each of the plurality of STAs may transmit resource request (RR) frames 310 and 320 to the AP in response to the RRA frame 300.
- the RR frames 310 and 320 may be used to request uplink transmission resources from the AP.
- the RR frames 310 and 320 may include at least one of code division multiplexing (CDM), frequency division multiplexing (FDM), time division multiplexing (TDM), and space division multiplexing (SDM) on the transmission interval of the RR frames 310 and 320. It may be transmitted by each of the plurality of STAs based on the multiplexing method. The transmission method of the RR frames 310 and 320 will be described later in detail.
- the AP receiving the RR frames 310 and 320 may transmit a resource assignment (RA) frame 330 to the plurality of STAs.
- the RA frame 330 may be a frame for allocating (or scheduling) uplink transmission resources to each of the plurality of STAs.
- Each of the plurality of STAs receiving the RA frame 330 may transmit an uplink frame (eg, an uplink data frame, an uplink management frame) 350 and 360 through the allocated uplink transmission resource.
- an uplink frame eg, an uplink data frame, an uplink management frame
- the RR frames 310 and 320 may be transmitted based on the information on the transmission timing included in the RRA frame 300. Can be.
- the RA frame 330 includes information on the transmission timing of the uplink frames 350 and 360
- the uplink frames 350 and 360 may provide information about the transmission timing included in the RA frame 330. Can be transmitted on a
- the interval between frames may be one of the previously defined SIFS, DIFS or PIFS.
- SIFS, DIFS, or PIFS is a value that may vary depending on the STA's capability or channel condition.
- the interframe space may be a newly defined fixed size value (FIFS) for UL MU transmission.
- FIFS fixed size value
- the AP may receive a plurality of uplink frames within a certain error range.
- the spacing between frames may be different. For example, an interval between the frames of the RRA frame 300 and the RR frames 310 and 320 may be SIFS, and an interval between the frames 350 and 360 of the RA frame 330 and the uplink frame may be a fixed size.
- the transmission timing of the RA frame 330 is not separately defined after the transmission of the RR frames 310 and 320, and the AP competes with another STA to transmit the RA frame 330. Based channel access may be performed.
- FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a UL MU transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 a UL MU transmission procedure using an RRA frame transmitted in a broadcast manner is disclosed.
- the AP may transmit the RRA frame 400 in a broadcast method.
- the RRA frame 400 may be a newly defined frame for triggering (or notifying) a resource request.
- the RRA frame 400 may be a beacon frame including an additional control field. That is, a beacon frame may include a control field for triggering a resource request, and a beacon frame including this control field may be used as the RRA frame 400.
- a beacon frame may include a control field for triggering a resource request, and a beacon frame including this control field may be used as the RRA frame 400.
- a plurality of STAs transmitting RR frames and uplink frames are assumed, one STA may transmit RR frames and uplink frames, and such embodiments are also included in the scope of the present invention.
- Each of the plurality of STAs may transmit the RR frames 410 and 420 to the AP after receiving the RRA frame 400.
- the IFS between the RR frames 410 and 420 and the RRA frame 400 may be SIFS, DIFS, PIFS, FIFS, or the like.
- the RR frames 410 and 420 may be transmitted by each of the at least a plurality of STAs based on a multiplexing method of at least one of CDM, FDM, TDM, or SDM.
- one STA may transmit the RR frame 1 410 to the AP based on the orthogonal code 1 of the plurality of orthogonal codes.
- the other STA may transmit the RR frame 2 420 to the AP based on the orthogonal code 2 of the plurality of orthogonal codes.
- each of the plurality of STAs may transmit RR frames 410 and 420 to the AP on the overlapped time resource.
- n orthogonal codes of length n may exist.
- Each of the plurality of STAs may transmit the RR frames 410 and 420 using one of n orthogonal codes.
- one STA may transmit the RR frames 410 and 420 based on one subband among a plurality of subbands (frequency resources).
- the entire transmission band may include a plurality of subbands, and each of the plurality of STAs may transmit RR frames 410 and 420 on different subbands on overlapping time resources.
- each of the plurality of STAs may transmit the RR frames 410 and 420 through overlapping frequency resources through different time resources.
- each of the plurality of STAs is a different space time stream (or spatial stream) generated based on a precoding matrix (or vector) on overlapping time resources.
- spatial stream may transmit RR frames 410 and 420.
- RR frames 410 and 420 may be transmitted based on at least two multiplexing methods of CDM, FDM, TDM, and SDM.
- FDM and CDM may be used for transmission of RR frames 410 and 420.
- FDM and CDM may be used for transmission of RR frames 410 and 420.
- n subcarriers into subbands (or groups) including f subcarriers and applying an n / f length orthogonal code for each subband, each of the plurality of STAs overlaps based on FDM and CDM.
- the RR frames 410 and 420 may be transmitted on the allocated time resource.
- Specific information may correspond to an orthogonal code, a frequency resource, a time resource, and a space-time stream resource selected for transmission of the RR frames 410 and 420. That is, the orthogonal code, frequency resource, time resource, and space-time stream resource selected for transmission of the RR frames 410 and 420 may implicitly transmit specific information.
- n orthogonal codes are grouped by q and a grouped orthogonal code group is used for transmission of RR frames of each of a plurality of STAs.
- n / q STAs may transmit RR frames 410 and 420 based on different orthogonal codes.
- each of the q orthogonal codes included in the orthogonal code group may correspond (or match) to each of information corresponding to log 2 q bits.
- orthogonal code 1 corresponds to 00
- orthogonal code 2 corresponds to 01
- orthogonal code 3 to 10
- Information corresponding to the orthogonal code 4 may be matched with information corresponding to 11. That is, information corresponding to log 2 q bits implicitly is implicitly according to whether or not the STA selects an orthogonal code among q orthogonal codes included in the orthogonal code group for transmission of the RR frames 410 and 420. Can be sent.
- n subbands are grouped by q and the grouped subband groups are used for transmission of RR frames 410 and 420 of each of the plurality of STAs.
- n / q STAs may transmit RR frames 410 and 420 based on different subbands.
- each of the q subbands included in the subband group may correspond to (or match) each of information corresponding to log 2 q bits. That is, information corresponding to log 2 q bits may be implicitly transmitted according to which subband among q subbands included in the subband group for transmission of the RR frames 410 and 420. have.
- Information implicitly transmitted based on an orthogonal code, frequency resource, time resource, or space-time stream resource selected for transmission of the RR frames 410 and 420 may be configured for scheduling of UL MU transmission of the AP (eg, UL MU transmission). Information may be selected).
- information transmitted implicitly based on an orthogonal code, frequency resource, time resource, or space-time stream resource selected for transmission of the RR frames 410 and 420 may include an access category (AC), a buffer status, and a buffer status. It may be information about a backoff count, a preferred bandwidth, and the like.
- only some of the plurality of symbols (OFDM symbols) of the RR PPDU carrying (or containing) the RR frames 410 and 420 may be used for resource request of the STA.
- OFDM symbols For example, some OFDM symbols of a plurality of OFDM symbols for transmission of the RR PPDU may be used according to an access category (AC) of uplink data (or uplink data frames) pending in the STA.
- the remaining unused symbols may contain null data.
- the STA may determine whether to transmit the RR frame according to AC of uplink data (or uplink data frame) pending in the STA.
- the RRA frame 400 may trigger transmission of the RR frames 410 and 420 of only the STA having the pending uplink data corresponding to a specific AC (eg, VO (voice)).
- the RRA frame 400 may include information for triggering transmission of RR frames 410 and 420 of only an STA having pending uplink data corresponding to AC_VO.
- transmission and reception intervals of the RRA frame 400 and the RA frame 430 may be separately set for each AC of uplink data.
- the AP may not know about the identification information of the STA that transmitted the RR frames 410 and 420.
- the RR frames 410 and 420 may be transmitted based on a specific orthogonal code / specific time resource / specific frequency resource / specific space-time stream (hereinafter, referred to as a specific transmission resource) by the STA.
- the specific transmission resource may include additional information as described above (AC, buffer status, backoff count, preferred band, etc.).
- the AP may transmit the RA frame 430 to the STA using additional information transmitted based on the specific transmission resource and / or the specific transmission resource. For example, when the STA transmits the RR frame 1 410 generated based on the orthogonal code 1, the AP generates the RA frame 430 based on the orthogonal code 1 in response to the RR frame 1 410. Can be transmitted.
- the RA frame 430 may include information on transmission resources for transmission of the uplink frames 450 and 460 of each of the plurality of STAs. Each of the plurality of STAs may transmit the uplink frames 450 and 460 through transmission resources allocated based on the RA frame 430.
- the AP may request additional information request frame (or signal) to transmit additional information for transmitting the RA frame 430 to the STA that transmitted the RR frames 410 and 420 based on a specific transmission resource before the transmission of the RA frame 430. ) Can be sent.
- the AP may transmit the RA frame 430 to the STA after receiving the additional information request frame.
- the additional information request frame may include information for requesting identification information of the STA that transmitted the RR frames 410 and 420 based on a specific transmission resource.
- the RR frames 410 and 420 may be divided into specific transmission resource intervals and information intervals.
- the specific transmission resource section may be a section transmitted based on a specific code based on the CDM
- the information section may be a section not using the specific transmission resource.
- the first OFDM symbol of the RR PPDU that carries the RR frames 410 and 420 may be transmitted based on n subcarriers, and a separate orthogonal code may be applied to the n subcarriers.
- the second OFDM symbol of the RR PPDU may transmit a symbol generated based on a modulation method of binary phase shift keying (BPSK) and a code rate 1/2.
- BPSK binary phase shift keying
- the second OFDM symbol of the RR PPDU may be decoded by performing channel estimation based on the information transmitted on the first OFDM symbol.
- the AP may schedule UL MU transmission of the plurality of STAs based on the information transmitted on the second OFDM symbol.
- the information transmitted on the second OFDM symbol is for scheduling UL MU transmission of a plurality of STAs of the AP such as an association identifier (AID) of the STA, a request data size (size of the pending uplink data), or a recommended modulation and coding scheme (MCS). It may include information for.
- AID association identifier
- MCS modulation and coding scheme
- Time synchronization may not be synchronized between a plurality of STAs transmitting the RR frames 410 and 420.
- the duration (or length) of the OFDM symbol for transmitting the RR frames 410 and 420 may be set to 2 times or 4 times that of other frames.
- the length of the GI (or CP) on the OFDM symbol becomes long and an error between reception timings of the RR frames 410 and 420 may be within the GI interval.
- the AP may perform decoding on the RR frames 410 and 420 transmitted from each of the plurality of STAs.
- the effective symbol duration may be maintained among the OFDM symbol durations, and only the GI length may be lengthened.
- the AP receiving the RR frames 410 and 420 may correct an error in the reception timing of the uplink frames 450 and 460 transmitted by each of the plurality of STAs. That is, the AP may determine reception timing errors of a plurality of STAs to transmit the uplink frames 450 and 460 determined based on the RR frames 410 and 420. The AP may determine a time-advanced value (or a transmission timing offset) of each of the plurality of STAs based on the reception timing error of the plurality of STAs, and transmit the same to the plurality of STAs. A time-advanced value (or transmission timing offset) of each of the plurality of STAs may be included in the RA frame 430.
- FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a UL MU transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 5 a UL MU transmission procedure using an RRA frame transmitted in a multicast manner is disclosed.
- the AP may transmit the RRA frame 500 in a multicast method.
- the RRA frame 500 transmitted by the multicast method may be received by a plurality of STAs.
- the RRA frame 500 transmitted by the multicast method may include information indicating a plurality of STAs to receive the RRA frame 500 (the MAC address of the STA, the AID of the STA, etc.).
- the RR frames 510 and 520 may be transmitted by each of the plurality of STAs based on a multiplexing method of at least one of CDM, FDM, TDM, or SDM.
- the RRA frame 500 may include information indicating transmission resources for transmission of the RR frames 510 and 520 by each of a plurality of STAs receiving the multicast RRA frame 500.
- the information indicating the transmission resource may indicate at least one of an orthogonal code, a time resource, a frequency resource, and a space-time stream for transmission of the RR frames 510 and 520.
- Each of the plurality of STAs indicated based on the RRA frame 500 may transmit the RR frames 510 and 520 through the indicated transmission resource based on the RRA frame 500.
- the AP receives the RR frames 510 and 520 from each of the plurality of STAs, and obtains identification information of each of the plurality of STAs that have transmitted the RR frames 510 and 520 based on the transmission resources of the RR frames 510 and 520. Can be.
- the RR frames 510 and 520 may include identification information of the STA indicating the STA that transmitted the RR frames 510 and 520.
- the AP may determine resource allocation information for transmission of uplink frames 550 and 560 of each of the plurality of STAs based on the plurality of RR frames 510 and 520 received from the plurality of STAs.
- the AP may transmit the RA frame 530 including the resource allocation information determined by the plurality of STAs.
- Each of the plurality of STAs receiving the RA frame 530 may transmit the uplink frames 550 and 560 to the AP through a transmission resource allocated based on the RA frame 530.
- FIG. 6 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a UL MU transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a procedure for transmitting uplink frames of a plurality of STAs is disclosed based on an RRA frame transmitted in a unicast manner.
- the AP may transmit the RRA frame to each of the plurality of STAs in a unicast method. For example, the AP may designate STA1 based on the RRA frame1 600 to trigger transmission of the RR frame1 610 by the STA1 and receive the RR frame1 610 from the STA1.
- the AP may designate STA2 based on the RRA frame2 620 to trigger transmission of the RR frame2 620 by the STA2 and receive the RR frame2 630 from the STA2.
- the AP may designate STA3 based on the RRA frame3 640 to trigger transmission of the RR frame3 650 by the STA3 and receive the RR frame3 650 from the STA3.
- the RR frame When the RRA frame is transmitted by the unicast method and the RR frame is received, the RR frame need not be transmitted based on different orthogonal codes, frequency resources, and space-time streams.
- the RRA frame and the RR frame are not newly defined, but the downlink frame and the uplink frame defined on the existing WLAN may be used for the RRA frame and the RR frame based procedure.
- the downlink frame and the uplink frame defined on the existing WLAN are information (for example, information for triggering a resource request and information for requesting a resource) for performing the above-described procedure based on the RRA frame and the RR frame. ) May be included. This is also applied to the above-described Fig. 4 and 5 can be used for the downlink frame and the uplink frame defined on the existing WLAN without newly defining the RRA frame and RR frame.
- the transmission of the RRA frame and the RR frame may be performed periodically.
- each of the plurality of STAs transmits an RR frame to the AP according to a transmission period of the beacon frame, and transmits an uplink from the AP.
- Transmission resources may be allocated.
- FIG. 7 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a UL MU transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 7 a method of performing an adjustment procedure for UL MU transmission of a plurality of STAs is disclosed.
- the AP schedules UL MU transmissions of a plurality of STAs based on an uplink transmission scheduling frame (or UL MU scheduling frame) 700 and adjusts for transmission of a plurality of STAs and UL MUs.
- an uplink frame may be received from a plurality of STAs.
- each of the plurality of STAs may transmit a sync frame (or sync PPDU) 710 including a sync signal.
- the AP may transmit an uplink transmission scheduling frame to the plurality of STAs and receive a sink PPDU in response to the uplink transmission scheduling frame from each of the plurality of STAs.
- the sync PPDU 710 may be used for generation of coordination information (eg, at least one of time coordination information, frequency coordination information, and power coordination information) by the AP.
- the time adjustment information may be information for adjusting transmission timing of an uplink frame 730 of each of the plurality of STAs.
- the frequency adjustment information may be information for adjusting a transmission frequency band of the uplink frame 730 of each of the plurality of STAs.
- the power adjustment information may be information for adjusting the transmission power of the uplink frame 730 of each of the plurality of STAs.
- Such adjustment information may be included in an adjustment frame 720 transmitted by the AP and transmitted.
- a plurality of STAs that receive the coordination information through the coordination frame 720 need coordination a plurality of STAs may transmit time resources, frequency resources, and power for transmission of the uplink frame based on the coordination information. Adjustments can be made to at least one of (power).
- the coordination procedure based on the sync PPDU 710 and the coordination frame 720 may be performed after the transmission of the uplink transmission scheduling frame 700. Accordingly, the STA may have time to process (or configure) the uplink frame 730 to be transmitted to the AP after receiving the uplink transmission scheduling frame 700.
- Each of the plurality of STAs may transmit the uplink frame 730 to the AP based on the steering information.
- the AP may receive an uplink frame 730 transmitted based on the steering information by each of the plurality of STAs on the overlapped time resource.
- the coordination information may be information for coordinating a resource for transmission of the uplink frame.
- the AP may transmit an ACK frame (or block ACK frame) 740 for the uplink frame 730.
- the uplink transmission scheduling frame 700 includes a plurality of STAs for performing uplink transmission based on UL MU transmission STA information and UL MU transmission for indicating a plurality of STAs for performing uplink transmission based on the UL MU transmission. It may include UL MU transmission resource information for the transmission resources allocated to each.
- the UL MU transmission STA information may include identification information or MAC address for indicating each of the plurality of STAs or may include group identifier information for indicating the plurality of STAs.
- the UL MU transmission resource information may include information on subbands (or subcarriers, frequency resources) to be used for transmission of the uplink frame 730 of each of the plurality of STAs when UL MU OFDMA transmission is performed.
- the UL MU transmission resource information may include information about a space-time stream to be used for transmission of the uplink frame 730 of each of the plurality of STAs.
- the UL MU transmission resource information corresponds to a frequency resource to be used for transmission of the uplink frame 730 of each of the plurality of STAs when the transmission of the uplink frame 730 of each of the plurality of STAs is performed based on FDM, CDM, or TDM.
- Information about the orthogonal code, or information about the time resource is performed based on FDM, CDM, or TDM.
- the uplink transmission scheduling frame 700 may further include information on an MCS, a coding rate, to be used for transmission of the uplink frame 730 by each of the plurality of STAs.
- the uplink transmission scheduling frame 700 includes legacy portions (e.g., L-STF, L-LTF, and L-SIG) and non-legacy portions (e.g., HE-LTF, HE-SIG, HE-STF, etc.). It may include.
- the legacy STA that does not support UL MU transmission receives the legacy portion of the uplink transmission scheduling frame 700 and includes information for setting a network allocation vector (NAV) included in the legacy portion (eg, duration information (or length information). Etc.) can be set based on the NAV.
- NAV network allocation vector
- the sync PPDU (or sync signal) 710 and the coordination frame 720 include time coordination, frequency coordination, and the like for transmission of the uplink frame 730 of a plurality of STAs that transmit the uplink frame 730 through UL MU transmission. Can be used for power adjustment.
- Each of the plurality of STAs may transmit the sink PPDU 710 through the indicated transmission resource based on the uplink transmission scheduling frame 700.
- each of the plurality of STAs transmits the sync PPDU 710 to a frequency resource (eg, subband) allocated for transmission of the uplink frame 730, an allocated space-time stream, an assigned orthogonal code, or an allocated time resource. Can be sent on the frequency resource (eg, subband) allocated for transmission of the uplink frame 730, an allocated space-time stream, an assigned orthogonal code, or an allocated time resource. Can be sent on the
- transmission resources of the sink PPDU 710 transmitted by each of the plurality of STAs may be allocated based on the order of the plurality of STAs indicated in the UL MU transmission STA information of the uplink transmission scheduling frame 700.
- the UL MU transmission STA information of the uplink transmission scheduling frame 700 may sequentially indicate STA1, STA2, and STA3.
- the STA1 transmits the first sync PPDU generated based on the orthogonal code 1 (or the sequence 1)
- the STA2 transmits the orthogonal code 2 (or the sequence 2).
- the STA3 may transmit the third sync PPDU generated based on the orthogonal code 3 (or sequence 3).
- the sink PPDU 710 is transmitted based on TDM, FDM, UL MU OFDMA, or UL MU MIMO, as in the method of transmitting an uplink frame, and the transmission resources of the sink PPDU 710 of each of the plurality of STAs are UL MU. It may be determined according to the order of each of the plurality of STAs indicated based on the transmission STA information.
- the sync PPDU 710 may include only the PPDU header (PHY header and PHY preamble) including the legacy portion and the non-legacy portion, or may include only the non-legacy portion (HE-LTF, HE-SIG, HE-STF).
- the sync PPDU may not include legacy portions (L-LTF, L-SIG, L-STF) and MAC frames of the PPDU header.
- the steering frame 720 may be transmitted to one STA based on DL SU transmission or transmitted to a plurality of STAs based on DL MU transmission. For example, when there is one STA to be coordinated, the coordination frame 720 may be transmitted to one STA, and when there are a plurality of STAs to be coordinated, the coordination frame 720 may be transmitted to a plurality of STAs.
- the coordination frame 720 may include information indicating at least one STA to receive the coordination frame 720 or the coordination frame 720 includes all of a plurality of STAs that receive the uplink transmission scheduling frame 700. It is assumed that the steering frame 720 is received and may not include information to indicate the STA that received the steering frame 720.
- the adjustment frame 720 may include at least one of time adjustment information, time adjustment information, frequency adjustment information, and power adjustment information.
- the time adjustment information may include information for adjusting the transmission timing of the uplink frame 730 of at least one of the plurality of STAs to transmit the uplink frame 730.
- the frequency adjustment information may include information for adjusting the transmission frequency band of the uplink frame 730 of at least one of the plurality of STAs to transmit the uplink frame 730.
- the power adjustment information may include information for adjusting the transmission power of the uplink frame 730 of at least one of the plurality of STAs to transmit the uplink frame 730.
- the adjustment frame 720 may include time adjustment information, time adjustment information, frequency adjustment information, and power adjustment information, as well as other additional information for transmission of the uplink frame 730.
- the PPDU header of the coordination PPDU carrying (or including) the coordination frame 720 may include only the non-legacy portion (eg, HE-LTF, HE-SIG, HE-STF, etc.) without the legacy portion.
- the non-legacy portion eg, HE-LTF, HE-SIG, HE-STF, etc.
- the coordination procedure may be performed before the transmission of the uplink transmission scheduling frame 700.
- the uplink transmission scheduling frame 700 may include at least one information of time adjustment information, frequency adjustment information, and power adjustment information to be transmitted to the plurality of STAs.
- the AP may generate coordination information based on an uplink frame or a sync PPDU transmitted from each of a plurality of STAs and transmit coordination information through the uplink transmission scheduling frame 700.
- the uplink frame 730 may be transmitted without the coordination procedure. If only adjustments to some of the time adjustments, the frequency adjustments, and the power adjustments are needed, adjustments can be made to the parts requiring adjustments. For example, if the length of the CP used in the uplink frame 730 is greater than the difference in reception timing between the plurality of uplink frames 730 transmitted based on the UL MU transmission (that is, the CP (or GI) length). If the misalignment can be compensated), the procedure for correcting the time difference (or time adjustment information) can be omitted.
- a plurality of guard bands of frequency resources for transmitting uplink frames 730 allocated to each of the plurality of STAs are sufficient.
- the procedure for correcting the difference (or frequency offset) between frequency resources allocated to each STA may be omitted.
- the plurality of STAs may transmit the uplink frame 730.
- the uplink PPDU carrying the uplink frame 730 may not include legacy parts (L-STF, L-SIG, L-LTF).
- the uplink PPDU may include a legacy part, and the legacy part may be transmitted based on a single frequency network (SFN).
- SFN single frequency network
- the uplink frame 730 may not include the SIG field including the control information about the configuration of the uplink frame, or some of the existing control information included in the SIG field may be used for other purposes.
- the uplink transmission scheduling frame 700 includes information on the uplink frame 730 (eg, control information about a configuration method of the uplink frame), the uplink is included in the SIG of the uplink frame 730. Some control information about the frame 730 may not be included.
- the ACK frame (or block ACK frame) 740 may be transmitted to the plurality of STAs in response to the uplink frame 730.
- the ACK frame 740 is transmitted in response to the uplink frame 730, but the block ACK frame may be transmitted in response to the uplink frame.
- the RA field of the ACK frame 740 may include identification information (AID or partial AID) of a plurality of STAs that have performed UL MU transmission.
- the ACK frame 740 may include ACK information (or signal) (or NACK information (or signal)) for each of the plurality of uplink frames 730 transmitted.
- ACK information (or NACK information) for each transmitted uplink frame 730 may be transmitted based on a bitmap.
- the ACK signal may indicate success of decoding for the uplink frame, and the NACK signal may indicate failure of decoding for the uplink frame.
- the ACK frame 740 may not include the ACK signal for the uplink frame that fails to decode.
- the ACK frame 740 may be transmitted to a plurality of STAs based on DL MU transmission (DL MU OFDMA transmission or DL MU MIMO transmission).
- DL MU OFDMA transmission or DL MU MIMO transmission When a plurality of ACK frames 740 are transmitted based on DL MU transmission, each of the plurality of ACK frames 740 may be transmitted by the AP through the same transmission resource as the transmission resource of the uplink frame 730.
- Each of the plurality of ACK frames 740 transmitted based on the DL MU transmission may include an ACK / NACK signal for each of the plurality of uplink frames 730.
- the ACK frame 740 may be transmitted based on DL SU transmission to the plurality of STAs.
- the ACK frame 740 transmitted based on the DL SU transmission may include ACK / NACK signals for a plurality of uplink frames.
- the specific STA may receive the ACK frame 740 transmitted based on the DL SU transmission and may obtain the ACK / NACK signal for the uplink frame transmitted by the specific STA among the ACK / NACK signals for the plurality of uplink frames. have.
- the ACK frame 740 is a plurality of transmissions of the uplink frame 730 sequentially using DL SU transmission based on information indicating each of a plurality of STAs to perform UL MU transmission included in the uplink transmission scheduling frame. May be transmitted to each of the STAs.
- the information indicating the plurality of STAs to transmit the uplink frame 730 included in the uplink transmission scheduling frame 700 may sequentially indicate identification information of the STA1, the STA2, the STA3, and the STA4.
- the AP may sequentially transmit the ACK frame 740 based on the DL SU.
- ACK frame 1 for uplink frame transmitted by STA1 ACK frame 2 for uplink frame transmitted by STA2, ACK frame 3 for uplink frame transmitted by STA3, and uplink transmitted by STA4.
- ACK frame 4 for the link frame may be sequentially transmitted.
- the ACK frame 740 transmitted based on the DL MU or DL SU may include identification information for each of the plurality of STAs that transmitted the uplink frame 730. That is, the AP may transmit ACK information (or NACK information) for each of the plurality of uplink frames 730 transmitted by each of the plurality of STAs to each of the plurality of STAs based on the identification information.
- the ACK PPDU carrying the ACK frame 740 may not include legacy portions (L-STF, L-SIG, L-LTF).
- the STA that has received the NACK signal for the transmitted uplink frame or has not received the ACK frame (or ACK signal) for the transmitted uplink frame may perform retransmission for the uplink frame.
- the AP may transmit information on a reason for the failure of the reception (or decoding) to the STA.
- the NACK signal for a specific uplink frame is included in the ACK frame 740
- information on a failure reason for reception (or decoding) of a specific uplink frame may be included in the ACK frame 740.
- the ACK frame 740 when the ACK frame 740 includes a NACK signal for a specific uplink frame, information for retransmission of the specific uplink frame may be included in the ACK frame 740. After transmission of the ACK frame 740, the uplink frame may be retransmitted through UL MU transmission.
- the information for retransmission of a specific uplink frame included in the ACK frame 740 may include resource allocation information for retransmission of a specific uplink frame, information on extension of a TXOP for retransmission of a specific uplink frame, and the like. .
- the information for retransmission of a specific uplink frame included in the ACK frame 740 may include time / frequency / power adjustment information for UL MU transmission.
- channel state information or buffer state information of the STA may be transmitted to the AP.
- the channel state information may include communication state information for transmission and reception of a frame between the STA and the AP.
- the buffer status information includes information about uplink data to be transmitted by the STA (e.g., the format (or content) of the data, the category of the data (e.g., access category), and information about the size of the pending uplink data) For example, data size accumulated in a queue, queue size, etc., information about transmission priority of the pending uplink data (eg, backoff count for transmission of uplink data of the STA, competition) Window value) may be expressed as a term of a UL MU transmission preset procedure.
- information about uplink data to be transmitted by the STA e.g., the format (or content) of the data, the category of the data (e.g., access category), and information about the size of the pending uplink data
- data size accumulated in a queue, queue size, etc. information about transmission priority of the pending uplink data (eg, backoff count for transmission of uplink data of the STA, competition) Window value) may be expressed as a term of a UL MU transmission preset
- FIG. 8 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a UL MU transmission preset procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the sounding procedure may be a procedure for obtaining channel state information.
- the AP may transmit a null data packet anouncement (NDPA) frame 800 to the STA for a sounding procedure for uplink transmission.
- NDPA null data packet anouncement
- the NDPA frame 800 for the UL MU transmission preset procedure may include a bit indicating that it is a sounding procedure for the UL MU transmission.
- the NDPA frame 800 may be transmitted through the entire bandwidth for the transmission of the NDPA frame 800.
- the format of such a PPDU may be expressed in terms of a non-duplicate format.
- the NDPA frame 800 may be transmitted through a plurality of channels based on a duplicate PPDU format.
- the duplicate PPDU format replicates the PPDU format transmitted over an adjacent channel (or primary channel) (20 MHz), over a bandwidth greater than 20 MHz (eg, 40 MHz, 80 MHz, 160 MHz, 80 MHz + 80 MHz, etc.). Can be sent.
- the duplicate format is used, the same data may be transmitted through each of a plurality of channels (a replication target channel and a replication channel).
- the NDPA frame 800 in the non-duplicate PPDU format or the duplicate PPDU format may be transmitted to at least one STA through at least one space-time stream.
- the NDPA frame 800 may trigger initiation of a sounding procedure and transmission of NDPs 810, 830, and 850 of the STA.
- the NDPA frame 800 may include a STA information field.
- the STA information field may include information on an STA to transmit NDPs 810, 830, and 850 to the AP after the NDPA frame 800.
- the STA indicated based on the STA information field may transmit NDPs 810, 830, and 850 to the AP.
- each of the plurality of STAs may sequentially transmit NDPs 810, 830, and 850 to the AP.
- the AP When the LTF is transmitted through at least one space-time stream through the NDPs 810, 830, and 850 and sequentially receives the NDPs 810, 830, and 850 from each of the plurality of STAs, the AP is indicated by the indicated space-time stream and the indicated frequency domain Channel state information may be obtained based on the LTF.
- the NDPs 810, 830, and 850 may have a format in which a data field is omitted in a general PPDU and includes only a PPDU header.
- one of the plurality of STAs indicated based on the STA information field transmits the NDP 810 to the AP after receiving the NDPA frame 800, and among the plurality of STAs indicated based on the STA information field.
- Each of the remaining STAs may transmit the NDPs 830 and 850 after receiving the beamforming report poll frames 820 and 840 from the AP.
- One STA that transmits the NDP 810 to the AP after receiving the NDPA frame 800 may be an STA indicated first by the STA information field (STA corresponding to the STA identification information first included in the STA information field). have.
- the AP receiving the NDP 810, 830, 850 is based on the training field of the NDP 810, 830, 850 (eg, very high throughput (LTT) -LTF or high efficiency (LTF) -LTF).
- the channel between the STA and the STA may be estimated and channel state information may be obtained. Since the NDPs 810, 830, and 850 have no data fields, they indicate the length of the PSDU included in the data fields of the NDPs 810, 830, and 850 or the length of the Aggregate-MAC protocol data unit (A-MPDU) included in the PSDU.
- the length information may be set to zero.
- the AP may perform channel measurement between the AP and the STA based on the NDPs 810, 830, and 850, and perform UL MU transmission based on the obtained channel state information. For example, the AP allocates transmission resources for UL MU transmission based on channel state information obtained based on NDPs 810, 830, and 850, and MCS index for uplink data transmitted through an uplink frame. And so on.
- the NDPA frame 800 may be transmitted based on the DL MU transmission method.
- the NDPA frame 800 is transmitted to a plurality of STAs through different space-time streams based on DL MU MIMO transmission or to a plurality of STAs through different frequency resources (or subbands and channels) based on DL MU OFDMA. Can be sent.
- the NDPA frames 800 transmitted through different space-time streams or different frequency resources may include unequal information. That is, the AP may transmit each of the plurality of NDPA frames to each of the plurality of STAs.
- an NDPA frame transmitted through a specific space-time stream or a specific frequency resource may indicate only a specific STA to transmit a feedback frame.
- FIG. 9 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a UL MU transmission preset procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 9 illustrates a method of obtaining channel state information for each of a plurality of STAs and buffer state information for each of a plurality of STAs through a newly defined buffer state and sounding request frame 900 for a UL transmission preset procedure. do.
- the AP may transmit a buffer status and sounding request frame 900 to the plurality of STAs.
- the buffer status and sounding request frame 900 may be transmitted to at least one STA through at least one space-time stream based on the non-duplicate PPDU format or the duplicate PPDU format.
- the plurality of buffer states and sounding request frames 900 may be transmitted to each of the plurality of STAs through different frequency resources (or subbands and channels) or different spatial streams based on the DL MU transmission.
- the buffer status and sounding request frame 900 may include identification information (an ID of the STA or a MAC address of the STA) of the STA to measure the buffer status and the channel state information.
- the buffer status and sounding request frame 900 may include information for requesting a report on the buffer status information and / or channel status information, information for requesting a sounding procedure, and the like.
- At least one STA indicated by the buffer status and sounding request frame 900 may sequentially transmit the buffer status and sounding frames 910, 930, and 950 to the AP.
- the buffer status and sounding frames 910, 930, and 950 may include training fields for obtaining buffer status information and channel status information.
- the buffer status information may include information about whether there is uplink data pending at the STA, the size of uplink data pending at the STA, and the like.
- the number of training fields included in the buffer state and the sounding frames 910, 930, and 950 may be indicated by the buffer state and the sounding request frame.
- the number of training fields included in the buffer status and sounding frames 910, 930, and 950 may be determined based on the buffer status and the number of space-time streams for transmitting the sounding frames (or the number of space-time streams indicating LTFs). Can be.
- the buffer state and sounding frames 910, 930, and 950 may include buffer state information and channel state information.
- the channel state information may be information generated by the STA as information for transmission of an uplink frame of the STA.
- the channel state information may include information about the number of preferred (or recommended) space-time streams for the UL MU transmission, the beamforming matrix, the MCS, the location of the subcarrier (or the location of the frequency resource (or subband)). have.
- Each of the STAs indicated by the buffer status and sounding request frame 900 may sequentially transmit the buffer status and sounding frames 910, 930, and 950 to the AP.
- one of the plurality of STAs indicated by the buffer status and sounding request frame 900 may receive the buffer status and sounding request frame 910 after reception of the buffer status and sounding request frame 900. Can be transmitted.
- the remaining STAs among the plurality of STAs indicated by the buffer status and the sounding request frame 900 receive the polling frames and sounding frames 930 and 950 after receiving the polling frames 920 and 940 from the AP. Can be sent to.
- one STA that transmits the buffer state and the sounding frame 910 is the first STA (buffer state indicated by the buffer state and the sounding request frame 900). And an STA corresponding to the STA identification information first included in the sounding request frame 900.
- the AP After transmitting the buffer status and sounding request frame 900, the AP transmits the polling frame 920 when the buffer status and sounding frame 910 is not transmitted from the STA within a predetermined time (eg, SIFS). Can be.
- a predetermined time eg, SIFS
- the PPDU header of the PPDU carrying at least one of the buffer status and sounding request frame 900, the buffer status and sounding frames 910, 930, and 950 and the polling frames 920 and 940 may not include a legacy portion.
- a PPDU carrying a buffer status and sounding request frame 900 may include a legacy portion in the PPDU header, and may include buffer status and sounding frames 910, 930, 950 and polling frames 920, 940.
- the delivering PPDU may not include the legacy part.
- the legacy STAs may set the NAV based on the buffer status and the legacy portion of the sounding request frame 900.
- FIG. 10 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a UL MU transmission preset procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a UL MU transmission preset procedure based on a control field of a frame (eg, a VHT control field) is disclosed.
- the control field included in the MAC header of the frame transmitted by the AP may be used for requesting buffer status information and / or channel status information (or request for sounding procedure).
- the AP may obtain buffer status information and perform a sounding procedure in combination with the above-described procedure in FIG. 8 or 9. For example, based on the procedure described above with reference to FIG. 8, the AP may acquire channel state information, and the AP may obtain buffer state information based on a control field included in a MAC header of a transmitted downlink frame. Alternatively, the AP may acquire channel state information and buffer state information based on the above-described procedure in FIG. 9, and the AP may obtain buffer state information based on a control field included in a MAC header of a transmitted downlink frame.
- a control field (eg, a VHT control field) of a MAC header of a frame transmitted by an AP may be used for UL MU transmission.
- the AP uses the reserved bit of the control field of the MAC header as the field 1000 for the UL MU transmission preset procedure, and buffer status information and / or channel status information (or sounding procedure) to the STA. ) Can be requested.
- the STA responds to the frame.
- the response frame including the buffer status information may be transmitted to the AP.
- the STA when the STA receives a field for requesting buffer status information / channel status information (sounding procedure) from the AP, the STA may not include information necessary for UL MU transmission in an existing frame. Instead, it may include information necessary for UL MU transmission (eg, buffer status information and / or channel status information).
- the STA may include buffer status information (6 bits) 1050 such as access category (AC) information (2 bits), data size information (4 bits), and the like instead of GID information (6 bits) included in the frame.
- the STA may transmit a training field for sounding to the AP.
- the AP may periodically check the buffer state of the STA based on a periodically transmitted frame such as a beacon frame.
- the AP may include the buffer status request information in the beacon frame and transmit it to the STA.
- the buffer status request information may be fixedly included in the beacon frame or optionally included.
- the AP may receive the buffer state information from the STA based on a polling frame (CF contention free polling frame).
- the STA may include the buffer state information in the uplink frame transmitted.
- FIG. 11 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a PPDU format for transmission of a frame according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the PPDU format disclosed in FIG. 11 includes the above-described RRA frame, RR frame, RA frame, uplink frame, uplink transmission scheduling frame, coordination frame, ACK frame, NDPA frame, polling frame, buffer state and sounding request frame, and buffer state. And for transmission of sounding frames.
- the PHY header of the downlink PPDU may include a legacy short training field (L-STF), a legacy long training field (L-LTF), a legacy-signal (L-SIG), and an HE-SIG A.
- L-STF legacy short training field
- L-LTF legacy long training field
- L-SIG legacy-signal
- HE-SIG A high efficiency-signal A
- HE-STF high efficiency-short training field
- HE-LTF high efficiency-long training field
- HE-SIG B high efficiency-signal-B
- the L-STF 1100 may include a short training orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol.
- the L-STF 1100 may be used for frame detection, automatic gain control (AGC), diversity detection, and coarse frequency / time synchronization.
- AGC automatic gain control
- the L-LTF 1110 may include a long training orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol.
- the L-LTF 1110 may be used for fine frequency / time synchronization and channel prediction.
- L-SIG 1120 may be used to transmit control information.
- the L-SIG 1120 may include information about a data rate and a data length.
- the HE-SIG A 1130 may include information for indicating an STA to receive the PPDU.
- the HE-SIG A 1130 may include an identifier of a specific STA to receive the PPDU and information for indicating a group of the specific STA.
- the HE-SIG A 1130 may also include resource allocation information for the STA.
- the HE-SIG A 1130 may include color bits information for BSS identification information, bandwidth information, tail bits, CRC bits, and MCS (for HE-SIG B 1160). It may include modulation and coding scheme information, symbol number information for the HE-SIG B 1160, and cyclic prefix (CP) (or guard interval (GI)) length information.
- CP cyclic prefix
- GI guard interval
- the HE-STF 1140 may be used to improve automatic gain control estimation in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) environment or an OFDMA environment.
- MIMO multiple input multiple output
- OFDMA orthogonal frequency division multiple access
- the HE-LTF 1150 may be used to estimate a channel in a MIMO environment or an OFDMA environment.
- the HE-SIG B 1160 may include information about a length MCS of a physical layer service data unit (PSDU) for each STA, tail bits, and the like. In addition, the HE-SIG B 1160 may include information on an STA to receive the PPDU, OFDMA-based resource allocation information (or MU-MIMO information). If the HE-SIG B 1160 includes OFDMA-based resource allocation information (or MU-MIMO related information), the HE-SIG A 1130 may not include the corresponding information.
- PSDU physical layer service data unit
- the size of the IFFT applied to the field after the HE-STF 1140 and the HE-STF 1140 and the size of the IFFT applied to the field before the HE-STF 1140 may be different.
- the size of the IFFT applied to the field after the HE-STF 1140 and the HE-STF 1140 may be four times larger than the size of the IFFT applied to the field before the HE-STF 1140.
- the STA may receive the HE-SIG A 1130 and may be instructed to receive the downlink PPDU based on the HE-SIG A 1130.
- the STA may perform decoding based on the HE-STF 1140 and the FFT size changed from the field after the HE-STF 1140.
- the STA may stop decoding and configure a network allocation vector (NAV).
- NAV network allocation vector
- the cyclic prefix (CP) of the HE-STF 1140 may have a larger size than the CP of another field, and during this CP period, the STA may perform decoding on the downlink PPDU by changing the FFT size.
- the order of fields constituting the format of the PPDU disclosed at the top of FIG. 11 may vary.
- the HE-SIG B 1115 of the HE portion may be located immediately after the HE-SIG A 1105 as disclosed in the interruption of FIG. 11.
- the STA may decode up to the HE-SIG A 1105 and the HE-SIG B 1115, receive necessary control information, and configure NAV.
- the size of the IFFT applied to the fields after the HE-STF 1125 and the HE-STF 1125 may be different from the size of the IFFT applied to the fields before the HE-STF 1125.
- the STA may receive the HE-SIG A 1105 and the HE-SIG B 1115.
- the STA may perform decoding on the PPDU by changing the FFT size from the HE-STF 1125.
- the STA may configure a network allocation vector (NAV).
- NAV network allocation vector
- a PPDU format for downlink (DL) multi-user (MU) transmission is disclosed.
- the PPDU may be transmitted to the STA through different transmission resources (frequency resources or spatial streams).
- the previous field of the HE-SIG B 1145 on the PPDU may be transmitted in duplicated form in each of different transmission resources.
- the HE-SIG B 1145 may be transmitted in encoded form on all transmission resources.
- the HE-SIG B 1145 may be encoded in the same unit as the legacy part (for example, 20 MHz) and duplicated in 20 MHz units on all transmission resources and transmitted.
- the HE-SIG B 1145 is encoded in the same unit as the legacy part (for example, 20 MHz), but the HE-SIG B 1145 transmitted through each of a plurality of 20 MHz units included in the entire transmission resource is different from each other. It may also contain information.
- the field after the HE-SIG B 1145 may include individual information for each of the plurality of STAs that receive the PPDU.
- the CRC for each of the fields may be included in the PPDU.
- the CRC for each field may not be included in the PPDU. Thus, overhead for CRC can be reduced.
- the PPDU format for DL MU transmission may be encoded based on an IFFT size different from that of the HE-STF 1155 and the fields after the HE-STF 1155. Accordingly, when the STA receives the HE-SIG A 1135 and the HE-SIG B 1145 and is instructed to receive the PPDU based on the HE-SIG A 1135, the STA-FFT size from the HE-STF 1155 is determined. Can be changed to perform decoding on the PPDU.
- FIG. 12 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a sink PPDU and an NDP according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 12 a format of a sync PPDU or an NDP is described.
- an NDP or sink PPDU may include only a PPDU header excluding a PSDU (or MPDU).
- the NDP may include legacy portions (L-STF, L-LTF, L-SIG) and non-legacy portions (HE-SIG A, HE-STF, HE-LTF, and HE-SIG B). .
- Each field included in the legacy part and the non-legacy part may play the above-described role in FIG. 11 for transmission of the NDP (or sync PPDU).
- the NDP may include only non-legacy parts.
- the HE-SIG A 1200 may include information indicating an STA to receive an NDP or a sink PPDU.
- the HE-SIG A of the NDP or the sink PPDU may indicate an AP to receive the NDP.
- the HE-SIG A 1200 of the sync PPDU may include information for time / frequency / power adjustment of the AP.
- the HE-LTF 1210 may be used for channel prediction of the AP and adjustment procedure of the AP.
- the STA may perform channel prediction based on the HE-LTF 1210 included in the NDP frame and generate a feedback frame based on the channel predicted result.
- the HE-SIG B 1220 may include information indicating the length of the PSDU as zero.
- the HE-SIG B 1220 is included at the end of the PPDU header.
- the HE-SIG B 1220 may be located immediately after the HE-SIG A or may not be included in the PPDU header.
- each field of the PPDU header may be located in the order of HE-SIG A, HE-SIG B, HE-STF, and HE-LTF.
- the sync PPDU may additionally include a PSDU (or MPDU).
- PSDU (MPDU) of the sync PPDU may include information for time / frequency / power adjustment.
- FIG. 13 is a block diagram illustrating a wireless device to which an embodiment of the present invention can be applied.
- the wireless device 1300 may be an STA that may implement the above-described embodiments, and may be an AP 1300 or a non-AP station (or STA) 1350.
- the AP 1300 includes a processor 1310, a memory 1320, and an RF unit 1330.
- the RF unit 1330 may be connected to the processor 1310 to transmit / receive a radio signal.
- the processor 1310 may implement the functions, processes, and / or methods proposed in the present invention.
- the processor 1310 may be implemented to perform the operation of the AP according to the above-described embodiment of the present invention.
- the processor may perform the operation of the AP disclosed in the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 14.
- the processor 1310 transmits an uplink transmission scheduling frame to a plurality of STAs, receives a sink PPDU in response to the uplink transmission scheduling frame from each of the plurality of STAs, and is determined based on the sink PPDU. It may be implemented to transmit a steering frame including the steering information to the plurality of STAs. In addition, the processor 1310 may be configured to receive an uplink frame transmitted based on the coordination information by each of a plurality of STAs on a superimposed time resource, and to transmit an ACK frame for an uplink frame to each of the plurality of STAs. Can be.
- the uplink transmission scheduling frame includes UL MU transmission STA information and UL MU transmission resource information.
- the UL MU transmission STA information includes information indicating the plurality of STAs.
- the UL MU transmission resource information includes the uplink frame. Indicate a transmission resource of the, and the adjustment information may include information for adjusting the resource for the transmission of the uplink frame.
- the STA 1350 includes a processor 1360, a memory 1370, and an RF unit 1380.
- the RF unit 1380 may be connected to the processor 1360 to transmit / receive a radio signal.
- the processor 1360 may implement the functions, processes, and / or methods proposed in the present invention.
- the processor 1320 may be implemented to perform the operation of the STA according to the above-described embodiment of the present invention.
- the processor may perform an operation of the STA in the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 14.
- the processor 1360 may adjust time / frequency / power resources for transmission of an uplink frame based on the steering information included in the steering frame.
- the processor 1360 may be implemented to transmit an uplink frame based on the adjusted resource.
- Processors 1310 and 1360 may include application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), other chipsets, logic circuits, data processing devices, and / or converters for interconverting baseband signals and wireless signals.
- the memories 1320 and 1370 may include read-only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), flash memory, memory cards, storage media, and / or other storage devices.
- the RF unit 1330 and 1380 may include one or more antennas for transmitting and / or receiving a radio signal.
- the above-described technique may be implemented as a module (process, function, etc.) for performing the above-described function.
- the module may be stored in the memories 1320 and 1370 and executed by the processors 1310 and 1360.
- the memories 1320 and 1370 may be inside or outside the processors 1310 and 1360, and may be connected to the processors 1310 and 1360 by various well-known means.
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- 무선랜에서 프레임을 수신하는 방법은,
AP(access point)가 상향링크 전송 스케줄링 프레임을 복수의 STA(station)으로 전송하는 단계;
상기 AP가 상기 복수의 STA 각각으로부터 상기 상향링크 전송 스케줄링 프레임에 대한 응답으로 싱크 PPDU(physical layer protocol data unit)를 수신하는 단계;
상기 AP가 상기 싱크 PPDU를 기반으로 결정된 조정 정보를 포함하는 조정 프레임을 상기 복수의 STA으로 전송하는 단계;
상기 AP가 상기 복수의 STA 각각에 의해 상기 조정 정보를 기반으로 전송된 상향링크 프레임을 중첩된 시간 자원 상에서 수신하는 단계; 및
상기 AP가 상기 상향링크 프레임에 대한 ACK(acknowledgement) 프레임을 상기 복수의 STA 각각으로 전송하는 단계를 포함하되,
상기 상향링크 전송 스케줄링 프레임은 UL(uplink) MU(multi-user) 전송 STA 정보 및 UL MU 전송 자원 정보를 포함하고,
상기 UL MU 전송 STA 정보는 상기 복수의 STA을 지시하는 정보를 포함하고,
상기 UL MU 전송 자원 정보는 상기 상향링크 프레임의 전송 자원을 지시하고,
상기 조정 정보는 상기 상향링크 프레임의 전송을 위한 자원을 조정하는 정보를 포함하는 방법. - 제1항에 있어서,
상기 조정 정보는 시간 조정 정보, 주파수 조정 정보 및 파워 조정 정보 중 적어도 하나를 포함하되,
상기 시간 조정 정보는 상기 상향링크 프레임의 전송 타이밍을 조정하기 위한 정보를 포함하고,
상기 주파수 조정 정보는 상기 상향링크 프레임의 전송 주파수 대역을 조정하기 위한 정보를 포함하고,
상기 파워 조정 정보는 상기 상향링크 프레임의 전송 파워를 조정하기 이한 정보를 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는 방법. - 제1항에 있어서,
상기 싱크 PPDU는 PPDU 헤더만을 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는 방법. - 제1항에 있어서,
상기 ACK 프레임은 상기 상향링크 프레임에 대한 디코딩이 성공한 경우, 상기 상향링크 프레임에 대한 ACK 신호를 포함하고,
상기 ACK 프레임은 상기 디코딩이 실패한 경우, 상기 상향링크 프레임에 대한 NACK 신호 및 상기 상향링크 프레임의 재전송을 위한 정보를 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는 방법. - 제1항에 있어서,
상기 싱크 PPDU는 상기 UL MU 전송 STA 정보 상의 상기 복수의 STA의 지시 순서에 따라 할당된 전송 자원을 기반으로 CDM(code division multiplexing), TDM(time division multiplexing) 또는 SDM(space division multiplexing)을 기반으로 멀티플렉싱되어 전송되는 것을 특징으로 하는 방법. - 무선랜에서 프레임을 수신하는 AP(access point)에 있어서, 상기 AP는
무선 신호를 송신 또는 수신하기 위해 구현되는 RF(radio frequency) 부; 및
상기 RF부와 동작 가능하게(operatively) 연결된 프로세서를 포함하되,
상기 프로세서는 상향링크 전송 스케줄링 프레임을 복수의 STA(station)으로 전송하고,
상기 복수의 STA 각각으로부터 상기 상향링크 전송 스케줄링 프레임에 대한 응답으로 싱크 PPDU(physical layer protocol data unit)를 수신하고,
상기 싱크 PPDU를 기반으로 결정된 조정 정보를 포함하는 조정 프레임을 상기 복수의 STA으로 전송하고,
상기 복수의 STA 각각에 의해 상기 조정 정보를 기반으로 전송된 상향링크 프레임을 중첩된 시간 자원 상에서 수신하고,
상기 상향링크 프레임에 대한 ACK(acknowledgement) 프레임을 상기 복수의 STA 각각으로 전송하도록 구현되되,
상기 상향링크 전송 스케줄링 프레임은 UL(uplink) MU(multi-user) 전송 STA 정보 및 UL MU 전송 자원 정보를 포함하고,
상기 UL MU 전송 STA 정보는 상기 복수의 STA을 지시하는 정보를 포함하고,
상기 UL MU 전송 자원 정보는 상기 상향링크 프레임의 전송 자원을 지시하고,
상기 조정 정보는 상기 상향링크 프레임의 전송을 위한 자원을 조정하는 정보를 포함하는 AP. - 제6항에 있어서,
상기 조정 정보는 시간 조정 정보, 주파수 조정 정보 및 파워 조정 정보 중 적어도 하나를 포함하되,
상기 시간 조정 정보는 상기 상향링크 프레임의 전송 타이밍을 조정하기 위한 정보를 포함하고,
상기 주파수 조정 정보는 상기 상향링크 프레임의 전송 주파수 대역을 조정하기 위한 정보를 포함하고,
상기 파워 조정 정보는 상기 상향링크 프레임의 전송 파워를 조정하기 이한 정보를 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는 AP. - 제6항에 있어서,
상기 싱크 PPDU는 PPDU 헤더만을 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는 AP. - 제6항에 있어서,
상기 ACK 프레임은 상기 상향링크 프레임에 대한 디코딩이 성공한 경우, 상기 상향링크 프레임에 대한 ACK 신호를 포함하고,
상기 ACK 프레임은 상기 디코딩이 실패한 경우, 상기 상향링크 프레임에 대한 NACK 신호 및 상기 상향링크 프레임의 재전송을 위한 정보를 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는 AP. - 제6항에 있어서,
상기 싱크 PPDU는 상기 UL MU 전송 STA 정보 상의 상기 복수의 STA의 지시 순서에 따라 할당된 전송 자원을 기반으로 CDM(code division multiplexing), TDM(time division multiplexing) 또는 SDM(space division multiplexing)을 기반으로 멀티플렉싱되어 전송되는 것을 특징으로 하는 AP.
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