WO2016088957A1 - 무선랜에서 데이터 프레임의 재전송 없이 에러를 회복하는 방법 및 장치 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to wireless communication, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for recovering an error without retransmission of a data frame in a WLAN.
- a block acknowledgment (ACK) mechanism has been introduced to perform at one end the response to a plurality of frames transmitted by the transmitter during a transmission opportunity (TXOP) duration.
- TXOP transmission opportunity
- a block acknowledgment mechanism When the block ACK mechanism is used, the network overhead is reduced and MAC efficiency is reduced, as is the case with aggregated-medium access control (A-MSDU) service data units (A-MSDUs) and aggregated MAC-protocol data units (A-MPDUs). This can be improved.
- A-MSDU aggregated-medium access control
- A-MSDUs aggregated-media-protocol data units
- A-MPDUs aggregated MAC-protocol data units
- a setup process for requesting and responding to a block ACK session may be performed as follows.
- the transmitting end may transmit an add block acknowledgment (ADDBA) request frame, which is a management frame, to the receiving end and request a block ACK agreement for a current traffic identifier (TID).
- ADDBA request frame may include information about a block ACK policy, a transmission buffer size, a session timeout value, a starting sequence number (SSN), and the like.
- the receiving end receiving the ADDBA request frame may transmit the ADDBA response frame to the transmitting end in response to the ADDBA request frame.
- the ADDBA response frame may include information on a block ACK agreement state, an ACK policy, a buffer size, and a timeout value.
- the transmitting end may transmit a plurality of frames to the receiving end based on the block ACK session established through the setting process, and may receive the block ACK frame from the receiving end.
- the transmitting end When the transmitting end satisfies a block acknowledgment request (BAR) transmission condition, the transmitting end may transmit a BAR frame to the receiving end.
- the receiving end may receive the BA frame in response to the BAR frame.
- BAR block acknowledgment request
- the block ACK session may be terminated based on the transmission of a delete block acknowlegement (DELBA) frame of the transmitter.
- DELBA delete block acknowlegement
- An object of the present invention is to provide a method for recovering an error without retransmission of a data frame in a WLAN.
- Still another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for recovering an error without retransmission of a data frame in a WLAN.
- An error recovery method in a WLAN comprises the steps of transmitting a data frame to a receiving STA by a transmitting STA, the transmitting STA is the data from the receiving STA Determining a reason for the non-receipt of the data frame when the block acknowledgment (ACK) frame for the frame is not received, and after the transmitting STA receives the reason for the non-receipt of the data frame after receiving the data frame of the receiving STA, If it is determined that the transmission of the block ACK frame failed, transmitting a PBAR (previous block acknowledgment request) data frame to the receiving STA and the transmitting STA in response to the PBAR data frame from the receiving STA from the receiving STA PBAR (previous block acknowledgment) response) may include receiving a block ACK frame, wherein the PBAR The data frame may include information for requesting a first block ACK bitmap for the data frame, and the PBAR block ACK frame may
- a transmission STA for transmitting a data unit in a WLAN operates with a radio frequency (RF) unit and an RF unit for transmitting or receiving a radio signal.
- RF radio frequency
- a processor that is operatively connected, wherein the processor transmits the data frame to the receiving STA and, if the block STA does not receive a block acknowledgment frame for the data frame from the receiving STA, If a reason is determined and the reason for not receiving the data frame is determined to be the transmission failure of the block ACK frame after the reception of the data frame by the receiving STA, a PBAR (previous block acknowledgment request) data frame is transmitted to the receiving STA.
- PBAR previously block acknowledgment request
- PBAR from the receiving STA in response to the PBAR data frame.
- PBAR data frame includes information for requesting a first block ACK bitmap for the data frame, and the PBAR block ACK frame for the data frame
- the first block ACK bitmap may be included.
- WLAN wireless local area network
- FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a method of using an RTS frame and a CTS frame to solve a hidden node issue and an exposed node issue.
- FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an A-MSDU.
- FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an A-MPDU.
- FIG. 6 illustrates an error recovery procedure in a conventional WLAN system.
- FIG. 7 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an error recovery procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a PBAR information format according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 9 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a PBA information format according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 10 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a data format including PBAR information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- 11 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an error recovery method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 12 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a transmission failure of a block ACK frame of a receiving STA according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 13 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an error recovery procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 14 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an error recovery procedure based on MU transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- 15 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an error recovery procedure based on MU transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- 16 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an error recovery procedure based on MU transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- 17 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an error recovery procedure based on MU transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- 18 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an error recovery procedure based on MU transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- 19 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an error recovery procedure based on MU transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- 20 is a conceptual diagram illustrating operations of a transmitting STA and a receiving STA when performing an error recovery procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- 21 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a preset protocol for an error recovery procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 22 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a DL MU PPDU according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 23 illustrates a UL MU PPDU according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- 24 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an UL MU PPDU transmitted by an UL MU target STA according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- 25 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
- IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
- 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
- IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- 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 to each of the plurality of STAs of the AP may be expressed in terms of downlink multi-user transmission (or downlink multi-user transmission).
- FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a method of using an RTS frame and a CTS frame to solve a hidden node issue and an exposed node issue.
- a short signal transmission frame such as a request to send (RTS) frame and a clear to send (CTS) frame to solve a hidden node issue and an exposed node issue ( short signaling frame) may be used.
- the neighboring STAs may know whether to transmit or receive data between the two STAs based on the RTS frame and the CTS frame.
- FIG. 2A illustrates a method of transmitting the RTS frame 203 and the CTS frame 205 to solve a hidden node issue.
- both STA A 200 and STA C 220 attempt to transmit a data frame to STA B 210.
- the STA A 200 may transmit the RTS frame 203 to the STA B 210 before transmitting the data frame, and the STA B 210 may transmit the CTS frame 205 to the STA A 200.
- STA C 220 may overhear the CTS frame 205 and may know transmission of the frame from STA A 200 to STA B 210 over the medium.
- the STA C 220 may set a network allocation vector (NAV) until the transmission of the data frame from the STA A 200 to the STA B 210 ends.
- NAV network allocation vector
- FIG. 2B illustrates a method of transmitting the RTS frame 233 and the CTS frame 235 to solve the exposed node issue.
- STA C 250 determines whether there is a collision when transmitting a frame to another STA D 260 based on the monitoring of the RTS frame 233 and the CTS frame 235 of STA A 230 and STA B 240. Can be.
- STA B 240 may transmit an RTS frame 233 to STA A 230, and STA A 230 may transmit a CTS frame 235 to STA B 240.
- STA C 250 overhears only the RTS frame 233 transmitted by STA B 240 and fails to overhear the CTS frame 235 transmitted by STA A 230. Accordingly, STA C 250 may know that STA A 230 is outside the carrier sensing range of STA C 250. Accordingly, STA C 250 may transmit data to STA D 260.
- the RTS frame format and the CTS frame format are disclosed in 8.3.1.2 RTS frame format and 8.3.1.3 CTS frame format of IEEE P802.11-REVmc TM / D2.0, October 2013.
- FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an A-MSDU.
- the MAC service data unit (MSDU) 300 generated in the application layer for aggregation of data frames may be aggregated in an upper layer of the MAC layer and generated as one data unit.
- the MSDU aggregated in the upper layer of the MAC layer may be defined in the term A-MSDU (aggregate-MSDU) 350.
- the A-MSDU 350 may be generated based on aggregation of a plurality of MSDUs 300 having the same priority and having the same receiver address (RA).
- a plurality of A-MSDU subframes may be gathered to form one A-MSDU 350. That is, the A-MSDU 350 may include a plurality of A-MSDU subframes, and the A-MSDU subframe may include a subframe header, an MSDU, and a padding bit.
- the subframe header may include a destination address (DA), a source address (SA), and an MSDU length.
- the patting bits can be used to make the entire length of the A-MSDU subframe a constant multiple (multiple of 4 octets).
- the A-MSDU 350 may be formed and transmitted as a single QoS data MAC protocol data unit (MPDU) without being fragmented differently from a single MSDU.
- the A-MSDU 350 may be transmitted by a high throughput (HT) STA in a management information base (MIB) field.
- HT high throughput
- MIB management information base
- the A-MSDU 350 has a capability of de-aggregating the HT STA, and the HT STA checks whether the A-MSDU 350 exists in the QoS field of the MAC header of the received PPDU. And de-aggregate the A-MSDU 350.
- the A-MSDU 350 may not be aggregated into a MAC protocol data unit (A-MPDU).
- A-MPDU MAC protocol data unit
- whether the A-MSDU 300 can be aggregated into the A-MPDU may vary depending on whether a block acknowledgment agreement for each traffic identifier (TID) is made. Also, even when a block ACK agreement is made for the TID, the A-MSDU block ACK support indicator of the ADDBA acknowledgment response frame according to the ADDBA request frame adds a block ACK. If not indicated, A-MSDU 350 may not be included in the A-MPDU.
- FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an A-MPDU.
- one A-MPDU 450 may be formed by collecting a plurality of MPDUs 300 having the same receiver address (RA), a TID, and an ACK policy under the MAC layer.
- the A-MPDU 450 is composed of one or more A-MPDU subframes, and each A-MPDU subframe may include an MPDU delimiter and an MPDU 400.
- the MPDU delimiter may be used to determine whether an error occurs in the A-MPDU subframe constituting the A-MPDU 450.
- the plurality of A-MPDU subframes may form one A-MPDU 450.
- Successful reception of the A-MPDU 450 may be indicated based on the block ACK.
- the A-MPDU 450 may be formed only for the TID having the HT-immediate BA agreement, and the duration / ID field of the MPDU 400 constituting the A-MPDU 450 may be set. The value can be set equally.
- the A-MPDU may be included in a physical layer (PHY) service data unit (PSU).
- PHY physical layer
- the PSDU and the PPDU header may form a PHY protocol data unit (PPDU).
- PPDU PHY protocol data unit
- A-MPDU (or MPDU) may be interpreted in the same data unit as the frame.
- the block ACK mechanism was introduced for the transmission of a block ACK frame containing ACK information for a plurality of frames transmitted during a transmission opportunity (TXOP) duration (or period).
- TXOP transmission opportunity
- the block ACK mechanism like the A-MSDU or A-MPDU, the reduction of overhead for data transmission and reception procedures can be reduced and the efficiency of the MAC layer can be improved.
- block ACK transmission for an A-MPDU of one TID may be performed based on a setup process, a transmission process, and a tear down process.
- the setting process may be a process of requesting and responding to a block ACK session.
- the TID may be used to identify the MSDU as an identifier that may be used by a higher layer.
- the TID may have 16 values identified based on a traffic stream (TS) and a traffic category (TC).
- the TID may be assigned to the MSDU at a layer higher than the MAC layer.
- the TC may be used to distinguish MSDUs having different user priorities.
- the TS may indicate a set of MSDUs transmitted based on a specific traffic specification (TSPEC).
- TSPEC may indicate quality of service (QoS) characteristics of a data flow between STAs.
- the transmitting STA (hereinafter, referred to as a transmitting STA) transmits continuous data to the receiving STA (hereinafter, referred to as a receiving STA), and the receiving STA may transmit an aggregated response to the transmitting data to the transmitting STA.
- a transmitting STA transmits continuous data to the receiving STA
- a receiving STA receives continuous data from the transmitting STA
- the receiving STA may transmit an aggregated response to the transmitting data to the transmitting STA.
- a block ACK session established in a tear down process may be released.
- the transmitting STA may transmit an add block acknowledgment (ADDBA) request frame to the receiving STA, and the receiving STA may transmit an ADDBA response frame to the transmitting STA.
- the transmitting STA may transmit an ADDBA request frame that is a management frame to the receiving STA.
- the ADDBA request frame may request a block ACK agreement for the current TID.
- the ADDBA request frame may transmit information on a block ACK policy type, a transmission buffer size of a transmitting side, a timeout value of a block ACK session, a starting sequence number (SSN), etc. to a receiving STA.
- the receiving STA receiving the ADDBA request frame may transmit the ADDBA response frame to the transmitting STA in response to the ADDBA request frame.
- the ADDBA response frame may include a block ACK agreement state, an ACK policy, a buffer size, and a timeout value.
- the transmitting STA may transmit the A-MPDU to the receiving STA.
- the transmitting STA may transmit the BAR frame to the receiving STA. If the transmission of the A-MPDU of the transmitting STA is successful, the receiving STA receiving the BAR frame may transmit a block ACK for the A-MPDU to the transmitting STA.
- BAR block ack request
- the release process may be performed when the set timeout value of the inactivity timer set in the transmitting STA and the receiving STA expires or there is no data to be transmitted for the corresponding TID.
- a delete block acknowledgment (DELBA) frame may be transmitted to the receiving STA or the transmitting STA according to the expiration of the set timeout value of the stop timer, and the block ACK session may be terminated.
- the stop timer of the transmitting STA may be reset.
- the receiving STA receives the MPDU, the block ACK request frame, the stop timer of the receiving STA may be reset.
- the block ACK frame may include a block ACK start sequence control field and a block ACK bitmap.
- the block ACK start sequence control field may include information about a sequence number of a data unit indicated by the first bit included in the block ACK bitmap.
- the block ACK starting sequence control field may include information about a starting sequence number (SSN) which is a sequence number of a data unit indicated by the first bit included in the block ACK bitmap.
- Each of the plurality of bits included in the block ACK bitmap may indicate whether decoding is successful for each of the plurality of data units (eg, MSDU).
- the first bit included in the block ACK bitmap may indicate whether reception of the data unit of the sequence number indicated by the block ACK start sequence control field is successful.
- the remaining bits included in the block ACK bitmap may sequentially indicate whether the decoding of the data unit corresponding to the remaining sequence is successful. That is, the n th bit included in the block ACK bitmap may indicate whether reception of a data unit having a sequence number corresponding to SSN + n is successful.
- the block ACK bitmap may have a compressed format.
- One bit included in the block ACK bitmap in the compressed format may indicate whether a plurality of data units (eg, 64 MSDUs and A-MSDUs) have been successfully received.
- the block ACK bitmap may not only include a block ACK bitmap for one TID, but may also include a block ACK bitmap for a plurality of TIDs according to configuration.
- FIG. 6 illustrates an error recovery procedure in a conventional WLAN system.
- the error recovery procedure includes transmission failure of a data frame transmitted from a transmitting STA to a receiving STA (or transmission failure of a data frame of the transmitting STA), and transmission failure of a block ACK frame transmitted in response to the data frame from the receiving STA to the transmitting STA ( Or transmission failure of a block ACK frame of a receiving STA).
- the receiving STA may not transmit the block ACK frame 620. If the transmission of the data frame 610 is successful, the receiving STA may transmit the block ACK frame 620 to the transmitting STA based on a short interframe space (SIFS).
- SIFS short interframe space
- the transmitting STA may monitor transmission of the block ACK frame 620 transmitted based on SIFS in response to the data frame 610. When the transmitting STA does not receive the block ACK frame 620, the transmitting STA may perform retransmission for the data frame 630. If the transmission of the data frame 610 fails, the receiving STA cannot receive the data frame 610 and the transmitting STA cannot receive the block ACK frame 620 in response to the data frame 610. Therefore, retransmission of the data frame 630 by the transmitting STA may be necessary.
- the receiving STA may successfully decode the data frame 650 transmitted by the transmitting STA and transmit the block ACK frame 660 to the transmitting STA.
- the transmitting STA may not receive the block ACK frame 660.
- the transmitting STA may retransmit the data frame 670.
- the receiving STA may re-receive a data frame 650 that has been successfully received before being retransmitted by the transmitting STA. Re-receipt of the data frame 650 which has successfully received the receiving STA may reduce the WLAN communication efficiency. That is, when a transmission failure of the block ACK frame 660 of the receiving STA occurs, unconditional retransmission of the data frame 670 of the transmitting STA may reduce the WLAN communication efficiency.
- the AP operating in the WLAN system may transmit data through the overlapped time resources to each of the plurality of 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). In contrast, DL single user (SU) transmission may indicate downlink transmission from the AP to one STA on the entire transmission resource.
- DL MU transmission or downlink multi-user transmission
- DL single user (SU) transmission may indicate downlink transmission from the AP to one STA on the entire transmission resource.
- 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 multiple access (OFDMA), and this transmission may be expressed by the term DL MU OFDMA transmission.
- OFDMA orthogonal frequency division multiple access
- the AP may transmit downlink data (or downlink frame, downlink PPDU) to each of the plurality of STAs through the plurality of frequency resources on the overlapped time resources.
- DL MU OFDMA transmission can be used with DL MU MIMO transmission.
- DL MU-MIMO transmission based on a plurality of space-time streams (or spatial streams) on a specific subband (or subchannel) allocated for DL MU OFDMA transmission may be performed. Can be performed.
- the PPDU may be a data unit including a PPDU header and a physical layer service data unit (PSDU) (or MAC protocol data unit (MPDU), or MAC payload).
- PSDU physical layer service data unit
- MPDU MAC protocol data unit
- the PPDU header may include a PHY header and a PHY preamble.
- the PSDU (or MPDU) may be a data unit or frame including a frame.
- transmission from an STA to an AP may be referred to as an uplink transmission, and transmission of data from a plurality of STAs to an AP on the same time resource is called UL MU transmission (or uplink multi-user transmission).
- the UL SU transmission may indicate uplink transmission from one STA to one AP on all transmission resources.
- the UL MU transmission may also be supported in the WLAN system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- Each of the PPDUs, frames, and data transmitted through the uplink may be represented by the term 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 OFDMA.
- Each of the plurality of STAs may transmit uplink data 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.
- each of the plurality of STAs When uplink transmission by each of the plurality of STAs is performed in the spatial domain, different space-time streams (or spatial streams) are allocated to each of the plurality of STAs, and each of the plurality of STAs transmits uplink data through different space-time streams. Can transmit to the AP.
- the transmission method through these different spatial streams may be represented by the term UL MU MIMO transmission method.
- the UL MU OFDMA transmission and the UL MU MIMO transmission may be performed together.
- UL MU MIMO transmission based on a plurality of space-time streams (or spatial streams) may be performed on a specific subband (or subchannel) allocated for UL MU OFDMA transmission.
- an embodiment of the present invention discloses an error recovery procedure based on DL MU transmission / DL SU transmission and UL MU transmission / UL SU transmission in a WLAN system.
- an STA for transmitting a data frame is referred to as a transmitting STA
- an STA for transmitting a block ACK frame in response to the data frame is referred to as a receiving STA.
- the transmitting STA is an AP STA
- the receiving STA may be a non-AP STA
- the transmitting STA is a non-AP STA
- the receiving STA may be an STA.
- FIG. 7 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an error recovery procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a transmitting STA may acquire a right to transmit a data frame through a medium based on channel access and transmit the data frame to a receiving STA.
- the receiving STA may transmit the block ACK frame 720 in response to the data frame 710 using SIFS at an interframe interval.
- the block ACK frame 720 may include a block ACK bitmap (or block ACK information) including ACK information for each of a plurality of data units (eg, MSDU) included in the data frame 710.
- a block ACK bitmap (or block ACK information) including ACK information for each of a plurality of data units (eg, MSDU) included in the data frame 710.
- Each of the plurality of bits included in the block ACK bitmap may indicate whether reception of each of the plurality of data units is successful.
- the transmitting STA blocks within a predetermined time (eg, SIFS + a) after the transmission of the data frame 710 due to a transmission failure of the data frame 710 of the transmitting STA or a transmission failure of the block ACK frame 720 of the receiving STA.
- the ACK frame 720 may not be received. If the transmitting STA does not receive the block ACK frame 720, the transmitting STA only decodes a part of the block ACK frame 720 (for example, a header of the PPDU of the PPDU carrying the block ACK frame 720). It can also include successful cases.
- the reason (or cause) for which the transmitting STA did not receive the block ACK frame 720 may be caused by the transmission failure of the data frame 710 of the transmitting STA or the block ACK frame of the receiving STA. It may be one of transmission failures of 720.
- Failure to transmit the data frame 710 of the transmitting STA which is one of reasons for not receiving the block ACK frame 720 of the transmitting STA, may mean that the receiving STA has failed to receive the data frame 710. In other words, it may mean that reception (or decoding) failure of the reception STA for the data frame 710 normally transmitted by the transmission STA.
- the failure of transmission of the block ACK frame 720 of the receiving STA which is one of the reasons for not receiving the block ACK frame 720 of the transmitting STA, results in the successful reception (or decoding) of the data frame 710 of the receiving STA. It may mean that the transmission of the block ACK frame 720 transmitted in response to the failure. In other words, the transmission STA may fail to receive (or decode) the block ACK frame 720 normally transmitted by the receiving STA.
- the transmitting STA transmits whether the reason for not receiving the block ACK frame 720 is due to a transmission failure of the data frame 710 of the transmitting STA. It can be determined whether it is due to failure. A method of determining a reason for not receiving the block ACK frame 720 by the transmitting STA will be described later.
- the transmitting STA when the transmitting STA determines that the reason for not receiving the block ACK frame 720 is the transmission failure of the data frame 710 of the transmitting STA, the transmitting STA performs a retransmission procedure for the data frame 710. can do.
- the receiving STA does not receive the data frame 710. Therefore, retransmission of the data frame 710 for the receiving STA is necessary.
- the transmitting STA determines that the reason for not receiving the block ACK frame 720 is the transmission failure of the block ACK frame 720 of the receiving STA, a retransmission procedure for the data frame 710 by the transmitting STA may not be necessary. Since the receiving STA has successfully received the data frame 710, the retransmission procedure for the entire plurality of data units included in the data frame 710 that has not received the block ACK frame 720 by the transmitting STA may be unnecessary. have. According to an embodiment of the present invention, when the transmitting STA determines that the reason for not receiving the block ACK frame 720 is the transmission failure of the block ACK frame 720 of the receiving STA, the transmitting STA fails to receive the block ACK frame 720.
- the next data frame 730 may be transmitted to the receiving STA.
- the data frame 710 which does not receive the block ACK frame 720 in response due to a failure in transmission of the block ACK frame 720 of the receiving STA is referred to as an unresponsive data frame 710. Can be expressed.
- the transmitting STA re-receives block ACK information for each of the plurality of data units included in the unresponsive data frame 710 from the receiving STA and transmits to the unresponsive data frame 710 based on the block ACK information. It is necessary to perform only retransmission for the data unit that has not received the ACK among the plurality of data units included.
- ACK information may be transmitted.
- the data frame 730 transmitted by the transmitting STA may include information for requesting block ACK information for the unresponsive data frame 710.
- the data frame 730 transmitted by the transmitting STA after the transmission of the unacknowledged data frame 710 may include prior block acknowledgment request (PBAR) information.
- the PBAR information may include information for requesting block ACK information for an unresponsive data frame.
- the data frame 730 including the PBAR information may be represented by the term PBAR data frame 730.
- the receiving STA receiving the PBAR data frame 730 may transmit the block ACK frame 740 in response to the PBAR data frame 730.
- the block ACK frame 740 transmitted in response to the PBAR data frame 730 may be expressed in terms of a prior block acknowledgment response (PBAR) block ACK frame 740.
- PBAR block acknowledgment response
- the PBAR block ACK frame 740 may include block ACK information for the data unit included in the unresponsive data frame 710 as well as block ACK information for the data unit included in the PBAR data frame 730.
- the PBAR block ACK frame 740 may separately include PBA information for transmission of block ACK information for the unresponsive data frame 710.
- the PBA information may include a separate block ACK bitmap for delivering block ACK information for the unresponsive data frame 710.
- the transmitting STA receives the PBAR block ACK frame 740 and based on the block ACK information for the PBAR data frame 730 included in the PBAR block ACK frame 740 and the block ACK information for the unresponsive data frame 710. As a result, it may be determined whether the plurality of data units included in the unresponsive data frame 710 and the plurality of data units included in the PBAR data frame 730 are retransmitted.
- the unresponsive data frame 710 is one data frame.
- one unresponsive data frame 710 may include an A-MSDU generated by aggregation of a plurality of MSDUs, and the block ACK frame may include ACK information for each of the plurality of MSDUs.
- each of the plurality of data frames may include an MSDU
- the block ACK frame may include ACK information for each of the plurality of MSDUs received through the plurality of data frames.
- the plurality of data frames may be unresponsive data frames.
- FIG. 8 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a PBAR information format according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a format of PBAR information included in a PBAR data frame is disclosed.
- the format of the PBAR information may be included in a MAC header, a MAC body of a PBAR data frame, or a PPDU header of a PBAR PPDU carrying a PBAR frame.
- the PBAR information format includes a block ACK starting sequence field 800, a compressed bitmap field 800, a TID field 800, and an ACK policy. Field 800 and TID info field 840.
- the block ACK start sequence field 800 may be used to indicate a data frame (or data unit) for requesting block ACK information.
- a plurality of MSDUs can be transmitted by a transmitting STA via a plurality of data frames.
- a plurality of MSDUs may be transmitted by the transmitting STA through one data frame in the A-MSDU format.
- the block ACK start sequence field 800 included in the PBAR transmission format may include information about a sequence number corresponding to the first data unit of the plurality of data units included in the unresponsive data frame.
- the block ACK start sequence field 800 includes information on a sequence of data frames (or data units) transmitted by the transmitting STA first among data frames (or data units) requesting retransmission of the block ACK information. can do.
- the compressed bitmap field 810 may include information on whether the compressed bitmap is used.
- the compressed bitmap field 810 may indicate whether block ACK information for an unresponsive data frame included in the PBAR block ACK frame is a non-compressed bitmap or a compressed bitmap. .
- each of the plurality of bits included in the block ACK bitmap field may correspond to each of the plurality of data units.
- each of the plurality of bits included in the block ACK bitmap field may correspond to a data unit group including a plurality of data units. For example, one bit may indicate whether reception of a plurality of MSDUs is successful.
- the receiving STA determines whether to use the block ACK bitmap included in the PBA information of the PBAR block ACK frame as the compressed bitmap based on the information on whether the compressed bitmap indicated by the compressed bitmap field is used. Can be.
- the TID field 820 may include information indicating a request for block ACK information for a data unit corresponding to a specific TID.
- the data unit of some of the plurality of data units included in the unresponsive data frame may be a data unit including information for real time call. Retransmission for a data unit containing information for such a real time call may be unnecessary.
- block ACK information for determining whether to retransmit the corresponding data unit may not be necessary. Accordingly, only block ACK information for a data unit corresponding to a TID requiring retransmission based on the TID field 820 may be requested to the receiving STA.
- the TID info field 840 may indicate information about a specific TID requesting block ACK information.
- the value of the TID field 800 is 0, transmission of the block ACK information for all data units included in the unresponsive frame may be performed without consideration of the TID.
- the ACK policy field 830 may include information on a transmission policy of PBA information.
- the PBA information may include a separate block ACK bitmap for carrying block ACK information for an unresponsive data frame.
- the PBA information may be included in the PBAR block ACK frame and transmitted according to a transmission policy (immediate block ACK response policy, delayed block ACK response policy, and non ACK policy).
- the transmission policy of the PBA information is a block ACK response policy immediately, as described above with reference to FIG. Can be.
- a PBAR block ACK frame including block ACK information for an unresponsive data frame is not transmitted on SIFS after reception of the PBAR data frame and may be transmitted after a certain time. Can be.
- the block ACK information for the unacknowledged data frame may not be transmitted. If the transmission policy of the PBA information is a non-ACK policy, the block ACK transmitted in response to the PBAR data frame may include only block ACK information for a data unit included in the PBAR data frame. That is, the general block ACK frame may be transmitted instead of the PBAR block ACK frame including the PBA information in response to the PBAR data frame.
- the bit allocation for each field included in the PBAR information format includes the block ACK start sequence field 800 (16 bits), the compressed bitmap field 810 (1 bit), and the TID field 820 ( 1 bit), an ACK policy field 830 (2 bits), and a TID info field 840 (4 bits).
- FIG. 9 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a PBA information format according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- PBA information included in a PBAR block ACK frame is disclosed.
- the PBA information may include block ACK information for an unresponsive data frame.
- the PBA information format may include a TID info field 900, a block ACK sequence field 910, and a block ACK bitmap field 920.
- the TID info field 900 may include information on a TID of a data unit corresponding to the block ACK information.
- the block ACK information may be expressed based on the block ACK bitmap field.
- the block ACK sequence field 910 may include sequence information for indicating a data unit (or data frame) indicated by the block ACK bitmap field.
- the block ACK sequence field 910 may include information about a sequence number of a data unit corresponding to the first bit of the bits included in the block ACK bitmap field.
- Each of the plurality of bits included in the block ACK bitmap may correspond to each of the plurality of data units sequentially according to sequence numbers of the plurality of data units.
- sequence number of the data unit corresponding to the first bit included in the block ACK bitmap field 920 is indicated by the block ACK sequence field
- sequence number of the data unit corresponding to the remaining bits included in the block ACK bitmap field 920 corresponds. Information about sequence numbers for the remaining data units can be obtained.
- the block ACK bitmap field 920 may include block ACK information for an unresponsive data frame in a bitmap format.
- the block ACK information included in the block ACK bitmap field according to the TID info field may correspond to a data unit corresponding to a specific TID.
- the block ACK bitmap field 920 may be a compressed bitmap or an uncompressed bitmap according to the compressed bitmap field included in the PBAR information.
- the compressed bitmap may have a size of 8 octets and the uncompressed bitmap may have a size of 128 octets.
- block ACK information for an unresponsive data frame is separately transmitted based on PBA information.
- the block ACK information for the unresponsive data frame and the block ACK information for the data unit included in the PBAR data frame may be combined and transmitted as one bitmap.
- FIG. 10 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a data format including PBAR information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- PBAR information may be included as a subframe of the A-MPDU.
- the PPDU carrying the A-MPDU may include a PPDU header (PHY preamble and PHY header) 1000 and an A-MPDU.
- the A-MPDU may include a MAC header 1010 and a plurality of A-MPDU subframes.
- the A-MPDU may correspond to a PBAR data frame, and at least one subframe 1020 of the plurality of A-MPDU subframes included in the A-MPDU may include PBAR information. That is, PBAR information may be transmitted based on the A-MPDU subframe.
- the MAC header 1010 included in the A-MPDU may include information indicating an A-MPDU subframe including PBAR information.
- the first A-MPDU subframe 1020 includes PBAR information.
- PBAR information may be transmitted through a MAC header field included in a MAC header.
- MAC header fields are IEEE P802.11-REVmcTM / D3.1 Draft Standard for Information technology Telecommunications and information exchange between systems Local and metropolitan area networks Specific requirements Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) ) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications.
- MAC Wireless LAN Medium Access Control
- PHY Physical Layer
- the MAC header may further include a PBAR information field 1070 for transmitting PBAR information.
- the PBAR information field 1070 may be transmitted later than the HT control field 1060 in time.
- a type of a data frame including uplink / downlink data and PBAR information may be defined.
- An uplink / downlink data + PBAR information frame may be defined as a frame type, and the frame control field of the MAC header may indicate that the transmitted frame is a frame including uplink / downlink data and PBAR information.
- the receiving STA may decode the frame control field 1050 of the MAC header, obtain information on whether the PBAR information field 1070 is included in the MAC header, and decode the PBAR information field 1070.
- the transmitting STA when the transmitting STA transmits the data frame to the receiving STA, when the transmitting STA does not receive the block ACK frame for the data frame from the receiving STA, the reason for not receiving the data frame is determined. Can be performed.
- the transmitting STA determines that the reason for not receiving the data frame is transmission failure of the block ACK frame after receiving the data frame of the receiving STA, transmitting the PBAR data frame to the receiving STA and the transmitting STA transmits the PBAR data frame to the receiving STA.
- the transmitting STA determines that the reason for not receiving the data frame is transmission failure of the block ACK frame after receiving the data frame of the receiving STA
- transmitting the PBAR data frame to the receiving STA and the transmitting STA transmits the PBAR data frame to the receiving STA.
- receiving a PBAR block ACK frame from the receiving STA may be performed.
- the PBAR data frame may include information for requesting a first block ACK bitmap for the data frame, and the PBAR block ACK frame may include a first block ACK bitmap for the data frame.
- the PBAR data frame includes PBAR information, the PBAR information includes a block ACK start sequence field, and the block ACK start sequence field corresponds to a first bit of a first block ACK bitmap among a plurality of data units included in the data frame. It may include information about the sequence number of the data unit.
- the PBAR data frame may further include a TID information field, the TID information field includes TID information, and the first block ACK bitmap may correspond to a data unit corresponding to the TID information among a plurality of data units included in the data frame. Only ACK information may be included.
- the PBAR block ACK frame includes PBA information and a second block ACK bitmap
- the PBA information includes a block ACK sequence field and a first block ACK bitmap field
- the block ACK sequence field includes a plurality of data included in the data frame. It may include information about the sequence number of the data unit to correspond to the first bit of the first block ACK bitmap of the unit.
- the first block ACK bitmap field may include the first block ACK bitmap
- the first block ACK bitmap may include a plurality of ACK information for the plurality of data units included in the data frame.
- the second block ACK bitmap field may include a plurality of ACK information for a plurality of data units included in the PBAR data frame.
- the PBAR block ACK frame further includes a TID information field, the TID information field includes TID information, and the first block ACK bitmap corresponds to a data unit corresponding to the TID information among a plurality of data units included in the data frame. It may include only ACK information.
- 11 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an error recovery method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- an error recovery method based on a PBAR data frame and a PBAR block ACK frame is disclosed.
- a transmitting STA may transmit a data frame 1 1100 including a data unit 1 and a data unit 2 to a receiving STA.
- the receiving STA may transmit a block ACK frame 1 1110 including the block ACK bitmap '11' to the transmitting STA in response to the data frame 1 1100. However, the transmitting STA may not receive the block ACK frame 1.
- the transmitting STA determines whether the failure of the block ACK frame 1 1110 is due to the transmission failure of the data frame 1 1100 of the transmitting STA. It may be determined whether transmission failure of the block ACK frame 1 1110 of the receiving STA is caused.
- the transmitting STA may transmit the PBAR data frame 1120.
- the data frame 2 1120 transmitted by the transmitting STA may be a PBAR data frame 1120 including PBAR information and a new data unit (eg, data unit 3, data unit 4).
- the receiving STA may receive the data frame 2 1120, which is a PBAR data frame, and transmit the PBAR block ACK frame 1130 to the transmitting STA in response to the data frame 2 1120.
- the PBAR block ACK frame 1130 may include the above-described PBA information and block ACK information for the data unit 3 and the data unit 4 included in the data frame 2 1120 which is the PBAR data frame.
- the PBA information may include block ACK information for the data unit 1 and the data unit 2 included in the data frame 1 1100, which is an unresponsive data frame.
- the first block ACK bitmap included in the PBA information may be '11'
- the second block ACK bitmap including block ACK information for the data unit 3 and the data unit 4 may also be '11'.
- the transmitting STA when the transmitting STA does not receive the block ACK frame, the transmitting STA transmits the block ACK frame of the receiving STA whether the reason for not receiving the block ACK frame is due to the transmission failure of the transmitting STA data frame.
- a method of determining whether a failure is due is disclosed.
- FIG. 12 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a transmission failure of a block ACK frame of a receiving STA according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- Block ACK frames can be modulated and coded to be more robust to errors than data frames. Failure to transmit a block ACK frame of a receiving STA does not occur due to a channel state, but may generally occur due to a collision with another frame transmitted by a hidden node (or a hidden terminal). .
- the hidden node may transmit a frame (hereinafter, referred to as an interference frame) 1240 to a transmitting STA, and if the transmission timing of the interference frame overlaps with the transmission timing of the block ACK frame 1120, inter frame collision This can happen.
- an interference frame a frame (hereinafter, referred to as an interference frame) 1240 to a transmitting STA, and if the transmission timing of the interference frame overlaps with the transmission timing of the block ACK frame 1120, inter frame collision This can happen.
- the hidden node may determine that the medium is idle after transmission of the data frame 1200 of the transmitting STA, and transmit the interference frame 1240 to the transmitting STA through the medium.
- the interference frame 1240 transmitted by the hidden node and the block ACK frame 1220 transmitted by the receiving STA may collide, and the transmitting STA may not receive the block ACK frame 1220.
- the transmitting STA may succeed in decoding some data units included in the block ACK frame 1220.
- the transmitting STA may succeed in decoding the PPDU header (eg, PHY preamble) of the PPDU carrying the block ACK frame 1220 and fail in decoding the remaining MAC payload.
- the L-SIG included in the PPDU header may include information about the transmission duration of the block ACK frame 1220.
- the transmission duration of the frame may be determined based on length information and data rate information included in the L-SIG.
- the transmitting STA uses the information on the transmission duration of the block ACK frame 1220 obtained based on the L-SIG to collide with the interference frame 1240 transmitted by the hidden node and the block ACK frame 1220 of the receiving STA. Therefore, it may be determined whether a transmission failure of the block ACK frame 1220 of the receiving STA has occurred.
- the transmitting STA may estimate that there is transmission through the medium of another frame. Accordingly, the transmitting STA may determine that a transmission failure of the block ACK frame 1220 of the receiving STA occurs due to a collision between the block ACK frame 1220 and another interference frame 1240. That is, the transmitting STA may determine the reason for not receiving the block ACK frame 1220 as a transmission failure of the block ACK frame 1220 of the receiving STA.
- the transmitting STA may also fail to receive the PPDU header of the PPDU carrying the block ACK frame 1220.
- the transmitting STA that fails to receive the PPDU header may transmit the data frame 1200 and determine whether a specific radio signal is transmitted through the medium (or whether the medium is busy) after SIFS.
- the transmitting STA that fails to receive the PPDU header may transmit the data frame 1200 and determine whether the medium is empty for a predetermined period or more after SIFS. The predetermined period may be determined based on the transmission duration of a general block ACK frame.
- the transmitting STA determines that the reason for not receiving the block ACK frame 1220 is a transmission failure of the block ACK frame 1220 of the receiving STA. Can be.
- the transmitting STA may determine that a transmission failure of the block ACK frame 1220 of the receiving STA occurs due to a collision between the block ACK frame 1220 and the interference frame 1240 based on the above determination.
- transmission failure of the block ACK frame 1220 of the receiving STA may occur due to the channel state. If the MCS for the block ACK frame 1220 is incorrectly selected, transmission failure of the block ACK frame 12200 of the receiving STA may occur due to channel interference.
- the PPDU header of the PPDU carrying the block ACK frame 1220 may be more robust to errors than other portions of the PPDU (eg, MAC payload). Therefore, when the reception STA succeeds in the reception of the PPDU header of the PPDU and the failure of the reception of the rest of the PPDU, the transmitting STA may determine that the transmission failure of the block ACK frame 1220 of the reception STA has occurred.
- the STA may perform BSS color information (BSS color information) included in the PPDU header in the decoding step of the PPDU header (eg, preamble) of the PPDU carrying the block ACK frame 1220.
- BSS color information may include BSS identification information of the BSS including the STA that transmitted the PPDU.
- the BSS color information may be included in a signal field (eg, HE-SIGA) included in the PPDU header of the PPDU carrying the block ACK frame 1220.
- the transmitting STA may determine whether the block ACK frame 1220 is transmitted in response to the data frame 1200 transmitted by the transmitting STA based on the received BSS color information of the PPDU. For example, the transmitting STA may determine whether the BSS color information of the received PPDU indicates identification information of the BSS including the transmitting STA.
- the transmitting STA indicates that the BSS color information included in the PPDU header of the received PPDU indicates identification information of the BSS including the transmitting STA, and when decoding of the remaining portion of the received PPDU fails, a block ACK frame 1220 of the receiving STA. May be determined to have occurred.
- the BSS color information included in the PPDU header of the received PPDU does not indicate the identification information of the BSS including the transmitting STA, and fails to decode the remaining portion of the received PPDU, It may be determined that a transmission failure of 1200 has occurred.
- FIG. 13 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an error recovery procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the transmitting STA may determine that the reason for not receiving the block ACK frame 1310 is a transmission failure of the block ACK frame 1310 of the receiving STA. If there is no pending data to transmit to the receiving STA (or if there is no data frame to additionally transmit to the receiving STA), the transmitting STA may perform an operation on the unresponsive data frame 1300 based on the block ACK request frame 1320. The block ACK information may be requested to the receiving STA.
- the block ACK request frame 1320 may include information indicating a request for block ACK information for the unresponsive data frame 1300 (eg, information indicating a data unit included in the unresponsive data frame). .
- the receiving STA may transmit the block ACK frame 1330 to the transmitting STA in response to the block ACK request frame 1320.
- the block ACK frame 1330 may include block ACK information for the unresponsive data frame 1300.
- the block ACK request frame 1320 may include the aforementioned PBAR information
- the block ACK frame 1330 may include the aforementioned PBA information.
- the transmitting STA may transmit in the same format as the PBAR data frame even after there is no pending data to be transmitted to the receiving STA after the transmission of the unresponsive data frame 1300.
- the PBAR data frame may not additionally include a data unit to be transmitted to the receiving STA.
- the receiving STA may transmit a PBAR block ACK frame to the transmitting STA in response to the PBAR data frame.
- the PBAR block ACK frame may include only block ACK information for the unacknowledged data frame.
- FIG. 14 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an error recovery procedure based on MU transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 14 illustrates a method in which a transmitting STA transmits a block ACK request frame to a plurality of receiving STAs based on MU transmissions, and each of the plurality of receiving STAs transmits each of a plurality of block ACK frames based on MU transmissions.
- a transmitting STA is an AP STA and a receiving STA is a non-AP STA.
- the transmitting STA may transmit the data frame 1400 to the receiving STA.
- the receiving STA may transmit the block ACK frame 1 1410 to the transmitting STA in response to the data frame 1400.
- the transmitting STA may not receive the block ACK frame 1 1410, and may determine that the block ACK frame 1 1410 fails due to the transmission failure of the block ACK frame 1 1410 of the receiving STA.
- the transmitting STA may transmit the data frame 2 1420 to the receiving STA2.
- the receiving STA2 may transmit the block ACK frame2 1430 to the transmitting STA in response to the data frame2 1420.
- the transmitting STA may not receive the block ACK frame 2 1430, and may determine that the reason for not receiving the block ACK frame 2 1430 is a transmission failure of the block ACK frame 2 1430 of the receiving STA 2.
- the transmitting STA receives a reason for not receiving the block ACK frame 11410 and the block ACK frame 2 1430.
- the transmitting STA fails to transmit the block ACK frame 1 1410 of the receiving STA1 and the transmitting ACK frame 2 1430 of the receiving STA2 fails. It may not be determined to have a pending downlink data (or data frame to be transmitted to each of the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2) to be determined and to be transmitted to each of the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 after the transmission of the unresponsive data frame.
- the transmitting STA transmits a plurality of block ACK request frames to the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 based on the DL MU transmission, and each of the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 transmits the plurality of block ACK frames to the transmitting STA based on the DL MU transmission.
- each of the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 transmits the plurality of block ACK frames to the transmitting STA based on the DL MU transmission.
- the transmitting STA may transmit a plurality of block ACK request frames to the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 based on various DL MU transmission methods.
- the transmitting STA receives a block ACK request frame 1 through subchannel 1 based on a DL MU PPDU format (hereinafter, referred to as a block ACK request MU PPDU) 1440 including a block ACK request frame 1 and a block ACK request frame 2. And transmits the block ACK request frame 2 to the receiving STA2 through the subchannel 2.
- the transmitting STA transmits the block ACK request frame 1 to the receiving STA1 through the space-time stream 1 of the subchannel 1 based on the block ACK request MU PPDU 1440 including the block ACK request frame 1 and the block ACK request frame 2.
- the block ACK request frame 2 may be transmitted to the receiving STA2 through the space-time stream 2 of the subchannel 2 of the subchannel 2.
- the block ACK request MU PPDU 1440 which transmits the block ACK request frame 1 and the block ACK request frame 2 transmitted by the transmitting STA based on the DL MU transmission is used for UL MU transmission of block ACK frame 1 and block ACK frame 2. May contain information.
- the block ACK request MU PPDU 1440 may include resource allocation information for UL MU transmission for each of a plurality of receiving STAs (eg, receiving STA1 and receiving STA2), identification information of each of the plurality of receiving STAs, and a plurality of receiving STAs.
- the block ACK request MU PPDU 1440 may further include information on transmission power of the block ACK frame, space time block coding (STBC) to be used for transmission of the block ACK frame, and information on beamforming.
- STBC space time block coding
- each of the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 that receives the block ACK request MU PPDU 1440 including the above information each of the block ACK frame 1 and the block ACK frame 2 on the overlapped time resources through the allocated transmission resources based on the UL MU transmission May be transmitted to the transmitting STA.
- the receiving STA1 is transmitted through the subchannel 1.
- the block ACK frame 3 1450 is transmitted, and the receiving STA2 may transmit the block ACK frame 4 1460 on the UL MU transmission through subchannel 2.
- Each of the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 that receives the block ACK request MU PPDU 1440 may transmit a block ACK frame to the transmitting STA based on a short interframe space (SIFS).
- SIFS short interframe space
- each of the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 receiving the block ACK request frame may receive the block ACK request MU PPDU 1440 and transmit a block ACK frame to the transmitting STA after SIFS.
- 15 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an error recovery procedure based on MU transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a method is disclosed in which a transmitting STA transmits PBAR data frames to a plurality of receiving STAs based on MU transmissions, and each of the plurality of receiving STAs transmits each of a plurality of block ACK frames based on MU transmissions.
- a transmitting STA is an AP STA and a receiving STA is a non-AP STA.
- the transmitting STA may transmit the data frame 1 1500 to the receiving STA.
- the receiving STA may transmit the block ACK frame 1 1510 to the transmitting STA in response to the data frame 1 1500.
- the transmitting STA may not receive the block ACK frame 1 1510, and may determine that the reason for not receiving the block ACK frame 1 1510 is a transmission failure of the block ACK frame 1 1510 of the receiving STA.
- the transmitting STA may transmit the data frame 2 1520 to the receiving STA2.
- the receiving STA2 may transmit the block ACK frame2 1530 to the transmitting STA in response to the data frame2 1520.
- the transmitting STA may not receive the block ACK frame 2 1530, and may determine that the block ACK frame 2 1530 is a failure of transmission of the block ACK frame 2 1530 of the receiving STA 2.
- the transmitting STA receives the reason for not receiving the block ACK frame 1 1510 and the block ACK frame 2 1520 transmitted by the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2.
- the transmitting STA may transmit a plurality of PBAR data frames 1540 to the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 based on the DL MU transmission.
- the transmitting STA may transmit a plurality of PBAR data frames to the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 based on various DL MU transmissions.
- the transmitting STA may include a PBAR data frame 1 including PBAR information 1 and pending data for STA1 and a DL MU PPDU format including PBAR data frame 2 including PBAR information 2 and pending data for STA2 (hereinafter, PBAR MU PPDU) 1540 may be transmitted.
- the transmitting STA may transmit the PBAR data frame 1 to the receiving STA1 through the subchannel 1 based on the PBAR MU PPDU 1540, and transmit the PBAR data frame 2 to the receiving STA2 through the subchannel 2.
- the transmitting STA transmits the PBAR data frame 1 to the receiving STA1 on the subchannel 1 based on the PBAR MU PPDU 1540 and receives the PBAR data frame 2 on the subchannel 2 through the space time stream 2. It can transmit to STA2.
- the PBAR MU PPDU 1540 may include information for transmission of the PBAR block ACK frame 1 and the PBAR block ACK frame 2.
- the PBAR MU PPDU 1540 may include UL MU transmission resource allocation information for each of a plurality of receiving STAs (eg, receiving STA1 and receiving STA2), identification information of each of the plurality of receiving STAs, and a plurality of receiving STAs, respectively. It may include information on MCS applied to each of the plurality of PBAR block ACK frames transmitted by the UE, information about the UL MU type (OFDMA, MIMO) of the PBAR block ACK frame transmitted by each of the plurality of receiving STAs. .
- the PBAR MU PPDU 1540 may further include information on transmission power of the PBAR block ACK frame, STBC to be used for transmission of the PBAR block ACK frame, and information on beamforming.
- Each of the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 receiving the PBAR MU PPDU 1540 including the above information may transmit the PBAR block ACK frame 1 and the PBAR block ACK frame 2 to the transmitting STA on the overlapped time resource through the allocated transmission resource.
- the receiving STA1 is a PBAR block through the subchannel 1.
- the ACK frame 1550 may be transmitted, and the receiving STA2 may transmit the PBAR block ACK frame 2560 through the subchannel 2.
- Each of the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 that has received the PBAR MU PPDU 1540 may transmit the PBAR block ACK frames 1 and 2 (1550 and 1560) to the transmitting STA based on the inter-frame interval SIFS.
- each of the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 receiving the PBAR MU PPDU 1540 may receive the PBAR MU PPDU 1540 and transmit the PBAR block ACK frames 1550 and 1560 to the transmitting STA after SIFS.
- 16 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an error recovery procedure based on MU transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a method is disclosed in which a transmitting STA transmits a data frame and a PBAR data frame based on MU transmission, and a plurality of receiving STAs transmit a plurality of block ACK frames and PBAR block ACK frame based on MU transmission.
- a transmitting STA is an AP STA and a receiving STA is a non-AP STA.
- a transmitting STA may transmit a DL MU PPDU 1600 including a plurality of data frames to a plurality of receiving STAs.
- the DL MU PPDU 1600 to be transmitted from the transmitting STA to the receiving STA1 may include a data frame 1 for the receiving STA1 and a data frame 2 for the receiving STA2.
- the DL MU PPDU 1600 may include information (eg, resource allocation, identification information of a receiving STA, etc.) for transmission of the block ACK frame 11610 and the block ACK frame 21620.
- the receiving STA1 may transmit the block ACK frame 11610 through the allocated resource, and the receiving STA2 may also transmit the block ACK frame 21620 through the allocated resource.
- the transmitting STA may not receive the block ACK frame 1 1610 transmitted by the STA1 and the block ACK frame 21620 transmitted by the STA2.
- the transmitting STA receives a reason for not receiving the block ACK frame 11610 and the block ACK frame 21620 and fails to transmit the block ACK frame 11610 of the receiving STA1 and fails to transmit the block ACK frame 21620 of the receiving STA2. Can be determined.
- the transmitting STA receives the reason for not receiving the block ACK frame 11610 and the block ACK frame 21620 transmitted by the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2.
- Downlink data (or receiving STA1 and receiving STA2) determined as a transmission failure of the ACK frame 21620 and held for each of the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 to be transmitted after the transmission of the unresponsive data frame (data frame 1, data frame 2). Data frames to be transmitted in each case).
- the transmitting STA may transmit a plurality of PBAR data frames to the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 based on the DL MU transmission.
- the transmitting STA may transmit a plurality of PBAR data frames to the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 based on various DL MU transmission methods.
- the transmitting STA includes a PBAR data frame 1 including PBAR information 1 and pending downlink data for STA1 and a DL MU PPDU including PBAR data frame 2 including PBAR information 2 and pending downlink data for STA2.
- the format (hereinafter, referred to as PBAR MU PPDU) 1630 may be transmitted.
- the transmitting STA may transmit the PBAR data frame 1 to the receiving STA1 through the subchannel 1 and the PBAR data frame 2 to the receiving STA2 through the subchannel 2 based on the PBAR MU PPDU 1630.
- the transmitting STA transmits the PBAR data frame 1 to the receiving STA1 on the subchannel 1 based on the PBAR MU PPDU 1630 and receives the PBAR data frame 2 on the subchannel 2 through the space time stream 2. It can transmit to STA2.
- the PBAR MU PPDU 1630 may include information for triggering transmission of the PBAR block ACK frame 1 and the PBAR block ACK frame 2.
- the PBAR MU PPDU 1630 includes UL MU transmission resource allocation information for each of a plurality of receiving STAs (eg, receiving STA1 and receiving STA2), identification information of each of the plurality of receiving STAs, and a plurality of receiving STAs, respectively.
- the PBAR MU PPDU 1630 may further include information on transmission power of the PBAR block ACK frames 1640 and 1650, STBC to be used for transmission of the PBAR block ACK frames 1640 and 1650, and information on beamforming. have.
- Each of the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 that has received the PBAR MU PPDU 1630 including the above information has a PBAR block ACK frame 1 1640 and a PBAR block ACK frame 2 1650 on the overlapped time resources through the allocated transmission resources. May be transmitted to the transmitting STA.
- the receiving STA1 is a PBAR block through the subchannel 1.
- the ACK frame 1640 may be transmitted, and the receiving STA2 may transmit the block ACK frame 2 1650 through the PBAR subchannel 2.
- Each of the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 that has received the PBAR MU PPDU 1630 may transmit the PBAR block ACK frames 1640 and 1650 to the transmitting STA based on the inter-frame interval SIFS.
- each of the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 receiving the PBAR MU PPDU 1630 may receive the PBAR MU PPDU 1630 and transmit the PBAR block ACK frames 1640 and 1650 to the transmitting STA after SIFS.
- 17 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an error recovery procedure based on MU transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a method is disclosed in which a transmitting STA transmits a data frame and a PBAR data frame based on MU transmission, and a plurality of receiving STAs transmit a plurality of block ACK frames and PBAR block ACK frames based on SU transmission.
- a transmitting STA is an AP STA and a receiving STA is a non-AP STA.
- a transmitting STA may transmit a DL MU PPDU 1700 including a plurality of data frames to a plurality of receiving STAs.
- the DL MU PPDU 1700 to be transmitted from the transmitting STA to the receiving STA1 may include a data frame 1 for the receiving STA1 and a data frame 2 for the receiving STA2.
- Each of the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 may sequentially transmit block ACK frames for the data frame 1 and the data frame 2 transmitted based on the DL MU transmission to the transmitting STA.
- Each of the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 may determine whether the receiving STA1 transmits a block ACK frame immediately after the transmission of the DL MU PPDU based on the information included in the DL MU PPDU 1700.
- an STA first indicated in identification information of a plurality of receiving STAs to receive the DL MU PPDU 1700 included in the PPDU header of the DL MU PPDU 1700 is SIFS after receiving the DL MU PPDU 1700.
- Based on the block ACK frame can be transmitted.
- the remaining STA may receive the BAR frame of the transmitting STA and transmit a block ACK frame to the transmitting STA in response to the BAR frame.
- the method may be a reception STA to transmit a block ACK frame immediately after transmission of the DL MU PPDU 1700 and a reception STA to transmit a block ACK frame in response to a BAR frame based on various methods.
- the receiving STA1 When identification information of a plurality of receiving STAs that will receive the DL MU PPDU 1700 included in the PPDU header of the DL MU PPDU 1700 indicates the receiving STA1 first, the receiving STA1 receives the DL MU PPDU 1700. Thereafter, the block ACK frame 11710 may be transmitted to the transmitting STA based on the SIFS.
- the receiving STA2 is transmitted by the transmitting STA.
- the BAR frame 1720 may be received, and the block ACK frame2 1730 may be transmitted in response to the BAR frame 1720.
- the transmitting STA may not receive the block ACK frame 1 1710 transmitted by the STA1 and the block ACK frame 21720 transmitted by the STA2.
- the transmitting STA receives the reason for not receiving the block ACK frame 11710 and the block ACK frame 2 1720 due to the transmission failure of the block ACK frame 11710 of the receiving STA1 and the transmission failure of the block ACK frame 21720 of the receiving STA2. You can decide.
- the transmitting STA receives the reason for not receiving the block ACK frame 11710 and the block ACK frame 21720 due to the failure of the transmission of the block ACK frame 11710 of the receiving STA1 and the transmission of the block ACK frame 21720 of the receiving STA2. It may have downlink data (or data frames to be transmitted to each of the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2) pending for each of the receiving STA1 and receiving STA2 to be determined and transmitted after the transmission of the unresponsive data frames (data frame 1 and data frame 2). have. In this case, the transmitting STA may transmit a plurality of PBAR data frames to the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 based on the DL MU transmission.
- the transmitting STA may transmit a plurality of PBAR data frames to the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 based on the DL MU transmission through various methods.
- the transmitting STA may include a PBAR data frame 1 including PBAR information 1 and pending data for STA1 and a DL MU PPDU format including PBAR data frame 2 including PBAR information 2 and pending data for STA2 (hereinafter, PBAR MU PPDU) 1740 may be transmitted.
- the transmitting STA may transmit the PBAR data frame 1 to the receiving STA1 through the subchannel 1 and the PBAR data frame 2 to the receiving STA2 through the subchannel 2 based on the PBAR MU PPDU 1740.
- the transmitting STA transmits the PBAR data frame 1 to the receiving STA 1 on the subchannel 1 based on the PBAR MU PPDU 1740, and receives the PBAR data frame 2 on the subchannel 2 through the space time stream 2. It can transmit to STA2.
- Each of the receiving STA1 and the receiving STA2 may determine whether the STA transmits a block ACK frame immediately after the transmission of the PBAR MU PPDU 1740 based on the information included in the PBAR MU PPDU 1740. It is assumed that the receiving STA1 is an STA to transmit a block ACK frame immediately in response to the PBAR MU PPDU 1740.
- the receiving STA1 may transmit the PBAR block ACK frame1 1750 based on the SIFS after receiving the PBAR MU PPDU 1740.
- the PBAR block ACK frame 1750 may include block ACK information for data frame 1 and PBAR data frame 1.
- the receiving STA2 may transmit the PBAR block ACK frame2 1770 based on the SIFS after receiving the BAR frame 1760 transmitted by the transmitting STA.
- the PBAR block ACK frame 2 1770 may include block ACK information for data frame 2 and PBAR data frame 2.
- 18 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an error recovery procedure based on MU transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a method in which a plurality of STAs transmit a plurality of data frames based on UL MU transmission, and an AP transmits block ACK frames for the plurality of data frames.
- the plurality of STAs may be transmission STAs for transmitting a data frame, and the AP may be reception STAs for transmitting a block ACK frame for the data frame.
- the AP may transmit a trigger frame 1800 for triggering UL MU transmission by a plurality of STAs to a plurality of STAs.
- the trigger frame 1800 may include resource allocation information for transmission of an uplink frame of each of a plurality of STAs (eg, STA1 and STA2), identification information of each of the plurality of STAs, and a plurality of STAs, respectively.
- Information on the MCS applied to each of the plurality of transmitted block ACK frames, information on the MU type (OFDMA, MIMO) of the block ACK frame transmitted by each of the plurality of STAs may be included.
- the trigger frame 1800 may further include information on the transmission power of the uplink frame of each STA, information on the STBC, beamforming to be used for transmission of the uplink frame of each STA.
- the STA1 may receive the trigger frame 1800 and transmit the data frame 1 through the allocated transmission resource (eg, the sub channel 1).
- STA2 may receive trigger frame 1 and transmit data frame 2 through the allocated transmission resource (eg, sub-channel 2).
- Data frame 1 1810 and data frame 2 1820 may be transmitted on overlapping time resources.
- the AP may receive data frame 1 1800 and data frame 2 1820 that are UL MU transmitted by STA1 and STA2.
- the AP may transmit a block ACK MU PPDU 1830 including block ACK frame 1 for data frame 1 and block ACK frame 2 for data frame 2 based on the DL MU transmission.
- each of the STA1 and the STA2 may transmit the PBAR data frame to the AP and request the block ACK information for the previously transmitted data frame 1 1810 and the data frame 2 1820 to the AP.
- the AP may transmit a trigger frame 2 1840 to STA1 and STA2 for triggering transmission of additional uplink data.
- Trigger frame 2 1840 may also include information for UL MU transmission of STA1 and STA2 such as trigger frame 1800.
- the STA1 may transmit the PBAR data frame 1 1850 in response to the trigger frame 2 1840, and the STA2 may transmit the PBAR data frame 2 1860 in response to the trigger frame 2 1840.
- PBAR data frame 1 1850 and PBAR data frame 2 1860 may be transmitted based on UL MU transmission on the overlapped time resource.
- the AP may receive the PBAR data frame 1 1850 and the PBAR data frame 2 1860 based on the UL MU PPDU format.
- the AP receives the PBAR data frame 1 1850 and the PBAR data frame 2 1860 and transmits a PBAR block ACK MU PPDU 1870 including a PBAR block ACK frame for each of STA1 and STA2 based on the DL MU transmission. Can be.
- the AP accesses the PBAR block ACK frame 1 and the data frame 2 1820 and the PBAR data frame 2 1860 including the block ACK information for the data frame 1 1810 and the PBAR data frame 1 1850 based on the MU transmission.
- the PBAR block ACK MU PPDU 1870 including the PBAR block ACK frame 2 including the block ACK information may be transmitted.
- 19 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an error recovery procedure based on MU transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a method in which a plurality of STAs transmit a plurality of data frames based on UL MU transmission, and an AP transmits block ACK frames for the plurality of data frames.
- the plurality of STAs may be transmission STAs for transmitting a data frame, and the AP may be reception STAs for transmitting a block ACK frame for the data frame.
- the procedure of the AP transmitting the block ACK MU PPDU 1900 may be the same as that of FIG. 18.
- the AP may transmit trigger frame 2 1910 including PBA information.
- STA1 and STA 2 may re-receive block ACK information for previously transmitted data frame 1 and data frame 2.
- the STA1 and the STA2 When the STA1 and the STA2 receive the block ACK information based on the trigger frame 2 1910, the STA1 and the STA2 do not transmit the PBAR data frame including the PBAR information for requesting the block ACK information for the data frame 1 and the data frame 2, General data frames (data frame 3 1920 and data frame 4 1930) may be transmitted.
- an unnecessary retransmission procedure may not be performed.
- a trigger frame including block ACK information PBA information
- the method of transmission may be more effective.
- 20 is a conceptual diagram illustrating operations of a transmitting STA and a receiving STA when performing an error recovery procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the transmitting STA may store information on the data frame for a predetermined period of time.
- the information on the data frame may include information for generating PBAR information (eg, a sequence of data units included in the data frame, an ACK policy, a TID, etc.).
- PBAR generation information e.g, a sequence of data units included in the data frame, an ACK policy, a TID, etc.
- the transmitting STA may generate and transmit the PBAR data frame 2020 based on the PBAR generation information stored for a certain period of time.
- the receiving STA may transmit the block ACK frame immediately after the reception of the data frame based on the ACK policy set to immediately transmit the ACK (block ACK).
- the receiving STA may store information on the data frame 2000 received after the transmission of the block ACK frame for a predetermined period of time. Information about the received data frame 2000 stored for a certain period of time may be expressed in terms of PBA generation information.
- the receiving STA may transmit a PBAR block ACK frame 2030 including the PBA information to the transmitting STA based on the stored PBA generation information.
- PBAR generation information and PBA generation information are separately expressed but may be the same information.
- 21 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a preset protocol for an error recovery procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the AP and the STA may determine whether to perform an error recovery procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention based on the following protocol.
- the AP receives information related to PBAR generation information and / or PBA generation information through an initial access frame (eg, beacon frame, probe response frame, combined response frame) 2100 or a separate management frame used in the initial access procedure. It may transmit to the STA.
- an initial access frame eg, beacon frame, probe response frame, combined response frame
- a separate management frame used in the initial access procedure. It may transmit to the STA.
- a new field is added to a capability field of the initial access frame 2100, and the PBAR storage duration field is information about a storage duration of PBAR generation information and / or PBA generation information. It may include.
- the information on the storage period of the PBAR generation information and / or PBA generation information may be expressed in a certain unit (for example, msec).
- the AP may inform the STA to store PBA generation information (or data frame) associated with all data frames received by the AP for 100msec through the PBAR storage period field.
- the STA may not receive the block ACK frame transmitted by the AP in response to the data frame.
- the STA determines that the reason for not receiving the block ACK frame is the transmission failure of the block ACK frame of the AP, the STA transmits the PBAR data frame based on the information on the storage period of the PBA generation information acquired through the PBAR storage period field. It may be determined whether to request a PBA block ACK frame including PBA information.
- the STA may request a PBA block ACK frame including PBA information to the AP through a PBAR data frame.
- the STA may perform an existing error recovery procedure of retransmitting the data frame to the AP.
- the STA may transmit PBAR generation information and / or PBA generation information to the STA through an initial access frame (eg, a probe request frame, a joint request frame) or a separate management frame used in the initial access procedure.
- an initial access frame eg, a probe request frame, a joint request frame
- a separate management frame used in the initial access procedure.
- information on the storage period of the PBAR generation information and / or the PBA generation information may be transmitted based on the PBAR storage period field included in the capability field of the initial access frame.
- the AP When the AP transmits a data frame and the STA transmits an ACK frame in response to the data frame, whether the AP performs an error recovery procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention based on the PBAR storage period field transmitted by the STA. It may be determined whether to perform an existing error recovery procedure.
- FIG. 22 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a DL MU PPDU according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the DL MU PPDU disclosed in FIG. 22 may deliver a plurality of data frames transmitted to a plurality of receiving STAs by an AP serving as a transmitting STA.
- the DL MU PPDU may deliver a plurality of block ACK frames transmitted to a plurality of transmitting STAs by an AP serving as a receiving STA.
- a DL MU PPDU may include a legacy PPDU header, a HE PPDU header, and a MAC payload.
- the legacy PPDU header may include L-STF, L-LTF and L-SIG.
- the L-STF 2200 may include a short training orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol.
- the L-STF 2200 may be used for frame detection, automatic gain control (AGC), diversity detection, and coarse frequency / time synchronization.
- AGC automatic gain control
- the L-LTF 2210 may include a long training orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol. L-LTF 2210 may be used for fine frequency / time synchronization and channel prediction.
- L-SIG 2220 may be used to transmit control information.
- the L-SIG 2220 may include information about a data rate and a data length.
- the HE PPDU header may include HE-SIG1 2230, HE-SIG2 2240, HE-STF 2250, HE-LTF 2260, and HE-SIG3 2270.
- the HE-SIG1 2230 may include common information (BW (bandwidth), guard interval (GI) length, BSS index, cyclic redundancy check, tail bit, etc.) for decoding the DL MU PPDU. Can be.
- BW bandwidth
- GI guard interval
- BSS index cyclic redundancy check
- tail bit etc.
- the HE-SIG1 2230 is a color bit for BSS identification, a bit indicating the total bandwidth size to which the DL MU PPDU is transmitted, a tail bit, a tail bit, a CRC bit, and a cyclic prefix (CP).
- a bit indicating the length may include a bit indicating the length.
- the bit indicating the total bandwidth size in which the DL MU PPDU is transmitted may indicate a continuous frequency resource or a discontinuous frequency resource for transmission of the DL MU PPDU.
- the HE-SIG1 2230 may further include information related to the HE-SIG2 2240.
- the HE-SIG1 2230 may further include information about the MCS applied to the HE-SIG2 2240 and information about the number of OFDM symbols allocated for the HE-SIG2 2240.
- the HE-SIG1 2230 may also include information about the space-time stream.
- the information about the space-time stream may include information about the number of space-time streams used for transmission of the MAC payload in each of a plurality of subchannels through which the DL MU PPDU is transmitted.
- the HE-SIG1 2230 may include information on beamforming of the space-time stream and information related to clear channel assessment and power control of the STA.
- the HE-SIG2 2240 may include information about each of the plurality of STAs that will receive the DL MU PPDU.
- the HE-SIG2 2240 may include identification information (eg, a partial association identifier (PAID) and a group identifier (GID)) of a plurality of STAs to receive the DL MU PPDU.
- identification information eg, a partial association identifier (PAID) and a group identifier (GID)
- the HE-SIG2 2240 may include information on resources allocated to each of the plurality of STAs to receive the DL MU PPDU.
- the HE-SIG2 2240 may include OFDMA-based resource allocation information (or MU-MIMO information) for each of the plurality of STAs that will receive the DL MU PPDU.
- the HE-SIG2 2240 is a field after the HE-SIG2 2240 transmitted to each of the plurality of STAs (eg, the HE-STF 2250, the HE-LTF 2260, and the HE-SIG3 2270).
- MAC payload 2280 MAC payload 2280.
- the HE-SIG1 2230 or the HE-SIG2 2240 may include the above-described PBAR information or PBA information.
- the HE-SIG1 2230 may be configured as a plurality of targets of the DL MU PPDU. It may include PBAR information related to a data unit transmitted to at least one STA that receives at least one PBAR data frame among the STAs.
- the AP delivers the PBAR data frame based on the DL MU PPDU and the PBAR information is included in the HE-SIG2 2240
- the HE-SIG2 2240 is a transmission resource of the HE-SIG2 2240.
- Channel may include only PBAR information related to a data unit transmitted to an STA that receives a PBAR data frame.
- the HE-SIG1 2230 is at least one. It may include PBA information related to a data unit transmitted by at least one STA that receives the PBAR block ACK frame.
- the HE-SIG2 2240 is a transmission resource of the HE-SIG2 2240 (eg, It may include only PBA information related to the data unit transmitted by the STA that receives the PBAR block ACK frame through the subchannel).
- the HE-STF 2250 may be used to improve automatic gain control estimation in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) environment or an OFDMA environment.
- the HE-STF 2250 may be used for automatic gain control estimation and channel estimation for decoding of a field after being transmitted in the same subchannel to which the HE-STF 2250 is transmitted.
- the HE-LTF 2260 may be used to estimate a channel in a MIMO environment or an OFDMA environment.
- the HE-LTF 2260 may be used for channel estimation for decoding of a field after being transmitted in the same subchannel to which the HE-LTF 2260 is transmitted.
- the HE-SIG3 2270 may include information for decoding the MAC payload.
- Information for decoding the MAC payload may include MCS, Coding, space time block coding (STBC), transmit beamforming (TXBF), and the like.
- the HE-SIG3 2270 includes information on an MCS applied to a MAC payload transmitted in the same subchannel as the HE-SIG3 2270 transmitted, and an STBC and TXBF used to transmit the MAC payload. Information may be included.
- Information included in the HE-SIG3 2270 may be included in the HE-SIG2 2240, and in this case, the HE-SIG3 2270 may not be included as a separate field in the DL MU PPDU.
- Each of the plurality of MAC payloads included in the DL MU PPDU may include downlink data to be transmitted to the STA.
- the MAC payload may include a MAC header and an MSDU (or MAC body).
- the MAC header receives a duration / ID field including information on time resources for the transmission procedure of the DL MU PPDU, an identifier of the transmitting STA that transmitted the MAC payload (or frame), and a MAC payload (or frame). It may include an identifier of the STA.
- the MSDU may include downlink data.
- the MAC header or MSDU may include the aforementioned PBAR information or PBA information.
- the L-STF 2200, the L-LTF 2210, the L-SIG 2220, and the HE-SIG1 2230 are configured in a plurality of sub-channel units (or Channel unit).
- the HE-SIG1 2230 encoded in a plurality of subchannel units (or channel units) may be transmitted in a duplicate format over the entire bandwidth.
- the duplicate format may be generated based on replication and duplication of fields transmitted on a specific band.
- fields of a specific band may be replicated or duplicated so that the duplicated fields may be transmitted on a plurality of bands.
- the L-STF 2200, L-LTF 2210, L-SIG 2220, and HE-SIG1 2230 may be encoded and transmitted on a channel including subchannel 1 and subchannel 2. If the total bandwidth over which the DL MU PPDU is transmitted includes a plurality of channels, other channels including L-STF 2200, L-LTF 2210, L-SIG 2220, and other subchannels encoded on a channel basis. It can also be sent on. In addition, when the entire band allocated to the MU PPDU includes a plurality of channels, the HE-SIG1 2230 encoded in units of channels may be copied and transmitted on another channel including other subchannels.
- the HE-SIG2 2240 may be encoded and transmitted on the entire band allocated to the DL MU PPDU. For example, when the entire band allocated to the DL MU PPDU is 40 MHz, the HE-SIG2 2240 may be encoded and transmitted in the 40 MHz band. In FIG. 20, it is assumed that the entire band allocated to the DL MU PPDU is 20 MHz. According to another embodiment of the present invention, the HE-SIG2 2240 may be encoded and transmitted in units of channels on the entire band allocated to the DL MU PPDU. For example, when the band size of the channel is 20MHz, the HE-SIG2 2240 may be encoded and transmitted in a band unit of 20MHz.
- the HE-SIG2 2240 may include only information on a STA group that receives a DL MU PPDU on a specific channel among a plurality of STAs that receive a DL MU PPDU. .
- the HE-SIG2 2240 may include identification information of a STA included in a STA group that receives a DL MU PPDU on a channel through which the HE-SIG2 2240 is transmitted, and resource allocation information for the STA included in the STA group. Can be.
- the HE-STF 2250, the HE-LTF 2260, and the HE-SIG3 2270 are encoded and transmitted on frequency resources (subchannels) allocated to each of a plurality of STAs receiving downlink data through a DL MU PPDU. Can be. For example, it may be assumed that each of subchannel 1 and subchannel 2 is allocated to each of STA1 and STA2. In this case, the HE-STF 2250, the HE-LTF 2260, and the HE-SIG3 2270 may be encoded in each of the subchannel 1 and the subchannel 2 and transmitted to the STA1 and the STA2, respectively.
- the HE-STF 2250, HE-LTF 2260 and HE-SIG3 2270 transmitted on each of subchannel 1 and subchannel 2 are individually trained for decoding of the MAC payload 2280 of each of STA1 and STA2. It may include field information and control information.
- STA1 and STA2 may receive the L-STF 2200, the L-LTF 2210, the L-SIG 2220, and the HE-SIG 2230 through the first channel or the second channel.
- L-STF 2200, L-LTF 2210 may be used for decoding of L-SIG 2220 and HE-SIG1 2230 and HE-SIG2 2240.
- STA1 and STA2 obtain information about the total bandwidth (eg, 40 MHz) to which the HE-SIG2 2240 is transmitted based on the bandwidth information included in the HE-SIG1 2230 and transmit the HE-SIG2 transmitted over the entire bandwidth. Decoding may be performed for 2240.
- Each of STA1 and STA2 obtains information about resources (eg, subchannels) allocated to each of STA1 and STA2 included in the HE-SIG2 2240, and transmits the information to the HE-STF 2250 transmitted on the allocated subchannels.
- the HE-LTF 2260, the HE-SIG3 2270, and the MAC payload 2280 may be received.
- the HE-STF 2250 and the HE-LTF 2260 may be used for channel estimation for decoding of the HE-SIG3 2270 and the MAC payload 2280.
- Each of STA1 and STA2 may perform decoding on the MAC payload 2280 transmitted on the allocated subchannels based on the HE-STF 2250, the HE-LTF 2260, and the HE-SIG3 2270.
- FIG. 23 illustrates a UL MU PPDU according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a UL MU PPDU format transmitted by a plurality of UL MU target STAs on an entire band allocated to a plurality of UL MU target STAs is disclosed.
- the UL MU PPDU disclosed in FIG. 23 is disclosed in terms of an AP. That is, the UL MU PPDU disclosed in FIG. 23 may include each of a plurality of UL MU PPDUs transmitted by each of a plurality of UL MU target STAs.
- the UL MU target STA indicates the STA that transmits the UL MU PPDU.
- the UL MU PPDU disclosed in FIG. 23 may deliver a data frame transmitted to an AP by a plurality of STAs serving as transmitting STAs.
- the UL MU PPDU disclosed in FIG. 21 may deliver a block ACK frame transmitted to an AP by a plurality of STAs serving as receiving STAs.
- a UL MU PPDU may include a PPDU header (legacy PPDU header, HE PPDU header) and a MAC payload.
- the legacy PPDU header may include an L-STF 2300, an L-LTF 2310, and an L-SIG 2320.
- Each of the L-STF 2300, L-LTF 2310, and L-SIG 2320 of the UL MU PPDU may play the same role as each of the L-STF, L-LTF, and L-SIG of the DL MU PPDU.
- L-STF 2300 and L-LTF 2310 may then be used for channel prediction for decoding of the transmitted field.
- the L-SIG 2320 may include control information such as information on a data rate and a data length.
- the HE PPDU header may include a HE-SIG1 2330, a HE-STF 2340, a HE-LTF 2350, and a HE-SIG3 2360.
- the HE-SIG1 2330 may include common information (BW, GI length, BSS index, cyclic redundancy check, tail bit, etc.) for decoding the UL MU PPDU.
- the HE-SIG1 2330 may include a color bit for BSS identification, a bit indicating a total bandwidth size through which a UL MU PPDU is transmitted, a tail bit, a CRC bit, and a bit indicating a CP (or GI) length. Can be.
- Some information included in the HE-SIG1 2330 may be determined based on control information for UL MU transmission included in the trigger frame.
- the L-STF 2300, the L-LTF 2310, the L-SIG 2320, and the HE-SIG1 2330 may be encoded and transmitted in units of channels.
- a 20 MHz channel is assumed, and an L-STF 2300, an L-LTF 2310, an L-SIG 2320, and an HE-SIG1 2330 may be encoded and transmitted in units of 20 MHz.
- the HE-SIG2 2340 may be encoded and transmitted over the entire bandwidth.
- the total bandwidth may be the total frequency bandwidth allocated for transmission of UL MU PPDUs of each of the plurality of UL MU target STAs by a trigger frame.
- the total bandwidth is 20 MHz
- the HE-SIG2 2340 is encoded and transmitted in units of 20 MHz.
- the HE-SIG2 2340 may include information about each of the plurality of UL MU target STAs transmitting the UL MU PPDU based on the trigger frame. For example, the HE-SIG2 2340 may include identification information (eg, PAID and GID) of a plurality of UL MU target STAs for transmitting the UL MU PPDU. In addition, the HE-SIG2 2340 transmits the HE-STF 2350, the HE-LTF 2360, the HE-SIG3 2370, and the MAC payload 2380 of each of the plurality of UL MU target STAs on the UL MU PPDU.
- identification information eg, PAID and GID
- the UL MU target STA may generate the HE-SIG2 2340 based on information included in the trigger frame (for example, resource information allocated to the UL MU target STA identification information).
- the HE-SIG1 2330 or the HE-SIG2 2340 may include the above-described PBAR information or PBA information.
- the HE-SIG1 ( 2330 may include PBAR information related to a data unit transmitted by at least one UL MU target STA that transmits at least one PBAR data frame.
- the HE-SIG2 2340 is the HE-SIG2. It may include only PBAR information related to a data unit transmitted by a UL MU target STA that transmits a PBAR data frame through a transmission resource (eg, a subchannel) of 2340.
- the HE-SIG1 2330 When at least one UL MU target STA among the plurality of UL MU target STAs transmits at least one PBAR block ACK frame based on the MU PPDU and the PBA information is included in the HE-SIG1 2330, the HE-SIG1 2330. May include PBA information related to a data unit received by at least one UL MU target STA transmitting at least one PBAR block ACK frame.
- the HE-SIG2 2340 When at least one UL MU target STA of the plurality of UL MU target STAs transmits at least one PBAR block ACK frame based on the UL MU PPDU and PBA information is included in the HE-SIG2 2340, the HE-SIG2 2340.
- the HE-SIG2 2340 may also be encoded and transmitted in units of channels, and the identification information of the UL MU target STA allocated to the subchannel included in the channel and the subchannels included in the channel, respectively Only allocation information of may be included.
- the UL MU PPDU may not include the HE-SIG2 2340.
- Information indicating each of the plurality of UL MU target STAs and resource allocation information for each of the plurality of UL MU target STAs may be transmitted through a trigger frame transmitted by the AP.
- Information indicating each of the plurality of UL MU target STAs and resource allocation information for each of the plurality of UL MU target STAs are information determined by the AP. Accordingly, the AP does not need to receive information indicating each of the plurality of UL MU target STAs and resource allocation information for each of the plurality of UL MU target STAs through the HE-SIG2 2340.
- the UL MU PPDU may not include the HE-SIG2 2340.
- the HE-STF 2340, the HE-LTF 2350, and the HE-SIG3 2360 and the MAC payload 2370 may be encoded and transmitted on each of a plurality of subchannels.
- Each of the HE-STF 2340 and the HE-LTF 2350 of the UL MU PPDU may play the same role as each of the HE-STF and HE-LTF of the DL MU PPDU.
- the HE-STF 2340 and the HE-LTF 2350 are channels for decoding a field after being transmitted on the same subchannel on which the HE-STF 2340 and the HE-LTF 2350 are transmitted. Can be used for prediction.
- the HE-SIG3 2360 may include information for decoding the MAC payload 2370.
- Information for decoding the MAC payload 2370 may include MCS, Coding, STBC, TXBF, and the like.
- the HE-SIG3 2360 transmitted through each of the plurality of subchannels is used to transmit information about the MCS applied to the MAC payload 2370 and the MAC payload 2370 transmitted through each of the plurality of subchannels. It may include information on the used STBC, TXBF.
- a UL MU PPDU including the HE-SIG3 2360 is assumed, but information (MCS, Coding, STBC, TXBF, etc.) included in the HE-SIG3 2360 is determined by the AP and transmitted through a trigger frame. The same information may be the same. Therefore, the HE-SIG3 2360 may not be included in the UL MU PPDU.
- the MAC payload 2370 may include uplink data of the UL MU target STA triggered by the AP.
- the MAC payload may include a MAC header and an MSDU (or MAC body).
- the MAC header or MSDU may include the aforementioned PBAR information or PBA information.
- the AP allocates each of subchannel 1 and subchannel 2 to each of the UL MU target STA1 and the UL MU target STA2 based on the trigger frame to trigger uplink transmission.
- the AP may receive the L-STF 2300, the L-LTF 2310, the L-SIG 2320, and the HE-SIG1 2330 transmitted on the channel.
- the AP receives the HE-STF 2340, the HE-LTF 2350, the HE-SIG3 2360, and the MAC payload 2370 transmitted by the STA1 and the STA2 through the subchannel 1 and the subchannel 2, respectively. Can be received.
- 24 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an UL MU PPDU transmitted by an UL MU target STA according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a UL MU PPDU transmitted by one UL MU target STA among a plurality of UL MU target STAs is disclosed.
- the UL MU PPDU disclosed in FIG. 22 is disclosed from the viewpoint of the STA. That is, the UL MU PPDU disclosed in FIG. 24 may be a UL MU PPDU transmitted by one UL MU target STA.
- an AP triggers UL transmission by allocating subchannel 1 and subchannel 2 to each of UL MU target STA1 and UL MU target STA2 based on a trigger frame.
- the UL MU target STA1 may transmit a UL MU PPDU1 in response to a trigger frame.
- the UL MU PPDU1 may include a data frame transmitted by the UL MU target STA1.
- the UL MU PPDU1 includes the L-STF 2400, the L-LTF 2410, the L-SIG 2420, the HE-SIG1 2430, and the HE-SIG2 2440 transmitted on the channel and the subchannel 1 included in the channel.
- the UL MU target STA2 may transmit the UL MU PPDU2 in response to the trigger frame.
- the UL MU PPDU2 includes the L-STF, L-LTF, L-SIG, HE-SIG1 and HE-SIG2 transmitted on the channel, and the HE-STF, HE-LTF, HE-SIG3 and sub-channel 2 included in the channel. It may include a MAC payload.
- L-STF 2400, L-LTF 2410, L-SIG 2420 and HE-SIG1 2430 and HE-SIG2 2440 and UL MU target STA2 transmitted by UL MU target STA1 L-STF, L-LTF, L-SIG, HE-SIG1, and HE-SIG2 may contain the same information and may be transmitted on the same channel.
- Each of -LTF, L-SIG, and HE-SIG1 includes different information, and may be coded by different orthogonal codes and transmitted on the same channel.
- 25 is a block diagram illustrating a wireless device to which an embodiment of the present invention can be applied.
- the AP 2500 includes a processor 2510, a memory 2520, and an RF unit 2530.
- the RF unit 2530 may be connected to the processor 2510 to transmit / receive a radio signal.
- the processor 2510 may implement the functions, processes, and / or methods proposed in the present invention.
- the processor 2510 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 24.
- the processor 2510 when the AP acting as a transmitting STA transmits a data frame to the receiving STA, and the AP does not receive a block ACK frame for the data frame from the receiving STA, the processor 2510 indicates a reason for not receiving the data frame. Can be implemented to determine. In addition, when the AP determines that the reason for not receiving the data frame is a transmission failure of the block ACK frame after receiving the data frame of the receiving STA, the processor 2510 transmits a PBAR data frame to the receiving STA, and It may be implemented to receive a PBAR block ACK frame from the receiving STA in response.
- the PBAR data frame may include information for requesting a first block ACK bitmap for the data frame, and the PBAR block ACK frame may include a first block ACK bitmap for the data frame.
- the STA 2550 includes a processor 2560, a memory 2570, and an RF unit 2580.
- the RF unit 2580 may be connected to the processor 2560 to transmit / receive a radio signal.
- the processor 2560 may implement the functions, processes, and / or methods proposed in the present invention.
- the processor 2520 may be implemented to perform the operation of the STA according to the above-described embodiment of the present invention.
- the processor 2560 may perform an operation of the STA in the embodiments of FIGS. 1 to 24.
- the processor 2560 may be implemented such that an STA operating as a receiving STA receives a PBAR data frame and transmits a block ACK frame including PBA information based on the PBAR information.
- Processors 2510 and 2560 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 2520 and 2570 may include read-only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), flash memory, memory cards, storage media, and / or other storage devices.
- the RF unit 2530 and 2580 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 2520 and 2570 and executed by the processors 2510 and 2560.
- the memories 2520 and 2570 may be inside or outside the processors 2510 and 2560, and may be connected to the processors 2510 and 2560 by various well-known means.
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- 무선랜에서 에러 회복 방법은,
전송 STA(station)이 데이터 프레임을 수신 STA으로 전송하는 단계;
상기 전송 STA이 상기 수신 STA으로부터 상기 데이터 프레임에 대한 블록 ACK(acknowledgement) 프레임을 수신하지 못한 경우, 상기 데이터 프레임의 미수신의 이유를 결정하는 단계;
상기 전송 STA이 상기 데이터 프레임의 미수신의 이유를 상기 수신 STA의 상기 데이터 프레임의 수신 후 상기 블록 ACK 프레임의 전송 실패로 결정하는 경우, PBAR(previous block acknowledgement request) 데이터 프레임을 상기 수신 STA으로 전송하는 단계; 및
상기 전송 STA이 상기 PBAR 데이터 프레임에 대한 응답으로 상기 수신 STA으로부터 PBAR(previous block acknowledgement response) 블록 ACK 프레임을 수신하는 단계를 포함하되,
상기 PBAR 데이터 프레임은 상기 데이터 프레임에 대한 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵을 요청하기 위한 정보를 포함하고,
상기 PBAR 블록 ACK 프레임은 상기 데이터 프레임에 대한 상기 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵을 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는 방법. - 제1항에 있어서,
상기 PBAR 데이터 프레임은 PBAR(previous block acknowledgement request) 정보를 포함하고,
상기 PBAR 정보는 블록 ACK 시작 시퀀스 필드를 포함하고,
상기 블록 ACK 시작 시퀀스 필드는 상기 데이터 프레임에 포함된 복수의 데이터 단위 중 상기 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵의 첫번째 비트에 대응될 데이터 단위의 시퀀스 번호에 대한 정보를 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는 방법. - 제2항에 있어서,
상기 PBAR 데이터 프레임은 TID 정보 필드를 더 포함하고,
상기 TID 정보 필드는 TID 정보를 포함하고,
상기 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵은 상기 데이터 프레임에 포함된 복수의 데이터 단위 중 상기 TID 정보에 대응되는 데이터 단위에 대한 ACK 정보만 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는 방법. - 제1항에 있어서,
상기 PBAR 블록 ACK 프레임은 PBA(previous block acknowledgement) 정보 및 제2 블록 ACK 비트맵을 포함하고,
상기 PBA 정보는 블록 ACK 시퀀스 필드 및 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵 필드를 포함하고,
상기 블록 ACK 시퀀스 필드는 상기 데이터 프레임에 포함된 복수의 데이터 단위 중 상기 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵의 첫번째 비트에 대응될 데이터 단위의 시퀀스 번호에 대한 정보를 포함하고,
상기 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵 필드는 상기 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵을 포함하고,
상기 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵은 상기 데이터 프레임에 포함된 상기 복수의 데이터 단위에 대한 복수의 ACK 정보를 포함하고,
상기 제2 블록 ACK 비트맵 필드는 상기 PBAR 데이터 프레임에 포함된 복수의 데이터 단위에 대한 복수의 ACK 정보를 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는 방법. - 제4항에 있어서,
상기 PBAR 블록 ACK 프레임은 TID 정보 필드를 더 포함하고,
상기 TID 정보 필드는 TID 정보를 포함하고,
상기 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵은 상기 데이터 프레임에 포함된 복수의 데이터 단위 중 상기 TID 정보에 대응되는 데이터 단위에 대한 ACK 정보만을 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는 방법. - 무선랜에서 데이터 단위를 전송하는 전송 STA(station)에 있어서, 상기 전송 STA는
무선 신호를 송신 또는 수신하기 위해 구현되는 RF(radio frequency) 부; 및
상기 RF부와 동작 가능하게(operatively) 연결된 프로세서를 포함하되,
상기 프로세서는 데이터 프레임을 수신 STA으로 전송하고,
상기 수신 STA으로부터 상기 데이터 프레임에 대한 블록 ACK(acknowledgement) 프레임을 수신하지 못한 경우, 상기 데이터 프레임의 미수신의 이유를 결정하고,
상기 데이터 프레임의 미수신의 이유를 상기 수신 STA의 상기 데이터 프레임의 수신 후 상기 블록 ACK 프레임의 전송 실패로 결정하는 경우, PBAR(previous block acknowledgement request) 데이터 프레임을 상기 수신 STA으로 전송하고,
상기 PBAR 데이터 프레임에 대한 응답으로 상기 수신 STA으로부터 PBAR(previous block acknowledgement response) 블록 ACK 프레임을 수신하도록 구현되되,
상기 PBAR 데이터 프레임은 상기 데이터 프레임에 대한 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵을 요청하기 위한 정보를 포함하고,
상기 PBAR 블록 ACK 프레임은 상기 데이터 프레임에 대한 상기 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵을 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는 전송 STA. - 제6항에 있어서,
상기 PBAR 데이터 프레임은 PBAR(previous block acknowledgement request) 정보를 포함하고,
상기 PBAR 정보는 블록 ACK 시작 시퀀스 필드를 포함하고,
상기 블록 ACK 시작 시퀀스 필드는 상기 데이터 프레임에 포함된 복수의 데이터 단위 중 상기 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵의 첫번째 비트에 대응될 데이터 단위의 시퀀스 번호에 대한 정보를 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는 전송 STA. - 제7항에 있어서,
상기 PBAR 데이터 프레임은 TID 정보 필드를 더 포함하고,
상기 TID 정보 필드는 TID 정보를 포함하고,
상기 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵은 상기 데이터 프레임에 포함된 복수의 데이터 단위 중 상기 TID 정보에 대응되는 데이터 단위에 대한 ACK 정보만 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는 전송 STA. - 제6항에 있어서,
상기 PBAR 블록 ACK 프레임은 PBA(previous block acknowledgement) 정보 및 제2 블록 ACK 비트맵을 포함하고,
상기 PBA 정보는 블록 ACK 시퀀스 필드 및 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵 필드를 포함하고,
상기 블록 ACK 시퀀스 필드는 상기 데이터 프레임에 포함된 복수의 데이터 단위 중 상기 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵의 첫번째 비트에 대응될 데이터 단위의 시퀀스 번호에 대한 정보를 포함하고,
상기 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵 필드는 상기 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵을 포함하고,
상기 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵은 상기 데이터 프레임에 포함된 상기 복수의 데이터 단위에 대한 복수의 ACK 정보를 포함하고,
상기 제2 블록 ACK 비트맵 필드는 상기 PBAR 데이터 프레임에 포함된 복수의 데이터 단위에 대한 복수의 ACK 정보를 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는 전송 STA. - 제9항에 있어서,
상기 PBAR 블록 ACK 프레임은 TID 정보 필드를 더 포함하고,
상기 TID 정보 필드는 TID 정보를 포함하고,
상기 제1 블록 ACK 비트맵은 상기 데이터 프레임에 포함된 복수의 데이터 단위 중 상기 TID 정보에 대응되는 데이터 단위에 대한 ACK 정보만을 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는 전송 STA.
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