US 11,871,447 B2
Channel access in multi-link
Insun Jang, Seoul (KR); Jeongki Kim, Seoul (KR); Jinsoo Choi, Seoul (KR); Suhwook Kim, Seoul (KR); Namyeong Kim, Seoul (KR); Sungjin Park, Seoul (KR); and Taewon Song, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed by LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Jun. 15, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/210,542.
Application 18/210,542 is a continuation of application No. 17/773,767, previously published as PCT/KR2020/014771, filed on Oct. 28, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0136862 (KR), filed on Oct. 30, 2019; and application No. 10-2020-010887 (KR), filed on Aug. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0328774 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 74/04 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 74/04 (2013.01) [H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, the method comprising:
performing, by a first station (STA) affiliated with a Multi-link device (MLD), channel access,
wherein the first STA operates on a first link that is a part of a non-simultaneous transmit and receive (NSTR) link pair for the MLD,
wherein the MLD includes a second STA operating on a second link of the NSTR link pair of the MLD; and
determining, by the first STA, whether to initiate transmission on the first link based on a back-off counter of the first STA and a condition related to the second STA,
wherein based on the back-off counter of the first STA reaching zero (0) and the condition related to the second STA being that the second STA obtains a transmission opportunity on the second link, the first STA determines to initiate the transmission.