| CPC H04W 74/0808 (2013.01) [H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] | 12 Claims |

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1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a station (STA), a trigger frame from an access point (AP), wherein the trigger frame includes a resource unit (RU) allocation subfield for a trigger-based (TB) physical protocol data unit (PPDU), wherein a value of the RU allocation subfield is set for an assigned RU for the STA;
determining, by the STA, whether the assigned RU includes at least one 20 MHz subchannel which is considered busy based on a clear channel assessment (CCA), wherein the CCA is performed in units of 20 MHz; and
transmitting, by the STA to the AP, the TB PPDU, wherein the TB PPDU is punctured based on the determining,
wherein the TB PPDU includes a legacy signal (L-SIG) field, a repeated L-SIG (RL-SIG) field which is contiguous to the L-SIG field, and a control signal (SIG) field which is contiguous to the RL-SIG field,
wherein the L-SIG field includes a length field which is set to a value satisfying a condition that a remainder is zero when the length field is divided by three,
wherein the control SIG field includes a physical (PHY) version identifier having a length of three bits and identifying a PHY version of the TB PPDU.
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