CPC H04B 7/0626 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0413 (2013.01); H04W 72/04 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01)] | 9 Claims |
1. A method for joint sounding by a client with a master access point (AP) and a slave AP, comprising:
receiving a message from the master AP;
applying network allocation vector (NAV) rules to update NAV values, wherein the received message which is identified as inter-BSS causes an intra-basic service set (BSS) NAV to be set based on the updated NAV values when a transmit address (TA) of the received message has a prespecified value;
receiving a first trigger frame identified as inter-BSS, the trigger frame having a TA with the prespecified value; and
transmitting a first channel state information (CSI) to the master AP when the channel is idle based on the updated NAV values of the intra-BSS NAV in response to the trigger frame.
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