US 12,082,242 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)
Appl. No. 17/773,767
Filed by LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
PCT Filed Oct. 28, 2020, PCT No. PCT/KR2020/014771
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 13, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/085994, PCT Pub. Date May 6, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0136862 (KR), filed on Oct. 30, 2019; and application No. 10-2020-0101887 (KR), filed on Aug. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0394759 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 74/04 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 74/04 (2013.01) [H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method in a wireless local area network, WLAN, system, the method comprising:
performing, by a non-simultaneous transmit and receive, non-STR, device, channel access on a first link and a second link; and
determining, by the non-STR device, whether to transmit a first physical protocol data unit PPDU, based on a channel access procedure on the first link and a channel access procedure on the second link,
wherein based on a back-off counter of the first link reaching zero (0) and a back-off counter of the second link reaching zero (0), the non-STR device determines to transmit the first PPDU through the first link.