US 12,425,963 B2
Technique for performing multi-link communication in wireless communication system
Namyeong Kim, Seoul (KR); Jeongki Kim, Seoul (KR); Jinsoo Choi, Seoul (KR); Sungjin Park, Seoul (KR); Taewon Song, Seoul (KR); and Insun Jang, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Appl. No. 17/905,755
Filed by LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
PCT Filed Mar. 11, 2021, PCT No. PCT/KR2021/003035
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 6, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/182892, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0030401 (KR), filed on Mar. 11, 2020; application No. 10-2020-0050199 (KR), filed on Apr. 24, 2020; application No. 10-2020-0051645 (KR), filed on Apr. 28, 2020; application No. 10-2020-0068588 (KR), filed on Jun. 5, 2020; and application No. 10-2020-0070425 (KR), filed on Jun. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0115361 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 52/0216 (2013.01) [H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a non-access point (non-AP) multi-link device (MLD) in a wireless local area network system, the method comprising:
receiving, by a first non-AP station (STA) affiliated with the non-AP MLD, a first management frame on a first link, wherein the first non-AP STA operates on the first link, wherein a second non-AP STA is further affiliated with the non-AP MLD, wherein the second non-AP STA operates on a second link, the first management frame includes a first information field related to whether the first link and the second link form a simultaneous transmit and receive (STR) link pair or a non-STR link pair and a second information field related to at least one traffic identifier (TID) being mapping to at least one of the first link and the second link;
based on the first management frame, transmitting, by the first non-AP STA, a request frame for switching an operating channel from the first link to the second link,
wherein the request frame is included in a physical protocol data unit (PPDU), wherein the PPDU includes a legacy signal (L-SIG) field, a repeated L-SIG (RL-SIG) field being contiguous to the L-SIG field, and a first signal field being contiguous to the RL-SIG field,
wherein the L-SIG field includes a length field, and a value of the length field is set to satisfy a condition that a remainder is zero (0) when the value of the length field is divided by three (3), and
wherein the first SIG field includes first information related to a PPDU type, second information related to an identifier of a basic service set (BSS), third information indicating duration information related to the TXOP, fourth information related to whether the PPDU is sent in uplink (UL) or in downlink (DL), fifth information related to a bandwidth, and sixth information having a length of 3 bits and indicating a physical (PHY) version of the PPDU,
wherein the request frame includes a first sub-field includes a medium access control (MAC) address of a second AP operating on the second link, a second sub-field includes an association identifier (AID) to be used for the first non-AP STA after switching from the first link to the second link, a third sub-field indicating at least one TID to be used for the second link, and a fourth sub-field having a timing synchronization function (TFS) value to be used for the second AP; and
in response to the request frame, receiving, by the first non-AP STA, a response frame related to switching the operating channel.