Invention Grant
- Patent Title: QoS management for multi-user EDCA transmission mode in 802.11ax networks
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Application No.: US16343735Application Date: 2017-10-27
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Publication No.: US11032852B2Publication Date: 2021-06-08
- Inventor: Pascal Viger , Stéphane Baron , Patrice Nezou
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon U.S.A., Inc. IP Division
- Priority: GB1618262 20161028
- International Application: PCT/EP2017/077611 WO 20171027
- International Announcement: WO2018/078101 WO 20180503
- Main IPC: H04W74/08
- IPC: H04W74/08 ; H04W28/02 ; H04W72/12 ; H04W74/02 ; H04W84/18 ; H04L5/00 ; H04W84/12

Abstract:
The invention relates to wireless network comprising an access point and non-AP stations. The station has traffic queues and associated a backoff counters which are decremented over time upon continuously sensing the medium as free during more than respective AIFS durations. To compensate additional opportunities provided by OFDMA RUs, a queue switches to an MU mode upon transmitting its data in an RU provided by the AP. To restore dynamicity of the backoff counters, frozen in the MU mode in the known techniques, embodiments provide the following at each expiry of one of the queue backoff counters: the current mode of the expiring traffic queue is determined; in case of legacy mode, the station accesses the channel to transmit data from the queue; whereas in case of MU mode, a new backoff value is drawn to reset the expiring backoff counter, without having data from the queue being transmitted.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190274171A1 QoS MANAGEMENT FOR MULTI-USER EDCA TRANSMISSION MODE IN 802.11AX NETWORKS Public/Granted day:2019-09-05
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