Patent ID: 11943750
Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A wireless communication terminal for accessing a plurality of contention-based channels, the terminal comprising: a wireless communication module; and a processor coupled to a memory, wherein the processor is configured to: perform backoff procedure for a plurality of channels, wherein each of a plurality of backoff counters individually corresponding to a respective channel of the plurality of channels is selected, and wherein an initial value of each of the plurality of backoff counters is set based on a common backoff counter used by the wireless communication terminal for multi-channel access, and perform multi-channel transmission through the plurality of channels based on the backoff procedure using the plurality of backoff counters, wherein the multi-channel transmission is performed through the plurality of channels when the plurality of backoff counters are ‘0’.