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

Claim 10:
11. 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: receiving a signal from a base station according to multi-channel access procedure through a plurality of channels, wherein the multi-channel access procedure for each of the plurality of channels is performed based on a backoff counter individually corresponding among the plurality of backoff counters, wherein an initially 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 wherein the signal is received through an at least one channel when an at least one backoff counter for the at least one channel corresponding to the terminal among the plurality of channels is ‘0’.