Patent ID: 11963224
Assignee: SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 44:
45. A method of wireless communication in a network, comprising:
(a) performing wireless communications from a wireless station (STA) operating as either an Access Point (AP) or a non-AP STA to other wireless stations (STAs), which are either APs or non-AP STAs, on a wireless local area network (WLAN) in which packets carry frames;
(b) initiating a non-zero backoff procedure by setting a backoff counter to a random value greater than or equal to at least one backoff slot in starting to contend for a channel;
(c) counting down said backoff counter depending on channel conditions;
(d) accessing the channel when the backoff counter reaches zero; and
(e) wherein either said station or an AP determines whether or not to enable a non-zero backoff procedure for one or more Access Classes (ACs).