Patent ID: 11871447
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, the method comprising:
performing, by a first station (STA) affiliated with a Multi-link device (MLD), channel access,
wherein the first STA operates on a first link that is a part of a non-simultaneous transmit and receive (NSTR) link pair for the MLD,
wherein the MLD includes a second STA operating on a second link of the NSTR link pair of the MLD; and
determining, by the first STA, whether to initiate transmission on the first link based on a back-off counter of the first STA and a condition related to the second STA,
wherein based on the back-off counter of the first STA reaching zero (0) and the condition related to the second STA being that the second STA obtains a transmission opportunity on the second link, the first STA determines to initiate the transmission.