Patent ID: 9706577
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by one or more processors of a user station (STA) to perform operations for communication, the operations to configure the one or more processors to: receive a beacon frame that indicates a sequence of random access trigger frames (FTs) and scheduled access TFs to be transmitted by an access point (AP), the TFs indicating timings for one or more uplink transmission periods; determine, based on one or more TF cascade types included in the beacon frame, a first random access TF that is followed immediately by a second random access TF in the sequence, transmit a first portion of an uplink traffic message during a first uplink transmission period indicated by the first random access TF and transmit a second portion of the uplink traffic message during a second uplink transmission period indicated by the second random access TF.