Patent ID: 9596682
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of multi user multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, the method being performed by a transmitting device and comprising: generating, by the transmitting device, an Aggregate-Medium Access Control Protocol Data Unit (A-MPDU) including an A-MPDU subframe, the A-MPDU subframe including a Medium Access Control Protocol Data Unit (MPDU) delimiter field; selecting, by the transmitting device, a type of a guard interval to be applied to the A-MPDU among a short guard interval and a long guard interval, wherein when the A-MPDU is generated for a plurality of receiving devices, the transmitting device selects the short guard interval only if all of the plurality of receiving devices support the short guard interval; and transmitting, by the transmitting device, the A-MPDU by using the selected guard interval, wherein the MPDU delimiter field includes a null field and an MPDU length field, the null field indicates a corresponding A-MPDU subframe is used to pad the A-MPDU, and the MPDU length field indicates a length of an MPDU of the corresponding A-MPDU subframe, and wherein the null field is a 1-bit information field and a value of the null field is set to ‘1’ when the corresponding A-MPDU subframe is used to pad the A-MPDU.