Patent ID: 9713169
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for controlling startup of a request to send/clear to send (RTS/CTS) mechanism, comprising: obtaining, with a processor, a noisy level of a channel based on the number of first data received by a first terminal in a first period, where the first terminal is a station (STA) or an access point (AP) in a wireless network, and the first data comprise aggregation frames or non-aggregation frames; and if the noisy level of the channel is greater than or equal to a noisy level threshold, controlling, with the processor, the first terminal to start up the RTS/CTS mechanism when the first terminal transmits data in a second period, and transmitting data using the RTS/CTS mechanism in the second period, where the second period is following and adjacent to the first period along a time axis.