Patent ID: 9215740
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of generating a control packet by a first apparatus which supports dynamic tone pairing (DTP) and which communicates with a second apparatus via a plurality of medium access control (MAC) layers, the method comprising: generating a control packet including a DTP reception setup information field that enables the second apparatus to determine whether to transmit DTP information for each of the plurality of links or one piece of DTP information for all links to the first apparatus in response to the control packet; transmitting the generated control packet by the first apparatus to the second apparatus; receiving the DTP information for each of the plurality of links from the second apparatus in response to the DTP reception setup information field indicating to transmit the DTP information for each of the plurality of links; and receiving the one piece of DTP information for all the links to the first apparatus from the second apparatus in response to the DTP reception setup information field indicating to transmit the one piece of DTP information.