Patent ID: 9125105
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A communication method of a coordinator, the coordinator including an AP (Access Point) or PCP (PBSS Control Point), of a wireless network system that uses a reservation-based media access control (MAC), the method comprising: receiving, from a source device, a frame that requests a reservation resource for a relay device, to enable a frame that the source device transmits to a destination device to be relayed via the relay device; and transmitting an extended schedule element for a service period (SP) to the relay device; wherein the extended schedule element includes an allocation field split into a source association ID (AID) area for the source device and a destination AID area for the destination device, and is transmitted using a beacon frame or an announce frame, wherein the relay device receives the frame transmitted from a source device corresponding to the source AID in the extended schedule element, and relays the frame to the destination device corresponding to the destination AID in the extended schedule element using relay scheme including full duplex amplify and forward (FD AF) or half duplex decode and forward (HD DF).