Patent ID: 10321473

Abstract:
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for a station (STA) to transmit a frame in a wireless local area network system includes setting a TXOP duration field and a UL flag and transmitting a high efficiency physical layer protocol data unit (HE PPDU) including the TXOP duration field and the UL flag. In this case, the STA sets the UL flag to a first value corresponding to uplink if the HE PPDU is addressed to an access point (AP). When the TXOP duration field is set to a special value other than a TXOP duration value for configuring a network allocation vector and the HE PPDU corresponds to a single user PPDU carrying an ready-to-send frame or a clear-to-send frame, the STA may set the UL flag to a second value corresponding to downlink, even if the HE PPDU is addressed to the AP.