Patent ID: 8467371

Claim:
A method for detecting a hidden station in a specific station among a plurality of stations in a wireless communication network including the plurality of stations, the method comprising: in response to a mobile station being located in a data transfer range where both data and a physical layer header transmitted by a transmitting station are received, determining that the mobile station is not a hidden station of the transmitting station; in response to the mobile station being located in a physical layer header transfer range of the transmitting station where the data transmitted by the transmitting station is not received but the physical layer header transmitted by the transmitting station is received, determining that the mobile station is not a hidden station of the transmitting station; and in response to the mobile station being located outside of the physical layer header transfer range where the data and the physical layer header transmitted by the transmitting station are not received, and being located in a range where an Acknowledge (ACK) frame transmitted by a receiving station is received, determining that the mobile station is a hidden station within a hidden range of the transmitting station, wherein the hidden range of the transmitting station comprises a range obtained by excluding the physical layer header transfer range of the transmitting station from a physical layer header transfer range of the receiving station.