LOW-LATENCY TIME-SHARING MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL

摘要

Various aspects are provided for low-latency wireless local area networks. In a aspect, an access point (AP) may select, from a plurality of wireless stations associated with the AP, a wireless station for the AP to poll. Each of the plurality of wireless stations may be configured to transmit on a channel in response to being polled by the AP. The AP may transmit, at a time selected by the AP, a downlink frame including polling information to the wireless station on the channel, the polling information including a permitted duration for the wireless station to access the channel. The AP may monitor during the permitted duration for the AP to receive an uplink transmission from the wireless station on the channel, the uplink transmission from the wireless station being in response to the polling information received by the wireless station.