METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISCOVERY OF SECTOR IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK SYSTEM

摘要

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for the discovery of a sector in a wireless LAN system. A method for the discovery of a sector by an access point (AP) in a wireless LAN system comprises: a step of setting sector beacon intervals in which the AP of the wireless local area network system transmits a sector beacon to any one sector from among a plurality of spatially divided sectors, and an omni beacon interval in which the AP transmits an omnidirectional beacon to the one sector; a step of transmitting a sector beacon to any one current sector from among the plurality of sectors; a step of transmitting, to the current sector, a transmission frame indicating a sector transmission or a transmission frame indicating an omnidirectional transmission in the sector interval between the sector beacon intervals; and a step of receiving, from the terminal located in the current sector, a response frame indicating that the transmission frame indicating the sector transmission is received and an association is made.