摘要 |
A method and apparatus for power management in the communication system, wherein the method for transmitting data from an access point to communication units comprising: assigning, by the access point, a first and a second association identifier in a message, to each of the communication units, to indicate the presence of respective buffered multicast data and unicast data respectively; setting, by the access point, the first association identifier to indicate the corresponding communication unit to receive the buffered multicast data, the second association identifier to indicate the corresponding communication unit to receive the buffered unicast data; and transmitting, by the access point, the message to awake the communication unit corresponding to the set first and/or second association identifier so as to transmit the buffered data thereto.
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