Patent attributes
A station is provided. The station includes one or more memories and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to one or more of process a first request for buffer status received from an access point and transmit, during the first uplink multi-user transmission to the access point and in response to the first request for buffer status, a first uplink null data packet and that includes a signal that indicates existence of data to be sent from the station to the access point. The first request for buffer status schedules a first uplink multi-user transmission and indicates a plurality of resources that indicates existence of data to be sent to the access point. The one or more processors transmits the first uplink null data packet includes the one or more processors configured to transmit the signal on a first resource of the plurality of resources.
