FIELD: radio engineering, communication.
SUBSTANCE: wireless communication method involves determining, in a device which is in active state during a beacon transmission period, whether there are frames in a transmission queue in competition between devices for the first opportunity to transmit in order to gain access to the wireless communication environment, if the device gains access to the wireless communication environment and does not have frames in the transmission queue, competition for further transmission opportunities until achieving a predetermined number of transmission opportunities and is switched to a sleep state upon achieving the predetermined number of transmission opportunities or if it is determined that the active state period has ended.
EFFECT: shorter active time for a device in a network.
15 cl, 8 dwg
