An STA C 250 may determine whether a collision occurs when a frame is transmitted to another STA D 260 on the basis of monitoring of the RTS frame 233 and CTS frame 235 of an STA A 230 and an STAB 240.
The STA B 240 may transmit the RTS frame 233 to the STA A 230, and the STA A 230 may transmit the CTS frame 235 to the STA B 240. The STA C 250 overhears only the RTS frame 233 transmitted by the STA B 240, and fails to overhear the CTS frame 235 transmitted by the STA A 230. Therefore, the STA C 250 may know that the STA A 230 is located out of a carrier sensing range of the STA C 250. Accordingly, the STA C 250 may transmit data to the STA D 260.
An RTS frame format and a CTS frame format are disclosed in the 8.3.1.2 RTS frame format and 8.3.1.3 CTS frame format of IEEE P802.11-REVmcTM/D2.0, October 2013.