2. The M-BA frame further includes a statistical identifier, and the statistical identifier indicates a quantity of second STAs to which the AP sends acknowledgement requests by using a same piece of association acknowledgement information. On one hand, the statistical identifier may be located after the per traffic identifier information, and the AP may fixedly allocate bits to the statistical identifier. On the other hand, a block acknowledgement starting sequence is located after the per traffic identifier information, and the statistical identifier occupies a bit reserved in block acknowledgement starting sequence control in the M-BA frame.
It should be noted that in this embodiment of the present invention, after per traffic identifier information, if a MAC address follows, a temporary identifier/first AID may be further included; or if multiple MAC addresses follow, multiple temporary identifiers/first AIDs may be further included. In this case, 0 needs to be filled to ensure that a bit quantity required by the foregoing content is a multiple of 8. That is, 1 byte is used as a unit, or 10 bytes are used as a unit.