The present invention relates to a method of setting an operating channel for a second station STA by a first STA in a white space according to an embodiment of the present invention may include: obtaining information on available TV channels from a geographical database GDB; and transmitting, to the second STA, setting information on the operating channel determined based on the information on the available TV channel. If the minimum channel bandwidth supported by the operating channel is W MHz, the operating channel may be defined as one or more of a) a width of one W MHz channel, b) a width of two contiguous W MHz channels, c) a width of four contiguous W MHz channels, d) a width of two non-contiguous W MHz channels, or e) a channel width consisting of two non-contiguous frequency parts, each of which includes two contiguous W MHz channels.