BEACON PROTECTION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK

摘要

A wireless station implements a technique to reduce the occurrence of collisions between messages in a wireless network by dynamically modify a message interval during a communication session, based on received information indicative of beacon timing. The technique can be implemented by an access point on a wireless local area network to reduce collisions of beacon transmissions. The received information can include information indicative of beacon timing of other wireless stations, difficulty of a wireless station in receiving beacon transmissions, device capabilities, and/or other information.

主权项

1. A wireless station comprising:
a radio frequency (RF) transceiver; an antenna coupled to the RF transceiver; and a processor coupled to the RF transceiver and configured to cause the wireless station to
transmit beacon messages over a wireless link to at least one receiving wireless station during a communication session, according to a first beacon interval;modify the beacon interval during the communication session; andtransmit beacon messages over the wireless link during the communication session, according to the modified beacon interval.