ステーションとＷＬＡＮとの関連付けを制御するための方法及び装置

摘要

The present invention controls the association of a station to a wireless local area network, WLAN. In particular it enables an entity in a WLAN to control when a station requests association with the WLAN to reduce the number of requests that the entity has to process. The method involves an entity of the WLAN transmitting a message including a condition which has to be fulfilled before the station can transmit a request to associate with the WLAN.