METHOD OF SCANNING FOR BEACON TRANSMISSIONS IN A WLAN

摘要

A wireless station ( 114 ) is within range of more than one access point ( 120, 124 ) transmitting on the same channel. The wireless station is associated with one access point and not the other. Consequently the wireless station may receive undesired beacons ( 304 ) and desired beacons ( 302 ) on the channel. To optimize power save operation the wireless station arbitrates between a scan and shut down scanning procedure ( 708 ) and a timed window channel scanning procedure ( 724 ), depending on whether the desired beacon is the first received beacon upon waking up from a low power state at a target beacon time.