A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING ASSOCIATION BETWEEN A STATION AND A WLAN

摘要

The invention provides a method of operating an entity in a wireless local area network, WLAN. In the method, upon determining that a device has been denied an association with or disassociated from the WLAN, the entity causes a WLAN identifier associated with the device to be stored in a database, an entry in the database indicating that the entity should not associate with the STA associated with the WLAN identifier, the WLAN identifier being stored in association with a condition such that when the condition is met the corresponding WLAN identifier is removed from the database.