Method for realizing convergent WAPI network architecture with separate MAC mode

摘要

A method for realizing a convergent Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI) network architecture with a split Medium Access Control (MAC) mode involves the steps: a split MAC mode for realizing WLAN Privacy Infrastructure (WPI) by an access controller is constructed through splitting the MAC function and the WAPI function of the wireless access point apart to a wireless terminal point and the access controller; integration of a WAPI and a convergent WLAN network system architecture is realized under the split MAC mode that the access controller realizes WPI; the association connection process is performed among a station point, a wireless terminal point and an access controller; the process for announcing the start of performing the WLAN Authentication Infrastructure (WAI) protocol between the access controller and the wireless terminal point is performed; the process for performing the WAI protocol between the station point and the access controller is performed; the process for announcing the end of performing the WAI protocol between the access controller and the wireless terminal point is performed; the secret communication process is performed between the wireless terminal point and the station point by using WPI.

主权项

1. A method for implementing a convergent Wireless Local Area Network Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure WAPI network architecture in a split Medium Access Control MAC mode, comprising:
1) splitting a MAC function and a WAPI function of a wireless access point to a wireless terminal point and an access controller respectively, and constructing a split MAC mode in which a WLAN Privacy Infrastructure WPI is implemented by the access controller; 2) achieving an integration of the WAPI and a convergent Wireless Local Area Network WLAN network architecture in the split MAC mode in which the WPI is implemented by the access controller, wherein the step 2) comprises: 2.1) performing a process of associating a station with the wireless terminal point and the access controller; 2.2) performing a process of notifying a beginning of executing a WLAN Authentication Infrastructure WAI protocol between the access controller and the wireless terminal point; 2.3) performing a process of executing the WAI protocol between the station and the access controller; 2.4) performing a process of notifying an ending of executing the WAI protocol between the access controller and the wireless terminal point; and 2.5) performing a process of conducting privacy communication between the access controller and the station by using the WPI.