METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM OF FRAME TUNNELING OPERATION OF MULTIPLE FREQUENCY BANDS DEVICE

摘要

Disclosed is a tunneling mechanism that enables frames generated by a MAC layer management entity (MLME) to be transmitted by another. By doing that, a pair of stations (STAs) can perform functions such as (re)association, authentication, and the like, without having to transmit frames over-the-air but, instead, use a different MLME for this purpose. This enables the station management entities (SMEs) of a pair of multi-band capable STAs to provide a seamless fast session transfer (FST), including the provisioning of multi-band (de)authentication and (re)association.

主权项

1. A method of on-channel tunneling (OCT) in a peer to peer direct wireless communication comprising:
generating by a local tunneled MAC layer management entity (TN-MLME) a request primitive to a transport MAC layer management entity (TP-MLME) that is enabled to transmit, wherein the request carries the contents of a management frame and replaces transmission on-the-air of the management frame.