Staggering bursts of broadcast management frames in a wireless network device having a plurality of MAC addresses

摘要

A method, a software product, and an apparatus to operate in a wireless device of a wireless network. The wireless device acts as a plurality of APs. The method includes transmitting bursts of management frames containing a broadcast-buffered indication for a corresponding subset of network identifiers of the wireless device, and transmitting bursts of management frames not containing any broadcast-buffered indication. The broadcast-buffered indication indicates that broadcast data is buffered at the AP of the device. Thus, management frames are sent in bursts, and the burst are staggered to reduce the likelihood that two bursts of management frames containing a broadcast-buffered indication are transmitted in immediate succession.