ENHANCED MANAGEMENT FRAME AGGREGATION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK SYSTEM

摘要

Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate enhanced aggregation of management frames in a wireless communication system. Various aspects described herein provide for the encapsulation of management frames into respective data frames, thereby allowing management frames to be aggregated with data frames. Upon aggregation of an encapsulated management frame with data frames, the aggregated frames can be transmitted to one or more stations using a block acknowledgement scheme. Further, information contained in a management frame can be encrypted prior to transmission. Upon transmission of an aggregated frame, indications can be provided to a receiving station to indicate the presence of an encapsulated management frame and/or encrypted management information within the aggregated frame. Based on these indications, the receiving station can extract and/or decrypt the management information from the aggregated frame.