SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING BEACON TRANSMISSIONS IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WLAN) SYSTEMS

摘要

A method for communicating beacon transmissions from a wireless access point (WAP) to a client transceiver in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system ( 500 ) includes obtaining a reference timing for the wireless access point (WAP) ( 502 ). The sector configuration and the sector timing in the WAP is then determined ( 503 ). A virtual target beacon transmission time (TBTT) for the sector of interest serviced by the WAP is then calculated ( 506 ), as is a channel number of the sector of interest. Finally, the method provides for listening ( 507 ) for a sector beacon signal from the sector of interest at the virtual TBTT and the calculated channel number.