METHOD FOR SCANNING ACCESS POINTS DURING STATION'S HANDOFF PROCEDURE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND STATION OF PERFORMING THE METHOD, AND NETWORK INTERFACE OF SUPPORTING THE METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM OF ENABLING THE METHOD

摘要

A method for scanning access points during mobile station's handoff in a wireless communication system, a mobile station for performing the same, a network interface for supporting the same, and a wireless communication system applied with the same are provided to search an access point existing in an available channel during a scanning operation of the mobile station and obtain access point information of the searched access point, thereby minimizing scanning latency. A method for scanning access points comprises the following steps of: transmitting query data to one or more access points(201,202) with respect to a predetermined channel(351); receiving response data to the query data from the access point existing in the channel; request access point information to the access point which has transmitted the response data; and receiving the access point information from the access point(353).