Apparatus, system, and method of link disablement of an access point (AP)
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorLaurent Cariou
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Abstract
For example, an Access Point (AP) Multi-Link Device (MLD) and/or a non-AP MLD may be configured to utilize a mechanism configured to support link disablement of an AP. For example, the AP MLD may be configured to transmit from an AP of the AP MLD a broadcast frame including a link disable advertisement, the link disable advertisement to advertise a link disablement of the AP for all non-AP MLDs associated with the AP, the link disablement of the AP to indicate that the AP is to be unavailable for communication with all the non-AP MLDs associated with the AP; and disable communication of beacon frames and response frames from the AP based on the link disable advertisement.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a processor configured to cause an Access Point (AP) Multi-Link Device (MLD) to:
- transmit from an AP of the AP MLD a broadcast frame comprising a link disable advertisement, the link disable advertisement to advertise a link disablement of the AP for all non-AP MLDs associated with the AP MLD, the link disablement of the AP to indicate that a link of the AP is to be disabled for communication for all the non-AP MLDs associated with the AP MLD, wherein the link disable advertisement is configured to indicate a time duration of a time period during which the link of the AP is to be disabled for all the non-AP MLDs;
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- disable communication of beacon frames and response frames from the AP based on the link disable advertisement;
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- a memory to store information processed by the processor.
A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one processor, enable the at least one processor to cause an Access Point (AP) Multi-Link Device (MLD) to:
- transmit from an AP of the AP MLD a broadcast frame comprising a link disable advertisement, the link disable advertisement to advertise a link disablement of the AP for all non-AP MLDs associated with the AP MLD, the link disablement of the AP to indicate that a link of the AP is to be disabled for communication for all the non-AP MLDs associated with the AP MLD, wherein the link disable advertisement is configured to indicate a time duration of a time period during which the link of the AP is to be disabled for all the non-AP MLDs;
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- disable communication of beacon frames and response frames from the AP based on the link disable advertisement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.