Method, apparatus and system of frame tunneling operation of multiple frequency bands device
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsCarlos Cordeiro, Adrian P. Stephens
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Abstract
Disclosed is a tunneling mechanism that enables frames generated by a MAC layer management entity (MLME) to be transmitted by another. By doing that, a pair of stations (STAs) can perform functions such as (re)association, authentication, and the like, without having to transmit frames over-the-air but, instead, use a different MLME for this purpose. This enables the station management entities (SMEs) of a pair of multi-band capable STAs to provide a seamless fast session transfer (FST), including the provisioning of multi-band (de)authentication and (re)association.
Claims20
A method of on-channel tunneling (OCT) in a peer to peer direct wireless communication comprising:
- generating by a local tunneled MAC layer management entity (TN-MLME) a request primitive to a transport MAC layer management entity (TP-MLME) that is enabled to transmit, wherein the request carries the contents of a management frame and replaces transmission on-the-air of the management frame.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions that when compiled by a processor provides on-channel tunneling (OCT) in a peer to peer direct wireless communication by:
- generating by a local tunneled MAC layer management entity (TN-MLME) a request primitive to a transport MAC layer management entity (TP-MLME) that is enabled to transmit, wherein the request carries the contents of a management frame and replaces transmission on-the-air of the management frame;
- and
- generating by a third MLME an indication primitive to a local MLME
- entity identified in the On-channel Tunnel Request frame.
A system comprising:
- a memory that stores communication instructions;
- and
- at least one processor that executes communication instructions to cooperate to create an on-channel tunneling (OCT) in a peer to peer direct wireless communication by:
- generating by a local tunneled MAC layer management entity (TN-MLME) an MLME-OCTunnel request primitive with parameters including on-channel tunneling MAC management protocol data unit (MMPDU) and peer Multi-band element, wherein the request carries the contents of a management frame and replaces transmission on-the-air of the management frame;
- wherein a primitive is selected from a group consisting of request, indication, response and confirm primitives, or request and indication primitives.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.