US 2017/0013448 A1 · INFRASTRUCTURE COORDINATED MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT

Abstract

Described herein are systems, devices, techniques and products for managing the dynamic assignment of media access control (MAC) addresses to wireless network devices, such as by identifying a dynamically assigned MAC address before, after, or during a wireless association process and communicating the dynamically assigned MAC address to a wireless network device. Also disclosed are systems, devices, techniques and products for preventing a denial of service attack on a wireless access point's association table, such as by requiring devices that associate with a wireless access point to respond to a query from the wireless access point shortly after association.

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A system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
a non-transitory computer readable storage medium coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage medium includes instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including:
transmitting, by a wireless client device, a frame, wherein the frame includes a media access control (MAC) address corresponding to the wireless client device;
receiving a response, wherein the response is related to a network device, and wherein the response includes a designated MAC address;
transmitting an association request, wherein the association request includes the designated MAC address;
and
receiving an association response, wherein the association request is related to the network device, and wherein the association response includes an association identifier.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Infrastructure coordinated media access control address assignment

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