Transmission frame counter
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsAhmad Kholaif, Wei Hu
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Abstract
An apparatus may comprise a processing resource operatively coupled to a memory resource and a frame determination component operatively coupled to the processing resource and the memory resource. The frame determination component may cause a counter corresponding to a particular station associated to the apparatus to be stored in the memory resource, the counter to be incremented in response to receipt of a transmission frame containing an invalid starting sequence number (SEN) and a deauthentication frame to be transmitted in response to receipt of a threshold number of transmission frames containing the invalid.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- a processing resource operatively coupled to a memory resource;
- a frame determination component operatively coupled to the processing resource and the memory resource, wherein the frame determination component is to cause:
- a counter corresponding to a particular station (STA) associated to the apparatus to be stored in the memory resource, the counter to be incremented in response to receipt of a transmission frame containing an invalid starting sequence number (SEN), and
- a deauthentication frame to be transmitted in response to receipt of a threshold number of transmission frames containing the invalid SEN.
A system, comprising:
- an antenna to receive a plurality of transmission frames corresponding to particular stations (STAs) among a plurality of STAs associated to the system;
- and
- a frame determination component operatively coupled to a processing resource and a memory resource, the frame determination component comprising a plurality of transmission frame failure counters each corresponding to a respective STA among the plurality of STAs, wherein the frame determination component is to cause:
- a determination to be made that a transmission frame from a first STA among the plurality of STAs includes an invalid starting sequence number (SEN);
- a first transmission frame failure counter corresponding to the first STA among the plurality of STAs stored by the memory resource to be incremented in response to the determination that the transmission frame includes the invalid SEN;
- a block acknowledgement request to be transmitted in response to receipt of a threshold number of transmission frames containing the invalid SEN;
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- the transmission frame failure counter to be incremented in response to receipt of a transmission frame containing a valid SEN subsequent to transmission of the block acknowledgement request.
A non-transitory, machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing resource of a system to cause the system to:
- increment a transmission frame failure counter in response to receipt of a transmission frame containing an invalid starting sequence number (SEN), wherein the transmission frame failure counter corresponds to a particular station (STA) transmitting the transmission frame;
- increment the transmission frame failure counter in response to receipt of a subsequent transmission frame containing a valid SEN;
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- transmit a deauthentication frame to the particular STA in response to a determination that the transmission frame failure counter has exceeded a threshold count value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.