US 2026/0046722 A1 · COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS

Abstract

A communication method and apparatus are provided, applied to the field of communication technologies, may be applied to a wireless local area network system that supports 802.11 series protocols such as 802.11be, Wi-Fi 7, or EHT, and a next-generation protocol of 802.11be, Wi-Fi 8, UHR, or Wi-Fi AI, and may be further applied to a UWB-supported WPAN system, a sensing system. After generating a first communication frame, a current AP or a target AP sends the first communication frame, and a non-AP STA receives the first communication frame and parses the first communication frame. The first communication frame includes first indication information, and the first indication information indicates whether the non-AP STA needs to initiate an IP address assignment request when the non-AP STA is handed over from the current AP to the target AP. In the method, a roaming handover time of the non-AP STA can be effectively reduced.

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Dependent claims

A communication method, wherein the method comprises:

generating a first communication frame, wherein the first communication frame comprises first indication information, and the first indication information indicates whether a non-access point station (non-AP STA) needs to initiate an internet protocol (IP) address assignment request when the non-AP STA is handed over from a current access point (AP) to a target AP;
and
sending the first communication frame.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Communication method and apparatus

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Abstract

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