Downlink data handling in seamless roaming in wlans
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsPeshal Nayak, Boon Loong Ng, Rubayet Shafin, Vishnu Vardhan Ratnam, Yue Qi, Bilal Sadiq
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Abstract
Downlink (DL) data handling in seamless roaming in wireless local areas (WLANs). A method performed by a current access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) includes identifying, from a plurality of options for handling of buffered frames at the current AP MLD for a non-AP MLD to roam from the current AP MLD to a target AP MLD, one or more of the options that are available for handling of the buffered frames and transmitting, to the non-AP MLD via a management frame, information indicating the one or more options that are available.
Claims20
A method performed by a current access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD), the method comprising:
- identifying, from a plurality of options for handling of buffered frames at the current AP MLD for a non-AP MLD to roam from the current AP MLD to a target AP MLD, one or more of the options that are available for handling of the buffered frames;
- and
- transmitting, to the non-AP MLD via a management frame, information indicating the one or more options that are available.
A method performed by a non-access point (AP) multi-link device (MILD), the method comprising:
- receiving, from a current AP MLD via a management frame, information indicating one or more options that are available, from a plurality of options for handling of buffered frames at the current AP MLD, for handling of the buffered frames of the non-AP MLD;
- and
- determining, based on the received information, an option for handling of the buffered frames for the non-AP MLD to roam from the current AP MLD to a target AP MLD.
An electronic device comprising:
- at least one processor including processing circuitry;
- and
- memory storing instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to:
- identify, from a plurality of options for handling of buffered frames at a current access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) for a non-AP MLD to roam from the current AP MLD to a target AP MLD, one or more of the options that are available for handling of the buffered frames;
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- transmit, to the non-AP MLD via a management frame, information indicating the one or more options that are available.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.