Association identifier generation in enhanced privacy wireless networks

An access point comprising:

• one or more memories;
• and
• one or more processors communicatively coupled to the one or more memories, wherein the one or more processors are configured to, individually or collectively, perform operations comprising:
• identifying, by an access point (AP), a first frame to be transmitted;
• determining, by the AP and during a current epoch, a first association identifier (AID) for a first station;
• determining, by the AP, a first epoch discriminator of the current epoch with respect to the first AID;
• and
• transmitting, by the AP, the first frame comprising the first AID and the first epoch discriminator.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed configure one or more processors of an access point to perform operations comprising:

• identifying, by an access point (AP), a first frame to be transmitted;
• determining, by the AP and during a current epoch, a first association identifier (AID) for a first station;
• determining, by the AP, a first epoch discriminator of the current epoch with respect to the first AID;
• and
• transmitting, by the AP, the first frame comprising the first AID and the first epoch discriminator.