Privacy group and aid assignment for seamless roaming in enhanced privacy networks

An access point (AP) 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:
• receiving a roaming request for roaming to a first access point (AP) from a wireless station (STA) while the wireless STA is associated with a second AP, wherein the roaming request includes at least one requested privacy parameter;
• determining, by the first AP and based on the at least one requested privacy parameter, a privacy group placement for the wireless STA;
• determining, by the first AP, a sequence of association identifiers (AIDs), wherein the sequence of AIDs represents an ordering and set of AIDs to be used by the first AP to communicate with the wireless STA for a number of privacy group epochs associated with the privacy group placement;
• and
• transmitting one or more frames comprising the sequence of AIDs and the privacy group placement to the wireless STA.

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:

• receiving a roaming request for roaming to a first access point (AP) from a wireless station (STA) while the wireless STA is associated with a second AP, wherein the roaming request includes at least one requested privacy parameter;
• determining, by the first AP and based on the at least one requested privacy parameter, a privacy group placement for the wireless STA;
• determining, by the first AP, a sequence of association identifiers (AIDs), wherein the sequence of AIDs represents an ordering and set of AIDs to be used by the first AP to communicate with the wireless STA for a number of privacy group epochs associated with the privacy group placement;
• and
• transmitting one or more frames comprising the sequence of AIDs and the privacy group placement to the wireless STA.