WLAN apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorYong Ho Seok
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Abstract
A wireless local area network (WLAN) apparatus for a WLAN system includes a first medium access protocol (MAC) entity which supports a first frequency band; and a second MAC entity which supports a second frequency band, wherein a MAC management frame for the first frequency band is encapsulated in a MAC management frame for the second frequency band, and transmitted through the second frequency band.
Claims10
A transmitting device capable of supporting multi-band in a wireless local area network that conforms to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standards, the transmitting device comprising:
- network interface circuitry for implementing a Station Management Entity (SME), a first Medium Access Control (MAC) entity and a second MAC entity,
- wherein the SME is configured to manage multi-band operation in which the transmitting device supports more than two frequency bands;
- wherein the first MAC entity is configured to construct a MAC Management Protocol Data Unit (MMPDU) that is destined for a first MAC entity of a receiving device and to deliver the MMPDU to the second MAC entity,
- wherein the second MAC entity is configured to generate an encapsulation management frame by encapsulating only the MMPDU and to transmit the encapsulation management frame via a wireless medium,
- wherein the encapsulation management frame includes a frame control field and a frame body field of the MMPDU and does not include a Frame Check Sequence (FCS) field of the MMPDU, and
- wherein the first MAC entity operates at a first frequency band and the second MAC entity operates at a second frequency band.
A method for supporting multi-band in a wireless local area network that conforms to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standards, the method performed by a transmitting device that includes a Station Management Entity (SME), a first Medium Access Control (MAC) entity and a second MAC entity and comprising:
- constructing a MAC Management Protocol Data Unit (MMPDU) by the first MAC entity, the MMPDU destined for a first MAC entity of a receiving device;
- delivering the MMPDU by the first MAC entity to the second MAC entity;
- generating an encapsulation management frame by the second MAC entity by encapsulating only the MMPDU;
- and
- transmitting the encapsulation management frame via a wireless medium,
- wherein the encapsulation management frame includes a frame control field and a frame body field of the MMPDU and does not include a Frame Check Sequence (FCS) field of the MMPDU, and
- wherein the first MAC entity operates at a first frequency band and the second MAC entity operates at a second frequency band.
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