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Figure 9.7: Resource Information Container Processing. (Courtesy of the IEEE.)
9.4 Protocol Exchanges in 802.11r
9.4.1 Introduction
In this section we will present eight different protocol diagrams showing the basic ways in
which the 802.11r protocol exchanges may occur. If we refer back to Figure 9.1, it can be seen
that there were a number of different prehandoff possibilities contemplated by the 802.11r ...