Chapter 1
Wi-Fi Fundamentals
basic service set: [BSS] A set of stations (STAs) that have successfully synchronized using the MLME-JOIN.request service primitive and one STA that has used the MLME-START.request primitive.
802.11-2020, Clause 3
From its very beginning, the IEEE 802.11be project toyed with concepts that questioned the very foundations of Wi-Fi. For example, how can a single client device associate to two Access Point (AP) devices’ radios? How do the AP and client devices manage the security of the association in that case? How would frames be reassembled if they are split over several, unsynchronized radio links? The answers to these questions are not obvious, because they have to be built upon six previous generations of a Wi-Fi ...
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