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Divide and Conquer. Authors:. Date: 2012-12-15. Abstract. I believe the the 802.11 General Link problem can be divided into three relatively independent sub-problems. Various combinations of the solutions to these sub-problems can be considered. Divide and Conquer.
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Divide and Conquer Authors: • Date:2012-12-15 Donald Eastlake, Huawei Technologies
Abstract • I believe the the 802.11 General Link problem can be divided into three relatively independent sub-problems. Various combinations of the solutions to these sub-problems can be considered. Donald Eastlake, Huawei Technologies
Divide and Conquer • I believe the the 802.11 General Link problem can be divided into three relatively independent sub-problems. Various combinations of the solutions to these sub-problems can be considered. • Locus of Control • Reporting to Rest of Network • Addressing Formats and the Reflection Problem Donald Eastlake, Huawei Technologies
Divide and Conquer • Locus of Control in an Infrastructure BSS • Distributed among all STAs • Mostly at the AP • Reporting to Rest of Network – What does it look like? • Set of point-to-point links • A virtual bridge • Addressing Formats and the Reflection Problem • 4 Address format • 802.11n aggregated frames • vPort solution • Other ? Donald Eastlake, Huawei Technologies
Donald Eastlake, Huawei Technologies Current Proposals = Each STA does bridge control and infrastructure BSS appears to be a set of P2P links. 802.1 Doc:http:new-nfinn-11-medium-choice-0812- v04.pdf = vPort. 11-12/1449 = Most control at AP and infrastructure BSS appears to be a single virtual bridge. 11-12/1232