[Ns-developers] About 802.11 management frame

[Basim Javed]

hi
I guess by atomic you mean to say that the exchange of four frames is done
consecutively. Intuitively I would expect it to be atomic, but if you can
point out the values of IFS for this exchange, then we can more certainly
say about the situation.

regards
B

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Mirko Banchi <mk.banchi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Basim Javed ha scritto:
> > hi
> >
> > If I correctly understand the situation, I may add:
> > The concept of TXOP is limited for a given STA which has already won
> > contention; so there is no chance that "The Ap should send an Association
> > Response frame. But should this happen in the same TxOp? ". The AP will
> have
> > its own TXOP, which may enable sending one response frame only.
> >
> > regards
> > B
>
> Yes, you are right. I use improperly the term TXOP to intend:
> the exchange of four frames:
>
> AssocReq
> Ack
> AssocResp
> Ack
>
> is "atomic"?
>
> However i'm persuasing that could be not atomic even if i don't
> understand what standards intends when speak about "its response" (see
> section 7.1.4 point a2)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mirko
>
>
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