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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
May. 18, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Santosh B. Kulkarni, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vishal S. Desai, San Jose, CA (US);
Pooya Monajemi, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is an MLD AP that attempts to avoid roaming of STAs within its coverage area when one of the links of the STA is about fall out of the coverage area of the MLD AP. When the MLD STA moves in a way that puts one of its links on the verge of a coverage area, its servicing MLD AP attempts to reroute traffic to other in-range links of the STA if a TID-to-link mapping is in place that permits the rerouting. If no such TID-to-link mapping is present, then the MLD AP attempts to reassign traffic to one of the in-range links if one of the links has an acceptable quality of service and can handle the traffic on the out-of-range link. If these attempts fail, then the AP causes the MLD STA to roam to a nearby MLD AP.