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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2007
Eun Ah Kim, Seoul, KR;
Jeong Hyun Yi, Daejeon, KR;
Tae-chul Jung, Seongnam-si, KR;
Alexey Fomin, St. Petersburg, RU;
Evgeny Linsky, St. Petersburg, RU;
Mikhail Stepanov, St. Petersburg, RU;
Sergei Bezzateev, St. Petersburg, RU;
Eun Ah Kim, Seoul, KR;
Jeong Hyun Yi, Daejeon, KR;
Tae-Chul Jung, Seongnam-si, KR;
Alexey Fomin, St. Petersburg, RU;
Evgeny Linsky, St. Petersburg, RU;
Mikhail Stepanov, St. Petersburg, RU;
Sergei Bezzateev, St. Petersburg, RU;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A method of protecting a broadcast frame, the method comprising broadcasting a beacon and a maintenance beacon frame (MBF) from an access point (AP) to a plurality of terminals during a maintenance beacon waiting period (MBWP); and broadcasting broadcast management frames (BMFs) from the AP to the plurality of terminals during a broadcast management frame waiting period (BMFWP), wherein the MBF comprises a BMFs message integrity code (MIC) field including a BMFs MIC calculated from concatenated BMFs to be sent in a current beacon interval.