Notes on NS3 – IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi Association

Notes on NS3 – IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi Association

For some of my research I have been delving into the details on how exactly station devices in an IEEE 802.11 network associate with an access point. As far as I understand from the standard station nodes have two possibilities. 1. Active In this case the station nodes send out probe requests to see if any access points respond during a timeout period 2. Passive In this case the station nodes just sit and listen over a timeout period to see if any aps send out beacons. In either case, according to the standard, the station node is supposed to rank the APs according to received...

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