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Hi Payam，
In Fast BSS transition protocol, the Reassociation Request/Response is encrypted using PTK. And In my understanding, the management frame (including Reassociation Request/Response)
will be encrypted when the Management Frame Protection bit within RSN Capability is set to 0. Regards Guogang Huang 发件人: Payam Torab [mailto:torab@xxxxxxxx]
Hello all, we will try to run the 1554 straw polls soon, including re-running SP1. https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/20/11-20-1554-04-00be-ml-reconfiguration.pptx Authors strongly believe 1554 straw polls define essential tools in MLO architecture to add and remove links to non-AP MLDs, and to add and remove AP STAs on AP MLD side, post association, and without losing connection
(without disassociation and re-association). Please do reach out if you have any questions – I think the deck has answered a few questions, a short recap below. Thank you.
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Is link add/remove the same as link enable/disable? No. Link add is to add a new link post association, something that did not exist at association time (and therefore cannot be enabled). Link remove purges the link from all IEs, management too
(clean up).
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Relationship to TID-to-link mapping Generally unrelated, sitting at two hierarchy levels. To have TID continuity however, operationally (don’t have to), it make sense to re-map/re-route TIDs away from a link that is about to be
deleted (make before break). In addition some clean/simple rules to define what if this is not done (not hard to imagine).
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Can we use association/reassociation frames to signal these We should not. Associated/authenticated state allows confidentiality and link set level changes do not need to be visible for discovery. Adding and removing new STAs (e.g., AP STA added to MLD
AP) obviously has to be visible depending on the intention. From:
Payam Torab <torab@xxxxxxxx> Clarification below in
red. Thanks. From:
Payam Torab <torab@xxxxxxxx> Hi all, I uploaded a modified SP3 (below) to better gauge the group interest in the case of AP MLD requesting a client to delete one of its links to the AP MLD. Specifically, the
“Yes” option has been split into AP recommending only (client can decline), or AP recommending as well as notifying (which the client cannot decline). My own position is the first option
in the straw poll below (i.e., what we had before, original SP3) - BSS optimization and traffic engineering need network-level knowledge and AP involvement, and we can
think of additional conditions later in the text that could help establish trust in the AP operation (a simple one Tomo pointed to for example is the AP not to the delete the last link standing in a link set). Please review and form an opinion for a possible straw poll in TGbe MAC call tomorrow/Thursday. Thanks, -----
Note: AP MLD practically can stop serving a non-AP MLD on a given MLO link; the mandate option (notification pointing to future removal time) aims to make the transition
smooth by making the non-AP MLD aware of the impending link removal. This is similar in nature to the “Disassociation Imminent” indication in the BTM Request frame.
From:
Payam Torab <torab@xxxxxxxx> Hi Arik, some of your comments are not aligned with 802.1 operation and ecosystem. What you see is a baseline formulated by AP and non-AP community. I would hope that you can support this baseline and then separately
propose additional pieces that you see fit. Regards, Payam From:
Arik Klein <arik.klein@xxxxxxxxxx> Hi Payam, See my further comments inline Regards, Arik From: Payam Torab <torab@xxxxxxxx>
Hi Arik, If a non-AP tells AP it doesn’t want a link (from the MLO link set that it set up during association), for any reason, it’s free money (resource) returned to AP with no fight. Non-AP shouldn’t ask for this if it has any
intention of using that link again, but if it does, well, it doesn’t want it. Smaller IEs, fewer transmissions, coming with no arbitration. Please note the concept of “link” applies to non-AP/client. Cases designated as AP-initiated are in the form of request to non-AP to add/remove its link. On the AP MLD side, it can add and remove AP STAs serving the whole
network. With that said,
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AP asking non-AP to add a link: Non-AP can reject, may be costly or any other reason
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AP asking non-AP to remove a link (in the context of network wide optimization for example): Non-AP can reject (I want to keep the 6 GHz I was given) [Arik Klein]
I think that from system-wise perspective, such a “claim” that the non-AP STA is entitled to reject the AP MLD request to remove a link just because this resource has already been allocated for it is inefficient.
I think the AP MLD has much broader perspective for the needs of all non-AP MLDs (due to dynamic changes in the traffic / network conditions), thus its request to remove a link with a specific non-AP MLD shall no be rejected (at least as long as we requires
the AP MLD not to reject similar request from the non-AP MLD)
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AP indicating to non-AP a link will not be there soon (because corresponding AP STA is going away, shutting down etc., similar to BTM disassociation imminent): This is a courtesy call similar to channel switch
announcement [Arik Klein]
Agree with your point, but why shouldn’t it be “reciprocal” i.e. the non-AP MLD shall have courtesy indication for the time that the link will be removed (as an option)?
Regards, Payam From:
Arik Klein <arik.klein@xxxxxxxxxx> Hi Payam, Thanks for sharing the presentation. I have questions regarding proposed SP1 and SP3 In the proposed Straw Poll 1, when the non-AP MLD requests the associated AP MLD to remove a link – the AP MLD can’t reject this request. On the contrary, in proposed Straw Poll 3, when the AP MLD requests the associated non-AP MLD to remove a link you propose either of 2 options:
My questions are:
Thanks for the swift reply. Regards, Arik From: Payam Torab <torab@xxxxxxxx>
Hello all, we will likely have time in our next MAC call to run straw polls for the ML reconfiguration topic I presented today. It would be nice if you could share your comments and questions here. Regards, Payam To unsubscribe from the STDS-802-11-TGBE list, click the following link:
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