METHOD FOR TRIGGERING TERMINAL HANDOVER BY ACCESS POINT

The present invention relates to the communications field, and in particular, to a method for triggering terminal roaming by an access point (AP) and an access point. In the method, a first AP sends, by using a first channel, a unicast channel switching message to a first terminal associated with th...

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Main Author ZHANG, Lin
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 02.10.2019
Subjects
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRICITY
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
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Summary:The present invention relates to the communications field, and in particular, to a method for triggering terminal roaming by an access point (AP) and an access point. In the method, a first AP sends, by using a first channel, a unicast channel switching message to a first terminal associated with the first AP, where the unicast channel switching message is used to instruct the first terminal to switch from the first channel to a second channel, a receiver address of the unicast channel switching message is an address of the first terminal, the first channel is an operating channel of the first AP, and the second channel and the first channel are different; and retains the first channel as the operating channel of the first AP after the unicast channel switching message is sent. According to the method, a process of associating with a new AP can be simplified, an AP can trigger smooth roaming of a terminal, and a service interruption time of the terminal can be reduced.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20170167245