Beacon frame
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beacon-frame-247-5893545
title:
Beacon frame
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A beacon frame is a type of management frame in IEEE 802.11 WLANs. It contains information about the network. Beacon frames are transmitted periodically; they serve to announce the presence of a wireless LAN and to provide a timing signal to synchronise communications with the devices using the network. In an infrastructure basic service set (BSS), beacon frames are transmitted by the access point (AP). In ad hoc (IBSS) networks, beacon generation is distributed among the stations. For the 2.4 G
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Type of management frame
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon_frame
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2024-02-26T00:27:38Z
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