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How to enable driver to support

802.11k

內容
How to enable driver to support 802.11k ...................................................................... 1
Introduction ........................................................................................................... 2
Driver version and support feature ........................................................................ 2
V5.3 – V5.7 ..................................................................................................... 2
V5.8 and up .................................................................................................... 2
Enable 802.11K ...................................................................................................... 3
How 802.11K works ............................................................................................... 3
STA mode ....................................................................................................... 3
AP mode ......................................................................................................... 3

Version Date Description Author


V1.0 2020/06/01 Initial version Vincent_Fann
V1.1 2020/06/04 Add a description of STA mode and Vincent_Fann
AP mode

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2020/06/01

Introduction
The 802.11k protocol provides mechanisms for APs and clients to dynamically measure
the available radio resources. In an 802.11k enabled network, APs and clients can send
neighbor reports, beacon reports, and link measurement reports to each other. This
allows the APs and clients to take appropriate connection actions.

Radio Resource Measurement is a key enabler to the next generation of Wireless LANs
(WLANs). Radio Resource Measurement addresses some of the existing issues in using
unlicensed radio environments to meet the requirements of emerging technologies. In
addition, Radio Resource Measurement provides knowledge about the radio environment
to improve performance and reliability.

Driver version and support feature

V5.3 – V5.7
 Channel load report
 Noise Histogram report
 Beacon report
 Neighbor request

V5.8 and up
 Channel load report
 Noise Histogram report
 Beacon report
 Neighbor request
 Link Measurement Report

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Enable 802.11K
Define CONFIG_RTW_80211K in Include/autoconf.h and rebuild driver.

#define CONFIG_RTW_80211K

How 802.11K works

STA mode
When 802.11k was enabled, STA replies AP’s 802.11K request automatically.

AP mode
AP mode depends on the software design of the product. It should be a third party
application runs in user space. This application generates 802.11K request and sends
it via hostapd or nl80211 interface to driver.

Driver doesn’t involve in 802.11K request and response process when running in AP
mode. Driver simply forwards the management packet which receives from hostapd
to the peer STA. Driver also forward packets to hostapd which receives from peer
STA.

Here is an example to use hostapd_cli to send a beacon request to a connected client


(30:07:4d:36:e4:51):

hostapd_cli -i wlan0 req_beacon 30:07:4d:36:e4:51 req_mode=00


010014000d0001ffffffffffff000e3030305f72747761705f7365616e020100

req_mode=00 : Measurement Request Mode

Above command ask hostapd to send a beacon request to 30:07:4d:36:e4:51 with


the following HEX data. For more detail please refer to IEEE802.11 specification.

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