Patent ID: 11924911
Assignee: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. The method of claim 11, wherein the multi-link BIGTK KDE comprises:
a Key identifier (ID) field indicating a value of an BIGTK key identifier,
a Link ID field indicating a link on which the BIGTK is being installed, and
a BIPN field corresponding to a BIPN value carried in a Management Message Integrity Check (MIC) element (MME) of a last protected beacon frame on the link indicated by the Link ID field and used by a receiver as an initial value for a Broadcast Integrity Protocol (BIP) replay counter for the BIGTK,
wherein the BIGTK key identifier is MLD-level for the AP MLD and the non-AP STA MLD supporting a same key identifier.