Patent ID: 11870885
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A communication method for a transmitting multi-link device (MLD), the communication method comprising:
constructing an Additional Authentication Data (AAD) and a Nonce;
encapsulating a plaintext medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (MPDU), the AAD, and the Nonce to generate an encapsulated MPDU, wherein the AAD includes an Address 1 (A1) field, to which a recipient MLD's MAC address is set, and an Address 2 (A2) field, to which the transmitting MLD's MAC address is set, and wherein the Nonce includes an Address 2 (A2) field, to which the transmitting MLD's MAC address is set; and
transmitting the encapsulated MPDU to the recipient MLD on a first link.