Patent ID: 8813199

Claim:
A method for implementing a convergent Wireless Local Area Network Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure WAPI network architecture in a split Medium Access Control MAC mode, comprising: 1) splitting a MAC function and a WAPI function of a wireless access point to a wireless terminal point and an access controller respectively, and constructing a split MAC mode in which a WLAN Privacy Infrastructure WPI is implemented by the access controller; 2) achieving an integration of the WAPI and a convergent Wireless Local Area Network WLAN network architecture in the split MAC mode in which the WPI is implemented by the access controller, wherein the step 2) comprises: 2.1) performing a process of associating a station with the wireless terminal point and the access controller; 2.2) performing a process of notifying a beginning of executing a WLAN Authentication Infrastructure WAI protocol between the access controller and the wireless terminal point; 2.3) performing a process of executing the WAI protocol between the station and the access controller; 2.4) performing a process of notifying an ending of executing the WAI protocol between the access controller and the wireless terminal point; and 2.5) performing a process of conducting privacy communication between the access controller and the station by using the WPI.