CPC H04L 9/0637 (2013.01) [H04W 12/033 (2021.01); H04W 12/106 (2021.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04W 76/18 (2018.02)] | 16 Claims |
1. A transmitting multi-link device (MLD), comprising:
circuitry, which, in operation, constructs an Additional Authentication Data (AAD) and a Nonce, and encapsulates 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
a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits the encapsulated MPDU to the recipient MLD on a first link.
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