On 17/07/2018 17:02, Ben Greear wrote: > On 07/17/2018 12:57 AM, Nicolas Cavallari wrote: >> In IBSS mode, all stations are required to send beacons. The protocol >> is a bit >> complex to arrange that, every 102.4ms, a station is chosen to emit >> the beacon. > > I'm not sure this part is correct. In practice, it seems to often > happen this way, > but last time I read the spec on this it seems like it is supposed to > sort of negotiate > and not have all ibss stations beaconning.
Well, in 802.11-2016, section 11.1.3.5 is clear: "All members of the IBSS participate in beacon generation." On each TBTT, each station must wait for a random delay before transmitting, and the first one to transmit wins. In theory...