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    802.

    11v
    • Information About 802.11v, on page 1
    • Prerequisites for Configuring 802.11v, on page 2
    • Restrictions for 802.11v, on page 2
    • Enabling 802.11v BSS Transition Management, on page 2
    • Configuring 802.11v BSS Transition Management (GUI), on page 3
    • Configuring 802.11v BSS Transition Management (CLI), on page 3

    Information About 802.11v


    The controller supports 802.11v amendment for wireless networks, which describes numerous enhancements
    to wireless network management.
    One such enhancement is Network assisted Power Savings which helps clients to improve the battery life by
    enabling them to sleep longer. As an example, mobile devices typically use a certain amount of idle period
    to ensure that they remain connected to access points and therefore consume more power when performing
    the following tasks while in a wireless network.
    Another enhancement is Network assisted Roaming which enables the WLAN to send requests to associated
    clients, advising the clients as to better APs to associate to. This is useful for both load balancing and in
    directing poorly connected clients.

    Enabling 802.11v Network Assisted Power Savings


    Wireless devices consume battery to maintain their connection to the clients, in several ways:
    • By waking up at regular intervals to listen to the access point beacons containing a DTIM, which indicates
    buffered broadcast or multicast traffic that the access point delivers to the clients.
    • By sending null frames to the access points, in the form of keepalive messages– to maintain connection
    with access points.
    • Devices also periodically listen to beacons (even in the absence of DTIM fields) to synchronize their
    clock to that of the corresponding access point.

    All these processes consume battery and this consumption particularly impacts devices (such as Apple),
    because these devices use a conservative session timeout estimation, and therefore, wake up often to send

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    Prerequisites for Configuring 802.11v

    keepalive messages. The 802.11 standard, without 802.11v, does not include any mechanism for the controller
    or the access points to communicate to wireless clients about the session timeout for the local client.
    To save the power of clients due to the mentioned tasks in wireless network, the following features in the
    802.11v standard are used:
    • Directed Multicast Service
    • Base Station Subsystem (BSS) Max Idle Period

    Directed Multicast Service


    Using Directed Multicast Service (DMS), the client requests the access point to transmit the required multicast
    packet as unicast frames. This allows the client to receive the multicast packets it has ignored while in sleep
    mode and also ensures Layer 2 reliability. Furthermore, the unicast frame is transmitted to the client at a
    potentially higher wireless link rate which enables the client to receive the packet quickly by enabling the
    radio for a shorter duration, thus also saving battery power. Since the wireless client also does not have to
    wake up at each DTIM interval in order to receive multicast traffic, longer sleeping intervals are allowed.

    BSS Max Idle Period


    The BSS Max Idle period is the timeframe during which an access point (AP) does not disassociate a client
    due to nonreceipt of frames from the connected client. This helps ensure that the client device does not send
    keepalive messages frequently. The idle period timer value is transmitted using the association and reassociation
    response frame from the access point to the client. The idle time value indicates the maximum time that a
    client can remain idle without transmitting any frame to an access point. As a result, the clients remain in
    sleep mode for a longer duration without transmitting the keepalive messages often. This in turn contributes
    to saving battery power.

    Prerequisites for Configuring 802.11v


    • Applies for Apple clients like Apple iPad, iPhone, and so on, that run on Apple iOS version 7 or later.
    • Supports local mode; also supports FlexConnect access points in central authentication modes only.

    Restrictions for 802.11v


    Client needs to support 802.11v BSS Transition.

    Enabling 802.11v BSS Transition Management


    802.11v BSS Transtion is applied in the following three scenarios:
    • Solicited request—Client can send an 802.11v Basic Service Set (BSS) Transition Management Query
    before roaming for a better option of AP to reassociate with.
    • Unsolicited Load Balancing request—If an AP is heavily loaded, it sends out an 802.11v BSS Transition
    Management Request to an associated client.

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    Configuring 802.11v BSS Transition Management (GUI)

    • Unsolicited Optimized Roaming request—If a client's RSSI and rate do not meet the requirements, the
    corresponding AP sends out an 802.11v BSS Transition Management Request to this client.

    Note 802.11v BSS Transition Management Request is a suggestion (or advice) given to a client, which the client
    can choose to follow or ignore. To force the task of disassociating a client, turn on the disassociation-imminent
    function. This disassociates the client after a period if the client is not reassociated to another AP.

    Configuring 802.11v BSS Transition Management (GUI)


    Procedure

    Step 1 Choose Configuration > Tags & Profiles > WLANs.


    Step 2 Click Add to create WLANs.
    The Add WLAN page is displayed.

    Step 3 In the Advanced tab and 11v BSS Transition Support section, select the BSS Transition check box to
    enable BSS transition per WLAN.
    Step 4 Enter the Disassociation Imminent value. The valid range is from 0 to 3000 TBTT.
    Step 5 Click Save & Apply to Device.

    Configuring 802.11v BSS Transition Management (CLI)


    802.11v BSS Transtion is applied in the following three scenarios:

    Procedure

    Command or Action Purpose


    Step 1 configure terminal Enters the global configuration mode.
    Example:
    Device# configure terminal

    Step 2 wlan profile-name Configures WLAN profile and enters the


    WLAN profile configuration mode.
    Example:
    Device(config)# wlan test-wlan

    Step 3 shut Shutdown the WLAN profile.


    Example:
    Device(config-wlan)# shut

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    Command or Action Purpose


    Step 4 bss-transition Configure BSS transition per WLAN.
    Example:
    Device(config-wlan)# bss-transition

    Step 5 bss-transition disassociation-imminent Configure BSS transition disassociation


    Imminent per WLAN.
    Example:
    Device(config-wlan)# bss-transition
    disassociation-imminent

    Step 6 no shutdown Enables the WLAN profile.


    Example:
    Device(config-wlan)# no shutdown

    Step 7 end Return to privilege EXEC mode. Alternatively,


    you can press CTRL + Z to exit global
    Example:
    configuration mode.
    Device(config-wlan)# end

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