IEEE 802.11ai is a
Wireless LAN standard from
IEEE
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that since June 2017
provides fast initial link setup (FILS) methods that enable a wireless LAN client to achieve a secure link setup within 100ms, designed to improve dense environments.
FILS provides
fast roaming without
802.11r.
The
Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo ...
wireless daemon IWD in
Linux
Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...
added support for FILS in May 2019.
A
denial-of-service attack has been reported for 802.11ai.
References
External links
Status of Project IEEE 802.11ai
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