User`s guide

Aironet Wireless Communications, Inc. 3-5 Confidential and Proprietary
Basic Station operation
A Station keeps two state variables for each station with which direct communication via the wireless
medium is needed:
Authentication State:
The values are: Unauthenticated and Authenticated.
Association State:
The values are: Unassociated and Associated.
These two variables create three local states for each remote station:
State 1:
Initial start state, Unauthenticated, Unassociated.
State 2:
Authenticated, not Associated
State 3:
Authenticated and Associated.
The relationships between these station state variables and the station services are shown in Figure 3.4.