MLD BSS PARAMETERS CHANGE COUNT AT MLD LEVEL IN MANAGEMENT FRAMES

To signal critical updates to BSS Parameters of reported affiliated APs, a reporting AP of the same AP MLD includes a MLD BSS Parameters Change Count in the ML element of its ML beacon frames. The Count is incremented at each new BSS parameter critical update announced or reported by the reported affiliated APs over time. A non-AP station of a non-AP MLD in ML Power Save mode receives such beacon frame and then directly accesses this information without parsing the complex Reduced Neighbor Report information element. The RNR IE can thus be omitted to save bandwidth. Next, the non-AP station requests the reporting AP for the missing updated BSS parameters of the reported APs, without waking up the reported non-AP stations of the non-AP MLD. The BSS parameters for these reported non-AP stations can then be updated with low complexity.