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This document uses the following terms:
802.11 Access Point (AP): Any entity that has IEEE 802.11 functionality and provides access to the distribution services, via the wireless medium for associated stations (STAs).
Beacon: A management frame that contains all of the information required to connect to a network. In a WLAN, Beacon frames are periodically transmitted to announce the presence of the network.
information element (IE): A unit of information transmitted as part of the management frames in the IEEE 802.11 [IEEE802.11-2012] protocol. Wireless devices, such as access points, communicate descriptive information about themselves in the form of one or more IEs in their management frames.
Medium Access Control (MAC): A data communication protocol sublayer that is part of the seven-layer OSI model data-link layer (layer 2). It provides addressing and channel access control mechanisms that make it possible for several terminals or network nodes to communicate within a multipoint network, typically a local area network (LAN).
network cost: Information about how the Internet service provider bills customers for data usage on the network.
organizationally unique identifier (OUI): A unique 24-bit string that uniquely identifies a vendor, manufacturer, or organization on a worldwide l basis, as specified in [IEEE-OUI]. The OUI is used to help distinguish both physical devices and software, such as a network protocol, that belong to one entity from those that belong to another.
Probe Response: A frame that contains the advertisement IE for a device. The Probe Response is sent in response to a Probe Request. The Probe Response frame is defined in the Wi-Fi Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Specification v1.2 [WF-P2P1.2] section 4.2.3.
tether: Enables a device to gain access to the Internet by establishing a connection with another device that is connected to the Internet.
MAY, SHOULD, MUST, SHOULD NOT, MUST NOT: These terms (in all caps) are used as defined in [RFC2119]. All statements of optional behavior use either MAY, SHOULD, or SHOULD NOT.