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Roaming Operation Guidelines for Independent BSS Networks

Important  The Native 802.11 Wireless LAN interface is deprecated in Windows 10 and later. Please use the WLAN Device Driver Interface (WDI) instead. For more information about WDI, see WLAN Universal Windows driver model.

 

When roaming within an independent basic service set (IBSS) network, the miniport driver and 802.11 station must follow the general guidelines defined in General Roaming Operation Guidelines.

Note  IBSS (Ad hoc) and SoftAP are deprecated. Starting with Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2, use Wi-Fi Direct.

 

In addition, the miniport driver and 802.11 station must follow these guidelines for roaming operations within IBSS networks:

The following figure shows the sequence of events the miniport driver follows when the 802.11 station associates with two peer stations in an IBSS network during the connection operation.

diagram illustrating the roam operation guidelines for independent bss networks