Embodiments of the present invention relate to the communications field, and disclose an AC, a STA, an AP, and a control method to solve a problem that a STA located in a coverage hole area of a Wi-Fi network cannot access the Wi-Fi network. A specific solution is: a receiving unit receives an access request message sent by a STA; a determining unit determines, sleeping APs managed by the AC and having access ranges covering the STA as first candidate APs; an allocation unit allocates the first candidate AP to the STA as a target AP; and a sending unit sends a wake-up control message to the target AP, and sends an access permission message to the STA. The present invention is used in a control process.