公开(公告)号：US20230269222A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-24

申请号：US18305298

申请日：2023-04-21

Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

Inventor： Di Wu ,  Yijiong Zhang ,  Zhicheng Yang ,  Bin Cao ,  Xiang Ji ,  Chenhe Ji

IPC: H04L61/5061

CPC classification number: H04L61/5061 ,  H04L2101/622

Abstract: A media access control (MAC) address allocation method and device are disclosed. The method includes: a wireless access point device sending a notification message on a wireless medium. The notification message includes at least one candidate virtual MAC address. The wireless access point device receiving, on the wireless medium, a request message from a terminal device. A source address of the request message is a first virtual MAC address. The first virtual MAC address is one of the at least one candidate virtual MAC address.