Authentication techniques for seamless roaming

Abstract

This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for authentication techniques for seamless roaming. Some aspects relate more specifically to techniques for a non-access point (AP) device to prepare the second security key and transition the non-AP device to a target AP multi-link device (MLD) via communications with the serving AP MLD, with the target AP MLD, or both. In some aspects, the target AP MLD may perform validation based on information from the non-AP device or based on communicating with a previous serving AP MLD. In some aspects, a network may initiate roaming by indicating for the non-AP device to roam from a serving AP MLD to one or more target AP MLDs. The non-AP device may identify a timer associated with performing the roaming, and may accept or reject the request to perform the roaming within a duration of the timer.

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