MLME Stands for Media Access Control (MAC) Sublayer Management Entity. MLME is the management entity where the Physical layer (PHY) MAC state machines reside. Examples of states an MLME may assist in reaching:
- Authenticate
- Deauthenticate
- Associate
- Disassociate
- Reassociate
- Beacon
- Probe
- Timing Synchronization Function (TSF)