of the beacon frame is received up to at least the point where the tim element or etim element is received at steps 1808 and 1818 the station receives the remainder of the beacon otherwise if the path flows from step 1814 to step 1820 the station can return to standby without receiving the remainder of the beacon while fig6 illustrates the first 13 elements in a beacon frame in accordance with an exemplary wireless protocol the order of these fields is suggested by the standard however only the first three fields are fixed fields and cannot be rearranged the remaining fields are informational elements and can be identified by the element id field within each element and therefore can be rearranged a tim element can be included near the beginning of the beacon frame so that a station in standby mode need only wake up to receive part of the beacon frame to determine whether the access point has buffered data waiting for it since all informational elements are identified by the element id field within each element including the tim element after the three fixed fields the beacon frame should be interoperable with legacy systems moving the tim element after the three fixed fields would enable a station in standby mode to receive only part of the beacon frame however the same issue applies as discussed above that in certain circumstances a station in standby mode should receive the entire.