activity flag for a particular station to be set to 34 y 34 as described in step 313 of fig3 similarly a successful message transmission will cause the activity flag for the station to which the message is transmitted to be set to 34 y 34 and receipt of a 34 disconnect 34 message from a wireless station will cause that station 39 s address to be removed from connection list 503 connection list broadcast function 512 periodically broadcasts connection list 503 to the wireless stations and resets house cleaning timer 505 upon this broadcast if house cleaning timer 505 expires house cleaning timer processor 506 is notified and station address update function 509 and station activity update function 510 are activated to remove all connection list entries in connection list 503 which are not active and to set all remaining entries to 34 not active 34 as described with reference to step 315 of fig3 the functions and data structures of wireless station 502 will now be described upon receipt of a connection list broadcast from ap 501 connection list update function 519 updates local connection list 504 to set all new entries to peer to peer 34 ptp 34 sets the aging counter to parameter value x1 and set the quality of service indicator qos to its highest value as shown in step 408 of fig4 a keep alive timer 513 periodically causes keep alive handler 514 to transmit a 34 keep alive 34 message to ap.