Current 802.11 standard defines "frame" types for use in management and control of wireless links.
Task Group 'w' worked on improving the IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control layer.
Rolling back the wireless adapter driver to one from Windows 7 usually fixes the issue.
Wireless LANs without this standard send system management information in unprotected frames, which makes them vulnerable.
This standard protects against network disruption caused by malicious systems that forge disassociation requests (deauth) that appear to be sent by valid equipment [2] such as Evil Twin attacks.