A method of guaranteeing users' anonymity and a wireless LAN system
therefor are provided. In a wireless LAN system, the method of
guaranteeing user' anonymity includes (a) creating a plurality of
temporary address sets, each of which corresponds to a unique Media
Access Control (MAC) address of a wireless terminal and transmitting the
temporary address set to the corresponding wireless terminal, and (b)
performing data packet transmission between the wireless terminal and the
wireless access node using a temporary address selected from the
temporary address set as a source address or a destination address.
Therefore, it is possible to guarantee users' anonymity and improve
security of a system by not exposing a MAC address during data packet
transmission between a wireless terminal and a wireless access node.