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IEEE 802.11-2020

IEEE 802.11-2020

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IEEE Standard for Information Technology–Telecommunications and Information Exchange between Systems – Local and Metropolitan Area Networks–Specific Requirements – Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications

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Revision Standard – Active. Technical corrections and clarifications to IEEE Std 802.11 for wireless local area networks (WLANs) as well as enhancements to the existing medium access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) functions are specified in this revision. Amendments 1 to 5 published in 2016 and 2018 have also been incorporated into this revision.

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PDF Pages PDF Title
1 IEEE Std 802.11™-2020 front cover
2 Title page
4 Important Notices and Disclaimers Concerning IEEE Standards Documents
7 Participants
11 Introduction
14 Contents
95 Tables
116 Figures
149 1. Overview
1.1 Scope
1.2 Purpose
1.3 Supplementary information on purpose
150 1.4 Word usage
151 1.5 Terminology for mathematical, logical, and bit operations
154 2. Normative references
158 3. Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations
3.1 Definitions
173 3.2 Definitions specific to IEEE Std 802.11
205 3.3 Definitions specific to IEEE 802.11 operation in some regulatory domains
3.4 Acronyms and abbreviations
218 3.5 Acronyms and abbreviations in some regulatory domains
219 4. General description
4.1 General description of the architecture
4.2 How wireless local area networks (WLANs) are different
4.2.1 Introduction
4.2.2 Wireless station (STA)
4.2.3 Media impact on design and performance
220 4.2.4 The impact of handling mobile STAs
4.2.5 Interaction with other IEEE 802® layers
4.2.6 Interaction with non-IEEE-802 protocols
4.3 Components of the IEEE 802.11 architecture
4.3.1 General
221 4.3.2 Independent BSS (IBSS)
4.3.3 Personal BSS (PBSS)
4.3.4 STA membership in a BSS is dynamic
222 4.3.5 Distribution system (DS) concepts
4.3.5.1 Overview
223 4.3.5.2 Extended service set (ESS): the large coverage network
224 4.3.6 Area concepts
225 4.3.7 Integration with non-IEEE-802.11 LANs
226 4.3.8 Robust security network association (RSNA)
4.3.9 Centralized coordination service set (CCSS) and extended centralized AP or PCP clustering (ECAPC)
228 4.3.10 QoS BSS
229 4.3.11 Wireless LAN radio measurements
4.3.11.1 General
230 4.3.11.2 Beacon
4.3.11.3 Measurement pilot
4.3.11.4 Frame
4.3.11.5 Channel load
231 4.3.11.6 Noise histogram
4.3.11.7 STA statistics
4.3.11.8 Location
4.3.11.9 Measurement pause
4.3.11.10 Neighbor report
4.3.11.11 Link measurement
4.3.11.12 Transmit stream/category measurement
232 4.3.12 Operation in licensed frequency bands
4.3.12.1 General
4.3.12.2 Dynamic STA enablement (DSE) in licensed bands
4.3.12.3 Contention based protocol (CBP) in nonexclusively licensed bands
4.3.12.4 Using DSE STA identification to resolve interference
4.3.12.5 Further coexistence enhancements in nonexclusively licensed bands
4.3.13 High-throughput (HT) STA
233 4.3.14 Sub 1 GHz (S1G) STA
4.3.14.1 Overview
234 4.3.14.2 S1G relay
4.3.15 Very high throughput (VHT) STA
235 4.3.16 Television very high throughput (TVHT) STA
237 4.3.17 STA transmission of Data frames outside the context of a BSS
4.3.18 Tunneled direct-link setup
4.3.19 Wireless network management
4.3.19.1 Overview
238 4.3.19.2 BSS max idle period management
4.3.19.3 BSS transition management
4.3.19.4 Channel usage
239 4.3.19.5 Collocated interference reporting
4.3.19.6 Diagnostic reporting
4.3.19.7 Directed multicast service (DMS)
4.3.19.8 Event reporting
4.3.19.9 Flexible multicast service (FMS)
4.3.19.10 Location services
4.3.19.11 Multicast Diagnostic report
240 4.3.19.12 Multiple BSSID capability
4.3.19.13 Proxy ARP
4.3.19.14 QoS traffic capability
4.3.19.15 SSID list
4.3.19.16 Triggered STA statistics
4.3.19.17 TIM broadcast
4.3.19.18 Timing measurement
4.3.19.19 Fine timing measurement
241 4.3.19.20 Traffic filtering service
4.3.19.21 U-APSD coexistence
4.3.19.22 WNM notification
4.3.19.23 WNM sleep mode
4.3.20 Subscription service provider network (SSPN) interface
242 4.3.21 Mesh BSS
4.3.21.1 General
4.3.21.2 Overview of the mesh BSS
243 4.3.21.3 Mesh STA
4.3.21.4 IEEE 802.11 components and mesh BSS
245 4.3.21.5 Introduction to mesh functions
4.3.21.5.1 General
246 4.3.21.5.2 Mesh discovery
4.3.21.5.3 Mesh peering management (MPM)
4.3.21.5.4 Mesh security
4.3.21.5.5 Mesh beaconing and synchronization
4.3.21.5.6 Mesh coordination function (MCF)
4.3.21.5.7 Mesh power management
247 4.3.21.5.8 Mesh channel switching
4.3.21.5.9 Frame addressing in an MBSS
4.3.21.5.10 Mesh path selection and forwarding
248 4.3.21.5.11 Interworking with the DS
4.3.21.5.12 Intra-mesh congestion control
4.3.21.5.13 Emergency service support in mesh BSS
4.3.22 DMG STA
249 4.3.23 DMG relay
4.3.24 Robust audio video (AV) streaming
4.3.24.1 Introduction
4.3.24.2 Groupcast with retries (GCR)
250 4.3.24.3 Stream classification service (SCS)
4.3.24.4 Mirrored stream classification service (MSCS)
4.3.24.5 Overlapping BSS (OBSS) management
4.3.24.6 Interworking with IEEE 802.1Q Stream Reservation Protocol (SRP)
4.3.24.7 Intra-access category prioritization
251 4.3.25 Operation under geolocation database (GDB) control
252 4.3.26 CDMG STA
253 4.3.27 CMMG STA
254 4.3.28 General link (GLK)
4.3.28.1 General
4.3.28.2 Selective reception of group addressed frames
255 4.3.28.3 GLK Service Sets
4.3.28.3.1 Provision of the MAC service
4.3.28.3.2 GLK IBSS and PBSS
257 4.3.28.3.3 Infrastructure BSS with general links
258 4.3.28.3.4 Infrastructure BSSs with general links in the presence of an ESS
259 4.3.29 Ethertype protocol discrimination (EPD)
260 4.4 Logical service interfaces
4.4.1 General
4.4.2 SS
261 4.4.3 PBSS control point service (PCPS)
4.4.4 DSS
262 4.5 Overview of the services
4.5.1 General
263 4.5.2 Distribution of MSDUs within a DS
4.5.2.1 Distribution
264 4.5.2.2 Integration
4.5.2.3 QoS traffic scheduling
4.5.3 Connectivity-related services
4.5.3.1 General
265 4.5.3.2 Mobility types
4.5.3.3 Association
266 4.5.3.4 Reassociation
4.5.3.5 Disassociation
267 4.5.4 Access control and data confidentiality services
4.5.4.1 General
4.5.4.2 Authentication
268 4.5.4.3 Deauthentication
269 4.5.4.4 Data confidentiality
270 4.5.4.5 Key management
4.5.4.6 Data origin authenticity
4.5.4.7 Replay detection
4.5.4.8 Fast BSS transition
4.5.4.9 Management frame protection
271 4.5.4.10 MAC privacy enhancements
4.5.5 Spectrum management services
4.5.5.1 General
4.5.5.2 TPC
4.5.5.3 DFS
272 4.5.6 Traffic differentiation and QoS support
4.5.6.1 General
4.5.6.2 Quality-of-service management frame support
4.5.7 Support for higher layer timer synchronization
273 4.5.8 Radio measurement service
4.5.9 Interworking with external networks
4.5.9.1 General
274 4.5.9.2 Preassociation discovery (PAD)
4.5.9.2.1 Introduction
4.5.9.2.2 Architecture
275 4.5.9.2.3 Service information entities
4.5.9.2.4 Service information registry (SIR)
4.5.9.2.5 Service information client (SIC)
4.5.10 Generic advertisement service (GAS)
276 4.6 Multiple logical address spaces
4.7 Differences among ESS, PBSS, and IBSS LANs
278 4.8 Differences between ESS and MBSS LANs
279 4.9 Reference model
4.9.1 General
4.9.2 Interworking reference model
281 4.9.3 Reference model for supporting multiple MAC sublayers
282 4.9.4 Reference model for multi-band operation
284 4.10 IEEE Std 802.11 and IEEE Std 802.1X-2010
4.10.1 General
4.10.2 IEEE 802.11 usage of IEEE Std 802.1X-2010
4.10.3 Infrastructure functional model overview
4.10.3.1 General
4.10.3.2 AKM operations with AS
287 4.10.3.3 AKM operations with a password or PSK
288 4.10.3.4 Alternate operations with PSK
4.10.3.5 Disassociation
4.10.3.6 AKM operations using FILS authentication
4.10.3.6.1 General
289 4.10.3.6.2 AKM operations using FILS Shared Key authentication
4.10.3.6.3 AKM operations using FILS Public Key authentication
4.10.4 IBSS functional model description
4.10.4.1 General
4.10.4.2 Key usage
290 4.10.4.3 Sample IBSS 4-way handshakes
291 4.10.4.4 IBSS IEEE 802.1X example
292 4.10.5 PBSS functional model description
293 4.10.6 Authenticator-to-AS protocol
4.10.7 PMKSA caching
294 4.10.8 Protection of group addressed robust Management frames
295 5. MAC service definition
5.1 Overview of MAC services
5.1.1 Data service
5.1.1.1 General
5.1.1.2 Determination of UP
5.1.1.3 Interpretation of priority parameter in MAC service primitives
296 5.1.1.4 Interpretation of service class parameter in MAC service primitives in a STA
297 5.1.2 Security services
5.1.3 MSDU ordering
298 5.1.4 MSDU format
299 5.1.5 MAC data service architecture
5.1.5.1 General
302 5.1.5.2 Non-GLK non-AP STA role
5.1.5.3 Non-GLK AP role
303 5.1.5.4 Non-GLK mesh STA role
5.1.5.5 Mesh gate role
5.1.5.6 S1G relay
305 5.1.5.7 GLK STA role
5.1.5.8 GLK AP role
5.1.5.9 GLK mesh STA role
307 5.2 MAC data service specification
5.2.1 General
5.2.2 GLK MAC data service specification
5.2.3 MA-UNITDATA.request
5.2.3.1 Function
5.2.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
308 5.2.3.3 When generated
5.2.3.4 Effect of receipt
310 5.2.4 MA-UNITDATA.indication
5.2.4.1 Function
5.2.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
311 5.2.4.3 When generated
5.2.4.4 Effect of receipt
313 5.2.5 MA-UNITDATA-STATUS.indication
5.2.5.1 Function
5.2.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
314 5.2.5.3 When generated
5.2.5.4 Effect of receipt
315 6. Layer management
6.1 Overview of management model
316 6.2 Generic management primitives
6.3 MLME SAP interface
6.3.1 Introduction
317 6.3.2 Power management
6.3.2.1 Introduction
6.3.2.2 MLME-POWERMGT.request
6.3.2.2.1 Function
6.3.2.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.2.2.3 When generated
6.3.2.2.4 Effect of receipt
318 6.3.2.3 MLME-POWERMGT.confirm
6.3.2.3.1 Function
6.3.2.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.2.3.3 When generated
6.3.2.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.3 Scan
6.3.3.1 Introduction
6.3.3.2 MLME-SCAN.request
6.3.3.2.1 Function
6.3.3.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
322 6.3.3.2.3 When generated
6.3.3.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.3.3 MLME-SCAN.confirm
6.3.3.3.1 Function
6.3.3.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
336 6.3.3.3.3 When generated
6.3.3.3.4 Effect of receipt
337 6.3.3.4 MLME-SCAN-STOP.request
6.3.3.4.1 Function
6.3.3.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.3.4.3 When generated
6.3.3.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.4 Synchronization
6.3.4.1 Introduction
6.3.4.2 MLME-JOIN.request
6.3.4.2.1 Function
6.3.4.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
339 6.3.4.2.3 When generated
6.3.4.2.4 Effect of receipt
340 6.3.4.3 MLME-JOIN.confirm
6.3.4.3.1 Function
6.3.4.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.4.3.3 When generated
6.3.4.3.4 Effect of receipt
341 6.3.5 Authenticate
6.3.5.1 Introduction
6.3.5.2 MLME-AUTHENTICATE.request
6.3.5.2.1 Function
6.3.5.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
342 6.3.5.2.3 When generated
6.3.5.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.5.3 MLME-AUTHENTICATE.confirm
6.3.5.3.1 Function
6.3.5.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
344 6.3.5.3.3 When generated
6.3.5.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.5.4 MLME-AUTHENTICATE.indication
6.3.5.4.1 Function
6.3.5.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
345 6.3.5.4.3 When generated
6.3.5.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.5.5 MLME-AUTHENTICATE.response
6.3.5.5.1 Function
6.3.5.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
346 6.3.5.5.3 When generated
6.3.5.5.4 Effect of receipt
347 6.3.6 Deauthenticate
6.3.6.1 Introduction
6.3.6.2 MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.request
6.3.6.2.1 Function
6.3.6.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.6.2.3 When generated
6.3.6.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.6.3 MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.confirm
6.3.6.3.1 Function
6.3.6.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
348 6.3.6.3.3 When generated
6.3.6.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.6.4 MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.indication
6.3.6.4.1 Function
6.3.6.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.6.4.3 When generated
6.3.6.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.7 Associate
6.3.7.1 Introduction
349 6.3.7.2 MLME-ASSOCIATE.request
6.3.7.2.1 Function
6.3.7.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
352 6.3.7.2.3 When generated
6.3.7.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.7.3 MLME-ASSOCIATE.confirm
6.3.7.3.1 Function
6.3.7.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
358 6.3.7.3.3 When generated
6.3.7.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.7.4 MLME-ASSOCIATE.indication
6.3.7.4.1 Function
6.3.7.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
362 6.3.7.4.3 When generated
6.3.7.4.4 Effect of receipt
363 6.3.7.5 MLME-ASSOCIATE.response
6.3.7.5.1 Function
6.3.7.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
367 6.3.7.5.3 When generated
6.3.7.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.8 Reassociate
6.3.8.1 Introduction
6.3.8.2 MLME-REASSOCIATE.request
6.3.8.2.1 Function
6.3.8.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
371 6.3.8.2.3 When generated
6.3.8.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.8.3 MLME-REASSOCIATE.confirm
6.3.8.3.1 Function
6.3.8.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
377 6.3.8.3.3 When generated
6.3.8.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.8.4 MLME-REASSOCIATE.indication
6.3.8.4.1 Function
6.3.8.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
383 6.3.8.4.3 When generated
6.3.8.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.8.5 MLME-REASSOCIATE.response
6.3.8.5.1 Function
6.3.8.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
387 6.3.8.5.3 When generated
6.3.8.5.4 Effect of receipt
388 6.3.9 Disassociate
6.3.9.1 MLME-DISASSOCIATE.request
6.3.9.1.1 Function
6.3.9.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.9.1.3 When generated
6.3.9.1.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.9.2 MLME-DISASSOCIATE.confirm
6.3.9.2.1 Function
6.3.9.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.9.2.3 When generated
389 6.3.9.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.9.3 MLME-DISASSOCIATE.indication
6.3.9.3.1 Function
6.3.9.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.9.3.3 When generated
6.3.9.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.10 Reset
6.3.10.1 Introduction
6.3.10.2 MLME-RESET.request
6.3.10.2.1 Function
390 6.3.10.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.10.2.3 When generated
6.3.10.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.11 Start
6.3.11.1 Introduction
6.3.11.2 MLME-START.request
6.3.11.2.1 Function
6.3.11.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
396 6.3.11.2.3 When generated
6.3.11.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.11.3 MLME-START.confirm
6.3.11.3.1 Function
397 6.3.11.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.11.3.3 When generated
6.3.11.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.12 Stop
6.3.12.1 General
6.3.12.2 MLME-STOP.request
6.3.12.2.1 Function
6.3.12.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.12.2.3 When generated
398 6.3.12.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.13 Protocol layer model for spectrum management and radio measurement
401 6.3.14 Measurement request
6.3.14.1 Introduction
6.3.14.2 MLME-MREQUEST.request
6.3.14.2.1 Function
6.3.14.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
402 6.3.14.2.3 When generated
6.3.14.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.14.3 MLME-MREQUEST.indication
6.3.14.3.1 Function
6.3.14.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
403 6.3.14.3.3 When generated
6.3.14.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.15 Channel measurement
6.3.15.1 Introduction
6.3.15.2 MLME-MEASURE.request
6.3.15.2.1 Function
6.3.15.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.15.2.3 When generated
6.3.15.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.15.3 MLME-MEASURE.confirm
6.3.15.3.1 Function
404 6.3.15.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.15.3.3 When generated
6.3.15.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.16 Measurement report
6.3.16.1 Introduction
6.3.16.2 MLME-MREPORT.request
6.3.16.2.1 Function
6.3.16.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
405 6.3.16.2.3 When generated
6.3.16.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.16.3 MLME-MREPORT.indication
6.3.16.3.1 Function
6.3.16.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
406 6.3.16.3.3 When generated
6.3.16.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.17 Channel switch
6.3.17.1 MLME-CHANNELSWITCH.request
6.3.17.1.1 Function
6.3.17.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
407 6.3.17.1.3 When generated
6.3.17.1.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.17.2 MLME-CHANNELSWITCH.confirm
6.3.17.2.1 Function
408 6.3.17.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.17.2.3 When generated
6.3.17.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.17.3 MLME-CHANNELSWITCH.indication
6.3.17.3.1 Function
6.3.17.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
409 6.3.17.3.3 When generated
6.3.17.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.17.4 MLME-CHANNELSWITCH.response
6.3.17.4.1 Function
6.3.17.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
410 6.3.17.4.3 When generated
6.3.17.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.18 TPC request
6.3.18.1 Introduction
6.3.18.2 MLME-TPCADAPT.request
6.3.18.2.1 Function
411 6.3.18.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.18.2.3 When generated
6.3.18.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.18.3 MLME-TPCADAPT.confirm
6.3.18.3.1 Function
6.3.18.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
412 6.3.18.3.3 When generated
6.3.18.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.19 SetKeys
6.3.19.1 MLME-SETKEYS.request
6.3.19.1.1 Function
6.3.19.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
413 6.3.19.1.3 When generated
6.3.19.1.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.20 DeleteKeys
6.3.20.1 MLME-DELETEKEYS.request
6.3.20.1.1 Function
6.3.20.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
414 6.3.20.1.3 When generated
6.3.20.1.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.21 MIC (michael) failure event
6.3.21.1 MLME-MICHAELMICFAILURE.indication
6.3.21.1.1 Function
6.3.21.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
415 6.3.21.1.3 When generated
6.3.21.1.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.22 EAPOL
6.3.22.1 MLME-EAPOL.request
6.3.22.1.1 Function
6.3.22.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.22.1.3 When generated
6.3.22.1.4 Effect of receipt
416 6.3.22.2 MLME-EAPOL.confirm
6.3.22.2.1 Function
6.3.22.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.22.2.3 When generated
6.3.22.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.23 SetProtection
6.3.23.1 MLME-SETPROTECTION.request
6.3.23.1.1 Function
6.3.23.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
417 6.3.23.1.3 When generated
6.3.23.1.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.24 MLME-PROTECTEDFRAMEDROPPED
6.3.24.1 MLME-PROTECTEDFRAMEDROPPED.indication
6.3.24.1.1 Function
6.3.24.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
418 6.3.24.1.3 When generated
6.3.24.1.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.25 TS management interface
6.3.25.1 General
419 6.3.25.2 MLME-ADDTS.request
6.3.25.2.1 Function
6.3.25.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
420 6.3.25.2.3 When generated
6.3.25.2.4 Effect of receipt
421 6.3.25.3 MLME-ADDTS.confirm
6.3.25.3.1 Function
6.3.25.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
423 6.3.25.3.3 When generated
6.3.25.3.4 Effect of receipt
424 6.3.25.4 MLME-ADDTS.indication
6.3.25.4.1 Function
6.3.25.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
425 6.3.25.4.3 When generated
6.3.25.4.4 Effect of receipt
426 6.3.25.5 MLME-ADDTS.response
6.3.25.5.1 Function
6.3.25.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
428 6.3.25.5.3 When generated
6.3.25.5.4 Effect of receipt
429 6.3.25.6 MLME-DELTS.request
6.3.25.6.1 Function
6.3.25.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
430 6.3.25.6.3 When generated
6.3.25.6.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.25.7 MLME-DELTS.indication
6.3.25.7.1 Function
6.3.25.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive
431 6.3.25.7.3 When generated
6.3.25.7.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.25.8 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.request
6.3.25.8.1 Function
432 6.3.25.8.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.25.8.3 When generated
6.3.25.8.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.25.9 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.confirm
6.3.25.9.1 Function
6.3.25.9.2 Semantics of the service primitive
433 6.3.25.9.3 When generated
6.3.25.9.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.25.10 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.indication
6.3.25.10.1 Function
6.3.25.10.2 Semantics of the service primitive
434 6.3.25.10.3 When generated
6.3.25.10.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.25.11 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.response
6.3.25.11.1 Function
6.3.25.11.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.25.11.3 When generated
6.3.25.11.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.26 Higher layer synchronization support
6.3.26.1 Introduction
435 6.3.26.2 MLME-HL-SYNC.request
6.3.26.2.1 Function
6.3.26.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.26.2.3 When generated
6.3.26.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.26.3 MLME-HL-SYNC.indication
6.3.26.3.1 Function
6.3.26.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
436 6.3.26.3.3 When generated
6.3.26.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.27 Block Ack
6.3.27.1 General
6.3.27.2 MLME-ADDBA.request
6.3.27.2.1 Function
6.3.27.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
437 6.3.27.2.3 When generated
6.3.27.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.27.3 MLME-ADDBA.confirm
6.3.27.3.1 Function
6.3.27.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
438 6.3.27.3.3 When generated
439 6.3.27.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.27.4 MLME-ADDBA.indication
6.3.27.4.1 Function
6.3.27.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
440 6.3.27.4.3 When generated
6.3.27.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.27.5 MLME-ADDBA.response
6.3.27.5.1 Function
6.3.27.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
441 6.3.27.5.3 When generated
6.3.27.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.27.6 MLME-DELBA.request
6.3.27.6.1 Function
6.3.27.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
442 6.3.27.6.3 When generated
6.3.27.6.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.27.7 MLME-DELBA.indication
6.3.27.7.1 Function
6.3.27.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive
443 6.3.27.7.3 When generated
6.3.27.7.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.28 Schedule element management
6.3.28.1 Introduction
6.3.28.2 MLME-SCHEDULE.request
6.3.28.2.1 Function
6.3.28.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
444 6.3.28.2.3 When generated
6.3.28.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.28.3 MLME-SCHEDULE.indication
6.3.28.3.1 Function
6.3.28.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.28.3.3 When generated
6.3.28.3.4 Effect of receipt
445 6.3.29 Vendor-specific action
6.3.29.1 Introduction
6.3.29.2 MLME-VSPECIFIC.request
6.3.29.2.1 Function
6.3.29.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.29.2.3 When generated
6.3.29.2.4 Effect of receipt
446 6.3.29.3 MLME-VSPECIFIC.indication
6.3.29.3.1 Function
6.3.29.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.29.3.3 When generated
6.3.29.3.4 Effect of receipt
447 6.3.30 Neighbor report request
6.3.30.1 General
6.3.30.2 MLME-NEIGHBORREPREQ.request
6.3.30.2.1 Function
6.3.30.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.30.2.3 When generated
448 6.3.30.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.30.3 MLME-NEIGHBORREPREQ.indication
6.3.30.3.1 Function
6.3.30.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
449 6.3.30.3.3 When generated
6.3.30.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.31 Neighbor report response
6.3.31.1 General
6.3.31.2 MLME-NEIGHBORREPRESP.request
6.3.31.2.1 Function
6.3.31.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
450 6.3.31.2.3 When generated
6.3.31.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.31.3 MLME-NEIGHBORREPRESP.indication
6.3.31.3.1 Function
6.3.31.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.31.3.3 When generated
6.3.31.3.4 Effect of receipt
451 6.3.32 Link Measure Request
6.3.32.1 General
6.3.32.2 MLME-LINKMEASURE.request
6.3.32.2.1 Function
6.3.32.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.32.2.3 When generated
6.3.32.2.4 Effect of receipt
452 6.3.32.3 MLME-LINKMEASURE.confirm
6.3.32.3.1 Function
6.3.32.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
453 6.3.32.3.3 When generated
6.3.32.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.33 MLME SAP interface for resource request
6.3.33.1 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST.request
6.3.33.1.1 Function
6.3.33.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
454 6.3.33.1.3 When generated
6.3.33.1.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.33.2 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST.indication
6.3.33.2.1 Function
6.3.33.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.33.2.3 When generated
6.3.33.2.4 Effect of receipt
455 6.3.33.3 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST.response
6.3.33.3.1 Function
6.3.33.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.33.3.3 When generated
6.3.33.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.33.4 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST.confirm
6.3.33.4.1 Function
6.3.33.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
456 6.3.33.4.3 When generated
6.3.33.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.33.5 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST-LOCAL.request
6.3.33.5.1 Function
6.3.33.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.33.5.3 When generated
6.3.33.5.4 Effect of receipt
457 6.3.33.6 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST-LOCAL.confirm
6.3.33.6.1 Function
6.3.33.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.33.6.3 When generated
6.3.33.6.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.34 MLME SAP interface for remote requests
6.3.34.1 MLME-REMOTE-REQUEST.request
6.3.34.1.1 Function
6.3.34.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
458 6.3.34.1.3 When generated
6.3.34.1.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.34.2 MLME-REMOTE-REQUEST.indication
6.3.34.2.1 Function
6.3.34.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.34.2.3 When generated
6.3.34.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.35 Extended channel switch announcement
6.3.35.1 General
459 6.3.35.2 MLME-EXTCHANNELSWITCH.request
6.3.35.2.1 Function
6.3.35.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
460 6.3.35.2.3 When generated
6.3.35.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.35.3 MLME-EXTCHANNELSWITCH.confirm
6.3.35.3.1 Function
6.3.35.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.35.3.3 When generated
6.3.35.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.35.4 MLME-EXTCHANNELSWITCH.indication
6.3.35.4.1 Function
461 6.3.35.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
462 6.3.35.4.3 When generated
6.3.35.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.35.5 MLME-EXTCHANNELSWITCH.response
6.3.35.5.1 Function
6.3.35.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
463 6.3.35.5.3 When generated
6.3.35.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.36 DSE power constraint announcement
6.3.36.1 General
6.3.36.2 MLME-DSETPC.request
6.3.36.2.1 Function
6.3.36.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
464 6.3.36.2.3 When generated
6.3.36.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.36.3 MLME-DSETPC.confirm
6.3.36.3.1 Function
6.3.36.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.36.3.3 When generated
6.3.36.3.4 Effect of receipt
465 6.3.36.4 MLME-DSETPC.indication
6.3.36.4.1 Function
6.3.36.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.36.4.3 When generated
6.3.36.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.36.5 MLME-DSETPC.response
6.3.36.5.1 Function
466 6.3.36.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.36.5.3 When generated
6.3.36.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.37 Enablement
6.3.37.1 General
6.3.37.2 MLME-ENABLEMENT.request
6.3.37.2.1 Function
467 6.3.37.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.37.2.3 When generated
6.3.37.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.37.3 MLME-ENABLEMENT.confirm
6.3.37.3.1 Function
6.3.37.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
468 6.3.37.3.3 When generated
6.3.37.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.37.4 MLME-ENABLEMENT.indication
6.3.37.4.1 Function
469 6.3.37.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.37.4.3 When generated
6.3.37.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.37.5 MLME-ENABLEMENT.response
6.3.37.5.1 Function
6.3.37.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
470 6.3.37.5.3 When generated
6.3.37.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.38 Deenablement
6.3.38.1 MLME-DEENABLEMENT.request
6.3.38.1.1 Function
6.3.38.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
471 6.3.38.1.3 When generated
6.3.38.1.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.38.2 MLME-DEENABLEMENT.indication
6.3.38.2.1 Function
6.3.38.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
472 6.3.38.2.3 When generated
6.3.38.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.39 SA Query support
6.3.39.1 MLME-SA-QUERY.request
6.3.39.1.1 Function
6.3.39.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.39.1.3 When generated
473 6.3.39.1.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.39.2 MLME-SA-QUERY.confirm
6.3.39.2.1 Function
6.3.39.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.39.2.3 When generated
6.3.39.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.39.3 MLME-SA-QUERY.indication
6.3.39.3.1 Function
6.3.39.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
474 6.3.39.3.3 When generated
6.3.39.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.39.4 MLME-SA-QUERY.response
6.3.39.4.1 Function
6.3.39.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.39.4.3 When generated
6.3.39.4.4 Effect of receipt
475 6.3.40 Get TSF timer
6.3.40.1 General
6.3.40.2 MLME-GETTSFTIME.request
6.3.40.2.1 Function
6.3.40.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.40.2.3 When generated
6.3.40.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.40.3 MLME-GETTSFTIME.confirm
6.3.40.3.1 Function
6.3.40.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.40.3.3 When generated
476 6.3.40.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.41 Timing Advertisement
6.3.41.1 General
6.3.41.2 MLME-TIMING-ADVERTISEMENT.request
6.3.41.2.1 Function
6.3.41.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
477 6.3.41.2.3 When generated
6.3.41.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.41.3 MLME-TIMING-ADVERTISEMENT.indication
6.3.41.3.1 Function
6.3.41.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
478 6.3.41.3.3 When generated
6.3.41.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.42 TDLS Discovery
6.3.42.1 General
6.3.42.2 MLME-TDLSDISCOVERY.request
6.3.42.2.1 Function
6.3.42.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
479 6.3.42.2.3 When generated
6.3.42.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.42.3 MLME-TDLSDISCOVERY.confirm
6.3.42.3.1 Function
6.3.42.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.42.3.3 When generated
6.3.42.3.4 Effect of receipt
480 6.3.42.4 MLME-TDLSDISCOVERY.indication
6.3.42.4.1 Function
6.3.42.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.42.4.3 When generated
6.3.42.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.42.5 MLME-TDLSDISCOVERY.response
6.3.42.5.1 Function
6.3.42.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
481 6.3.42.5.3 When generated
6.3.42.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.43 TDLS direct-link establishment
6.3.43.1 General
6.3.43.2 MLME-TDLSSETUPREQUEST.request
6.3.43.2.1 Function
6.3.43.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.43.2.3 When generated
6.3.43.2.4 Effect of receipt
482 6.3.43.3 MLME-TDLSSETUPREQUEST.indication
6.3.43.3.1 Function
483 6.3.43.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.43.3.3 When generated
6.3.43.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.43.4 MLME-TDLSSETUPRESPONSE.request
6.3.43.4.1 Function
6.3.43.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.43.4.3 When generated
484 6.3.43.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.43.5 MLME-TDLSSETUPRESPONSE.indication
6.3.43.5.1 Function
6.3.43.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.43.5.3 When generated
6.3.43.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.43.6 MLME-TDLSSETUPCONFIRM.request
6.3.43.6.1 Function
6.3.43.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
485 6.3.43.6.3 When generated
6.3.43.6.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.43.7 MLME-TDLSSETUPCONFIRM.indication
6.3.43.7.1 Function
6.3.43.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.43.7.3 When generated
6.3.43.7.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.43.8 MLME-TDLSPOTENTIALPEERSTA.request
6.3.43.8.1 Function
486 6.3.43.8.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.43.8.3 When generated
6.3.43.8.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.43.9 MLME-TDLSPOTENTIALPEERSTA.confirm
6.3.43.9.1 Function
6.3.43.9.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.43.9.3 When generated
6.3.43.9.4 Effect of receipt
487 6.3.44 TDLS direct-link teardown
6.3.44.1 General
6.3.44.2 MLME-TDLSTEARDOWN.request
6.3.44.2.1 Function
6.3.44.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
488 6.3.44.2.3 When generated
6.3.44.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.44.3 MLME-TDLSTEARDOWN.indication
6.3.44.3.1 Function
6.3.44.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.44.3.3 When generated
6.3.44.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.45 TDLS peer U-APSD (TPU)
6.3.45.1 General
489 6.3.45.2 MLME-TDLSPTI.request
6.3.45.2.1 Function
6.3.45.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
490 6.3.45.2.3 When generated
6.3.45.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.45.3 MLME-TDLSPTI.confirm
6.3.45.3.1 Function
6.3.45.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.45.3.3 When generated
6.3.45.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.45.4 MLME-TDLSPTI.indication
6.3.45.4.1 Function
491 6.3.45.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.45.4.3 When generated
6.3.45.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.45.5 MLME-TDLSPTI.response
6.3.45.5.1 Function
6.3.45.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.45.5.3 When generated
492 6.3.45.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.46 TDLS channel switching
6.3.46.1 General
6.3.46.2 MLME-TDLSCHANNELSWITCH.request
6.3.46.2.1 Function
6.3.46.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
493 6.3.46.2.3 When generated
6.3.46.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.46.3 MLME-TDLSCHANNELSWITCH.confirm
6.3.46.3.1 Function
6.3.46.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.46.3.3 When generated
6.3.46.3.4 Effect of receipt
494 6.3.46.4 MLME-TDLSCHANNELSWITCH.indication
6.3.46.4.1 Function
6.3.46.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.46.4.3 When generated
6.3.46.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.46.5 MLME-TDLSCHANNELSWITCH.response
6.3.46.5.1 Function
6.3.46.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
495 6.3.46.5.3 When generated
6.3.46.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.47 TDLS peer PSM
6.3.47.1 General
6.3.47.2 MLME-TDLSPEERPSM.request
6.3.47.2.1 Function
496 6.3.47.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.47.2.3 When generated
6.3.47.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.47.3 MLME-TDLSPEERPSM.confirm
6.3.47.3.1 Function
6.3.47.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.47.3.3 When generated
497 6.3.47.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.47.4 MLME-TDLSPEERPSM.indication
6.3.47.4.1 Function
6.3.47.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.47.4.3 When generated
6.3.47.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.47.5 MLME-TDLSPEERPSM.response
6.3.47.5.1 Function
6.3.47.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
498 6.3.47.5.3 When generated
6.3.47.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.48 Event request
6.3.48.1 General
499 6.3.48.2 MLME-EVLREQUEST.request
6.3.48.2.1 Function
6.3.48.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.48.2.3 When generated
6.3.48.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.48.3 MLME-EVLREQUEST.indication
6.3.48.3.1 Function
6.3.48.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
500 6.3.48.3.3 When generated
6.3.48.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.49 Event report
6.3.49.1 General
6.3.49.2 MLME-EVLREPORT.request
6.3.49.2.1 Function
6.3.49.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
501 6.3.49.2.3 When generated
6.3.49.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.49.3 MLME-EVLREPORT.indication
6.3.49.3.1 Function
6.3.49.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.49.3.3 When generated
6.3.49.3.4 Effect of receipt
502 6.3.50 Event
6.3.50.1 General
6.3.50.2 MLME-EVLOG.request
6.3.50.2.1 Function
6.3.50.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.50.2.3 When generated
6.3.50.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.50.3 MLME-EVLOG.confirm
6.3.50.3.1 Function
6.3.50.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
503 6.3.50.3.3 When generated
6.3.50.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.51 Diagnostic request
6.3.51.1 General
6.3.51.2 MLME-DIAGREQUEST.request
6.3.51.2.1 Function
504 6.3.51.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.51.2.3 When generated
6.3.51.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.51.3 MLME-DIAGREQUEST.indication
6.3.51.3.1 Function
6.3.51.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
505 6.3.51.3.3 When generated
6.3.51.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.52 Diagnostic report
6.3.52.1 MLME-DIAGREPORT.request
6.3.52.1.1 Function
6.3.52.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.52.1.3 When generated
506 6.3.52.1.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.52.2 MLME-DIAGREPORT.indication
6.3.52.2.1 Function
6.3.52.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.52.2.3 When generated
6.3.52.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.53 Location configuration request
6.3.53.1 General
507 6.3.53.2 MLME-LOCATIONCFG.request
6.3.53.2.1 Function
6.3.53.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
508 6.3.53.2.3 When generated
6.3.53.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.53.3 MLME-LOCATIONCFG.confirm
6.3.53.3.1 Function
6.3.53.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.53.3.3 When generated
6.3.53.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.53.4 MLME-LOCATIONCFG.indication
6.3.53.4.1 Function
509 6.3.53.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.53.4.3 When generated
6.3.53.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.53.5 MLME-LOCATIONCFG.response
6.3.53.5.1 Function
6.3.53.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
510 6.3.53.5.3 When generated
6.3.53.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.54 Location track notification
6.3.54.1 General
6.3.54.2 MLME-LOCATIONTRACKNOTIF.request
6.3.54.2.1 Function
6.3.54.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
511 6.3.54.2.3 When generated
6.3.54.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.54.3 MLME-LOCATIONTRACKNOTIF.indication
6.3.54.3.1 Function
6.3.54.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
512 6.3.54.3.3 When generated
6.3.54.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.55 Timing measurement
6.3.55.1 General
6.3.55.2 MLME-TIMINGMSMTRQ.request
6.3.55.2.1 Function
513 6.3.55.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.55.2.3 When generated
6.3.55.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.55.3 MLME-TIMINGMSMTRQ.indication
6.3.55.3.1 Function
6.3.55.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
514 6.3.55.3.3 When generated
6.3.55.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.55.4 MLME-TIMINGMSMT.request
6.3.55.4.1 Function
6.3.55.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
515 6.3.55.4.3 When generated
6.3.55.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.55.5 MLME-TIMINGMSMT.confirm
6.3.55.5.1 Function
6.3.55.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
516 6.3.55.5.3 When generated
6.3.55.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.55.6 MLME-TIMINGMSMT.indication
6.3.55.6.1 Function
6.3.55.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
517 6.3.55.6.3 When generated
6.3.55.6.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.56 Fine timing measurement (FTM)
6.3.56.1 General
518 6.3.56.2 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMTRQ.request
6.3.56.2.1 Function
6.3.56.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
519 6.3.56.2.3 When generated
6.3.56.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.56.3 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMTRQ.indication
6.3.56.3.1 Function
6.3.56.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
520 6.3.56.3.3 When generated
6.3.56.3.4 1 Effect of receipt
6.3.56.4 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMT.request
6.3.56.4.1 Function
6.3.56.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
521 6.3.56.4.3 When generated
6.3.56.4.4 Effect of receipt
522 6.3.56.5 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMT.confirm
6.3.56.5.1 Function
6.3.56.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.56.5.3 When generated
6.3.56.5.4 Effect of receipt
523 6.3.56.6 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMT.indication
6.3.56.6.1 Function
6.3.56.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
524 6.3.56.6.3 When generated
6.3.56.6.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.57 BSS transition management
6.3.57.1 BSS transition management procedure
525 6.3.57.2 MLME-BTMQUERY.request
6.3.57.2.1 Function
6.3.57.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
526 6.3.57.2.3 When generated
6.3.57.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.57.3 MLME-BTMQUERY.indication
6.3.57.3.1 Function
6.3.57.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
527 6.3.57.3.3 When generated
6.3.57.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.57.4 MLME-BTM.request
6.3.57.4.1 Function
6.3.57.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
528 6.3.57.4.3 When generated
6.3.57.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.57.5 MLME-BTM.indication
6.3.57.5.1 Function
6.3.57.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
529 6.3.57.5.3 When generated
6.3.57.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.57.6 MLME-BTM.response
6.3.57.6.1 Function
530 6.3.57.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.57.6.3 When generated
6.3.57.6.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.57.7 MLME-BTM.confirm
6.3.57.7.1 Function
531 6.3.57.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.57.7.3 When generated
6.3.57.7.4 Effect of receipt
532 6.3.58 FMS setup
6.3.58.1 General
6.3.58.2 MLME-FMS.request
6.3.58.2.1 Function
6.3.58.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
533 6.3.58.2.3 When generated
6.3.58.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.58.3 MLME-FMS.confirm
6.3.58.3.1 Function
6.3.58.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
534 6.3.58.3.3 When generated
6.3.58.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.58.4 MLME-FMS.indication
6.3.58.4.1 Function
6.3.58.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.58.4.3 When generated
6.3.58.4.4 Effect of receipt
535 6.3.58.5 MLME-FMS.response
6.3.58.5.1 Function
6.3.58.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.58.5.3 When generated
6.3.58.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.59 Collocated Interference request
6.3.59.1 General
536 6.3.59.2 MLME-CLINTERFERENCEREQUEST.request
6.3.59.2.1 Function
6.3.59.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
537 6.3.59.2.3 When generated
6.3.59.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.59.3 MLME-CLINTERFERENCEREQUEST.indication
6.3.59.3.1 Function
6.3.59.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
538 6.3.59.3.3 When generated
6.3.59.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.60 Collocated Interference report
6.3.60.1 General
6.3.60.2 MLME-CLINTERFERENCEREPORT.request
6.3.60.2.1 Function
6.3.60.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
539 6.3.60.2.3 When generated
6.3.60.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.60.3 MLME-CLINTERFERENCEREPORT.indication
6.3.60.3.1 Function
6.3.60.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.60.3.3 When generated
540 6.3.61 TFS setup
6.3.61.1 General
6.3.61.2 MLME-TFS.request
6.3.61.2.1 Function
6.3.61.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
541 6.3.61.2.3 When generated
6.3.61.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.61.3 MLME-TFS.confirm
6.3.61.3.1 Function
6.3.61.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.61.3.3 When generated
6.3.61.3.4 Effect of receipt
542 6.3.61.4 MLME-TFS.indication
6.3.61.4.1 Function
6.3.61.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.61.4.3 When generated
6.3.61.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.61.5 MLME-TFS.response
6.3.61.5.1 Function
6.3.61.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
543 6.3.61.5.3 When generated
6.3.61.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.62 WNM sleep mode request
6.3.62.1 General
544 6.3.62.2 MLME-SLEEPMODE.request
6.3.62.2.1 Function
6.3.62.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.62.2.3 When generated
6.3.62.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.62.3 MLME-SLEEPMODE.indication
6.3.62.3.1 Function
545 6.3.62.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.62.3.3 When generated
6.3.62.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.62.4 MLME-SLEEPMODE.response
6.3.62.4.1 Function
6.3.62.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
546 6.3.62.4.3 When generated
6.3.62.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.62.5 MLME-SLEEPMODE.confirm
6.3.62.5.1 Function
6.3.62.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
547 6.3.62.5.3 When generated
6.3.62.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.63 TIM broadcast setup
6.3.63.1 General
548 6.3.63.2 MLME-TIMBROADCAST.request
6.3.63.2.1 Function
6.3.63.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.63.2.3 When generated
6.3.63.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.63.3 MLME-TIMBROADCAST.confirm
6.3.63.3.1 Function
6.3.63.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
549 6.3.63.3.3 When generated
6.3.63.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.63.4 MLME-TIMBROADCAST.indication
6.3.63.4.1 Function
6.3.63.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
550 6.3.63.4.3 When generated
6.3.63.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.63.5 MLME-TIMBROADCAST.response
6.3.63.5.1 Function
6.3.63.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.63.5.3 When generated
6.3.63.5.4 Effect of receipt
551 6.3.64 QoS traffic capability update
6.3.64.1 General
6.3.64.2 MLME-QOSTRAFFICCAPUPDATE.request
6.3.64.2.1 Function
6.3.64.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
552 6.3.64.2.3 When generated
6.3.64.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.64.3 MLME-QOSTRAFFICCAPUPDATE.indication
6.3.64.3.1 Function
6.3.64.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.64.3.3 When generated
6.3.64.3.4 Effect of receipt
553 6.3.65 Channel Usage request
6.3.65.1 General
6.3.65.2 MLME-CHANNELUSAGE.request
6.3.65.2.1 Function
6.3.65.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
554 6.3.65.2.3 When generated
6.3.65.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.65.3 MLME-CHANNELUSAGE.confirm
6.3.65.3.1 Function
6.3.65.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
555 6.3.65.3.3 When generated
6.3.65.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.65.4 MLME-CHANNELUSAGE.indication
6.3.65.4.1 Function
6.3.65.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
556 6.3.65.4.3 When generated
6.3.65.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.65.5 MLME-CHANNELUSAGE.response
6.3.65.5.1 Function
6.3.65.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
557 6.3.65.5.3 When generated
6.3.65.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.66 DMS or GCR request and response procedure
6.3.66.1 General
558 6.3.66.2 MLME-GATS.request
6.3.66.2.1 Function
6.3.66.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.66.2.3 When generated
6.3.66.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.66.3 MLME-GATS.confirm
6.3.66.3.1 Function
6.3.66.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
559 6.3.66.3.3 When generated
6.3.66.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.66.4 MLME-GATS.indication
6.3.66.4.1 Function
6.3.66.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.66.4.3 When generated
560 6.3.66.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.66.5 MLME-GATS.response
6.3.66.5.1 Function
6.3.66.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.66.5.3 When generated
6.3.66.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.66.6 MLME-GATS-TERM.request
6.3.66.6.1 Function
561 6.3.66.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.66.6.3 When generated
6.3.66.6.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.66.7 MLME-GATS-TERM.indication
6.3.66.7.1 Function
6.3.66.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive
562 6.3.66.7.3 When generated
6.3.66.7.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.67 WNM notification request
6.3.67.1 General
6.3.67.2 MLME-WNMNOTIFICATIONREQUEST.request
6.3.67.2.1 Function
6.3.67.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
563 6.3.67.2.3 When generated
6.3.67.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.67.3 MLME-WNMNOTIFICATIONREQUEST.indication
6.3.67.3.1 Function
6.3.67.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.67.3.3 When generated
6.3.67.3.4 Effect of receipt
564 6.3.68 WNM notification response
6.3.68.1 MLME-WNMNOTIFICATIONRESPONSE.request
6.3.68.1.1 Function
6.3.68.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.68.1.3 When generated
6.3.68.1.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.68.2 MLME-WNMNOTIFICATIONRESPONSE.indication
6.3.68.2.1 Function
6.3.68.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
565 6.3.68.2.3 When generated
6.3.68.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.69 Network discovery and selection support
6.3.69.1 General
6.3.69.2 MLME-GAS.request
6.3.69.2.1 Function
6.3.69.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
566 6.3.69.2.3 When generated
6.3.69.2.4 Effect of receipt
567 6.3.69.3 MLME-GAS.confirm
6.3.69.3.1 Function
6.3.69.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
568 6.3.69.3.3 When generated
6.3.69.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.69.4 MLME-GAS.indication
6.3.69.4.1 Function
6.3.69.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
569 6.3.69.4.3 When generated
6.3.69.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.69.5 MLME-GAS.response
6.3.69.5.1 Function
570 6.3.69.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
571 6.3.69.5.3 When generated
6.3.69.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.70 QoS Map element management
6.3.70.1 General
6.3.70.2 MLME-QOS-MAP.request
6.3.70.2.1 Function
572 6.3.70.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.70.2.3 When generated
6.3.70.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.70.3 MLME-QOS-MAP.indication
6.3.70.3.1 Function
6.3.70.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
573 6.3.70.3.3 When generated
6.3.70.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.71 Mesh peering management
6.3.71.1 Introduction
6.3.71.2 MLME-MESHPEERINGMANAGEMENT.request
6.3.71.2.1 Function
6.3.71.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
574 6.3.71.2.3 When generated
6.3.71.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.71.3 MLME-MESHPEERINGMANAGEMENT.confirm
6.3.71.3.1 Function
6.3.71.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.71.3.3 When generated
575 6.3.71.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.71.4 MLME-MESHPEERINGMANAGEMENT.indication
6.3.71.4.1 Function
6.3.71.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.71.4.3 When generated
6.3.71.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.71.5 MLME-MESHPEERINGMANAGEMENT.response
6.3.71.5.1 Function
576 6.3.71.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.71.5.3 When generated
6.3.71.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.72 Mesh power management
6.3.72.1 Introduction
6.3.72.2 MLME-MESHPOWERMGT.request
6.3.72.2.1 Function
6.3.72.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
577 6.3.72.2.3 When generated
6.3.72.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.72.3 MLME-MESHPOWERMGT.confirm
6.3.72.3.1 Function
6.3.72.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.72.3.3 When generated
6.3.72.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.73 Mesh neighbor offset synchronization
6.3.73.1 Introduction
578 6.3.73.2 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETSYNCSTART.request
6.3.73.2.1 Function
6.3.73.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.73.2.3 When generated
6.3.73.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.73.3 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETSYNCSTART.confirm
6.3.73.3.1 Function
6.3.73.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
579 6.3.73.3.3 When generated
6.3.73.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.73.4 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETCALCULATE.request
6.3.73.4.1 Function
6.3.73.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.73.4.3 When generated
6.3.73.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.73.5 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETCALCULATE.confirm
6.3.73.5.1 Function
6.3.73.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
580 6.3.73.5.3 When generated
6.3.73.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.73.6 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETSYNCSTOP.request
6.3.73.6.1 Function
6.3.73.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.73.6.3 When generated
6.3.73.6.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.73.7 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETSYNCSTOP.confirm
6.3.73.7.1 Function
581 6.3.73.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.73.7.3 When generated
6.3.73.7.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.74 Mesh TBTT adjustment
6.3.74.1 Introduction
6.3.74.2 MLME-MESHTBTTADJUSTMENT.request
6.3.74.2.1 Function
6.3.74.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
582 6.3.74.2.3 When generated
6.3.74.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.74.3 MLME-MESHTBTTADJUSTMENT.confirm
6.3.74.3.1 Function
6.3.74.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.74.3.3 When generated
6.3.74.3.4 Effect of receipt
583 6.3.74.4 MLME-MESHTBTTADJUSTMENT.indication
6.3.74.4.1 Function
6.3.74.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.74.4.3 When generated
6.3.74.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.74.5 MLME-MESHTBTTADJUSTMENT.response
6.3.74.5.1 Function
6.3.74.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
584 6.3.74.5.3 When generated
6.3.74.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.75 MCCA management interface
6.3.75.1 Introduction
6.3.75.2 MLME-ACTIVATEMCCA.request
6.3.75.2.1 Function
6.3.75.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
585 6.3.75.2.3 When generated
6.3.75.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.75.3 MLME-MCCASETUP.request
6.3.75.3.1 Function
6.3.75.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
586 6.3.75.3.3 When generated
6.3.75.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.75.4 MLME-MCCASETUP.confirm
6.3.75.4.1 Function
6.3.75.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
587 6.3.75.4.3 When generated
6.3.75.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.75.5 MLME-MCCASETUP.indication
6.3.75.5.1 Function
6.3.75.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.75.5.3 When generated
588 6.3.75.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.75.6 MLME-MCCASETUP.response
6.3.75.6.1 Function
6.3.75.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.75.6.3 When generated
6.3.75.6.4 Effect of receipt
589 6.3.75.7 MLME-MCCAADVERTISEMENT.request
6.3.75.7.1 Function
6.3.75.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.75.7.3 When generated
6.3.75.7.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.75.8 MLME-MCCAADVERTISEMENT.confirm
6.3.75.8.1 Function
6.3.75.8.2 Semantics of the service primitive
590 6.3.75.8.3 When generated
6.3.75.8.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.75.9 MLME-MCCAADVERTISEMENT.indication
6.3.75.9.1 Function
6.3.75.9.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.75.9.3 When generated
6.3.75.9.4 Effect of receipt
591 6.3.75.10 MLME-MCCAADVERTISEMENT.response
6.3.75.10.1 Function
6.3.75.10.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.75.10.3 When generated
6.3.75.10.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.75.11 MLME-MCCATEARDOWN.request
6.3.75.11.1 Function
6.3.75.11.2 Semantics of the service primitive
592 6.3.75.11.3 When generated
6.3.75.11.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.75.12 MLME-MCCATEARDOWN.indication
6.3.75.12.1 Function
6.3.75.12.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.75.12.3 When generated
6.3.75.12.4 Effect of receipt
593 6.3.76 MBSS congestion control
6.3.76.1 Introduction
6.3.76.2 MLME-MBSSCONGESTIONCONTROL.request
6.3.76.2.1 Function
6.3.76.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.76.2.3 When generated
6.3.76.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.76.3 MLME-MBSSCONGESTIONCONTROL.indication
6.3.76.3.1 Function
594 6.3.76.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.76.3.3 When generated
6.3.76.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.77 MBSS proxy update
6.3.77.1 Introduction
6.3.77.2 MLME-MBSSPROXYUPDATE.request
6.3.77.2.1 Function
6.3.77.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
595 6.3.77.2.3 When generated
6.3.77.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.77.3 MLME-MBSSPROXYUPDATE.confirm
6.3.77.3.1 Function
6.3.77.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.77.3.3 When generated
596 6.3.77.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.77.4 MLME-MBSSPROXYUPDATE.indication
6.3.77.4.1 Function
6.3.77.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.77.4.3 When generated
6.3.77.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.77.5 MLME-MBSSPROXYUPDATE.response
6.3.77.5.1 Function
597 6.3.77.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.77.5.3 When generated
6.3.77.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.78 MBSS mesh gate announcement
6.3.78.1 Introduction
6.3.78.2 MLME-MBSSGATEANNOUNCEMENT.request
6.3.78.2.1 Function
6.3.78.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
598 6.3.78.2.3 When generated
6.3.78.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.78.3 MLME-MBSSGATEANNOUNCEMENT.indication
6.3.78.3.1 Function
6.3.78.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.78.3.3 When generated
599 6.3.78.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.79 Mesh link metric
6.3.79.1 Introduction
6.3.79.2 MLME-MESHLINKMETRICREAD.request
6.3.79.2.1 Function
6.3.79.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.79.2.3 When generated
6.3.79.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.79.3 MLME-MESHLINKMETRICREAD.confirm
6.3.79.3.1 Function
600 6.3.79.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.79.3.3 When generated
6.3.79.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.79.4 MLME-MESHLINKMETRICREPORT.request
6.3.79.4.1 Function
6.3.79.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
601 6.3.79.4.3 When generated
6.3.79.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.79.5 MLME-MESHLINKMETRICREPORT.indication
6.3.79.5.1 Function
6.3.79.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
602 6.3.79.5.3 When generated
6.3.79.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.80 HWMP mesh path selection
6.3.80.1 Introduction
6.3.80.2 MLME-HWMPMESHPATHSELECTION.request
6.3.80.2.1 Function
6.3.80.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
603 6.3.80.2.3 When generated
6.3.80.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.80.3 MLME-HWMPMESHPATHSELECTION.indication
6.3.80.3.1 Function
6.3.80.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
604 6.3.80.3.3 When generated
6.3.80.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.81 QMF policy
6.3.81.1 Introduction
6.3.81.2 MLME-QMFPOLICY.request
6.3.81.2.1 Function
6.3.81.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
605 6.3.81.2.3 When generated
6.3.81.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.81.3 MLME-QMFPOLICY.indication
6.3.81.3.1 Function
6.3.81.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.81.3.3 When generated
6.3.81.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.81.4 MLME-QMFPOLICYCHANGE.request
6.3.81.4.1 Function
606 6.3.81.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.81.4.3 When generated
6.3.81.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.81.5 MLME-QMFPOLICYCHANGE.confirm
6.3.81.5.1 Function
6.3.81.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
607 6.3.81.5.3 When generated
6.3.81.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.81.6 MLME-QMFPOLICYCHANGE.indication
6.3.81.6.1 Function
6.3.81.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
608 6.3.81.6.3 When generated
6.3.81.6.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.81.7 MLME-QMFPOLICYCHANGE.response
6.3.81.7.1 Function
6.3.81.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.81.7.3 When generated
6.3.81.7.4 Effect of receipt
609 6.3.81.8 MLME-QMFPOLICYSET.request
6.3.81.8.1 Function
6.3.81.8.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.81.8.3 When generated
6.3.81.8.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.82 SCS request and response procedure
6.3.82.1 General
610 6.3.82.2 MLME-SCS.request
6.3.82.2.1 Function
6.3.82.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
611 6.3.82.2.3 When generated
6.3.82.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.82.3 MLME-SCS.confirm
6.3.82.3.1 Function
6.3.82.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.82.3.3 When generated
6.3.82.3.4 Effect of receipt
612 6.3.82.4 MLME-SCS.indication
6.3.82.4.1 Function
6.3.82.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.82.4.3 When generated
6.3.82.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.82.5 MLME-SCS.response
6.3.82.5.1 Function
6.3.82.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
613 6.3.82.5.3 When generated
6.3.82.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.82.6 MLME-SCS-TERM.request
6.3.82.6.1 Function
6.3.82.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
614 6.3.82.6.3 When generated
6.3.82.6.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.82.7 MLME-SCS-TERM.indication
6.3.82.7.1 Function
6.3.82.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.82.7.3 When generated
6.3.82.7.4 Effect of receipt
615 6.3.83 QLoad report management
6.3.83.1 General
6.3.83.2 MLME-QLOAD.request
6.3.83.2.1 Function
6.3.83.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.83.2.3 When generated
6.3.83.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.83.3 MLME-QLOAD.confirm
6.3.83.3.1 Function
616 6.3.83.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.83.3.3 When generated
6.3.83.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.83.4 MLME-QLOAD.indication
6.3.83.4.1 Function
617 6.3.83.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.83.4.3 When generated
6.3.83.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.83.5 MLME-QLOAD.response
6.3.83.5.1 Function
6.3.83.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
618 6.3.83.5.3 When generated
6.3.83.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.84 HCCA TXOP advertisement management
6.3.84.1 General
6.3.84.2 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.request
6.3.84.2.1 Function
6.3.84.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
619 6.3.84.2.3 When generated
6.3.84.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.84.3 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.confirm
6.3.84.3.1 Function
6.3.84.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
620 6.3.84.3.3 When generated
6.3.84.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.84.4 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.indication
6.3.84.4.1 Function
6.3.84.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
621 6.3.84.4.3 When generated
6.3.84.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.84.5 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.response
6.3.84.5.1 Function
6.3.84.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
622 6.3.84.5.3 When generated
6.3.84.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.85 GCR group membership management
6.3.85.1 General
6.3.85.2 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.request
6.3.85.2.1 Function
623 6.3.85.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.85.2.3 When generated
6.3.85.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.85.3 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.confirm
6.3.85.3.1 Function
6.3.85.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
624 6.3.85.3.3 When generated
6.3.85.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.85.4 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.indication
6.3.85.4.1 Function
6.3.85.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.85.4.3 When generated
6.3.85.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.85.5 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.response
6.3.85.5.1 Function
625 6.3.85.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.85.5.3 When generated
6.3.85.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.86 AP PeerKey management
6.3.86.1 General
6.3.86.2 MLME-APPEERKEY.request
6.3.86.2.1 Function
626 6.3.86.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.86.2.3 When generated
6.3.86.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.86.3 MLME-APPEERKEY.indication
6.3.86.3.1 Function
6.3.86.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
627 6.3.86.3.3 When generated
6.3.86.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.87 On-channel Tunneling operation
6.3.87.1 General
628 6.3.87.2 MLME-OCTunnel.request
6.3.87.2.1 Function
6.3.87.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.87.2.3 When generated
6.3.87.2.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.87.3 MLME-OCTunnel.indication
6.3.87.3.1 Function
629 6.3.87.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.87.3.3 When generated
6.3.87.3.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.87.4 MLME-OCTunnel.confirm
6.3.87.4.1 Function
6.3.87.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
630 6.3.87.4.3 When generated
6.3.87.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.88 Multi-band operation
6.3.88.1 General
6.3.88.2 MLME-FST-SETUP.request
6.3.88.2.1 Function
6.3.88.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.88.2.3 When generated
6.3.88.2.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.88.3 MLME-FST-SETUP.indication
6.3.88.3.1 Function
631 6.3.88.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.88.3.3 When generated
6.3.88.3.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.88.4 MLME-FST-SETUP.response
6.3.88.4.1 Function
6.3.88.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.88.4.3 When generated
6.3.88.4.4 Effect on receipt
632 6.3.88.5 MLME-FST-SETUP.confirm
6.3.88.5.1 Function
6.3.88.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.88.5.3 When generated
6.3.88.5.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.88.6 MLME-FST-ACK.request
6.3.88.6.1 Function
6.3.88.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
633 6.3.88.6.3 When generated
6.3.88.6.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.88.7 MLME-FST-ACK.indication
6.3.88.7.1 Function
6.3.88.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.88.7.3 When generated
6.3.88.7.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.88.8 MLME-FST-ACK.response
6.3.88.8.1 Function
6.3.88.8.2 Semantics of the service primitive
634 6.3.88.8.3 When generated
6.3.88.8.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.88.9 MLME-FST-ACK.confirm
6.3.88.9.1 Function
6.3.88.9.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.88.9.3 When generated
6.3.88.9.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.88.10 MLME-FST-TEARDOWN.request
6.3.88.10.1 Function
635 6.3.88.10.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.88.10.3 When generated
6.3.88.10.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.88.11 MLME-FST-TEARDOWN.indication
6.3.88.11.1 Function
6.3.88.11.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.88.11.3 When generated
6.3.88.11.4 Effect on receipt
636 6.3.88.12 MLME-FST-INCOMING.request
6.3.88.12.1 Function
6.3.88.12.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.88.12.3 When generated
6.3.88.12.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.89 DMG relay operation
6.3.89.1 General
637 6.3.89.2 MLME-RELAY-SEARCH.request
6.3.89.2.1 Function
6.3.89.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.89.2.3 When generated
6.3.89.2.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.89.3 MLME-RELAY-SEARCH.confirm
6.3.89.3.1 Function
6.3.89.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.89.3.3 When generated
638 6.3.89.3.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.89.4 MLME-RELAY-SEARCH.indication
6.3.89.4.1 Function
6.3.89.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.89.4.3 When generated
6.3.89.4.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.89.5 MLME-RELAY-SEARCH.response
6.3.89.5.1 Function
6.3.89.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
639 6.3.89.5.3 When generated
6.3.89.5.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.89.6 MLME-RLS.request
6.3.89.6.1 Function
6.3.89.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
640 6.3.89.6.3 When generated
6.3.89.6.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.89.7 MLME-RLS.confirm
6.3.89.7.1 Function
6.3.89.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.89.7.3 When generated
6.3.89.7.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.89.8 MLME-RLS.indication
6.3.89.8.1 Function
6.3.89.8.2 Semantics of the service primitive
641 6.3.89.8.3 When generated
6.3.89.8.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.89.9 MLME-RLS.response
6.3.89.9.1 Function
6.3.89.9.2 Semantics of the service primitive
642 6.3.89.9.3 When generated
6.3.89.9.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.89.10 MLME-RLS-TEARDOWN.request
6.3.89.10.1 Function
6.3.89.10.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.89.10.3 When generated
6.3.89.10.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.89.11 MLME-RLS-TEARDOWN.indication
6.3.89.11.1 Function
643 6.3.89.11.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.89.11.3 When generated
6.3.89.11.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.90 Quieting adjacent BSS operation
6.3.90.1 General
6.3.90.2 MLME-QAB.request
6.3.90.2.1 Function
6.3.90.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
644 6.3.90.2.3 When generated
6.3.90.2.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.90.3 MLME-QAB.confirm
6.3.90.3.1 Function
6.3.90.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
645 6.3.90.3.3 When generated
6.3.90.3.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.90.4 MLME-QAB.indication
6.3.90.4.1 Function
6.3.90.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
646 6.3.90.4.3 When generated
6.3.90.4.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.90.5 MLME-QAB.response
6.3.90.5.1 Function
6.3.90.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.90.5.3 When generated
6.3.90.5.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.91 DMG beamforming
6.3.91.1 General
647 6.3.91.2 MLME-BF-TRAINING.request
6.3.91.2.1 Function
6.3.91.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.91.2.3 When generated
6.3.91.2.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.91.3 MLME-BF-TRAINING.confirm
6.3.91.3.1 Function
6.3.91.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
648 6.3.91.3.3 When generated
6.3.91.3.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.91.4 MLME-BF-TRAINING.indication
6.3.91.4.1 Function
6.3.91.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.91.4.3 When generated
6.3.91.4.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.92 PN event report
6.3.92.1 General
6.3.92.2 MLME-PN-EXHAUSTION.indication
6.3.92.2.1 Function
649 6.3.92.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.92.2.3 When generated
6.3.92.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.92.3 MLME-PN-WARNING.indication
6.3.92.3.1 Function
6.3.92.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
650 6.3.92.3.3 When generated
6.3.92.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.93 Channel Availability Query
6.3.93.1 Introduction
6.3.93.2 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.request
6.3.93.2.1 Function
6.3.93.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
651 6.3.93.2.3 When generated
6.3.93.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.93.3 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.confirm
6.3.93.3.1 Function
6.3.93.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
652 6.3.93.3.3 When generated
6.3.93.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.93.4 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.indication
6.3.93.4.1 Function
6.3.93.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
653 6.3.93.4.3 When generated
6.3.93.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.93.5 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.response
6.3.93.5.1 Function
6.3.93.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.93.5.3 When generated
654 6.3.93.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.94 Channel schedule management
6.3.94.1 Introduction
6.3.94.2 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.request
6.3.94.2.1 Function
6.3.94.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
655 6.3.94.2.3 When generated
6.3.94.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.94.3 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.confirm
6.3.94.3.1 Function
6.3.94.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
656 6.3.94.3.3 When generated
6.3.94.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.94.4 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.indication
6.3.94.4.1 Function
6.3.94.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
657 6.3.94.4.3 When generated
6.3.94.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.94.5 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.response
6.3.94.5.1 Function
6.3.94.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
658 6.3.94.5.3 When generated
6.3.94.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.95 Contact verification signal
6.3.95.1 Introduction
6.3.95.2 MLME-CVS.request
6.3.95.2.1 Function
6.3.95.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
659 6.3.95.2.3 When generated
6.3.95.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.95.3 MLME-CVS.indication
6.3.95.3.1 Function
6.3.95.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
660 6.3.95.3.3 When generated
6.3.95.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.96 GDD Enablement
6.3.96.1 Introduction
6.3.96.2 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.request
6.3.96.2.1 Function
6.3.96.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.96.2.3 When generated
661 6.3.96.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.96.3 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.confirm
6.3.96.3.1 Function
6.3.96.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.96.3.3 When generated
662 6.3.96.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.96.4 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.indication
6.3.96.4.1 Function
6.3.96.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.96.4.3 When generated
6.3.96.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.96.5 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.response
6.3.96.5.1 Function
663 6.3.96.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.96.5.3 When generated
6.3.96.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.97 Network channel control management
6.3.97.1 Introduction
664 6.3.97.2 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.request
6.3.97.2.1 Function
6.3.97.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.97.2.3 When generated
6.3.97.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.97.3 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.confirm
6.3.97.3.1 Function
665 6.3.97.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.97.3.3 When generated
6.3.97.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.97.4 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.indication
6.3.97.4.1 Function
6.3.97.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
666 6.3.97.4.3 When generated
6.3.97.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.97.5 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.response
6.3.97.5.1 Function
6.3.97.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
667 6.3.97.5.3 When generated
6.3.97.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.98 White space map (WSM)
6.3.98.1 Introduction
6.3.98.2 MLME-WSM.request
6.3.98.2.1 Function
6.3.98.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
668 6.3.98.2.3 When generated
6.3.98.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.98.3 MLME-WSM.indication
6.3.98.3.1 Function
6.3.98.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.98.3.3 When generated
6.3.98.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.99 Estimated Throughput
6.3.99.1 General
6.3.99.2 MLME-ESTIMATED-THROUGHPUT.request
6.3.99.2.1 Function
669 6.3.99.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.99.2.3 When generated
6.3.99.2.4 Effect of receipt
670 6.3.99.3 MLME-ESTIMATED-THROUGHPUT.confirm
6.3.99.3.1 Function
6.3.99.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.99.3.3 When generated
6.3.99.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.100 Get authentication and association state
6.3.100.1 General
671 6.3.100.2 MLME-GETAUTHASSOCSTATE.request
6.3.100.2.1 Function
6.3.100.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.100.2.3 When generated
6.3.100.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.100.3 MLME-GETAUTHASSOCSTATE.confirm
6.3.100.3.1 Function
6.3.100.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.100.3.3 When generated
672 6.3.100.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.101 FILS Container
6.3.101.1 General
6.3.101.2 MLME-FILSContainer.request
6.3.101.2.1 Function
6.3.101.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.101.2.3 When generated
6.3.101.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.101.3 MLME-FILSContainer.confirm
6.3.101.3.1 Function
673 6.3.101.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.101.4 MLME-FILSContainer.indication
6.3.101.4.1 Function
6.3.101.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.101.4.3 When generated
6.3.101.4.4 Effect of receipt
674 6.3.101.5 MLME-FILSContainer.response
6.3.101.5.1 Function
6.3.101.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.101.5.3 When generated
6.3.101.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.102 Dynamic AID assignment operation
6.3.102.1 General
6.3.102.2 MLME-AIDSWITCH.request
6.3.102.2.1 Function
675 6.3.102.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.102.2.3 When generated
6.3.102.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.102.3 MLME-AIDSWITCH.confirm
6.3.102.3.1 Function
6.3.102.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
676 6.3.102.3.3 When generated
6.3.102.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.102.4 MLME-AIDSWITCH.indication
6.3.102.4.1 Function
6.3.102.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
677 6.3.102.4.3 When generated
6.3.102.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.102.5 MLME-AIDSWITCH.response
6.3.102.5.1 Function
6.3.102.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.102.5.3 When generated
6.3.102.5.4 Effect of receipt
678 6.3.103 Sync Control
6.3.103.1 General
6.3.103.2 MLME-SYNCCONTROL.request
6.3.103.2.1 Function
6.3.103.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.103.2.3 When generated
6.3.103.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.103.3 MLME-SYNCCONTROL.indication
6.3.103.3.1 Function
6.3.103.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
679 6.3.103.3.3 When generated
6.3.103.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.104 STA Information Announcement
6.3.104.1 General
6.3.104.2 MLME-STAINFORMATION.request
6.3.104.2.1 Function
6.3.104.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.104.2.3 When generated
680 6.3.104.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.104.3 MLME-STAINFORMATION.indication
6.3.104.3.1 Function
6.3.104.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.104.3.3 When generated
6.3.104.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.105 EDCA Parameter Set update
6.3.105.1 General
6.3.105.2 MLME-EDCAPARAMETERSET.request
6.3.105.2.1 Function
681 6.3.105.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.105.2.3 When generated
6.3.105.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.105.3 MLME-EDCAPARAMETERSET.indication
6.3.105.3.1 Function
6.3.105.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
682 6.3.105.3.3 When generated
6.3.105.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.106 EL Operation
6.3.106.1 General
6.3.106.2 MLME-ELOPERATION.request
6.3.106.2.1 Function
6.3.106.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.106.2.3 When generated
6.3.106.2.4 Effect of receipt
683 6.3.106.3 MLME-ELOPERATION.indication
6.3.106.3.1 Function
6.3.106.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.106.3.3 When generated
6.3.106.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.107 TWT Setup
6.3.107.1 General
6.3.107.2 MLME-TWTSETUP.request
6.3.107.2.1 Function
6.3.107.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
684 6.3.107.2.3 When generated
6.3.107.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.107.3 MLME-TWTSETUP.confirm
6.3.107.3.1 Function
6.3.107.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
685 6.3.107.3.3 When generated
6.3.107.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.107.4 MLME-TWTSETUP.indication
6.3.107.4.1 Function
6.3.107.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.107.4.3 When generated
6.3.107.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.107.5 MLME-TWTSETUP.response
6.3.107.5.1 Function
686 6.3.107.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.107.5.3 When generated
6.3.107.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.108 TWT Teardown
6.3.108.1 General
6.3.108.2 MLME-TWTTEARDOWN.request
6.3.108.2.1 Function
6.3.108.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
687 6.3.108.2.3 When generated
6.3.108.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.108.3 MLME-TWTTEARDOWN.indication
6.3.108.3.1 Function
6.3.108.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
688 6.3.108.3.3 When generated
6.3.108.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.109 Sectorized Group ID List management
6.3.109.1 General
6.3.109.2 MLME-SECTORIZEDGROUPID.request
6.3.109.2.1 Function
6.3.109.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.109.2.3 When generated
6.3.109.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.109.3 LME-SECTORIZEDGROUPID.indication
6.3.109.3.1 Function
689 6.3.109.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.109.3.3 When generated
6.3.109.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.110 Header Compression procedure
6.3.110.1 General
6.3.110.2 MLME-HEADERCOMPRESSION.request
6.3.110.2.1 Function
6.3.110.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
690 6.3.110.2.3 When generated
6.3.110.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.110.3 MLME-HEADERCOMPRESSION.confirm
6.3.110.3.1 Function
6.3.110.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
691 6.3.110.3.3 When generated
6.3.110.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.110.4 MLME-HEADERCOMPRESSION.indication
6.3.110.4.1 Function
6.3.110.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.110.4.3 When generated
6.3.110.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.110.5 MLME-HEADERCOMPRESSION.response
6.3.110.5.1 Function
692 6.3.110.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.110.5.3 When generated
6.3.110.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.111 Reachable Address Update
6.3.111.1 General
6.3.111.2 MLME-REACHABLEADDRESSUPDATE.request
6.3.111.2.1 Function
6.3.111.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
693 6.3.111.2.3 When generated
6.3.111.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.111.3 MLME-REACHABLEADDRESSUPDATE.indication
6.3.111.3.1 Function
6.3.111.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.111.3.3 When generated
6.3.111.3.4 Effect of receipt
694 6.3.112 Control response MCS negotiation operation
6.3.112.1 General
6.3.112.2 MLME-CONTROLRESPONSEMCS.request
6.3.112.2.1 Function
6.3.112.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.112.2.3 When generated
6.3.112.2.4 Effect of receipt
695 6.3.112.3 MLME-CONTROLRESPONSEMCS.confirm
6.3.112.3.1 Function
6.3.112.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.112.3.3 When generated
6.3.112.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.112.4 MLME-CONTROLRESPONSEMCS.indication
6.3.112.4.1 Function
6.3.112.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
696 6.3.112.4.3 When generated
6.3.112.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.112.5 MLME-CONTROLRESPONSEMCS.response
6.3.112.5.1 Function
6.3.112.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.112.5.3 When generated
697 6.3.112.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.113 S1G relay (de)activation
6.3.113.1 General
6.3.113.2 MLME-S1GRELAYACTIVATE.request
6.3.113.2.1 Function
6.3.113.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.113.2.3 When generated
6.3.113.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.113.3 MLME-S1GRELAYACTIVATE.confirm
6.3.113.3.1 Function
698 6.3.113.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.113.3.3 When generated
6.3.113.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.113.4 MLME-S1GRELAYACTIVATE.indication
6.3.113.4.1 Function
6.3.113.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.113.4.3 When generated
699 6.3.113.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.113.5 MLME-S1GRELAYACTIVATE.response
6.3.113.5.1 Function
6.3.113.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.113.5.3 When generated
6.3.113.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.114 DCS procedure
6.3.114.1 General
6.3.114.2 MLME-DCSMEASUREMENT.request
6.3.114.2.1 Function
700 6.3.114.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.114.2.3 When generated
6.3.114.2.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.114.3 MLME-DCSMEASUREMENT.indication
6.3.114.3.1 Function
6.3.114.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
701 6.3.114.3.3 When generated
6.3.114.3.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.114.4 MLME-DCSMEASUREMENT.response
6.3.114.4.1 Function
6.3.114.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.114.4.3 When generated
6.3.114.4.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.114.5 MLME-DCSMEASUREMENT.confirm
6.3.114.5.1 Function
702 6.3.114.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.114.5.3 When generated
6.3.114.5.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.114.6 MLME-DCS.request
6.3.114.6.1 Function
6.3.114.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.114.6.3 When generated
703 6.3.114.6.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.114.7 MLME-DCS.indication
6.3.114.7.1 Function
6.3.114.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.114.7.3 When generated
6.3.114.7.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.114.8 MLME-DCS.response
6.3.114.8.1 Function
6.3.114.8.2 Semantics of the service primitive
704 6.3.114.8.3 When generated
6.3.114.8.4 Effect on receipt
6.3.114.9 MLME-DCS.confirm
6.3.114.9.1 Function
6.3.114.9.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.114.9.3 When generated
6.3.114.9.4 Effect on receipt
705 6.3.115 Update
6.3.115.1 Introduction
6.3.115.2 MLME-UPDATE.request
6.3.115.2.1 Function
6.3.115.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.115.2.3 When generated
706 6.3.115.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.115.3 MLME-UPDATE.confirm
6.3.115.3.1 Function
6.3.115.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.115.3.3 When generated
6.3.115.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.116 MSCS request and response procedure
6.3.116.1 General
6.3.116.2 MLME-MSCS.request
6.3.116.2.1 Function
707 6.3.116.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.116.2.3 When generated
6.3.116.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.116.3 MLME-MSCS.confirm
6.3.116.3.1 Function
6.3.116.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
708 6.3.116.3.3 When generated
6.3.116.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.116.4 MLME-MSCS.indication
6.3.116.4.1 Function
6.3.116.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
709 6.3.116.4.3 When generated
6.3.116.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.116.5 MLME-MSCS.response
6.3.116.5.1 Function
6.3.116.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.116.5.3 When generated
6.3.116.5.4 Effect of receipt
710 6.3.116.6 MLME-MSCS-TERM.request
6.3.116.6.1 Function
6.3.116.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.116.6.3 When generated
6.3.116.6.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.116.7 MLME-MSCS-TERM.indication
6.3.116.7.1 Function
711 6.3.116.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.116.7.3 When generated
6.3.116.7.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.117 MAC Address Update
6.3.117.1 MLME-UPDATEMACADDRESS.request
6.3.117.1.1 Function
6.3.117.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
712 6.3.117.1.3 When generated
6.3.117.1.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.117.2 MLME-UPDATEMACADDRESS.confirm
6.3.117.2.1 Function
6.3.117.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.3.117.2.3 When generated
6.3.117.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.4 MAC state generic convergence function (MSGCF)
6.4.1 Overview of the convergence function
6.4.2 Overview of convergence function state machine
713 6.4.3 Convergence function state list
6.4.3.1 ESS_CONNECTED
6.4.3.2 ESS_DISCONNECTED
6.4.3.3 ESS_DISENGAGING
714 6.4.3.4 STANDBY
6.4.4 Convergence function state transitions
6.4.4.1 Transitions to ESS_CONNECTED
6.4.4.1.1 From ESS_DISCONNECTED
6.4.4.1.2 From ESS_DISENGAGING
6.4.4.2 Transitions to ESS_ DISCONNECTED
6.4.4.2.1 From ESS_CONNECTED
6.4.4.2.2 From ESS_DISENGAGING
6.4.4.2.3 From STANDBY
6.4.4.3 Transitions to ESS_DISENGAGING
6.4.4.3.1 From ESS_CONNECTED
715 6.4.4.4 Transitions to STANDBY
6.4.4.4.1 From ESS_DISCONNECTED
6.4.5 Convergence function informational events
6.4.6 MAC state generic convergence SAP
6.4.7 ESS status reporting
6.4.7.1 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-UP.indication
6.4.7.1.1 Function
6.4.7.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.4.7.1.3 When generated
716 6.4.7.1.4 Effect of receipt
6.4.7.2 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-DOWN.indication
6.4.7.2.1 Function
6.4.7.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
717 6.4.7.2.3 When generated
6.4.7.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.4.7.3 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-GOING-DOWN.indication
6.4.7.3.1 Function
6.4.7.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
718 6.4.7.3.3 When generated
6.4.7.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.4.7.4 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-EVENT-ROLLBACK.indication
6.4.7.4.1 Function
719 6.4.7.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.4.7.4.3 When generated
6.4.7.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.4.7.5 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-DETECTED.indication
6.4.7.5.1 Function
6.4.7.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
720 6.4.7.5.3 When generated
6.4.7.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.4.7.6 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-SCAN.request
6.4.7.6.1 Function
721 6.4.7.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.4.7.6.3 When generated
6.4.7.6.4 Effect of receipt
6.4.7.7 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-SCAN.confirm
6.4.7.7.1 Function
6.4.7.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.4.7.7.3 When generated
722 6.4.7.7.4 Effect of receipt
6.4.8 Network configuration
6.4.8.1 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-CAPABILITY.request
6.4.8.1.1 Function
6.4.8.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.4.8.1.3 When generated
6.4.8.1.4 Effect of receipt
6.4.8.2 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-CAPABILITY.confirm
6.4.8.2.1 Function
6.4.8.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
723 6.4.8.2.3 When generated
6.4.8.2.4 Effect of receipt
724 6.4.8.3 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-PARAMETERS.request
6.4.8.3.1 Function
6.4.8.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
725 6.4.8.3.3 When generated
6.4.8.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.4.8.4 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-PARAMETERS.confirm
6.4.8.4.1 Function
6.4.8.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.4.8.4.3 When generated
726 6.4.8.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.4.8.5 MSGCF-GET-ESS-LINK-PARAMETERS.request
6.4.8.5.1 Function
6.4.8.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.4.8.5.3 When generated
6.4.8.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.4.8.6 MSGCF-GET-ESS-LINK-PARAMETERS.confirm
6.4.8.6.1 Function
6.4.8.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
727 6.4.8.6.3 When generated
6.4.8.6.4 Effect of receipt
6.4.9 Network events
6.4.9.1 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-THRESHOLD-REPORT.indication
6.4.9.1.1 Function
6.4.9.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.4.9.1.3 When generated
6.4.9.1.4 Effect of receipt
728 6.4.10 Network command interface
6.4.10.1 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-COMMAND.request
6.4.10.1.1 Function
6.4.10.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.4.10.1.3 When generated
6.4.10.1.4 Effect of receipt
729 6.4.11 MAC state SME SAP—mobility management
6.4.11.1 MSSME-ESS-LINK-GOING-DOWN.indication
6.4.11.1.1 Function
6.4.11.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.4.11.1.3 When generated
6.4.11.1.4 Effect of receipt
6.5 PLME SAP interface
6.5.1 General
730 6.5.2 PLME-RESET.request
6.5.2.1 Function
6.5.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.5.2.3 When generated
6.5.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.5.3 PLME-CHARACTERISTICS.request
6.5.3.1 Function
6.5.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.5.3.3 When generated
6.5.3.4 Effect of receipt
6.5.4 PLME-CHARACTERISTICS.confirm
6.5.4.1 Function
6.5.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
733 6.5.4.3 When generated
6.5.4.4 Effect of receipt
6.5.5 PLME-TXTIME.request
6.5.5.1 Function
6.5.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.5.5.3 When generated
734 6.5.5.4 Effect of receipt
6.5.6 PLME-TXTIME.confirm
6.5.6.1 Function
6.5.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
6.5.6.3 When generated
6.5.6.4 Effect of receipt
735 7. DS SAP specification
7.1 Introduction
7.2 SAP primitives
7.2.1 General
736 7.2.2 MSDU transfer
7.2.2.1 General
7.2.2.2 DS-UNITDATA.request
7.2.2.2.1 Function
7.2.2.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
7.2.2.2.3 When generated
7.2.2.2.4 Effect of receipt
7.2.2.3 DS-UNITDATA.indication
7.2.2.3.1 Function
737 7.2.2.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
7.2.2.3.3 When generated
7.2.2.3.4 Effect of receipt
7.2.3 Mapping updates
7.2.3.1 General
7.2.3.2 DS-STA-NOTIFY.request
7.2.3.2.1 Function
7.2.3.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
738 7.2.3.2.3 When generated
7.2.3.2.4 Effect of receipt
739 8. PHY service specification
8.1 Scope of PHY services
8.2 PHY functions
8.3 Detailed PHY service specifications
8.3.1 Scope and field of application
8.3.2 Overview of the service
8.3.3 Overview of interactions
8.3.4 Basic service and options
8.3.4.1 PHY SAP peer-to-peer service primitives
740 8.3.4.2 PHY SAP inter-(sub)layer service primitives
8.3.4.3 PHY SAP service primitives parameters
741 8.3.4.4 Vector descriptions
742 8.3.5 PHY SAP detailed service specification
8.3.5.1 Introduction
8.3.5.2 PHY-DATA.request
8.3.5.2.1 Function
743 8.3.5.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
8.3.5.2.3 When generated
8.3.5.2.4 Effect of receipt
8.3.5.3 PHY-DATA.indication
8.3.5.3.1 Function
8.3.5.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
8.3.5.3.3 When generated
8.3.5.3.4 Effect of receipt
744 8.3.5.4 PHY-DATA.confirm
8.3.5.4.1 Function
8.3.5.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
8.3.5.4.3 When generated
8.3.5.4.4 Effect of receipt
8.3.5.5 PHY-TXSTART.request
8.3.5.5.1 Function
8.3.5.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
8.3.5.5.3 When generated
8.3.5.5.4 Effect of receipt
745 8.3.5.6 PHY-TXSTART.confirm
8.3.5.6.1 Function
8.3.5.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
8.3.5.6.3 When generated
8.3.5.6.4 Effect of receipt
8.3.5.7 PHY-TXEND.request
8.3.5.7.1 Function
8.3.5.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive
746 8.3.5.7.3 When generated
8.3.5.7.4 Effect of receipt
8.3.5.8 PHY-TXEND.confirm
8.3.5.8.1 Function
8.3.5.8.2 Semantics of the service primitive
8.3.5.8.3 When generated
8.3.5.8.4 Effect of receipt
8.3.5.9 PHY-TXHEADEREND.indication
8.3.5.9.1 Function
747 8.3.5.9.2 Semantics of the service primitive
8.3.5.9.3 When generated
8.3.5.9.4 Effect of receipt
8.3.5.10 PHY-CCARESET.request
8.3.5.10.1 Function
8.3.5.10.2 Semantics of the service primitive
8.3.5.10.3 When generated
8.3.5.10.4 Effect of receipt
748 8.3.5.11 PHY-CCARESET.confirm
8.3.5.11.1 Function
8.3.5.11.2 Semantics of the service primitive
8.3.5.11.3 When generated
8.3.5.11.4 Effect of receipt
8.3.5.12 PHY-CCA.indication
8.3.5.12.1 Function
8.3.5.12.2 Semantics of the service primitive
751 8.3.5.12.3 When generated
752 8.3.5.12.4 Effect of receipt
8.3.5.13 PHY-RXSTART.indication
8.3.5.13.1 Function
8.3.5.13.2 Semantics of the service primitive
753 8.3.5.13.3 When generated
8.3.5.13.4 Effect of receipt
8.3.5.14 PHY-RXEND.indication
8.3.5.14.1 Function
8.3.5.14.2 Semantics of the service primitive
754 8.3.5.14.3 When generated
8.3.5.14.4 Effect of receipt
8.3.5.15 PHY-CONFIG.request
8.3.5.15.1 Function
8.3.5.15.2 Semantics of the service primitive
8.3.5.15.3 When generated
8.3.5.15.4 Effect of receipt
8.4 PHY management
755 9. Frame formats
9.1 General requirements
9.2 MAC frame formats
9.2.1 Basic components
9.2.2 Conventions
757 9.2.3 General frame format
758 9.2.4 Frame fields
9.2.4.1 Frame Control field
9.2.4.1.1 General
759 9.2.4.1.2 Protocol Version subfield
9.2.4.1.3 Type and Subtype subfields
762 9.2.4.1.4 To DS and From DS subfields
763 9.2.4.1.5 More Fragments subfield
9.2.4.1.6 Retry subfield
9.2.4.1.7 Power Management subfield
9.2.4.1.8 More Data subfield
765 9.2.4.1.9 Protected Frame subfield
9.2.4.1.10 +HTC subfield
9.2.4.1.11 Bandwidth Indication and Dynamic Indication subfields
766 9.2.4.1.12 Next TWT Info Present subfield
9.2.4.1.13 Flow Control subfield
9.2.4.1.14 Poll Type subfield
767 9.2.4.1.15 Next TBTT Present subfield
9.2.4.1.16 Compressed SSID Present subfield
9.2.4.1.17 ANO Present subfield
9.2.4.1.18 BSS BW subfield
9.2.4.1.19 Security subfield
9.2.4.1.20 AP-PM subfield
9.2.4.2 Duration/ID field
768 9.2.4.3 Address fields
9.2.4.3.1 General
9.2.4.3.2 Address representation
769 9.2.4.3.3 Address designation
9.2.4.3.4 BSSID field
9.2.4.3.5 DA field
9.2.4.3.6 SA field
9.2.4.3.7 RA field
770 9.2.4.3.8 TA field
9.2.4.4 Sequence Control field
9.2.4.4.1 Sequence Control field structure
9.2.4.4.2 Sequence Number field
771 9.2.4.4.3 Fragment Number field
9.2.4.5 QoS Control field
9.2.4.5.1 QoS Control field structure
772 9.2.4.5.2 TID subfield
773 9.2.4.5.3 EOSP (end of service period) subfield
9.2.4.5.4 Ack Policy Indicator subfield
774 9.2.4.5.5 TXOP Limit subfield
775 9.2.4.5.6 Queue Size subfield
9.2.4.5.7 TXOP Duration Requested subfield
9.2.4.5.8 AP PS Buffer State subfield
776 9.2.4.5.9 A-MSDU Present subfield
9.2.4.5.10 Mesh Control Present subfield
9.2.4.5.11 Mesh Power Save Level subfield
9.2.4.5.12 Receiver Service Period Initiated (RSPI) subfield
9.2.4.5.13 A-MSDU Type subfield
777 9.2.4.5.14 RDG/More PPDU subfield
9.2.4.5.15 AC Constraint subfield
9.2.4.5.16 Buffered AC subfield
9.2.4.6 HT Control field
9.2.4.6.1 General
778 9.2.4.6.2 HT variant
782 9.2.4.6.3 VHT variant
785 9.2.4.6.4 CMMG variant HT Control field
787 9.2.4.7 Frame Body field
9.2.4.7.1 General
788 9.2.4.7.2 Overhead for encryption
9.2.4.7.3 Mesh Control field
790 9.2.4.8 FCS field
791 9.2.5 Duration/ID field (QoS STA)
9.2.5.1 General
9.2.5.2 Setting for single and multiple protection under enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA)
794 9.2.5.3 Setting for QoS CF-Poll frames
9.2.5.4 Setting for frames sent by a TXOP holder under HCCA
9.2.5.5 Settings within a PSMP sequence
795 9.2.5.6 Settings within a dual CTS sequence
9.2.5.7 Setting for control response frames
796 9.2.5.8 Setting for other response frames
9.3 Format of individual frame types
9.3.1 Control frames
9.3.1.1 Format of Control frames
797 9.3.1.2 RTS frame format
798 9.3.1.3 CTS frame format
9.3.1.4 Ack frame format
799 9.3.1.5 PS-Poll frame format
9.3.1.5.1 General
9.3.1.5.2 Non-BDT variant of the PS-Poll frame format
9.3.1.5.3 BDT variant of the PS-Poll frame format
9.3.1.6 CF-End frame format
800 9.3.1.7 BlockAckReq frame format
9.3.1.7.1 Overview
801 9.3.1.7.2 Compressed BlockAckReq variant
802 9.3.1.7.3 Extended Compressed BlockAckReq variant
9.3.1.7.4 Multi-TID BlockAckReq variant
9.3.1.7.5 GCR BlockAckReq variant
803 9.3.1.7.6 GLK-GCR BlockAckReq variant
9.3.1.8 BlockAck frame format
9.3.1.8.1 Overview
804 9.3.1.8.2 Compressed BlockAck variant
805 9.3.1.8.3 Multi-TID BlockAck variant
806 9.3.1.8.4 Extended Compressed BlockAck variant
9.3.1.8.5 GCR Block Ack variant
807 9.3.1.8.6 GLK-GCR BlockAck variant
9.3.1.9 Control Wrapper frame format
808 9.3.1.10 Poll frame format
9.3.1.11 Service period request (SPR) frame format
809 9.3.1.12 Grant frame format
9.3.1.13 DMG CTS frame format
810 9.3.1.14 DMG DTS frame format
9.3.1.15 Sector sweep (SSW) frame format
811 9.3.1.16 Sector sweep feedback (SSW-Feedback) frame format
9.3.1.17 Sector sweep Ack (SSW-Ack) frame format
812 9.3.1.18 Grant Ack frame format
9.3.1.19 VHT NDP Announcement frame format
814 9.3.1.20 Beamforming Report Poll frame format
9.3.1.21 TACK frame format
815 9.3.2 Data frames
9.3.2.1 Format of Data frames
9.3.2.1.1 General
816 9.3.2.1.2 Address and BSSID fields
818 9.3.2.1.3 Other MAC Header fields
9.3.2.1.4 The frame body
819 9.3.2.1.5 Duration field
9.3.2.2 Aggregate MSDU (A-MSDU) format
9.3.2.2.1 General
820 9.3.2.2.2 Basic A-MSDU subframe format
821 9.3.2.2.3 Short A-MSDU subframe format
9.3.2.2.4 Dynamic A-MSDU format
822 9.3.3 (PV0) Management frames
9.3.3.1 Format of (PV0) Management frames
825 9.3.3.2 Beacon frame format
829 9.3.3.3 ATIM frame format
9.3.3.4 Disassociation frame format
830 9.3.3.5 Association Request frame format
832 9.3.3.6 Association Response frame format
835 9.3.3.7 Reassociation Request frame format
839 9.3.3.8 Reassociation Response frame format
843 9.3.3.9 Probe Request frame format
845 9.3.3.10 Probe Response frame format
850 9.3.3.11 Authentication frame format
856 9.3.3.12 Deauthentication
9.3.3.13 Action frame format
9.3.3.14 Action No Ack frame format
857 9.3.3.15 Timing Advertisement frame format
9.3.4 Extension frames
9.3.4.1 Format of Extension frames
9.3.4.2 DMG Beacon
863 9.3.4.3 S1G Beacon frame format
865 9.3.5 Frame addressing in an MBSS
867 9.4 Management and Extension frame body components
9.4.1 Fields that are not elements
9.4.1.1 Authentication Algorithm Number field
9.4.1.2 Authentication Transaction Sequence Number field
868 9.4.1.3 Beacon Interval field
9.4.1.4 Capability Information field
870 9.4.1.5 Current AP Address field
9.4.1.6 Listen Interval field
871 9.4.1.7 Reason Code field
874 9.4.1.8 AID field
875 9.4.1.9 Status Code field
880 9.4.1.10 Timestamp field
9.4.1.11 Action field
882 9.4.1.12 Dialog Token field
9.4.1.13 Block Ack Parameter Set field
883 9.4.1.14 Block Ack Timeout Value field
9.4.1.15 Originator Preferred MCS field
884 9.4.1.16 DELBA Parameter Set field
9.4.1.17 QoS Info field
885 9.4.1.18 Measurement Pilot Interval field
886 9.4.1.19 Max Transmit Power field
9.4.1.20 Transmit Power Used field
9.4.1.21 Channel Width field
887 9.4.1.22 Operating Class and Channel field
9.4.1.23 SM Power Control field
888 9.4.1.24 PSMP Parameter Set field
9.4.1.25 PSMP STA Info field
889 9.4.1.26 MIMO Control field
891 9.4.1.27 CSI Report field
893 9.4.1.28 Noncompressed Beamforming Report field
895 9.4.1.29 Compressed Beamforming Report field
898 9.4.1.30 Antenna Selection Indices field
9.4.1.31 Organization Identifier field
899 9.4.1.32 Rate Identification field
900 9.4.1.33 GAS Query Response Fragment ID field
901 9.4.1.34 Venue Info field
904 9.4.1.35 Target Channel
9.4.1.36 Operating Class
9.4.1.37 Send-Confirm field
905 9.4.1.38 Anti-Clogging Token field
9.4.1.39 Scalar field
9.4.1.40 FFE field
9.4.1.41 Confirm field
9.4.1.42 Finite Cyclic Group field
906 9.4.1.43 TXOP Reservation field
9.4.1.44 Relay Capable STA Info field
907 9.4.1.45 Band ID field
9.4.1.46 DMG Parameters field
908 9.4.1.47 CMMG Parameters field
9.4.1.48 VHT MIMO Control field
910 9.4.1.49 VHT Compressed Beamforming Report field
921 9.4.1.50 TVHT Compressed Beamforming Report field
922 9.4.1.51 MU Exclusive Beamforming Report field
926 9.4.1.52 TVHT MU Exclusive Beamforming Report field
9.4.1.53 Operating Mode field
930 9.4.1.54 Membership Status Array field
9.4.1.55 User Position Array field
931 9.4.1.56 Device Location Information Body field
9.4.1.57 WSM Type field and WSM Information field
932 9.4.1.58 Sync Control field
9.4.1.59 Suspend Duration field
933 9.4.1.60 TWT Information field
934 9.4.1.61 CMMG MIMO Control field
935 9.4.1.62 CMMG Compressed Beamforming Report field
939 9.4.1.63 CMMG Operating Mode field
940 9.4.2 Elements
9.4.2.1 General
949 9.4.2.2 SSID element
950 9.4.2.3 Supported Rates and BSS Membership Selectors element
951 9.4.2.4 DSSS Parameter Set element
9.4.2.5 TIM element
9.4.2.5.1 General
956 9.4.2.5.2 Block Bitmap mode
9.4.2.5.3 Single AID mode
957 9.4.2.5.4 OLB mode
9.4.2.5.5 ADE mode
959 9.4.2.6 IBSS Parameter Set element
9.4.2.7 Challenge Text element
9.4.2.8 Country element
962 9.4.2.9 Request element
9.4.2.10 Extended Request element
963 9.4.2.11 ERP element
964 9.4.2.12 Extended Supported Rates and BSS Membership Selectors element
9.4.2.13 Power Constraint element
965 9.4.2.14 Power Capability element
9.4.2.15 TPC Request element
966 9.4.2.16 TPC Report element
9.4.2.17 Supported Channels element
967 9.4.2.18 Channel Switch Announcement element
9.4.2.19 Secondary Channel Offset element
968 9.4.2.20 Measurement Request element
9.4.2.20.1 General
970 9.4.2.20.2 Basic request
971 9.4.2.20.3 CCA request (Clear channel access request)
9.4.2.20.4 RPI histogram request (Received power indicator histogram request)
972 9.4.2.20.5 Channel Load request
973 9.4.2.20.6 Noise Histogram request
975 9.4.2.20.7 Beacon request
979 9.4.2.20.8 Frame request
980 9.4.2.20.9 STA Statistics request
985 9.4.2.20.10 LCI request (Location configuration information request)
987 9.4.2.20.11 Transmit Stream/Category Measurement request
990 9.4.2.20.12 Measurement Pause request
991 9.4.2.20.13 Multicast Diagnostics request
993 9.4.2.20.14 Location Civic request
994 9.4.2.20.15 Location Identifier request
995 9.4.2.20.16 Directional Channel Quality request
997 9.4.2.20.17 Directional Measurement request
998 9.4.2.20.18 Directional Statistics request
999 9.4.2.20.19 Fine Timing Measurement Range request
1000 9.4.2.21 Measurement Report element
9.4.2.21.1 General
1003 9.4.2.21.2 Basic report
1004 9.4.2.21.3 CCA report
9.4.2.21.4 RPI histogram report
1005 9.4.2.21.5 Channel Load report
1007 9.4.2.21.6 Noise Histogram report
1009 9.4.2.21.7 Beacon report
1012 9.4.2.21.8 Frame report
1014 9.4.2.21.9 STA Statistics report
1023 9.4.2.21.10 LCI report (Location configuration information report)
1030 9.4.2.21.11 Transmit Stream/Category Measurement report
1033 9.4.2.21.12 Multicast Diagnostics report
1035 9.4.2.21.13 Location Civic report
1042 9.4.2.21.14 Location Identifier report
1044 9.4.2.21.15 Directional Channel Quality report
1045 9.4.2.21.16 Directional Measurement report
1046 9.4.2.21.17 Directional Statistics report
1047 9.4.2.21.18 Fine Timing Measurement Range report
1049 9.4.2.22 Quiet element
1050 9.4.2.23 IBSS DFS element
1051 9.4.2.24 RSNE
9.4.2.24.1 General
1052 9.4.2.24.2 Cipher suites
1054 9.4.2.24.3 AKM suites
1058 9.4.2.24.4 RSN capabilities
1060 9.4.2.24.5 PMKID
9.4.2.25 Vendor Specific element
1061 9.4.2.26 Extended Capabilities element
1067 9.4.2.27 BSS Load element
1068 9.4.2.28 EDCA Parameter Set element
1071 9.4.2.29 TSPEC element
1078 9.4.2.30 TCLAS element
1092 9.4.2.31 TS Delay element
9.4.2.32 TCLAS Processing element
1093 9.4.2.33 Schedule element
1094 9.4.2.34 QoS Capability element
9.4.2.35 AP Channel Report element
9.4.2.36 Neighbor Report element
1101 9.4.2.37 RCPI element
9.4.2.38 BSS Average Access Delay element
1102 9.4.2.39 Antenna element
1103 9.4.2.40 RSNI element
9.4.2.41 Measurement Pilot Transmission element
1104 9.4.2.42 BSS Available Admission Capacity element
1105 9.4.2.43 BSS AC Access Delay element
1107 9.4.2.44 RM Enabled Capabilities element
1110 9.4.2.45 Multiple BSSID element
1112 9.4.2.46 Mobility Domain element (MDE)
9.4.2.47 Fast BSS Transition element (FTE)
1116 9.4.2.48 Timeout Interval element (TIE)
9.4.2.49 RIC Data element (RDE)
1117 9.4.2.50 RIC Descriptor element
9.4.2.51 DSE Registered Location element
1119 9.4.2.52 Extended Channel Switch Announcement element
9.4.2.53 Supported Operating Classes element
1121 9.4.2.54 Management MIC element
9.4.2.55 HT Capabilities element
9.4.2.55.1 HT Capabilities element structure
1122 9.4.2.55.2 HT Capability Information field
1124 9.4.2.55.3 A-MPDU Parameters field
9.4.2.55.4 Supported MCS Set field
1125 9.4.2.55.5 HT Extended Capabilities field
1126 9.4.2.55.6 Transmit Beamforming Capabilities
1129 9.4.2.55.7 ASEL Capability field
9.4.2.56 HT Operation element
1133 9.4.2.57 20/40 BSS Intolerant Channel Report element
1134 9.4.2.58 Overlapping BSS Scan Parameters element
9.4.2.59 20/40 BSS Coexistence element
1135 9.4.2.60 Time Advertisement element
1137 9.4.2.61 Link Identifier element
9.4.2.62 Wakeup Schedule element
1138 9.4.2.63 Channel Switch Timing element
9.4.2.64 PTI Control element
9.4.2.65 TPU Buffer Status element
1139 9.4.2.66 Event Request element
9.4.2.66.1 Event Request definition
1140 9.4.2.66.2 Transition event request
1142 9.4.2.66.3 RSNA event request
1144 9.4.2.66.4 Peer-to-peer link event request
1146 9.4.2.66.5 Vendor specific event request
9.4.2.67 Event Report element
9.4.2.67.1 Event Report definition
1147 9.4.2.67.2 Transition event report
1149 9.4.2.67.3 RSNA event report
1150 9.4.2.67.4 Peer-to-peer link event report
1151 9.4.2.67.5 WNM log event report
9.4.2.67.6 Vendor Specific event report
9.4.2.68 Diagnostic Request element
9.4.2.68.1 Diagnostic Request definition
1152 9.4.2.68.2 Association Diagnostic request
9.4.2.68.3 IEEE 802.1X Authentication Diagnostic request
1153 9.4.2.68.4 Vendor Specific diagnostic request
9.4.2.68.5 Diagnostic subelement descriptions
1162 9.4.2.69 Diagnostic Report element
9.4.2.69.1 Diagnostic report definition
1163 9.4.2.69.2 Manufacturer Information STA Report
9.4.2.69.3 Configuration Profile report
1164 9.4.2.69.4 Association Diagnostic report
9.4.2.69.5 IEEE 802.1X Authentication Diagnostic report
9.4.2.69.6 Vendor Specific diagnostic report
9.4.2.70 Location Parameters element
9.4.2.70.1 Location Parameters definition
1165 9.4.2.70.2 Location Indication Parameters subelement
1167 9.4.2.70.3 Location Indication Channels subelement
1168 9.4.2.70.4 Location Status subelement
9.4.2.70.5 Radio subelement
1169 9.4.2.70.6 Motion subelement
1170 9.4.2.70.7 Location Indication Broadcast Data Rate subelement
1171 9.4.2.70.8 Time of Departure subelement
9.4.2.70.9 Location Indication Options subelement
1172 9.4.2.71 Nontransmitted BSSID Capability element
1173 9.4.2.72 SSID List element
9.4.2.73 Multiple BSSID-Index element
1174 9.4.2.74 FMS Descriptor element
1175 9.4.2.75 FMS Request element
1176 9.4.2.76 FMS Response element
1179 9.4.2.77 QoS Traffic Capability element
1180 9.4.2.78 BSS Max Idle Period element
1181 9.4.2.79 TFS Request element
1183 9.4.2.80 TFS Response element
1184 9.4.2.81 WNM Sleep Mode element
1185 9.4.2.82 TIM Broadcast Request element
1186 9.4.2.83 TIM Broadcast Response element
1187 9.4.2.84 Collocated Interference Report element
1189 9.4.2.85 Channel Usage element
9.4.2.86 Time Zone element
1190 9.4.2.87 DMS Request element
1193 9.4.2.88 DMS Response element
1195 9.4.2.89 Destination URI element
1196 9.4.2.90 U-APSD Coexistence element
1197 9.4.2.91 Interworking element
1199 9.4.2.92 Advertisement Protocol element
1200 9.4.2.93 Expedited Bandwidth Request element
1201 9.4.2.94 QoS Map element
1202 9.4.2.95 Roaming Consortium element
1203 9.4.2.96 Emergency Alert Identifier element
1204 9.4.2.97 Mesh Configuration element
9.4.2.97.1 General
9.4.2.97.2 Active Path Selection Protocol Identifier
9.4.2.97.3 Active Path Selection Metric Identifier
1205 9.4.2.97.4 Congestion Control Mode Identifier
9.4.2.97.5 Synchronization Method Identifier
1206 9.4.2.97.6 Authentication Protocol Identifier
1207 9.4.2.97.7 Mesh Formation Info
9.4.2.97.8 Mesh Capability
1208 9.4.2.98 Mesh ID element
9.4.2.99 Mesh Link Metric Report element
1209 9.4.2.100 Congestion Notification element
9.4.2.101 Mesh Peering Management element
1211 9.4.2.102 Mesh Channel Switch Parameters element
1212 9.4.2.103 Mesh Awake Window element
9.4.2.104 Beacon Timing element
1213 9.4.2.105 MCCAOP Setup Request element
9.4.2.105.1 General
1214 9.4.2.105.2 MCCAOP Reservation field
9.4.2.106 MCCAOP Setup Reply element
1215 9.4.2.107 MCCAOP Advertisement Overview element
1216 9.4.2.108 MCCAOP Advertisement element
9.4.2.108.1 General
1217 9.4.2.108.2 MCCAOP Advertisement Element Information field
9.4.2.108.3 MCCAOP Reservation Report field
1218 9.4.2.109 MCCAOP Teardown element
9.4.2.110 GANN element
1219 9.4.2.111 RANN element
1220 9.4.2.112 PREQ element
1222 9.4.2.113 PREP element
1223 9.4.2.114 PERR element
1225 9.4.2.115 PXU element
1226 9.4.2.116 PXUC element
1227 9.4.2.117 Authenticated Mesh Peering Exchange element
9.4.2.118 MIC element
1228 9.4.2.119 Quality-of-Service Management Frame Policy element
1229 9.4.2.120 Intra-Access Category Priority element
1230 9.4.2.121 SCS Descriptor element
1231 9.4.2.122 QLoad Report element
9.4.2.122.1 QLoad Report element format
1233 9.4.2.122.2 QLoad field format
9.4.2.123 HCCA TXOP Update Count element
1234 9.4.2.124 Higher Layer Stream ID element
9.4.2.125 GCR Group Address element
1235 9.4.2.126 DMG BSS Parameter Change element
9.4.2.127 DMG Capabilities element
9.4.2.127.1 General
1236 9.4.2.127.2 DMG STA Capability Information field
1239 9.4.2.127.3 DMG AP Or PCP Capability Information field
1240 9.4.2.127.4 DMG STA Beam Tracking Time Limit field
9.4.2.127.5 Extended SC MCS Capabilities field
1241 9.4.2.127.6 Maximum number of A-MSDU subframes in an A-MSDU
1242 9.4.2.128 DMG Operation element
1244 9.4.2.129 DMG Beam Refinement element
1246 9.4.2.130 DMG Wakeup Schedule element
9.4.2.131 Extended Schedule element
1250 9.4.2.132 STA Availability element
1251 9.4.2.133 DMG TSPEC element
1254 9.4.2.134 CMMG TSPEC element
1255 9.4.2.135 Next DMG ATI element
9.4.2.136 Channel Measurement Feedback element
1258 9.4.2.137 Awake Window element
9.4.2.138 Multi-band element
1260 9.4.2.139 ADDBA Extension element
1261 9.4.2.140 Next PCP List element
9.4.2.141 PCP Handover element
1262 9.4.2.142 DMG Link Margin element
9.4.2.142.1 General
1263 9.4.2.142.2 Activity field
9.4.2.143 DMG Link Adaptation Acknowledgment element
9.4.2.144 Switching Stream element
1265 9.4.2.145 Session Transition element
1266 9.4.2.146 Cluster Report element
1268 9.4.2.147 Relay Capabilities element
1269 9.4.2.148 Relay Transfer Parameter Set element
1270 9.4.2.149 Quiet Period Request element
1271 9.4.2.150 Quiet Period Response element
9.4.2.151 BeamLink Maintenance element
9.4.2.152 Multiple MAC Sublayers (MMS) element
1273 9.4.2.153 U-PID element
1274 9.4.2.154 ECAPC Policy element
1275 9.4.2.155 Cluster Time Offset element
9.4.2.156 Antenna Sector ID Pattern element
1277 9.4.2.157 VHT Capabilities element
9.4.2.157.1 VHT Capabilities element structure
9.4.2.157.2 VHT Capabilities Information field
1282 9.4.2.157.3 Supported VHT-MCS and NSS Set field
1284 9.4.2.158 VHT Operation element
1286 9.4.2.159 Extended BSS Load element
1287 9.4.2.160 Wide Bandwidth Channel Switch element
1288 9.4.2.161 Transmit Power Envelope element
1290 9.4.2.162 Channel Switch Wrapper element
1291 9.4.2.163 AID element
9.4.2.164 Quiet Channel element
1292 9.4.2.165 Operating Mode Notification element
9.4.2.166 UPSIM element
1293 9.4.2.167 Fine Timing Measurement Parameters element
1297 9.4.2.168 Device Location element
9.4.2.169 White Space Map element
1298 9.4.2.170 Reduced Neighbor Report element
9.4.2.170.1 General
9.4.2.170.2 Neighbor AP Information field
1300 9.4.2.170.3 Calculating the short SSID
9.4.2.171 TVHT Operation element
1301 9.4.2.172 FTM Synchronization Information element
1302 9.4.2.173 Estimated Service Parameters Inbound element
1304 9.4.2.174 Future Channel Guidance element
9.4.2.175 Association Delay Info element
1305 9.4.2.176 CAG Number element
1306 9.4.2.177 FILS Request Parameters element(
1308 9.4.2.178 FILS Key Confirmation element
1309 9.4.2.179 FILS Session element
9.4.2.180 FILS Public Key element
9.4.2.181 AP Configuration Sequence Number (AP-CSN) element
1310 9.4.2.182 FILS Indication element
1311 9.4.2.183 FILS HLP Container element
1312 9.4.2.184 FILS IP Address Assignment element
9.4.2.184.1 General
9.4.2.184.2 IP Address Data field for request
1314 9.4.2.184.3 IP Address Data field for response
1316 9.4.2.185 Key Delivery element
9.4.2.186 DILS element
1318 9.4.2.187 FILS Wrapped Data element
9.4.2.188 Fragment element
1319 9.4.2.189 FILS Nonce element
9.4.2.190 S1G Open-Loop Link Margin Index element
1320 9.4.2.191 RPS element
1325 9.4.2.192 Page Slice element
1327 9.4.2.193 AID Request element
1329 9.4.2.194 AID Response element
1330 9.4.2.195 S1G Sector Operation element
1332 9.4.2.196 S1G Beacon Compatibility element
1333 9.4.2.197 Short Beacon Interval element(
9.4.2.198 Change Sequence element
9.4.2.199 TWT element
1339 9.4.2.200 S1G Capabilities element
9.4.2.200.1 S1G Capabilities element structure
1340 9.4.2.200.2 S1G Capabilities Information field
1347 9.4.2.200.3 Supported S1G-MCS and NSS Set field
1349 9.4.2.201 Subchannel Selective Transmission (SST) element
1351 9.4.2.202 Authentication Control element
1353 9.4.2.203 TSF Timer Accuracy element
9.4.2.204 S1G Relay element
1354 9.4.2.205 Reachable Address element
1355 9.4.2.206 S1G Relay Activation element
1356 9.4.2.207 S1G Relay Discovery element
1358 9.4.2.208 AID Announcement element
9.4.2.209 PV1 Probe Response Option element
1362 9.4.2.210 EL Operation element
9.4.2.211 Sectorized Group ID List element
1363 9.4.2.212 S1G Operation element
1365 9.4.2.213 Header Compression element
1366 9.4.2.214 SST Operation element
1367 9.4.2.215 MAD element
9.4.2.216 Password Identifier element
9.4.2.217 Max Channel Switch Time element
1368 9.4.2.218 Vendor Specific Request element
1369 9.4.2.219 CDMG Capabilities element
9.4.2.219.1 General
9.4.2.219.2 CDMG STA Capability Information field
1370 9.4.2.219.3 CDMG AP Or PCP Capability Information field
1371 9.4.2.220 Dynamic Bandwidth Control element
1372 9.4.2.221 CDMG Extended Schedule element
1374 9.4.2.222 SSW Report element
1375 9.4.2.223 Cluster Probe element
9.4.2.224 Extended Cluster Report element
1376 9.4.2.225 Cluster Switch Announcement element
1377 9.4.2.226 Enhanced Beam Tracking element
1378 9.4.2.227 SPSH Report element
1379 9.4.2.228 Clustering Interference Assessment element
1380 9.4.2.229 CMMG Capabilities element
9.4.2.229.1 CMMG Capabilities element structure
1381 9.4.2.229.2 CMMG Capabilities Info field
1385 9.4.2.229.3 A-MPDU Parameters field
9.4.2.229.4 Supported CMMG-MCS and NSS Set field
1387 9.4.2.229.5 Transmit Beamforming Capabilities field
1388 9.4.2.229.6 CMMG AP Or PCP Capability Information field
1389 9.4.2.230 CMMG Operation element
1390 9.4.2.231 CMMG Operating Mode Notification element
1391 9.4.2.232 CMMG Link Margin element
9.4.2.232.1 General
9.4.2.232.2 Activity field
1392 9.4.2.233 CMMG Link Adaptation Acknowledgment element
9.4.2.234 GLK-GCR Parameter Set element
1393 9.4.2.235 Estimated Service Parameters Outbound element
1395 9.4.2.236 OCI element
9.4.2.237 Service Hint element
1397 9.4.2.238 Service Hash element
9.4.2.239 GAS Extension element
1398 9.4.2.240 Non-Inheritance element
1399 9.4.2.241 RSN Extension element (RSNXE)
1400 9.4.2.242 TCLAS Mask element
9.4.2.243 MSCS Descriptor element
1402 9.4.2.244 Supplemental Class 2 Capabilities element
9.4.2.245 OCT Source element
1403 9.4.2.246 Rejected Groups element
9.4.2.247 Anti-Clogging Token Container element
1404 9.4.3 Subelements
9.4.4 TLV encodings
9.4.4.1 General
1405 9.4.4.2 Common TLVs
9.4.4.2.1 General
9.4.4.2.2 Device Class
1406 9.4.4.2.3 Device Identification Information
9.4.4.2.4 Device Location Information
9.4.4.2.5 Channel Schedule Descriptor
1408 9.4.4.2.6 WSM information values
1409 9.4.5 Access network query protocol (ANQP) elements
9.4.5.1 General
1410 9.4.5.2 Query List ANQP-element
1411 9.4.5.3 Capability List ANQP-element
9.4.5.4 Venue Name ANQP-element
1412 9.4.5.5 Emergency Call Number ANQP-element
1413 9.4.5.6 Network Authentication Type ANQP-element
1414 9.4.5.7 Roaming Consortium ANQP-element
1415 9.4.5.8 Vendor Specific ANQP-element
9.4.5.9 IP Address Type Availability ANQP-element
1416 9.4.5.10 NAI Realm ANQP-element
1420 9.4.5.11 3GPP Cellular Network ANQP-element
9.4.5.12 AP Geospatial Location ANQP-element
1421 9.4.5.13 AP Civic Location ANQP-element
9.4.5.14 AP Location Public Identifier URI/FQDN ANQP-element
9.4.5.15 Domain Name ANQP-element
1422 9.4.5.16 Emergency Alert URI ANQP-element
9.4.5.17 Emergency NAI ANQP-element
1423 9.4.5.18 TDLS Capability ANQP-element
9.4.5.19 Neighbor Report ANQP-element
9.4.5.20 Venue URL ANQP-element
1424 9.4.5.21 Advice of Charge ANQP-element
1425 9.4.5.22 Local Content ANQP-element
1426 9.4.5.23 Network Authentication Type with Timestamp ANQP-element
1427 9.4.5.24 Query AP List ANQP-element
1428 9.4.5.25 AP List Response ANQP-element
1429 9.4.5.26 CAG ANQP-element
9.4.5.27 Service Information Request ANQP-element
1430 9.4.5.28 Service Information Response ANQP-element
9.4.5.29 Local MAC Address Policy ANQP-element
1433 9.4.6 Registered location query protocol (RLQP) elements
9.4.6.1 General
9.4.6.2 Channel Availability Query RLQP-element
1435 9.4.6.3 Channel Schedule Management RLQP-element
1436 9.4.6.4 Network Channel Control RLQP-element
1437 9.4.6.5 Vendor Specific RLQP-element
9.5 Fields used in Management and Extension frame bodies and Control frames
9.5.1 Sector Sweep field
1438 9.5.2 Dynamic Allocation Info field
1439 9.5.3 Sector Sweep Feedback field
1440 9.5.4 BRP Request field
1441 9.5.5 Beamforming Control field
1442 9.5.6 Beamformed Link Maintenance field
1443 9.6 Action frame format details
9.6.1 Introduction
9.6.2 Spectrum Management Action frames
9.6.2.1 General
1444 9.6.2.2 Spectrum Measurement Request frame format
9.6.2.3 Spectrum Measurement Report frame format
1445 9.6.2.4 TPC Request frame format
9.6.2.5 TPC Report frame format
1446 9.6.2.6 Channel Switch Announcement frame format
1447 9.6.3 QoS Action frame details
9.6.3.1 General
1448 9.6.3.2 Basic and DMG ADDTS Request frame format
9.6.3.2.1 Basic ADDTS Request frame variant
1449 9.6.3.2.2 DMG ADDTS Request frame variant
1450 9.6.3.3 Basic and DMG ADDTS Response frame format
9.6.3.3.1 Basic ADDTS Response frame variant
1451 9.6.3.3.2 DMG ADDTS Response frame variant
1452 9.6.3.4 DELTS frame format
1453 9.6.3.5 Schedule frame format
9.6.3.6 QoS Map Configure frame format
1454 9.6.3.7 ADDTS Reserve Request frame format
9.6.3.8 ADDTS Reserve Response frame format
1455 9.6.4 Block Ack Action frame details
9.6.4.1 General
1456 9.6.4.2 ADDBA Request frame format
1457 9.6.4.3 ADDBA Response frame format
1458 9.6.4.4 DELBA frame format
9.6.5 Vendor-specific action details
1459 9.6.6 Radio Measurement action details
9.6.6.1 General
9.6.6.2 Radio Measurement Request frame format
1460 9.6.6.3 Radio Measurement Report frame format
9.6.6.4 Link Measurement Request frame format
1461 9.6.6.5 Link Measurement Report frame format
1462 9.6.6.6 Neighbor Report Request frame format
1463 9.6.6.7 Neighbor Report Response frame format
9.6.7 Public Action details
9.6.7.1 Public Action frames
1465 9.6.7.2 20/40 BSS Coexistence Management frame format
9.6.7.3 Measurement Pilot frame format
1467 9.6.7.4 DSE Enablement frame format
1468 9.6.7.5 DSE Deenablement frame format
9.6.7.6 DSE Registered Location Announcement frame format
1469 9.6.7.7 Extended Channel Switch Announcement frame format
1470 9.6.7.8 DSE Measurement Request frame format
9.6.7.9 DSE Measurement Report frame format
1471 9.6.7.10 DSE Power Constraint frame format
1472 9.6.7.11 Vendor Specific Public Action frame format
1473 9.6.7.12 GAS Initial Request frame format
1474 9.6.7.13 GAS Initial Response frame format
1475 9.6.7.14 GAS Comeback Request frame format
1476 9.6.7.15 GAS Comeback Response frame format
1477 9.6.7.16 TDLS Discovery Response frame format
1479 9.6.7.17 Location Track Notification frame format
1480 9.6.7.18 QMF Policy frame format
9.6.7.19 QMF Policy Change frame format
1481 9.6.7.20 QLoad Request frame format
9.6.7.21 QLoad Report frame format
1482 9.6.7.22 HCCA TXOP Advertisement frame
9.6.7.23 HCCA TXOP Response frame
1483 9.6.7.24 Public Key frame
1484 9.6.7.25 Channel Availability Query frame format
1485 9.6.7.26 Channel Schedule Management frame format
1486 9.6.7.27 Contact Verification Signal frame format
1487 9.6.7.28 GDD Enablement Request frame format
9.6.7.29 GDD Enablement Response frame format
1488 9.6.7.30 Network Channel Control frame format
1489 9.6.7.31 White Space Map Announcement frame format
9.6.7.32 Fine Timing Measurement Request frame format
1490 9.6.7.33 Fine Timing Measurement frame format
1492 9.6.7.34 QAB Request frame format
1493 9.6.7.35 QAB Response frame format
1494 9.6.7.36 FILS Discovery frame format
1500 9.6.7.37 DCS Measurement Request frame format
1501 9.6.7.38 DCS Measurement Response frame format
1503 9.6.7.39 DCS Request frame format
9.6.7.40 DCS Response frame format
1504 9.6.7.41 Extended Notification Period Request frame format
1505 9.6.7.42 Extended Notification Period Response frame format
9.6.7.43 Extended Channel Splitting Request frame format
1506 9.6.7.44 Extended Channel Splitting Response frame format
9.6.7.45 Group Addressed GAS Request frame format
1507 9.6.7.46 Group Addressed GAS Response frame format
1508 9.6.7.47 On-channel Tunnel Request frame format
1509 9.6.8 FT Action frame details
9.6.8.1 General
9.6.8.2 FT Request frame
1510 9.6.8.3 FT Response frame
1511 9.6.8.4 FT Confirm frame
9.6.8.5 FT Ack frame
1512 9.6.9 SA Query Action frame details
9.6.9.1 General
1513 9.6.9.2 SA Query Request frame
9.6.9.3 SA Query Response frame
9.6.10 Protected Dual of Public Action frames
1515 9.6.11 HT Action frame details
9.6.11.1 HT Action field
9.6.11.2 Notify Channel Width frame format
1516 9.6.11.3 SM Power Save frame format
9.6.11.4 PSMP frame format
1517 9.6.11.5 CSI frame format
9.6.11.6 Noncompressed Beamforming frame format
1518 9.6.11.7 Compressed Beamforming frame format
9.6.11.8 Antenna Selection Indices Feedback frame format
9.6.12 TDLS Action field formats
9.6.12.1 General
1519 9.6.12.2 TDLS Setup Request Action field format
1521 9.6.12.3 TDLS Setup Response Action field format
1522 9.6.12.4 TDLS Setup Confirm Action field format
1524 9.6.12.5 TDLS Teardown Action field format
9.6.12.6 TDLS Peer Traffic Indication Action field format
1525 9.6.12.7 TDLS Channel Switch Request Action field format
9.6.12.8 TDLS Channel Switch Response Action field format
1526 9.6.12.9 TDLS Peer PSM Request Action field format
9.6.12.10 TDLS Peer PSM Response Action field format
1527 9.6.12.11 TDLS Peer Traffic Response Action field format
9.6.12.12 TDLS Discovery Request Action field format
1528 9.6.13 WNM Action details
9.6.13.1 WNM Action fields
1529 9.6.13.2 Event Request frame format
1530 9.6.13.3 Event Report frame format
9.6.13.4 Diagnostic Request frame format
1531 9.6.13.5 Diagnostic Report frame format
9.6.13.6 Location Configuration Request frame format
1532 9.6.13.7 Location Configuration Response frame format
1533 9.6.13.8 BSS Transition Management Query frame format
1534 9.6.13.9 BSS Transition Management Request frame format
1536 9.6.13.10 BSS Transition Management Response frame format
1537 9.6.13.11 FMS Request frame format
9.6.13.12 FMS Response frame format
1538 9.6.13.13 Collocated Interference Request frame format
1539 9.6.13.14 Collocated Interference Report frame format
9.6.13.15 TFS Request frame format
1540 9.6.13.16 TFS Response frame format
9.6.13.17 TFS Notify frame format
9.6.13.18 TFS Notify Response frame format
1541 9.6.13.19 WNM Sleep Mode Request frame format
9.6.13.20 WNM Sleep Mode Response frame format
1544 9.6.13.21 TIM Broadcast Request frame format
9.6.13.22 TIM Broadcast Response frame format
1545 9.6.13.23 QoS Traffic Capability Update frame format
9.6.13.24 Channel Usage Request frame format
1546 9.6.13.25 Channel Usage Response frame format
1547 9.6.13.26 DMS Request frame format
9.6.13.27 DMS Response frame format
1548 9.6.13.28 Timing Measurement Request frame format
9.6.13.29 WNM Notification Request frame format
1549 9.6.13.30 WNM Notification Response frame format
1550 9.6.14 Unprotected WNM Action details
9.6.14.1 Unprotected WNM Action fields
9.6.14.2 TIM frame format
1551 9.6.14.3 Timing Measurement frame format
1552 9.6.15 Self-protected Action frame details
9.6.15.1 Self-protected Action fields
9.6.15.2 Mesh Peering Open frame format
9.6.15.2.1 Mesh Peering Open frame self protection
9.6.15.2.2 Mesh Peering Open frame details
1554 9.6.15.3 Mesh Peering Confirm frame format
9.6.15.3.1 Mesh Peering Confirm frame self protection
9.6.15.3.2 Mesh Peering Confirm frame details
1555 9.6.15.4 Mesh Peering Close frame format
9.6.15.4.1 Mesh Peering Close frame self protection
9.6.15.4.2 Mesh Peering Close frame details
1556 9.6.15.5 Mesh Group Key Inform frame format
9.6.15.5.1 Mesh Group Key Inform frame self protection
9.6.15.5.2 Mesh Group Key Inform frame details
1557 9.6.15.6 Mesh Group Key Acknowledge frame format
9.6.15.6.1 Mesh Group Key Acknowledge frame self protection
9.6.15.6.2 Mesh Group Key Acknowledge frame details
9.6.16 Mesh Action frame details
9.6.16.1 Mesh Action fields
1558 9.6.16.2 Mesh Link Metric Report frame format
9.6.16.3 HWMP Mesh Path Selection frame format
1559 9.6.16.4 Gate Announcement frame format
1560 9.6.16.5 Congestion Control Notification frame format
9.6.16.6 MCCA Setup Request frame format
1561 9.6.16.7 MCCA Setup Reply frame format
9.6.16.8 MCCA Advertisement Request frame format
1562 9.6.16.9 MCCA Advertisement frame format
9.6.16.10 MCCA Teardown frame format
1563 9.6.16.11 TBTT Adjustment Request frame format
9.6.16.12 TBTT Adjustment Response frame format
1564 9.6.17 Multihop Action frame details
9.6.17.1 Multihop Action fields
9.6.17.2 Proxy Update frame format
1565 9.6.17.3 Proxy Update Confirmation frame format
9.6.18 Robust AV Streaming Action frame details
9.6.18.1 General
1566 9.6.18.2 SCS Request frame format
9.6.18.3 SCS Response frame format
1567 9.6.18.4 Group Membership Request frame format
9.6.18.5 Group Membership Response frame format
1568 9.6.18.6 MSCS Request frame format
9.6.18.7 MSCS Response frame format
1569 9.6.19 DMG Action frame details
9.6.19.1 DMG Action field
1570 9.6.19.2 Power Save Configuration Request frame format
9.6.19.3 Power Save Configuration Response frame format
1571 9.6.19.4 Information Request frame format
1572 9.6.19.5 Information Response frame format
1573 9.6.19.6 Handover Request frame format
9.6.19.7 Handover Response frame format
1574 9.6.19.8 Relay Search Request frame format
9.6.19.9 Relay Search Response frame format
1575 9.6.19.10 Multi-relay Channel Measurement Request frame format
9.6.19.11 Multi-relay Channel Measurement Report frame format
1577 9.6.19.12 RLS Request frame format
1578 9.6.19.13 RLS Response frame format
9.6.19.14 RLS Announcement frame format
1579 9.6.19.15 RLS Teardown frame format
9.6.19.16 Relay Ack Request frame format
1580 9.6.19.17 Relay Ack Response frame format
9.6.19.18 TPA Request frame format
1581 9.6.19.19 TPA Response frame format
1582 9.6.19.20 TPA Report frame format
9.6.19.21 ROC Request frame format
1583 9.6.19.22 ROC Response frame format
9.6.20 FST Action frame details
9.6.20.1 FST Action field
1584 9.6.20.2 FST Setup Request frame format
1585 9.6.20.3 FST Setup Response frame format
1586 9.6.20.4 FST Teardown frame format
9.6.20.5 FST Ack Request frame format
1587 9.6.20.6 FST Ack Response frame format
9.6.20.7 On-channel Tunnel Request frame format
1588 9.6.21 Unprotected DMG Action frame details
9.6.21.1 Unprotected DMG Action field
9.6.21.2 Announce frame format
1590 9.6.21.3 BRP frame format
1591 9.6.22 VHT Action frame details
9.6.22.1 VHT Action field
1592 9.6.22.2 VHT Compressed Beamforming frame format
9.6.22.3 Group ID Management frame format
1593 9.6.22.4 Operating Mode Notification frame format
9.6.23 FILS Action frame details
9.6.23.1 General
9.6.23.2 FILS Container frame
1594 9.6.24 Unprotected S1G Action frame details
9.6.24.1 Unprotected S1G Action field
9.6.24.2 AID Switch Request frame format
1595 9.6.24.3 AID Switch Response frame format
1596 9.6.24.4 Sync Control frame format
9.6.24.5 STA Information Announcement frame format
1597 9.6.24.6 EDCA Parameter Set frame format
9.6.24.7 EL Operation frame format
9.6.24.8 TWT Setup frame format
1598 9.6.24.9 TWT Teardown frame format
1599 9.6.24.10 Sectorized Group ID List frame format
9.6.24.11 Sector ID Feedback frame format
1600 9.6.24.12 TWT Information frame format
1601 9.6.25 S1G Action frame details
9.6.25.1 S1G Action field
9.6.25.2 Reachable Address Update frame format
1602 9.6.25.3 Relay Activation Request frame format
9.6.25.4 Relay Activation Response frame format
1603 9.6.25.5 Header Compression frame format
9.6.25.6 Protected TWT Setup frame format
9.6.25.7 Protected TWT Teardown frame format
9.6.25.8 Protected TWT Information frame format
1604 9.6.26 Flow Control Action frame details
9.6.26.1 Flow Control Action field
9.6.26.2 Flow Suspension frame format
9.6.26.3 Flow Resumption frame format
1605 9.6.27 Control Response MCS Negotiation frame details
9.6.27.1 Control Response MCS Negotiation Action field
9.6.27.2 Control Response MCS Negotiation Request frame format
1606 9.6.27.3 Control Response MCS Negotiation Response frame format
9.6.28 CDMG Action frame details
9.6.28.1 CDMG Action field
1607 9.6.28.2 Notification Period Request frame format
9.6.28.3 Notification Period Response frame format
1608 9.6.28.4 Channel Splitting Request frame format
9.6.28.5 Channel Splitting Response frame format
1609 9.6.28.6 CDMG Allocation Request frame format
9.6.28.7 CDMG Allocation Response frame format
1610 9.6.29 CMMG Action frame details
9.6.29.1 CMMG Action field
9.6.29.2 CMMG Compressed Beamforming frame format
1611 9.6.29.3 CMMG Operating Mode Notification frame format
9.6.30 GLK Action frame details
9.6.30.1 GLK Action field
1612 9.6.30.2 GLK Groupcast Mode Change Notification
9.7 Aggregate MPDU (A-MPDU)
9.7.1 A-MPDU format
1615 9.7.2 MPDU delimiter CRC field
9.7.3 A-MPDU contents
1619 9.8 MAC frame format for PV1 frames
9.8.1 Basic components
9.8.2 General PV1 frame format
9.8.3 PV1 frame fields
9.8.3.1 Frame Control field
1621 9.8.3.2 Address fields
1622 9.8.3.3 Sequence Control field
9.8.3.4 Frame Body field
9.8.3.5 Overhead for encryption
9.8.3.6 FCS field
1623 9.8.4 PV1 Control frames
9.8.4.1 General
9.8.4.2 STACK frame format
1624 9.8.4.3 BAT frame format
1625 9.8.5 PV1 Management frames
9.8.5.1 Format of PV1 Management frames
1626 9.8.5.2 Action and Action No Ack frames
1627 9.8.5.3 PV1 Probe Response frame format
1628 9.8.5.4 Resource Allocation frame format
1631 10. MAC sublayer functional description
10.1 Introduction
10.2 MAC architecture
10.2.1 General
1633 10.2.2 DCF
10.2.3 Hybrid coordination function (HCF)
10.2.3.1 General
1634 10.2.3.2 HCF contention based channel access (EDCA)
1637 10.2.3.3 HCF controlled channel access (HCCA)
1638 10.2.4 Mesh coordination function (MCF)
10.2.5 Combined use of DCF and HCF
10.2.6 Fragmentation/defragmentation overview
1639 10.2.7 MAC data service
1640 10.3 DCF
10.3.1 General
1642 10.3.2 Procedures common to the DCF and EDCAF
10.3.2.1 CS mechanism
1643 10.3.2.2 MAC-level acknowledgments
10.3.2.3 IFS
10.3.2.3.1 General
1644 10.3.2.3.2 RIFS
10.3.2.3.3 SIFS
1645 10.3.2.3.4 PIFS
1646 10.3.2.3.5 DIFS
10.3.2.3.6 AIFS
1647 10.3.2.3.7 EIFS
10.3.2.3.8 SBIFS
1648 10.3.2.3.9 BRPIFS
10.3.2.3.10 MBIFS
10.3.2.3.11 LBIFS
10.3.2.4 Setting and resetting the NAV
1650 10.3.2.5 Setting and resetting the RID
10.3.2.5.1 General
1652 10.3.2.5.2 RID update
1653 10.3.2.6 RTS/CTS with fragmentation
1654 10.3.2.7 VHT and S1G RTS procedure
1655 10.3.2.8 CMMG RTS procedure
10.3.2.9 CTS and DMG CTS procedure
1657 10.3.2.10 Dual CTS protection
10.3.2.10.1 Dual CTS protection procedure
1659 10.3.2.10.2 Dual CTS protection examples
1660 10.3.2.11 Acknowledgment procedure
1663 10.3.2.12 Fragment BA procedure
1664 10.3.2.13 MU acknowledgment procedure
1665 10.3.2.14 Duplicate detection and recovery
10.3.2.14.1 General
10.3.2.14.2 Transmitter requirements
1666 10.3.2.14.3 Receiver requirements
1669 10.3.2.15 NAV distribution
1670 10.3.2.16 Operation of aSlotTime
10.3.2.17 Response Indication procedure
1672 10.3.3 Random backoff procedure
1673 10.3.4 DCF access procedure
10.3.4.1 Introduction
10.3.4.2 Basic access
1674 10.3.4.3 Backoff procedure for DCF
1677 10.3.4.4 Recovery procedures and retransmit limits
1678 10.3.4.5 Control of the channel
1679 10.3.5 Individually addressed MPDU transfer procedure
10.3.6 Group addressed MPDU transfer procedure
1680 10.3.7 DCF timing relations
1683 10.3.8 Signal extension
1684 10.3.9 Determination of PLME aCWmin characteristics
10.4 MSDU and MMPDU fragmentation
1685 10.5 MSDU and MMPDU defragmentation
1686 10.6 Multirate support
10.6.1 Overview
1687 10.6.2 Basic HT-MCS Set field
10.6.3 Basic STBC MCS
10.6.4 Basic rate set, basic HT-MCS set, and basic VHT-MCS and NSS set for mesh STA
1688 10.6.5 Rate selection for Data and Management frames
10.6.5.1 Rate selection for non-STBC Beacon and non-STBC PSMP frames
10.6.5.2 Rate selection for STBC group addressed Data and Management frames
10.6.5.3 Rate selection for other group addressed Data and Management frames
1689 10.6.5.4 Rate selection for polling frames
10.6.5.5 Rate selection for +CF-Ack frames
10.6.5.6 Rate selection for Data frames sent within an FMS stream
10.6.5.7 Rate selection for other individually addressed Data and Management frames
1691 10.6.6 Rate selection for Control frames
10.6.6.1 General rules for rate selection for Control frames
1692 10.6.6.2 Rate selection for Control frames that initiate a TXOP
10.6.6.3 Rate selection for CF-End frames
1693 10.6.6.4 Rate selection for Control frames that are not control response frames
1694 10.6.6.5 Rate selection for control response frames
10.6.6.5.1 Introduction
10.6.6.5.2 Selection of a rate or MCS
1695 10.6.6.5.3 Control response frame MCS computation
1698 10.6.6.5.4 Selection of an alternate rate or MCS for a control response frame
1699 10.6.6.5.5 MCS for asymmetric BA operation
10.6.6.5.6 Control response MCS negotiation
10.6.6.5.7 Control response frame TXVECTOR parameter restrictions
10.6.6.6 Channel Width selection for Control frames
1701 10.6.6.7 Control frame TXVECTOR parameter restrictions
10.6.7 Multirate support for DMG STAs
10.6.7.1 Usage of DMG Control modulation class
1702 10.6.7.2 Rate selection rules for Control frames transmitted by DMG STAs
10.6.7.3 Rate selection for group addressed Data and Management frames transmitted by DMG STAs
1703 10.6.7.4 Rate selection for individually addressed Data and Management frames transmitted by DMG STAs
10.6.7.5 Rate selection for BRP PPDUs
1704 10.6.8 Multirate support for CMMG STAs
10.6.8.1 Usage of CMMG Control modulation class
10.6.8.2 Rate selection rules for Control frames transmitted by CMMG STAs
1705 10.6.8.3 Rate selection for group addressed Data and Management frames transmitted by CMMG STAs
10.6.8.4 Rate selection for individually addressed Data and Management frames transmitted by CMMG STAs
1706 10.6.8.5 Rate selection for BRP PPDUs for CMMG STAs
10.6.9 Multiple BSSID Rate Selection
10.6.10 Modulation classes
1708 10.6.11 Non-HT basic rate calculation
10.6.12 Channel Width in non-HT and non-HT duplicate PPDUs
1709 10.6.13 Rate selection constraints for VHT STAs
10.6.13.1 Rx Supported VHT-MCS and NSS Set
1710 10.6.13.2 Tx Supported VHT-MCS and NSS Set
1711 10.6.13.3 Additional rate selection constraints for VHT PPDUs
10.6.14 Rate selection constraints for S1G STAs
10.6.14.1 RX Supported S1G-MCS and NSS Set
1712 10.6.14.2 TX Supported S1G-MCS and NSS Set
10.6.14.3 Additional rate selection constraints for S1G PPDUs
1713 10.6.15 Rate selection constraints for CMMG STAs
10.6.15.1 Rx supported CMMG-MCS and NSS set
10.6.15.2 Tx supported CMMG-MCS and NSS set
10.7 MSDU transmission restrictions
1714 10.8 HT Control field operation
1715 10.9 Control Wrapper operation
10.10 MSDU processing
10.11 A-MSDU operation
1719 10.12 A-MPDU operation
10.12.1 A-MPDU contents
10.12.2 A-MPDU length limit rules
1720 10.12.3 Minimum MPDU Start Spacing field
1721 10.12.4 A-MPDU aggregation of group addressed Data frames
1722 10.12.5 Transport of A-MPDU by the PHY data service
10.12.6 A-MPDU padding for VHT PPDU or S1G PPDU
1723 10.12.7 Setting the EOF field of the MPDU delimiter
1724 10.12.8 Transport of S-MPDUs
10.13 PPDU duration constraint
10.14 DMG A-PPDU operation
1725 10.15 Low-density parity check code (LDPC) operation
10.16 STBC operation
1726 10.17 Short GI operation
1729 10.18 Greenfield operation
10.19 Group ID and partial AID in VHT and CMMG PPDUs
1731 10.20 S1G dynamic AID assignment operation
1733 10.21 Group ID, partial AID, Uplink Indication, and COLOR in S1G PPDUs
1735 10.22 Operation across regulatory domains
10.22.1 General
10.22.2 Operation upon entering a regulatory domain
1736 10.22.3 Operation with operating classes
10.22.4 Operation with the Transmit Power Envelope element
1737 10.22.5 Operation with coverage classes
10.23 HCF
10.23.1 General
1738 10.23.2 HCF contention based channel access (EDCA)
10.23.2.1 Reference model
1739 10.23.2.2 EDCA backoff procedure
1741 10.23.2.3 EDCA TXOPs
10.23.2.4 Obtaining an EDCA TXOP
1743 10.23.2.5 EDCA channel access in a VHT or TVHT BSS
1745 10.23.2.6 EDCA channel access in an S1G BSS
1746 10.23.2.7 Sharing an EDCA TXOP
1747 10.23.2.8 Multiple frame transmission in an EDCA TXOP
1750 10.23.2.9 TXOP limits
1751 10.23.2.10 Truncation of TXOP
1753 10.23.2.11 Termination of TXOP
1754 10.23.2.12 Retransmit procedures
10.23.2.12.1 General
1755 10.23.2.12.2 Unsolicited retry procedure
1756 10.23.2.13 EDCA channel access in a CMMG BSS
10.23.3 HCF controlled channel access (HCCA)
10.23.3.1 General
1757 10.23.3.2 HCCA procedure
10.23.3.2.1 General
10.23.3.2.2 CAP generation
1758 10.23.3.2.3 Recovery from the absence of an expected reception
1759 10.23.3.3 HCCA TXOP structure and timing
1760 10.23.3.4 NAV operation of a TXOP under HCCA
1761 10.23.3.5 HCCA transfer rules
10.23.3.5.1 General
1762 10.23.3.5.2 TXOP requests
10.23.3.5.3 Use of RTS/CTS
1763 10.23.3.5.4 HCCA transfer rules for a VHT STA
10.23.4 Admission control at the HC
10.23.4.1 General
10.23.4.2 Contention based admission control procedures
10.23.4.2.1 General
1764 10.23.4.2.2 Procedures at the AP
10.23.4.2.3 Procedure at non-AP STAs
1765 10.23.4.3 Controlled-access admission control
1767 10.23.5 Restricted access window (RAW) operation
10.23.5.1 General
1769 10.23.5.2 RAW structure and timing
1770 10.23.5.3 Slot assignment procedure in RAW
1771 10.23.5.4 Slotted channel access procedure in RAW
1772 10.23.5.5 EDCA backoff procedure in generic RAW or triggering frame RAW
10.23.5.6 EDCA backoff procedure in RAWs other than generic or triggering frame RAW
1773 10.23.5.7 RAW Operation with Resource Allocation frame
10.23.5.8 Periodic RAW (PRAW) operation
1774 10.24 Mesh coordination function (MCF)
10.24.1 General
1775 10.24.2 MCF contention based channel access
10.24.3 MCF controlled channel access (MCCA)
10.24.3.1 General
10.24.3.2 MCCA activation
1776 10.24.3.3 MCCAOP reservations
1777 10.24.3.4 Neighborhood MCCAOP periods at a mesh STA
10.24.3.5 MCCA access fraction (MAF)
1778 10.24.3.6 MCCAOP setup procedure
1779 10.24.3.7 MCCAOP advertisement
10.24.3.7.1 General
10.24.3.7.2 Construction of an MCCAOP advertisement set
1781 10.24.3.7.3 Setting the MCCAOP advertisement set sequence number
10.24.3.7.4 Advertisement procedure
1782 10.24.3.7.5 Receipt of an MCCAOP advertisement
10.24.3.7.6 Complete update of the tracked MCCAOP reservations of a neighbor mesh STA
1783 10.24.3.7.7 Partial update of the tracked MCCAOP reservations of a neighbor mesh STA
10.24.3.7.8 MCCAOP advertisement request procedure
10.24.3.8 MCCAOP teardown
10.24.3.8.1 Conditions that trigger an MCCAOP teardown
1784 10.24.3.8.2 MCCAOP teardown procedure
10.24.3.9 Access during MCCAOPs
10.24.3.9.1 Access by MCCAOP owners
1785 10.24.3.9.2 Access during an MCCAOP by mesh STAs that are not the MCCAOP owner
1786 10.24.3.10 Interaction with time synchronization
10.25 Block acknowledgment (block ack)
10.25.1 Introduction
1787 10.25.2 Setup and modification of the block ack parameters
1789 10.25.3 Data and acknowledgment transfer using immediate block ack policy
10.25.4 Teardown of the block ack mechanism
10.25.5 Selection of BlockAck and BlockAckReq variants
1791 10.25.6 HT-immediate block ack extensions
10.25.6.1 Introduction to HT-immediate block ack extensions
10.25.6.2 HT-immediate block ack architecture
1792 10.25.6.3 Scoreboard context control during full-state operation
1793 10.25.6.4 Scoreboard context control during partial-state operation
1794 10.25.6.5 Generation and transmission of BlockAck frames by an HT STA, DMG STA, or S1G STA
1795 10.25.6.6 Receive reordering buffer control operation
10.25.6.6.1 General
10.25.6.6.2 Operation for each received Data frame
1796 10.25.6.6.3 Operation for each received BlockAckReq
1797 10.25.6.7 Originator’s behavior
1798 10.25.6.8 Maintaining block ack state at the originator
1799 10.25.6.9 Originator’s support of recipient’s partial state
10.25.7 Protected block ack agreement
1800 10.25.8 GCR and GLK-GCR block ack
10.25.8.1 Introduction
10.25.8.2 Scoreboard context control during GCR block ack
1801 10.25.8.3 Scoreboard context control during GLK-GCR block ack
1802 10.25.8.4 GCR block ack BlockAckReq and BlockAck frame exchanges
1804 10.25.9 DMG block ack with flow control
10.25.9.1 General
10.25.9.2 DMG block ack architecture with flow control
1805 10.25.9.3 Scoreboard context control with flow control
10.25.9.4 Receive Reordering Buffer with flow control operation
10.25.9.4.1 General
1806 10.25.9.4.2 Operation for DMG block ack agreement initialization
10.25.9.4.3 Operation for each received Data frame
1807 10.25.9.4.4 Operation for ongoing release of received MPDUs
10.25.9.5 Generation and transmission of BlockAck frame by a STA with flow control
1808 10.25.9.6 Originator’s behavior with flow control support
10.26 No Acknowledgment (No Ack)
10.27 Protection mechanisms
10.27.1 Introduction
10.27.2 Protection mechanism for non-ERP receivers
1810 10.27.3 Protection mechanisms for transmissions of HT PPDUs
10.27.3.1 General
1812 10.27.3.2 Protection rules for HT STA operating a direct link
1813 10.27.3.3 RIFS protection
10.27.3.4 Use of OBSS Non-HT STAs Present field
1814 10.27.3.5 Protection rules for an HT mesh STA
1815 10.27.4 L_LENGTH and L_DATARATE parameter values for HT-mixed format PPDUs
10.27.5 Protection rules for VHT STAs
1816 10.28 MAC frame processing
10.28.1 Introduction
10.28.2 Revision level field processing
10.28.3 Duration/ID field processing
10.28.4 Response to an invalid Action and Action No Ack frame
10.28.5 Operation of the Dialog Token field
10.28.6 Element parsing
10.28.7 Vendor specific element parsing
1817 10.28.8 Extensible element parsing
10.28.9 Extensible subelement parsing
10.28.10 Extensible TLV parsing
10.28.11 Element fragmentation
1819 10.28.12 Element defragmentation
10.29 Reverse direction protocol
10.29.1 General
10.29.2 Reverse direction (RD) exchange sequence
1820 10.29.3 Rules for RD initiator
1821 10.29.4 Rules for RD responder
1823 10.30 PSMP operation
10.30.1 General
10.30.2 Frame transmission mechanism during PSMP
10.30.2.1 PSMP frame transmission (PSMP-DTT and PSMP-UTT)
1824 10.30.2.2 PSMP downlink transmission (PSMP-DTT)
10.30.2.3 PSMP uplink transmission (PSMP-UTT)
1825 10.30.2.4 PSMP burst
1826 10.30.2.5 Resource allocation within a PSMP burst
1828 10.30.2.6 PSMP-UTT retransmission
10.30.2.7 PSMP acknowledgment rules
1829 10.30.2.8 PSMP group addressed transmission rules
10.30.2.8.1 Rules at the AP
1830 10.30.2.8.2 Rules at the STA
10.30.3 Scheduled PSMP
10.30.4 Unscheduled PSMP
1831 10.31 Sounding PPDUs
1832 10.32 Link adaptation
10.32.1 Introduction
10.32.2 Link adaptation using the HT variant HT Control field
1834 10.32.3 Link adaptation using the VHT variant HT Control field
1837 10.32.4 Link adaptation using the CMMG variant HT Control field
1840 10.33 CMMG beamforming
10.34 Transmit beamforming
10.34.1 HT steering matrix calculations
1841 10.34.2 HT transmit beamforming with implicit feedback
10.34.2.1 General
1843 10.34.2.2 Unidirectional implicit transmit beamforming
10.34.2.3 Bidirectional implicit transmit beamforming
1845 10.34.2.4 Calibration
10.34.2.4.1 Introduction
10.34.2.4.2 Calibration capabilities
1846 10.34.2.4.3 Sounding exchange for calibration
1849 10.34.2.4.4 CSI reporting for calibration
10.34.3 Explicit feedback beamforming
1853 10.34.4 VHT MU beamforming
10.34.5 Explicit feedback beamforming for CMMG STAs
1856 10.35 Antenna selection (ASEL)
10.35.1 Introduction
1857 10.35.2 ASEL frame exchange procedure
1860 10.36 Null data PPDU (NDP) sounding
10.36.1 HT NDP sounding protocol
1862 10.36.2 Transmission of an HT NDP
10.36.3 Determination of HT NDP destination
10.36.4 Determination of HT NDP source
1863 10.36.5 VHT sounding protocol
10.36.5.1 General
10.36.5.2 Rules for VHT sounding protocol sequences
1867 10.36.5.3 Rules for fragmented feedback in VHT sounding protocol sequences
1868 10.36.6 Transmission of a VHT NDP
1869 10.36.7 Transmission of an S1G NDP
10.37 Null data PPDU (NDP) sounding for CMMG STAs
10.37.1 NDP rules
1870 10.37.2 Transmission of a CMMG NDP
10.37.3 Determination of CMMG NDP destination
1871 10.37.4 Determination of CMMG NDP source
10.38 Mesh forwarding framework
10.38.1 General
10.38.2 Forwarding information
1872 10.38.3 Addressing and forwarding of individually addressed mesh Data frames
10.38.3.1 At source mesh STAs (individually addressed)
10.38.3.2 At intermediate and destination mesh STAs (individually addressed)
1874 10.38.4 Addressing and forwarding of group addressed mesh Data frames
10.38.4.1 At source mesh STAs (group addressed)
10.38.4.2 At recipient mesh STAs (group addressed)
1875 10.38.5 Addressing of Management frames and MMPDU forwarding
10.38.5.1 General
10.38.5.2 MMPDU forwarding using individually addressed Multihop Action frames
1876 10.38.5.3 MMPDU forwarding using group addressed Multihop Action frames
10.38.6 Detection of duplicate MSDUs/MMPDUs
1877 10.38.7 Mesh STAs that do not forward
10.38.8 MSDU forwarding and unknown destination
1878 10.39 DMG and CMMG channel access
10.39.1 General
10.39.2 Access periods within a beacon interval
1879 10.39.3 ATI transmission rules
1882 10.39.4 DTI transmission rules
10.39.5 Contention based access period (CBAP) transmission rules
1884 10.39.6 Channel access in scheduled DTI
10.39.6.1 General
1885 10.39.6.2 Service period (SP) allocation
1886 10.39.6.3 Contention based access period (CBAP) allocation
1887 10.39.6.4 Pseudo-static allocations
1888 10.39.6.5 Guard time
10.39.6.6 DMG and CMMG protected period
10.39.6.6.1 Introduction
1890 10.39.6.6.2 DMG and CMMG protected period establishment and maintenance
1892 10.39.6.6.3 CDMG protected period establishment and maintenance
1893 10.39.6.6.4 Dynamic and static bandwidth operation during CMMG protected period
1894 10.39.6.6.5 NAV update in DMG and CMMG protected period
10.39.6.6.6 Interference report
1895 10.39.6.7 Service period recovery
1896 10.39.7 Dynamic allocation of service period
10.39.7.1 General
1897 10.39.7.2 Polling period (PP)
1898 10.39.7.3 Grant period (GP)
1900 10.39.8 Dynamic truncation of service period
10.39.8.1 DMG dynamic truncation of service period
1901 10.39.8.2 CDMG dynamic truncation of service period
10.39.9 Dynamic extension of service period
1902 10.39.10 Updating multiple NAVs
1906 10.39.11 Opportunistic transmission in alternative channel for CDMG STAs
1908 10.40 DMG and CMMG AP or PCP clustering
10.40.1 General
1909 10.40.2 Cluster formation
10.40.2.1 Decentralized AP or PCP cluster formation
1910 10.40.2.2 Centralized AP or PCP cluster formation
1914 10.40.3 Cluster maintenance
10.40.3.1 General cluster maintenance
10.40.3.2 Decentralized AP or PCP cluster maintenance
1915 10.40.3.3 Centralized AP or PCP cluster maintenance
1916 10.40.3.4 Centralized AP or PCP cluster MAC requirements
1917 10.40.4 Cluster report and rescheduling
1919 10.40.5 Decentralized AP or PCP cluster request
10.41 CDMG AP or PCP clustering
10.41.1 General
1920 10.41.2 Cluster formation
10.41.2.1 Decentralized CDMG AP or PCP cluster formation
1924 10.41.2.2 Centralized CDMG AP or PCP cluster formation
1925 10.41.3 Cluster maintenance
10.41.3.1 General cluster maintenance
10.41.3.2 Decentralized CDMG AP or PCP cluster maintenance
1927 10.41.3.3 Cluster coordination
10.41.3.4 Centralized CDMG AP or PCP cluster maintenance
1928 10.41.3.5 Centralized CDMG AP or PCP cluster MAC requirements
10.41.4 Cluster report and rescheduling
1929 10.41.5 Decentralized AP or PCP cluster request
10.41.6 Spatial sharing in a CDMG AP or PCP cluster
1931 10.42 DMG beamforming
10.42.1 General
1933 10.42.2 Sector-level sweep (SLS) phase
10.42.2.1 General
1935 10.42.2.2 Initiator sector sweep (ISS)
10.42.2.2.1 General
10.42.2.2.2 Initiator TXSS
1937 10.42.2.2.3 Initiator RXSS
10.42.2.3 Responder sector sweep (RSS)
10.42.2.3.1 General
1938 10.42.2.3.2 Responder TXSS
1939 10.42.2.3.3 Responder RXSS
1940 10.42.2.4 Sector sweep (SSW) feedback
1941 10.42.2.5 SSW ack
10.42.3 Beam Refinement Protocol (BRP) phase
10.42.3.1 General
1943 10.42.3.2 BRP setup subphase
1946 10.42.4 Beamforming in BTI
10.42.5 Beamforming in A-BFT
10.42.5.1 Allocation of A-BFT
10.42.5.2 Operation during the A-BFT
1950 10.42.5.3 STA Beamforming after A-BFT
1951 10.42.5.4 Beamforming in A-BFT with multiple DMG antennas
1952 10.42.6 Beamforming in DTI
10.42.6.1 General
10.42.6.2 SLS phase execution
1953 10.42.6.3 Multiple sector ID capture (MIDC) subphase
10.42.6.3.1 General
1955 10.42.6.3.2 MIDC subphase with MID and BC subphases
1959 10.42.6.3.3 MIDC subphase with MID subphase only
1960 10.42.6.3.4 MIDC subphase with BC subphase only
1961 10.42.6.4 BRP phase execution
10.42.6.4.1 General
1962 10.42.6.4.2 Beam refinement transaction
1963 10.42.6.4.3 Beam refinement transaction after SLS
10.42.6.4.4 Antenna configuration setting during a beam refinement transaction
1964 10.42.7 Beam tracking
1966 10.42.8 State machines
1967 10.42.9 CDMG enhanced beam tracking
1970 10.43 DMG link adaptation
10.43.1 General
1971 10.43.2 DMG TPC
10.43.3 Fast link adaptation
1972 10.44 Link adaptation using the CMMG link measurement
10.44.1 General
1973 10.44.2 CMMG TPC
1974 10.44.3 CMMG fast link adaptation
1975 10.45 DMG relay operation
10.45.1 General
10.45.2 Link switching
10.45.2.1 General
10.45.2.2 SP request and allocation
10.45.2.3 Usage of RDS
1976 10.45.2.4 Relay frame exchange rules
10.45.2.4.1 General
10.45.2.4.2 Additional frame exchange rules for FD-AF RDS
1977 10.45.2.4.3 Additional frame exchange rules for HD-DF RDS
1979 10.45.2.4.4 Operation of FD-AF RDS
10.45.2.5 Link monitoring
10.45.3 Link cooperation
10.45.3.1 TPA procedure
1980 10.45.3.2 Link cooperation data transmission procedure
10.45.3.2.1 General
10.45.3.2.2 Cooperative transmission SP request and allocation
1981 10.45.3.2.3 Data transmission rules
10.45.4 Relay link adaptation
10.46 S1G BSS operation
10.46.1 Basic S1G BSS functionality
1983 10.46.2 System information update procedure
1984 10.46.3 S1G BSS channel selection methods
10.46.4 S1G BSS channel switching methods
1985 10.46.5 Scanning requirements for S1G STA
10.46.6 NAV and RID assertion in an S1G BSS
10.46.7 BSS Basic S1G-MCS and NSS set operation
1986 10.46.8 S1G coexistence with non-IEEE-802.11 systems
10.47 Target wake time (TWT)
10.47.1 TWT overview
1989 10.47.2 TWT acknowledgment procedure
1990 10.47.3 Explicit TWT operation
1991 10.47.4 Implicit TWT operation
1992 10.47.5 TWT grouping
10.47.6 NDP Paging setup
1995 10.47.7 TWT Sleep setup
10.47.8 TWT teardown
10.48 Non-TIM operation
10.48.1 Resource protection for S1G STAs in non-TIM mode
10.48.1.1 General
1996 10.48.1.2 Resource protection for S1G STAs in non-TIM mode using periodic RAW (PRAW) operation
1997 10.48.2 Rescheduling of awake/doze cycle
1998 10.49 Sync frame operation
2000 10.50 Bidirectional TXOP
10.50.1 Overview
10.50.2 Rules for BDT
2002 10.51 Page slicing
2005 10.52 Subchannel selective transmission (SST)
10.52.1 SST overview
10.52.2 Aperiodic SST operation
2009 10.52.3 Periodic SST operation
10.53 Sectorized beam operation
10.53.1 Introduction
10.53.2 Sector Capabilities Exchange
2010 10.53.3 Group sectorization operation
2012 10.53.4 TXOP-based sectorization operation
2017 10.53.5 Sector training operation
10.53.5.1 Introduction
10.53.5.2 Procedure
2019 10.53.5.3 Sector ID feedback
10.53.5.4 Fast Sector Discovery
10.54 S1G relay operation
10.54.1 General
2020 10.54.2 S1G relay operation
2023 10.54.3 Addressing and forwarding of individually addressed relay frames
2024 10.54.4 Addressing and forwarding of group addressed relay frames
2025 10.54.5 Procedures of TXOP sharing for S1G relay operation
10.54.5.1 General
2026 10.54.5.2 Explicit Ack procedure
10.54.5.3 Implicit Ack procedure
2027 10.54.5.4 Relay-shared TXOP protection mechanisms
2028 10.54.6 S1G relay discovery procedure
2029 10.55 Group AID
2030 10.56 Traveling pilot operation
10.57 Bitmap protection for NDP BlockAck frames
10.58 Generation of PV1 MPDUs and header compression procedure
2032 10.59 Transmission of an NDP CMAC PPDU
2033 10.60 S1G_Long operation
10.61 S1G flow control
2034 10.62 Energy limited STAs operation
2036 10.63 S1G BSS type and STA type
10.64 DBC mechanism for CDMG STAs
10.64.1 General
2037 10.64.2 CDMG channel access
10.64.2.1 CDMG BSS operating on a 2.16 GHz channel
10.64.2.2 CDMG BSS operating on a 1.08 GHz channel
2039 10.64.2.3 Synchronization of CDMG infrastructure BSS or PBSSs on the adjacent 1.08 GHz channels within a 2.16 GHz channel
2042 10.64.3 Channel splitting of a 2.16 GHz channel
2043 10.64.4 Channel expansion of a 1.08 GHz channel
2044 10.64.5 Backward compatibility and interoperation
2047 10.65 Addressing of GLK Data frame transmission
2048 10.66 SYNRA filtering operation
2049 11. MLME
11.1 Synchronization
11.1.1 General
11.1.2 Basic approach
11.1.2.1 TSF for an infrastructure BSS or a PBSS
2050 11.1.2.2 TSF for an IBSS
11.1.2.3 TSF for an MBSS
11.1.3 Maintaining synchronization
11.1.3.1 General
2051 11.1.3.2 Beacon generation in non-DMG infrastructure networks
2052 11.1.3.3 Beacon generation in a DMG infrastructure BSS and in a PBSS
11.1.3.3.1 General
2053 11.1.3.3.2 Beacon generation in a PBSS
11.1.3.3.3 Beacon generation in a DMG infrastructure BSS
11.1.3.4 DMG beacon generation before establishment of a BSS
2054 11.1.3.5 Beacon generation in an IBSS
2055 11.1.3.6 Beacon generation in an MBSS
11.1.3.7 Beacon reception
2056 11.1.3.8 Multiple BSSID procedure
2057 11.1.3.9 TSF timer accuracy
2058 11.1.3.10 Maintaining synchronization using S1G Beacon frames
11.1.3.10.1 General S1G synchronization
11.1.3.10.2 Generation of S1G Beacon frames
11.1.3.10.3 TSF timer accuracy with S1G Beacon frame
2059 11.1.4 Acquiring synchronization, scanning
11.1.4.1 General
2061 11.1.4.2 Passive scanning
11.1.4.2.1 Passive scanning for non-DMG STAs
11.1.4.2.2 Passive scanning for DMG STAs
11.1.4.3 Active scanning and probing procedures
11.1.4.3.1 Introduction
11.1.4.3.2 Active scanning procedure for a non-DMG STA
2063 11.1.4.3.3 Active scanning procedure for a DMG STA
2065 11.1.4.3.4 Criteria for sending a response
2068 11.1.4.3.5 Active scanning for relay discovery
11.1.4.3.6 NDP Probing
2069 11.1.4.3.7 Active scanning using PV1 Probe Response
2070 11.1.4.3.8 Non-scanning probe request transmission
2071 11.1.4.3.9 Contents of a probe response
2072 11.1.4.3.10 PCP selection in a PBSS
2073 11.1.4.3.11 Enhanced FILS active scanning to preferred AP
2075 11.1.4.4 Initializing a BSS
11.1.4.4.1 General
11.1.4.4.2 Initializing a DMG BSS
11.1.4.5 Synchronizing with a BSS
2076 11.1.4.6 Operation of Supported Rates and BSS Membership Selectors element and Extended Supported Rates and BSS Membership Selectors element
2077 11.1.5 Adjusting STA timers
2078 11.1.6 Terminating a BSS
11.2 Power management
11.2.1 General
11.2.2 Bufferable MMPDUs
2079 11.2.3 Power management in a non-DMG infrastructure network
11.2.3.1 General
2081 11.2.3.2 Non-AP STA power management modes
2082 11.2.3.3 AP TIM transmissions
2083 11.2.3.4 TIM types
2084 11.2.3.5 Power management with APSD
11.2.3.5.1 Power management with APSD procedures
2086 11.2.3.5.2 U-APSD coexistence
2087 11.2.3.6 AP operation
2091 11.2.3.7 Receive operation for STAs in PS mode
2092 11.2.3.8 Receive operation using APSD
2093 11.2.3.9 STAs operating in the active mode
11.2.3.10 AP aging function
11.2.3.11 PSMP power management
11.2.3.12 TDLS peer power save mode
2096 11.2.3.13 TDLS peer U-APSD (TPU)
11.2.3.13.1 General
2097 11.2.3.13.2 TPU at the TPU buffer STA
2098 11.2.3.13.3 TPU at the TPU sleep STA
11.2.3.14 FMS power management
11.2.3.14.1 General
11.2.3.14.2 FMS general procedures
11.2.3.14.3 FMS Request procedures
2100 11.2.3.14.4 FMS Response procedures
2101 11.2.3.15 TIM Broadcast
2103 11.2.3.16 WNM sleep mode
11.2.3.16.1 WNM sleep mode capability
11.2.3.16.2 WNM sleep mode non-AP STA operation
2104 11.2.3.16.3 WNM sleep mode AP operation
2105 11.2.3.17 VHT TXOP power save
2106 11.2.3.18 AP power management
2108 11.2.3.19 CMMG TXOP power save
2109 11.2.4 Power management in an IBSS
11.2.4.1 Introduction
11.2.4.2 Basic approach
2111 11.2.4.3 Initialization of power management within an IBSS
11.2.4.4 STA power state transitions
11.2.5 Power management in an MBSS
2112 11.2.6 SM power save
11.2.7 Power management in a PBSS and DMG infrastructure BSS
11.2.7.1 General
2115 11.2.7.2 Non-AP and non-PCP STA power management mode
11.2.7.2.1 General
2116 11.2.7.2.2 Non-AP and non-PCP STA operation without a wakeup schedule
2117 11.2.7.2.3 Non-AP and non-PCP STA operation with a wakeup schedule
2118 11.2.7.2.4 Non-AP and non-PCP STA operation with or without a wakeup schedule
2119 11.2.7.3 PCP power management mode
11.2.7.3.1 General
11.2.7.3.2 PCP operation without a wakeup schedule
2120 11.2.7.3.3 PCP operation with a wakeup schedule
2122 11.2.7.4 ATIM frame usage for power management of non-AP STAs
2124 11.2.8 ATIM frame and frame transmission in IBSS, DMG infrastructure BSS, and PBSS
2125 11.2.9 Power management with general links
2126 11.3 STA authentication and association
11.3.1 State variables
11.3.2 State transition diagram for nonmesh STAs
2127 11.3.3 Frame filtering based on STA state
2130 11.3.4 Authentication and deauthentication
11.3.4.1 General
11.3.4.2 Authentication—originating STA
2131 11.3.4.3 Authentication—destination STA
11.3.4.4 Deauthentication—originating STA
2132 11.3.4.5 Deauthentication—destination STA
11.3.5 Association, reassociation, and disassociation
11.3.5.1 General
2133 11.3.5.2 Non-AP and non-PCP STA association initiation procedures
2135 11.3.5.3 AP or PCP association receipt procedures
2137 11.3.5.4 Non-AP and non-PCP STA reassociation initiation procedures
2140 11.3.5.5 AP or PCP reassociation receipt procedures
2142 11.3.5.6 Non-AP and non-PCP STA disassociation initiation procedures
11.3.5.7 Non-AP and non-PCP STA disassociation receipt procedure
2143 11.3.5.8 AP or PCP disassociation initiation procedure
11.3.5.9 AP or PCP disassociation receipt procedure
2144 11.3.5.10 PBSS procedures for nonassociated STAs
11.3.5.11 Service characteristic indication during association
11.3.6 Additional mechanisms for an AP collocated with a mesh STA
2145 11.3.7 Communicating PBSS information
11.3.8 Neighbor report information upon rejection with suggested BSS transition
11.3.9 Authentication control
11.3.9.1 General
11.3.9.2 Centralized authentication control
2146 11.3.9.3 Distributed authentication control
2147 11.4 TS operation
11.4.1 Introduction
2149 11.4.2 TSPEC construction
2150 11.4.3 TS life cycle
2151 11.4.4 TS setup
11.4.4.1 General
11.4.4.2 Non-AP-STA-initiated TS setup
2152 11.4.4.3 AP-initiated TS setup
2153 11.4.4.4 TS setup procedures for both AP and non-AP STA initiation
2156 11.4.4.5 TS renegotiation
11.4.5 TS setup by resource request during a fast BSS transition
2157 11.4.6 PSMP management
2158 11.4.7 Failed TS setup
2159 11.4.8 Data transfer
11.4.9 TS deletion
11.4.9.1 Deletion of a TS established between an HC, DMG AP, or PCP and a non-AP and non-PCP STA
2160 11.4.9.2 Peer-to-peer TS deletion and deletion of an allocation
2162 11.4.10 TS timeout
2165 11.4.11 TS suspension
11.4.12 TS reinstatement
11.4.13 DMG allocation formats
11.4.13.1 General
11.4.13.2 Isochronous allocations
11.4.13.3 Asynchronous allocations
2166 11.4.14 PTP TS operation
2167 11.5 Block ack operation
11.5.1 Introduction
11.5.2 Setup and modification of the block ack parameters
11.5.2.1 General
11.5.2.2 Procedure at the originator
2168 11.5.2.3 Procedure at the recipient
2169 11.5.2.4 Procedure common to both originator and recipient
2170 11.5.3 Teardown of the block ack mechanism
11.5.3.1 General
11.5.3.2 Procedure at the initiator of the block ack teardown
11.5.3.3 Procedure at the recipient of the DELBA frame
11.5.4 Error recovery upon a peer failure
2172 11.6 Higher layer timer synchronization
11.6.1 Introduction
11.6.2 Procedure at the STA
2173 11.7 TPC procedures
11.7.1 General
2174 11.7.2 Association based on transmit power capability
11.7.3 Peering based on transmit power capability
2175 11.7.4 Interpretation of transmit power capability
11.7.5 Specification of regulatory and local maximum transmit power levels
2176 11.7.6 Transmit power selection
2177 11.7.7 Transmit power adaptation
11.8 DFS procedures
11.8.1 General
2178 11.8.2 Association based on supported channels
11.8.2.1 Association based on supported channels in a non-DMG BSS
11.8.2.2 Providing supported channels upon association in a DMG BSS
2179 11.8.3 Quieting channels for testing
2180 11.8.4 Testing channels for radar
11.8.5 Discontinuing operations after detecting radar
11.8.6 Detecting radar
11.8.7 Requesting and reporting of measurements
2182 11.8.8 Selecting and advertising a new channel
11.8.8.1 General
11.8.8.2 Selecting and advertising a new channel in a non-DMG infrastructure BSS
2183 11.8.8.3 Selecting and advertising a new channel in an IBSS
2185 11.8.8.4 MBSS channel switching
11.8.8.4.1 General
11.8.8.4.2 Initiating MBSS channel switch
2186 11.8.8.4.3 Processing channel switch announcement
2187 11.8.8.4.4 Channel switch across an operating class
11.8.8.5 HT-greenfield transmissions in operating classes that include a behavior limit of DFS_50_100_Behavior
2188 11.8.8.6 Selecting and advertising a new channel in a DMG BSS
11.8.9 Channel Switch Announcement element operation
11.8.10 Future Channel Guidance operation
2189 11.9 Extended channel switching (ECS)
11.9.1 General
11.9.2 Advertising supported operating classes
2190 11.9.3 Selecting and advertising a new channel and/or operating class
11.9.3.1 General
11.9.3.2 Selecting and advertising a new channel in an infrastructure BSS
2191 11.9.3.3 Selecting and advertising a new channel in an IBSS
2192 11.9.3.4 Selecting and advertising a new channel in an MBSS
11.10 Radio measurement procedures
11.10.1 General
11.10.2 Measurement on operating and nonoperating channels
2193 11.10.3 Measurement start time
11.10.4 Measurement duration
2194 11.10.5 Station responsibility for conducting measurements
2195 11.10.6 Requesting and reporting of measurements
2197 11.10.7 Repeated Measurement Request frames
2198 11.10.8 Triggered autonomous reporting
2199 11.10.9 Specific measurement usage
11.10.9.1 Beacon report
2203 11.10.9.2 Frame report
11.10.9.3 Channel load report
2204 11.10.9.4 Noise Histogram report
2205 11.10.9.5 STA Statistics report
2206 11.10.9.6 LCI report (Location configuration information report)
2208 11.10.9.7 Measurement pause
11.10.9.8 Transmit Stream/Category Measurement report
2210 11.10.9.9 Location Civic report
2211 11.10.9.10 Location Identifier report
2213 11.10.9.11 Fine Timing Measurement Range report
2214 11.10.10 Usage of the neighbor report
11.10.10.1 General
11.10.10.2 Requesting a neighbor report
2215 11.10.10.3 Responding to a neighbor report request
2217 11.10.11 Link measurement
11.10.12 Measurement of the RPI histogram
11.10.13 Operation of the Max Transmit Power field
2218 11.10.14 Multiple BSSID set
11.10.15 Measurement Pilot frame generation and usage
11.10.15.1 General
2219 11.10.15.2 Measurement Pilot frame generation by an AP
2221 11.10.15.3 Measurement pilot usage by a STA
11.10.16 Access delay measurement
11.10.17 BSS Available Admission Capacity
2222 11.10.18 AP Channel Report
11.10.19 Multicast diagnostic reporting
2223 11.10.20 CCA request and report
11.10.21 RPI Histogram request and report
11.11 DSE procedures
11.11.1 General
2224 11.11.2 Enablement and deenablement
11.11.2.1 General
2225 11.11.2.2 Enablement requester STA
11.11.2.3 Enablement responder STA
11.11.2.4 Deenablement requester STA
2226 11.11.2.5 Deenablement responder STA
11.11.3 Registered STA operation
11.11.4 Enabling STA operation with DSE
2227 11.11.5 Dependent STA operation with DSE
2229 11.12 Group addressed management frame protection procedures
11.13 SA Query procedures
2230 11.14 HT BSS Operation
2231 11.15 20/40 MHz BSS operation
11.15.1 Rules for operation in 20/40 MHz BSS
11.15.2 Basic 20/40 MHz BSS functionality
2232 11.15.3 Channel scanning and selection methods for 20/40 MHz operation
11.15.3.1 General
11.15.3.2 Scanning requirements for a 20/40 MHz BSS
2234 11.15.3.3 Channel management at the AP and in an IBSS
2235 11.15.4 40 MHz PPDU transmission restrictions
11.15.4.1 Fields used to determine 40 MHz PPDU transmission restrictions
2236 11.15.4.2 Infrastructure non-AP STA restrictions
2237 11.15.4.3 AP restrictions
2238 11.15.4.4 Restrictions on non-AP STAs that are not infrastructure BSS members
11.15.5 Scanning requirements for 40MC HT STA 2G4
2239 11.15.6 Exemption from OBSS scanning
2240 11.15.7 Communicating 20/40 BSS coexistence information
11.15.8 Support of DSSS/CCK in 40 MHz
11.15.9 STA CCA sensing in a 20/40 MHz BSS
2241 11.15.10 NAV assertion in 20/40 MHz BSS
11.15.11 Signaling 40 MHz intolerance
11.15.12 Switching between 40 MHz and 20 MHz
2243 11.16 20/40 BSS Coexistence Management frame usage
2244 11.17 Public Action frame addressing
11.18 STAs communicating Data frames outside the context of a BSS
2245 11.19 Timing advertisement
11.19.1 Introduction
11.19.2 Timing advertisement frame procedures
11.19.3 UTC TSF Offset procedures
11.20 Tunneled direct-link setup
11.20.1 General
2247 11.20.2 TDLS payload
11.20.3 TDLS Discovery
11.20.4 TDLS direct-link establishment
2249 11.20.5 TDLS direct-link teardown
2250 11.20.6 TDLS channel switching
11.20.6.1 General
2253 11.20.6.2 General behavior on the off-channel
11.20.6.3 Setting up a 40 MHz direct link
11.20.6.3.1 General
11.20.6.3.2 Basic 40 MHz functionality
11.20.6.3.3 Channel selection for a 40 MHz direct link
2254 11.20.6.3.4 Switching from a 40 MHz to a 20 MHz direct link
11.20.6.3.5 CCA sensing and NAV assertion in a 40 MHz direct link
11.20.6.4 TDLS channel switching and power saving
11.20.6.5 Setting up a wide bandwidth off-channel direct link
11.20.6.5.1 General
2255 11.20.6.5.2 Basic wideband functionality
11.20.6.5.3 Channel selection for a wideband off-channel direct link
11.20.6.5.4 Switching from a wideband to a 20 MHz, 1 MHz, or 2 MHz direct link
2256 11.20.6.5.5 CCA sensing and NAV assertion in a 20 MHz, 40 MHz, 80 MHz, 160 MHz, 80+80 MHz, 1 MHz, 2 MHz, 4 MHz, 8 MHz, or 16 MHz direct link
11.21 Wireless network management procedures
11.21.1 Wireless network management dependencies
11.21.2 Event request and report procedures
11.21.2.1 Event request and event report
2258 11.21.2.2 Transition event request and report
2259 11.21.2.3 RSNA event request and report
11.21.2.4 Peer-to-peer link event request and report
11.21.2.5 WNM log event request and report
2260 11.21.2.6 Vendor Specific event request and report
11.21.3 Diagnostic request and report procedures
11.21.3.1 Diagnostic request and diagnostic report
2261 11.21.3.2 Configuration Profile report
2262 11.21.3.3 Manufacturer information STA report
11.21.3.4 Association diagnostic
11.21.3.5 IEEE 802.1X authentication diagnostic
2263 11.21.4 Location track procedures
11.21.4.1 Location track configuration procedures
2265 11.21.4.2 Location track notification procedures
2268 11.21.5 Timing measurement procedure
2269 11.21.6 Fine timing measurement (FTM) procedure
11.21.6.1 Overview
2271 11.21.6.2 FTM capabilities
11.21.6.3 Fine timing measurement procedure negotiation
2273 11.21.6.4 Measurement exchange
2278 11.21.6.5 Fine timing measurement parameter modification
11.21.6.6 Fine timing measurement termination
2279 11.21.6.7 LCI and Location Civic retrieval using FTM procedure
2280 11.21.7 BSS transition management for network load balancing
11.21.7.1 BSS transition capability
11.21.7.2 BSS transition management query
2281 11.21.7.3 BSS transition management request
2282 11.21.7.4 BSS transition management response
2283 11.21.8 FMS multicast rate processing
2284 11.21.9 Collocated interference reporting
2285 11.21.10 QoS Traffic capability procedure
2286 11.21.11 AC Station Count
11.21.12 TFS procedures
11.21.12.1 TFS capability
2287 11.21.12.2 TFS non-AP STA operation
2288 11.21.12.3 TFS AP operation
2289 11.21.13 BSS max idle period management
2290 11.21.14 Proxy ARP service
11.21.15 Channel usage procedures
2291 11.21.16 Group addressed transmission service
11.21.16.1 General
11.21.16.2 DMS procedures
2294 11.21.16.3 GCR procedures
11.21.16.3.1 Overview
2296 11.21.16.3.2 GCR group membership procedures
11.21.16.3.3 GCR setup procedures
2299 11.21.16.3.4 GCR operation
2303 11.21.16.3.5 Concealment of GCR transmissions
2304 11.21.16.3.6 GCR unsolicited retry
11.21.16.3.7 GCR block ack
11.21.16.3.8 GCR-SP
2305 11.21.16.4 GLK-GCR
11.21.16.4.1 Overview
11.21.16.4.2 GLK-GCR operation
2306 11.21.16.4.3 GLK-GCR unsolicited retry
11.21.16.4.4 GLK-GCR block ack
11.21.17 WNM notification
2307 11.22 WLAN interworking with external networks procedures
11.22.1 General
11.22.2 Interworking capabilities and information
11.22.3 Interworking procedures: generic advertisement service (GAS)
11.22.3.1 Introduction
2308 11.22.3.2 GAS Protocol
11.22.3.2.1 General
2313 11.22.3.2.2 STA procedures to transmit a GAS Query Request
2314 11.22.3.2.3 STA procedures to post a GAS Query Request to an Advertisement Server
2315 11.22.3.2.4 STA procedures for transmitting the GAS Query Response
2319 11.22.3.2.5 Group addressed GAS procedures
11.22.3.2.6 GAS procedures interaction with multiple BSSID set
11.22.3.3 ANQP procedures
11.22.3.3.1 General
2322 11.22.3.3.2 Query list procedure
11.22.3.3.3 Roaming Consortium procedure
11.22.3.3.4 AP procedure for advertising EAP Method associated with an NAI Realm
2323 11.22.3.3.5 3GPP Cellular Network procedure
11.22.3.3.6 AP Geospatial Location procedure
11.22.3.3.7 AP Civic Location procedure
11.22.3.3.8 AP Location Public Identifier URI/FQDN procedures
2324 11.22.3.3.9 Emergency NAI procedure
11.22.3.3.10 TDLS Capability procedure
11.22.3.3.11 Venue URL procedure
2325 11.22.3.3.12 Advice of Charge procedure
11.22.3.3.13 Local Content procedure
11.22.3.3.14 Query AP List procedure
2326 11.22.3.3.15 CAG procedure
11.22.3.3.16 Local MAC address policy procedure
11.22.3.4 Registered location query protocol (RLQP) procedures
2327 11.22.4 Interworking procedures: IEEE 802.21 MIS support
11.22.5 Interworking procedures: interactions with SSPN
11.22.5.1 General operation
2328 11.22.5.2 Authentication and cipher suites selection with SSPN
11.22.5.3 Reporting and session control with SSPN
2329 11.22.6 Interworking procedures: emergency services support
2330 11.22.7 Interworking procedures: emergency alert system (EAS) support
2331 11.22.8 Interworking procedures: support for the advertisement of roaming consortiums
2332 11.22.9 Interworking procedures: support for QoS mapping from external networks
11.23 Preassociation discovery (PAD) procedures
11.23.1 General
2333 11.23.2 Unsolicited PAD procedure
2334 11.23.3 Solicited PAD procedure
11.23.4 Service hash procedure
2335 11.23.5 Bloom filter hash function operation
11.24 Quality-of-service Management frame (QMF)
11.24.1 General
11.24.1.1 Overview
2336 11.24.1.2 Default QMF policy
2339 11.24.2 QMF policy advertisement and configuration procedures
11.24.2.1 Overview
11.24.2.2 QMF policy change in an infrastructure BSS or in an MBSS
2341 11.24.2.3 QMF policy configuration in an infrastructure BSS
11.24.2.4 QMF policy configuration in an IBSS or OCB
11.24.2.5 QMF policy configuration in an MBSS
2342 11.24.3 Interpreting QMF access categories
2343 11.25 Robust AV streaming
11.25.1 Robust AV streaming dependencies
11.25.2 SCS procedures
2344 11.25.3 MSCS procedures
2347 11.26 Procedures to manage OBSS
11.26.1 General
2348 11.26.2 QLoad Report element
11.26.2.1 Introduction
11.26.2.2 Calculating field values
2350 11.26.2.3 Requesting QLoad Reports using radio measurement requests
11.26.3 HCCA TXOP negotiation
2354 11.26.4 HCCA AP timing synchronization for HCCA TXOP advertisement
11.26.4.1 General
11.26.4.2 Timing offset
11.26.4.3 Clock drift adjustment
2355 11.27 DMG beamformed link and BSS maintenance
11.27.1 Beamformed link maintenance
2357 11.27.2 PCP Handover
11.27.2.1 General
2358 11.27.2.2 Explicit handover procedure
2359 11.27.2.3 Implicit handover procedure
11.28 DMG BSS peer and service discovery
11.28.1 Information Request and Response
2360 11.28.2 Peer Service Discovery
2361 11.29 Changing DMG BSS parameters
11.29.1 General
11.29.2 Moving the TBTT
2362 11.29.3 Changing beacon interval duration
2363 11.29.4 Maintaining synchronization in an AP or PCP cluster
11.29.5 Recommending DMG BSS parameters to the AP or PCP
2364 11.30 Spatial sharing and interference mitigation for DMG STAs
11.30.1 General
11.30.2 Spatial sharing and interference assessment
2365 11.30.3 Achieving spatial sharing and interference mitigation
2367 11.30.4 PBSS and infrastructure BSS stability in OBSS scenarios
11.31 Multi-band operation
11.31.1 General
2368 11.31.2 General FST rules
2369 11.31.3 FST setup protocol
11.31.3.1 General
2371 11.31.3.2 Transitioning between states
2376 11.31.3.3 FST TS switching
2378 11.31.4 FST teardown
11.31.5 On-channel Tunneling (OCT) operation
2383 11.31.6 FST payload
11.32 MMSL cluster operation
11.32.1 Introduction
2384 11.32.2 MMSL cluster setup
11.32.2.1 General
2385 11.32.2.2 MMSL cluster setup of non-AP and non-PCP MM-SME coordinated STA with AP or PCP
11.32.2.3 MMSL cluster setup of non-AP and non-PCP STA with another non-AP and non-PCP STA
11.33 DMG coexistence with non-IEEE-802.11 systems
2386 11.34 DMG relay procedures
11.34.1 General
2387 11.34.2 Common relay setup procedures
11.34.2.1 Introduction
11.34.2.2 Relay capabilities and RDS discovery procedures
11.34.2.3 RDS selection procedure
2388 11.34.2.4 RLS procedure
11.34.3 Relay operation-type change procedure
2389 11.34.4 Relay teardown
11.35 Quieting adjacent DMG BSSs
11.35.1 General
2390 11.35.2 Procedure at the requester AP
11.35.3 Procedure at the responder AP
2391 11.36 DMG beamforming
2393 11.37 DMG MAC sublayer attributes
11.38 VHT BSS operation
11.38.1 Basic VHT BSS functionality
2397 11.38.2 Channel selection methods for a VHT BSS
11.38.3 Scanning requirements for VHT STA
2398 11.38.4 Channel switching methods for a VHT BSS
2400 11.38.5 NAV assertion in a VHT BSS
2401 11.38.6 VHT STA antenna indication
11.38.7 Basic VHT-MCS and NSS set operation
11.38.8 Extended NSS BW Support Signaling
11.39 Group ID management operation
2402 11.40 Notification of operating mode changes
2405 11.41 Basic TVHT BSS functionality
2406 11.42 Operation under the control of a GDB
11.42.1 General
2407 11.42.2 GDD enabling STA operation
11.42.3 GDD dependent STA operation
2409 11.42.4 Channel availability query (CAQ) procedure
11.42.4.1 Introduction
2410 11.42.4.2 CAQ requesting STA
11.42.4.3 CAQ responding STA
2412 11.42.5 Channel schedule management (CSM) procedures
11.42.5.1 Introduction
2413 11.42.5.2 CSM requesting STA
11.42.5.3 CSM responding STA
2414 11.42.6 Contact verification signal (CVS)
11.42.7 Network channel control (NCC) procedures
11.42.7.1 Introduction
2415 11.42.7.2 NCC requesting STA
11.42.7.3 NCC responding STA
2416 11.42.8 White space map (WSM)
2417 11.43 Beacon RSSI
11.44 Estimated throughput
2420 11.45 Fast Initial Link Setup (FILS) procedures
11.45.1 General
11.45.2 FILS Discovery frame generation and usage
11.45.2.1 FILS Discovery frame transmission
2421 11.45.2.2 FILS Discovery frame reception
2422 11.45.3 Higher layer setup during (re)association procedure
11.45.3.1 General
11.45.3.2 Higher layer protocol encapsulation
2424 11.45.3.3 FILS IP address configuration
2425 11.45.4 FILS authentication and higher layer setup capability indications
11.45.5 DILS
11.45.5.1 General
2426 11.45.5.2 AP procedures for DILS
11.45.5.3 Non-AP STA procedures for DILS
2427 11.46 Support for energy limited STAs
11.47 DCS procedure for CDMG BSS
11.47.1 General
2429 11.47.2 Assessing current channel condition
11.47.3 Requesting measurements for new operating channel
2430 11.47.4 Reporting measurements
11.47.5 Requesting existing BSS to migrate to a new channel
2431 11.47.6 Networking on the target channel
11.48 CMMG BSS operation
11.48.1 Basic CMMG BSS functionality
11.48.2 Channel selection methods for a CMMG BSS
2432 11.48.3 Scanning requirements for CMMG STAs
11.48.4 Channel switching methods for a CMMG BSS
2434 11.48.5 NAV assertion in a CMMG BSS
11.48.6 CMMG STAs antenna indication
11.48.7 BSS basic CMMG-MCS and NSS set operation
2435 11.49 Reduced neighbor report
2436 11.50 GLK operation
11.50.1 General
11.50.2 Reported general link metrics
2438 11.51 EPD operation
11.52 Beacon frame protection procedures
2439 12. Security
12.1 Conventions
12.2 Framework
12.2.1 Classes of security algorithm
12.2.2 Security methods
12.2.3 RSNA STA capabilities
2440 12.2.4 RSNA establishment
2442 12.2.5 RSNA assumptions and constraints
2443 12.2.6 Requirements for the Protected Frame field
12.2.7 Requirements for management frame protection
12.2.8 Emergency service establishment in an RSN
12.2.9 Requirements for Operating Channel Validation
2444 12.2.10 Requirements for support of MAC privacy enhancements
2445 12.3 Pre-RSNA security methods
12.3.1 Status of Pre-RSNA security methods
12.3.2 Wired equivalent privacy (WEP)
12.3.2.1 WEP overview
2446 12.3.2.2 WEP MPDU format
12.3.2.3 WEP state
2447 12.3.2.4 WEP procedures
12.3.2.4.1 WEP ICV algorithm
12.3.2.4.2 WEP encryption algorithm
12.3.2.4.3 WEP seed construction
12.3.2.4.4 WEP MPDU cryptographic encapsulation
2448 12.3.2.4.5 WEP MPDU decapsulation
12.3.3 Pre-RSNA authentication
12.3.3.1 Overview
2449 12.3.3.2 Open System authentication
12.3.3.2.1 General
12.3.3.2.2 Open System authentication (first frame)
12.3.3.2.3 Open System authentication (final frame)
12.3.3.3 Shared Key authentication
12.3.3.3.1 General
2450 12.3.3.3.2 Shared Key authentication (first frame)
12.3.3.3.3 Shared Key authentication (second frame)
12.3.3.3.4 Shared Key authentication (third frame)
12.3.3.3.5 Shared Key authentication (final frame)
2451 12.3.3.3.6 Shared key MIB attributes
2453 12.4 Authentication using a password
12.4.1 SAE overview
12.4.2 Assumptions on SAE
2454 12.4.3 Representation of a password
12.4.4 Finite cyclic groups
12.4.4.1 General
2455 12.4.4.2 Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) groups
12.4.4.2.1 ECC group definition
2456 12.4.4.2.2 Generation of the password element with ECC groups by looping
2458 12.4.4.2.3 Hash-to-curve generation of the password element with ECC groups
2460 12.4.4.3 Finite field cryptography (FFC) groups
12.4.4.3.1 FFC group definition
2461 12.4.4.3.2 Generation of the password element with FFC groups by looping
2462 12.4.4.3.3 Direct generation of the password element with FFC groups
12.4.5 SAE protocol
12.4.5.1 Message exchanges
2463 12.4.5.2 PWE and secret generation
12.4.5.3 Construction of an SAE Commit message
2464 12.4.5.4 Processing of a peer’s SAE Commit message
2465 12.4.5.5 Construction of an SAE Confirm message
12.4.5.6 Processing of a peer’s SAE Confirm message
12.4.6 Anti-clogging tokens
2466 12.4.7 Framing of SAE
12.4.7.1 General
12.4.7.2 Data type conversion
12.4.7.2.1 General
12.4.7.2.2 Integer to octet string conversion
2467 12.4.7.2.3 Octet string to integer conversion
12.4.7.2.4 Element to octet string conversion
12.4.7.2.5 Octet string to element conversion
12.4.7.3 Authentication transaction sequence number for SAE
12.4.7.4 Encoding and decoding of SAE Commit messages
2468 12.4.7.5 Encoding and decoding of SAE Confirm messages
12.4.7.6 Status codes
12.4.8 SAE finite state machine
12.4.8.1 General
2469 12.4.8.2 States
12.4.8.2.1 Parent process states
12.4.8.2.2 Protocol instance states
2470 12.4.8.3 Events and output
12.4.8.3.1 Parent process events and output
12.4.8.3.2 Protocol instance events and output
2471 12.4.8.4 Timers
12.4.8.5 Variables
12.4.8.5.1 Parent process variables
12.4.8.5.2 Protocol instance variables
2472 12.4.8.6 Behavior of state machine
12.4.8.6.1 Parent process behavior
2473 12.4.8.6.2 Protocol instance behavior—General
12.4.8.6.3 Protocol instance behavior—Nothing state
12.4.8.6.4 Protocol instance behavior—Committed state
2475 12.4.8.6.5 Protocol instance behavior—Confirmed state
12.4.8.6.6 Protocol instance behavior—Accepted state
2476 12.5 RSNA confidentiality and integrity protocols
12.5.1 Overview
12.5.2 Temporal key integrity protocol (TKIP)
12.5.2.1 TKIP overview
12.5.2.1.1 General
12.5.2.1.2 TKIP cryptographic encapsulation
2477 12.5.2.1.3 TKIP decapsulation
2478 12.5.2.2 TKIP MPDU formats
2479 12.5.2.3 TKIP MIC
12.5.2.3.1 General
12.5.2.3.2 Motivation for the TKIP MIC
2481 12.5.2.3.3 Definition of the TKIP MIC
2482 12.5.2.4 TKIP countermeasures procedures
12.5.2.4.1 General
2483 12.5.2.4.2 TKIP countermeasures for an Authenticator
2484 12.5.2.4.3 TKIP countermeasures for a Supplicant
2485 12.5.2.5 TKIP mixing function
12.5.2.5.1 General
2486 12.5.2.5.2 S-Box
2487 12.5.2.5.3 Phase 1 Definition
2488 12.5.2.5.4 Phase 2 definition
2489 12.5.2.6 TKIP replay protection procedures
2490 12.5.3 CTR with CBC-MAC protocol (CCMP)
12.5.3.1 General
2491 12.5.3.2 CCMP MPDU format
2492 12.5.3.3 CCMP cryptographic encapsulation
12.5.3.3.1 General
2493 12.5.3.3.2 PN processing
12.5.3.3.3 Construct AAD
2495 12.5.3.3.4 Construct CCM nonce
2496 12.5.3.3.5 Construct CCMP header for PV0 MPDUs
12.5.3.3.6 Construct CCMP header for PV1 MPDUs
2497 12.5.3.3.7 CCM originator processing
2498 12.5.3.4 CCMP decapsulation
12.5.3.4.1 General
2499 12.5.3.4.2 CCM recipient processing
12.5.3.4.3 Decrypted CCMP MPDU
12.5.3.4.4 PN and replay detection
2500 12.5.4 Broadcast/multicast integrity protocol (BIP)
12.5.4.1 BIP overview
2501 12.5.4.2 BIP MMPDU format
12.5.4.3 BIP AAD construction
12.5.4.4 BIP replay protection
2502 12.5.4.5 BIP transmission
2503 12.5.4.6 BIP reception
2504 12.5.5 GCM protocol (GCMP)
12.5.5.1 GCMP overview
12.5.5.2 GCMP MPDU format
2505 12.5.5.3 GCMP cryptographic encapsulation
12.5.5.3.1 General
2506 12.5.5.3.2 PN processing
12.5.5.3.3 Construct AAD
12.5.5.3.4 Construct GCM nonce
12.5.5.3.5 Construct GCMP header
12.5.5.3.6 GCM originator processing
2507 12.5.5.4 GCMP decapsulation
12.5.5.4.1 General
2508 12.5.5.4.2 GCM recipient processing
12.5.5.4.3 Decrypted GCMP MPDU
2509 12.5.5.4.4 PN and replay detection
12.6 RSNA security association management
12.6.1 Security associations
12.6.1.1 Security association definitions
12.6.1.1.1 General
2510 12.6.1.1.2 PMKSA
2511 12.6.1.1.3 PMK-R0 security association
12.6.1.1.4 PMK-R1 security association
12.6.1.1.5 Mesh PMKSA
2512 12.6.1.1.6 PTKSA
12.6.1.1.7 Mesh TKSA
2513 12.6.1.1.8 GTKSA
12.6.1.1.9 IGTKSA
2514 12.6.1.1.10 Mesh GTKSA
12.6.1.1.11 BIGTKSA
2515 12.6.1.2 TPKSA
12.6.1.3 Security association life cycle
12.6.1.3.1 General
12.6.1.3.2 Security association in an ESS
2517 12.6.1.3.3 Security association in an IBSS
12.6.1.3.4 Security association in an MBSS
12.6.1.3.5 Security association in a PBSS
2518 12.6.2 RSNA selection
12.6.3 RSNA policy selection in an infrastructure BSS
2520 12.6.4 TSN policy selection in an infrastructure BSS
12.6.5 RSNA policy selection in an IBSS
2522 12.6.6 TSN policy selection in an IBSS
12.6.7 RSNA policy selection in an MBSS
12.6.8 RSNA policy selection in a PBSS
12.6.9 RSN management of the IEEE 802.1X Controlled Port
2523 12.6.10 RSNA authentication in an infrastructure BSS
12.6.10.1 General
2524 12.6.10.2 Preauthentication and RSNA key management
2525 12.6.10.3 Cached PMKSAs and RSNA key management
2526 12.6.11 RSNA authentication in an IBSS
2527 12.6.12 RSNA authentication in an MBSS
12.6.13 RSNA authentication in a PBSS
2528 12.6.14 RSNA key management in an infrastructure BSS
12.6.15 RSNA key management in an IBSS
2529 12.6.16 RSNA key management in an MBSS
12.6.17 RSNA key management in a PBSS
12.6.18 RSNA security association termination
2530 12.6.19 Protection of robust Management frames
2531 12.6.20 Robust management frame selection procedure
2532 12.6.21 RSNA rekeying
12.6.22 Multi-band RSNA
12.6.22.1 General
2533 12.6.22.2 Nontransparent multi-band RSNA
2534 12.6.22.3 Transparent multi-band RSNA
12.6.22.4 Multi-band RSNA with TDLS in a non-DMG BSS
2535 12.6.23 Protection of Beacon frames
12.7 Keys and key distribution
12.7.1 Key hierarchy
12.7.1.1 General
2536 12.7.1.2 PRF
2538 12.7.1.3 Pairwise key hierarchy
2540 12.7.1.4 Group key hierarchy
2541 12.7.1.5 Integrity group key hierarchy
2542 12.7.1.6 FT key hierarchy
12.7.1.6.1 Overview
2543 12.7.1.6.2 Key derivation function (KDF)
2544 12.7.1.6.3 PMK-R0
2545 12.7.1.6.4 PMK-R1
2546 12.7.1.6.5 PTK
2547 12.7.1.7 Beacon protection key hierarchy
12.7.2 EAPOL-Key frames
2556 12.7.3 EAPOL-Key frame construction and processing
2557 12.7.4 EAPOL-Key frame notation
2558 12.7.5 Nonce generation
12.7.6 4-way handshake
12.7.6.1 General
2559 12.7.6.2 4-way handshake message 1
2560 12.7.6.3 4-way handshake message 2
2562 12.7.6.4 4-way handshake message 3
2564 12.7.6.5 4-way handshake message 4
2565 12.7.6.6 4-way handshake implementation considerations
12.7.6.7 Sample 4-way handshake
2566 12.7.6.8 4-way handshake analysis
2568 12.7.7 Group key handshake
12.7.7.1 General
2569 12.7.7.2 Group key handshake message 1
2570 12.7.7.3 Group key handshake message 2
2571 12.7.7.4 Group key handshake implementation considerations
12.7.7.5 Sample group key handshake
2572 12.7.8 TDLS PeerKey (TPK) security protocol
12.7.8.1 General
12.7.8.2 TPK handshake
2574 12.7.8.3 TPK handshake security assumptions
12.7.8.4 TPK Security Protocol handshake messages
12.7.8.4.1 Overview
12.7.8.4.2 TPK handshake message 1
2575 12.7.8.4.3 TPK handshake message 2
2577 12.7.8.4.4 TPK handshake message 3
2578 12.7.9 RSNA Supplicant key management state machine
12.7.9.1 General
12.7.9.2 Supplicant state machine states
2579 12.7.9.3 Supplicant state machine variables
12.7.9.4 Supplicant state machine procedures
2582 12.7.10 RSNA Authenticator key management state machine
12.7.10.1 General
2585 12.7.10.2 Authenticator state machine states
12.7.10.2.1 Authenticator state machine: 4-way handshake (per STA)
2586 12.7.10.2.2 Authenticator state machine: group key handshake (per STA)
12.7.10.2.3 Authenticator state machine: group key handshake (global)
2587 12.7.10.3 Authenticator state machine variables
2588 12.7.10.4 Authenticator state machine procedures
12.8 Mapping EAPOL keys to IEEE 802.11 keys
12.8.1 Mapping PTK to TKIP keys
12.8.2 Mapping GTK to TKIP keys
2589 12.8.3 Mapping PTK to CCMP keys
12.8.4 Mapping GTK to CCMP keys
12.8.5 Mapping GTK to WEP-40 keys
12.8.6 Mapping GTK to WEP-104 keys
12.8.7 Mapping IGTK to BIP keys
12.8.8 Mapping PTK to GCMP keys
12.8.9 Mapping GTK to GCMP keys
12.8.10 Mapping BIGTK to BIP keys
12.9 Authenticated mesh peering exchange (AMPE)
2590 12.10 AP PeerKey support
12.10.1 AP PeerKey overview
12.10.2 AP PeerKey protocol
2593 12.11 Authentication for FILS
12.11.1 General
2594 12.11.2 FILS authentication protocol
12.11.2.1 General
12.11.2.2 Discovery of a FILS AP
12.11.2.3 Key establishment with FILS Shared Key authentication
12.11.2.3.1 Overview
2595 12.11.2.3.2 Non-AP STA construction of Authentication frame
2596 12.11.2.3.3 AP processing of Authentication frame
2597 12.11.2.3.4 AP construction of Authentication frame
12.11.2.3.5 Non-AP STA processing of Authentication frame
2598 12.11.2.4 Key establishment with FILS Public Key authentication
12.11.2.4.1 General
12.11.2.4.2 Prior to exchange
2599 12.11.2.4.3 Processing after receipt
12.11.2.4.4 Post processing
2600 12.11.2.4.5 Upon receipt
12.11.2.5 Key establishment with FILS authentication
12.11.2.5.1 General
2601 12.11.2.5.2 PMKSA key derivation with FILS authentication
12.11.2.5.3 PTKSA Key derivation with FILS authentication
2602 12.11.2.6 Key confirmation with FILS authentication
12.11.2.6.1 General
12.11.2.6.2 (Re)Association Request for FILS key confirmation
2604 12.11.2.6.3 (Re)Association Response for FILS key confirmation
2607 12.11.2.7 AEAD cipher mode for FILS
2608 13. Fast BSS transition
13.1 Overview
13.2 Key holders
13.2.1 Introduction
2609 13.2.2 Authenticator key holders
2610 13.2.3 Supplicant key holders
2611 13.3 Capability and policy advertisement
13.4 FT initial mobility domain association
13.4.1 Overview
13.4.2 FT initial mobility domain association in an RSN
2614 13.4.3 FT initial mobility domain association in a non-RSN
2615 13.4.4 FT initial mobility domain association over FILS in an RSN
2616 13.5 FT protocol
13.5.1 Overview
2617 13.5.2 Over-the-air FT protocol authentication in an RSN
2618 13.5.3 Over-the-DS FT protocol in an RSN
2621 13.5.4 Over-the-air FT protocol in a non-RSN
2622 13.5.5 Over-the-DS FT protocol in a non-RSN
2623 13.6 FT resource request protocol
13.6.1 Overview
13.6.2 Over-the-air fast BSS transition with resource request
2626 13.6.3 Over-the-DS fast BSS transition with resource request
2628 13.7 FT reassociation
13.7.1 FT reassociation in an RSN
2630 13.7.2 FT reassociation in a non-RSN
2631 13.8 FT authentication sequence
13.8.1 Overview
2632 13.8.2 FT authentication sequence: contents of first message
2633 13.8.3 FT authentication sequence: contents of second message
13.8.4 FT authentication sequence: contents of third message
2634 13.8.5 FT authentication sequence: contents of fourth message
2636 13.9 FT security architecture state machines
13.9.1 Introduction
13.9.2 R0KH state machine
13.9.2.1 General
2637 13.9.2.2 R0KH state machine states
2638 13.9.2.3 R0KH state machine variables
13.9.2.4 R0KH state machine procedures
13.9.3 R1KH state machine
13.9.3.1 General
2640 13.9.3.2 R1KH state machine states
2641 13.9.3.3 R1KH state machine variables
2642 13.9.3.4 R1KH state machine procedures
13.9.4 S0KH state machine
13.9.4.1 General
2643 13.9.4.2 S0KH state machine states
13.9.4.3 S0KH state machine variables
13.9.4.4 S0KH state machine procedures
13.9.5 S1KH state machine
13.9.5.1 General
2646 13.9.5.2 S1KH state machine states
2647 13.9.5.3 S1KH state machine variables
13.9.5.4 S1KH state machine procedures
13.10 Remote request broker (RRB) communication
13.10.1 Overview
2648 13.10.2 Remote request broker (RRB)
13.10.3 Remote Request/Response frame definition
2649 13.11 Resource request procedures
13.11.1 General
2650 13.11.2 Resource information container (RIC)
2652 13.11.3 Creation and handling of a resource request
13.11.3.1 FTO procedures
2653 13.11.3.2 AP procedures
2656 14. MLME mesh procedures
14.1 Mesh STA dependencies
14.2 Mesh discovery
14.2.1 General
14.2.2 Mesh identifier
2657 14.2.3 Mesh profile
14.2.4 Mesh STA configuration
2658 14.2.5 Supplemental information for the mesh discovery
14.2.6 Scanning mesh BSSs
14.2.7 Candidate peer mesh STA
2659 14.2.8 Establishing or becoming a member of a mesh BSS
14.2.9 Establishing mesh peerings
2660 14.3 Mesh peering management (MPM)
14.3.1 General
2661 14.3.2 State variable management
14.3.3 Mesh authentication
2662 14.3.4 Mesh peering instance controller
14.3.4.1 Overview
14.3.4.2 Creating a new mesh peering instance
2663 14.3.4.3 Deleting mesh peering instances
14.3.5 Mesh peering instance selection
2664 14.3.6 Mesh peering open
14.3.6.1 Generating Mesh Peering Open frames
14.3.6.2 Mesh Peering Open frame processing
2665 14.3.7 Mesh peering confirm
14.3.7.1 Generating Mesh Peering Confirm frames
14.3.7.2 Mesh Peering Confirm frame processing
14.3.8 Mesh peering close
14.3.8.1 Generating Mesh Peering Close frames
14.3.8.2 Mesh Peering Close frame processing
14.4 Mesh peering management finite state machine (MPM FSM)
14.4.1 General
2666 14.4.2 States
14.4.3 Events and actions
2667 14.4.4 Timers
2668 14.4.5 State transitions
2669 14.4.6 IDLE state
2670 14.4.7 OPN_SNT state
14.4.8 CNF_RCVD state
2671 14.4.9 OPN_RCVD state
2672 14.4.10 ESTAB state
14.4.11 HOLDING state
14.5 Authenticated mesh peering exchange (AMPE)
14.5.1 Overview
2673 14.5.2 Security capabilities selection
14.5.2.1 Instance Pairwise Cipher Suite selection
2674 14.5.2.2 Group cipher suite selection
14.5.3 Construction and processing AES-SIV-protected mesh peering Management frames
2675 14.5.4 Distribution of group transient keys in an MBSS
14.5.5 Mesh peering Management frames for AMPE
14.5.5.1 General
14.5.5.2 Mesh peering open for AMPE
14.5.5.2.1 Generating Mesh Peering Open frames for AMPE
2676 14.5.5.2.2 Processing Mesh Peering Open frames for AMPE
14.5.5.3 Mesh peering confirm for AMPE
14.5.5.3.1 Generating Mesh Peering Confirm frames for AMPE
2677 14.5.5.3.2 Processing Mesh Peering Confirm frames for AMPE
14.5.5.4 Mesh peering close for AMPE
14.5.5.4.1 Generating Mesh Peering Close frames for AMPE
2678 14.5.5.4.2 Processing Mesh Peering Close frames for AMPE
14.5.6 AMPE finite state machine
14.5.6.1 Overview
14.5.6.2 Additional events and actions to MPM FSM
14.5.6.3 State transitions
2680 14.5.7 Keys and key derivation algorithm for the authenticated mesh peering exchange (AMPE)
2681 14.6 Mesh group key handshake
14.6.1 General
2682 14.6.2 Protection on mesh group key handshake frames
2683 14.6.3 Mesh Group Key Inform frame construction and processing
2684 14.6.4 Mesh Group Key Acknowledge frame construction and processing
14.6.5 Mesh group key implementation considerations
2685 14.7 Mesh security
14.8 Mesh path selection and metric framework
14.8.1 General
14.8.2 Extensible path selection framework
2686 14.8.3 Link metric reporting
14.9 Path selection link metric
14.9.1 General
14.9.2 Airtime link metric and high PHY rate airtime link metric
2688 14.10 Hybrid wireless mesh protocol (HWMP)
14.10.1 General
14.10.2 Terminology
2690 14.10.3 On-demand path selection mode
2691 14.10.4 Proactive tree building mode
14.10.4.1 General
14.10.4.2 Proactive PREQ mechanism
2692 14.10.4.3 Proactive RANN mechanism
14.10.5 Collocated STAs
2693 14.10.6 Parameters for extensible path selection framework
14.10.7 Addressing of HWMP Mesh Path Selection frame
2695 14.10.8 General rules for processing HWMP elements
14.10.8.1 General
14.10.8.2 HWMP propagation
14.10.8.3 HWMP sequence numbering
2696 14.10.8.4 Forwarding information
2698 14.10.8.5 Repeated attempts at path discovery
14.10.8.6 Limiting the rate of HWMP SN increments
14.10.9 Path request (PREQ) mechanism
14.10.9.1 General
14.10.9.2 Function
2699 14.10.9.3 Conditions for generating and sending a PREQ element
2707 14.10.9.4 PREQ element processing
14.10.9.4.1 General
14.10.9.4.2 Acceptance criteria
14.10.9.4.3 Effect of receipt
2708 14.10.10 Path reply (PREP) mechanism
14.10.10.1 General
14.10.10.2 Function
2709 14.10.10.3 Conditions for generating and sending a PREP element
2712 14.10.10.4 PREP element processing
14.10.10.4.1 General
14.10.10.4.2 Acceptance criteria
14.10.10.4.3 Effect of receipt
2713 14.10.11 Path error (PERR) mechanism
14.10.11.1 General
14.10.11.2 Function
14.10.11.3 Conditions for generating and sending a PERR element
2716 14.10.11.4 PERR element processing
14.10.11.4.1 General
2717 14.10.11.4.2 Acceptance criteria
14.10.11.4.3 Effect of receipt
14.10.12 Root announcement (RANN) mechanism
14.10.12.1 General
14.10.12.2 Function
2718 14.10.12.3 Conditions for generating and sending a RANN element
2719 14.10.12.4 RANN element reception
14.10.12.4.1 General
14.10.12.4.2 Acceptance criteria
14.10.12.4.3 Effect of receipt
2720 14.10.13 Considerations for support of STAs without mesh functionality
14.11 Interworking with the DS or an attached bridge
14.11.1 Overview of interworking between a mesh BSS and a DS or an attached bridge
2721 14.11.2 Gate announcement (GANN)
14.11.2.1 General
14.11.2.2 Function
14.11.2.3 Conditions for generating and sending a GANN element
2722 14.11.2.4 GANN element processing
14.11.2.4.1 General
14.11.2.4.2 Acceptance criteria
14.11.2.4.3 Effect of receipt
2723 14.11.3 Data forwarding at proxy mesh gates
14.11.3.1 General
14.11.3.2 Forwarding of MSDUs from the MBSS to the DS
14.11.3.3 Forwarding of MSDUs from the DS to the MBSS
2725 14.11.4 Proxy information and proxy update
14.11.4.1 General
14.11.4.2 Proxy information
2726 14.11.4.3 Proxy update (PXU)
14.11.4.3.1 General
14.11.4.3.2 Function
14.11.4.3.3 Conditions for generating and sending a PXU element
2727 14.11.4.3.4 Effect of receipt of a PXU element
2728 14.11.4.4 Proxy update confirmation (PXUC)
14.11.4.4.1 General
14.11.4.4.2 Function
14.11.4.4.3 Conditions for generating and sending a PXUC element
2729 14.11.4.4.4 Effect of receipt of PXUC element
14.11.5 Mesh STA collocation
14.12 Intra-mesh congestion control
14.12.1 General
14.12.2 Congestion control signaling protocol
2730 14.13 Synchronization and beaconing in MBSSs
14.13.1 TSF for MBSSs
14.13.2 Extensible synchronization framework
14.13.2.1 General
2731 14.13.2.2 Neighbor offset synchronization method
14.13.2.2.1 General
14.13.2.2.2 Timing offset calculation
2732 14.13.2.2.3 Clock drift adjustment
2733 14.13.3 Beaconing
14.13.3.1 Beacon generation in MBSSs
14.13.3.2 Beacon reception for mesh STA
2734 14.13.4 Mesh beacon collision avoidance (MBCA)
14.13.4.1 Overview
14.13.4.2 Beacon timing advertisement
14.13.4.2.1 General
2735 14.13.4.2.2 Calculation of neighbor STA’s TBTT
14.13.4.2.3 Beacon timing information
2736 14.13.4.2.4 Maintenance of the status number
14.13.4.2.5 Transmitter’s procedure
2737 14.13.4.2.6 Receiver’s procedure
14.13.4.3 TBTT selection
2738 14.13.4.4 TBTT adjustment
14.13.4.4.1 Self-determined TBTT adjustment
14.13.4.4.2 Requested TBTT adjustment
2739 14.13.4.4.3 TBTT scanning and adjustment procedures
14.13.4.5 Frame transmission across reported TBTT
2740 14.13.4.6 Delayed beacon transmissions
14.14 Power save in a mesh BSS
14.14.1 General
14.14.2 Mesh power management modes
14.14.2.1 General
2741 14.14.2.2 Peer-specific mesh power management modes
2742 14.14.2.3 Nonpeer mesh power management modes
14.14.3 Mesh power management mode indications and transitions
14.14.3.1 General
2743 14.14.3.2 Transition to a higher activity level
14.14.3.3 Transition to a lower activity level
14.14.4 TIM transmissions in an MBSS
14.14.5 TIM types
2744 14.14.6 Mesh awake window
14.14.7 Power save support
2745 14.14.8 Operation in peer-specific and nonpeer mesh power management modes
14.14.8.1 General
14.14.8.2 Operation in active mode
14.14.8.3 Operation in deep sleep mode for nonpeer mesh STAs
2746 14.14.8.4 Operation in light sleep mode for a mesh peering
14.14.8.5 Operation in deep sleep mode for a mesh peering
14.14.8.6 Conditions for doze state
14.14.9 Mesh peer service periods
14.14.9.1 General
2747 14.14.9.2 Initiation of a mesh peer service period
2748 14.14.9.3 Operation during a mesh peer service period
14.14.9.4 Termination of a mesh peer service period
14.14.10 MCCA use by power saving mesh STA
2749 15. DSSS PHY specification for the 2.4 GHz band designated for ISM applications
15.1 Overview
15.1.1 General
15.1.2 Scope of DSSS PHY services
15.1.3 DSSS PHY functions
15.1.3.1 General
15.1.3.2 PLME
15.1.4 Service specification method and notation
2750 15.2 DSSS PHY specific service parameter list
15.2.1 Introduction
15.2.2 TXVECTOR parameters
15.2.2.1 General
15.2.2.2 TXVECTOR LENGTH
15.2.2.3 TXVECTOR DATARATE
15.2.2.4 TXVECTOR SERVICE
2751 15.2.2.5 TXVECTOR TXPWR_LEVEL_INDEX
15.2.2.6 TXVECTOR TIME_OF_DEPARTURE_REQUESTED
15.2.2.7 TXVECTOR TX_ANTENNA
15.2.3 RXVECTOR parameters
15.2.3.1 General
15.2.3.2 RXVECTOR LENGTH
15.2.3.3 RXVECTOR RSSI
2752 15.2.3.4 RXVECTOR SIGNAL
15.2.3.5 RXVECTOR SERVICE
15.2.3.6 PHY-RXEND.indication parameter RCPI
15.2.3.7 RXVECTOR SQ
15.2.3.8 RXVECTOR RX_ANTENNA
15.2.4 TXSTATUS parameters
15.2.4.1 General
2753 15.2.4.2 TXSTATUS TIME_OF_DEPARTURE
15.2.4.3 TXSTATUS TIME_OF_DEPARTURE_ClockRate
15.3 DSSS PHY
15.3.1 Overview
15.3.2 PPDU format
2754 15.3.3 PHY field definitions
15.3.3.1 General
15.3.3.2 PHY SYNC field
15.3.3.3 PHY SFD
15.3.3.4 PHY SIGNAL field
15.3.3.5 PHY SERVICE field
15.3.3.6 PHY LENGTH field
2755 15.3.3.7 PHY CRC field
2756 15.3.4 PHY/DSSS PHY data scrambler and descrambler
2757 15.3.5 PHY data modulation and modulation rate change
15.3.6 Transmit PHY
2759 15.3.7 Receive PHY
2762 15.4 DSSS PLME
15.4.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives
2763 15.4.2 DSSS PHY MIB
15.4.3 DSSS PHY
2764 15.4.4 PHY operating specifications, general
15.4.4.1 General
15.4.4.2 Operating frequency range
15.4.4.3 Channel Numbering of operating channels
2765 15.4.4.4 Spreading sequence
15.4.4.5 Modulation and channel data rates
2766 15.4.4.6 Transmit and receive in-band and out-of-band spurious emissions
15.4.4.7 TX-to-RX turnaround time
15.4.4.8 RX-to-TX turnaround time
15.4.4.9 Slot time
15.4.4.10 Transmit and receive antenna connector impedance
15.4.5 PHY transmit specifications
15.4.5.1 Introduction
15.4.5.2 Transmit power levels
15.4.5.3 Minimum transmitted power level
15.4.5.4 Transmit power level control
2767 15.4.5.5 Transmit spectrum mask
15.4.5.6 Transmit center frequency tolerance
15.4.5.7 Chip clock frequency tolerance
15.4.5.8 Transmit power-on and power-down ramp
2768 15.4.5.9 RF carrier suppression
15.4.5.10 Transmit modulation accuracy
2770 15.4.5.11 Time of Departure accuracy
2771 15.4.6 PHY receiver specifications
15.4.6.1 Introduction
15.4.6.2 Receiver minimum input level sensitivity
15.4.6.3 Receiver maximum input level
15.4.6.4 Receiver adjacent channel rejection
15.4.6.5 CCA
2772 15.4.6.6 Received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement
15.4.6.7 DSSS PHY TXTIME calculation
2773 16. High rate direct sequence spread spectrum (HR/DSSS) PHY specification
16.1 Overview
16.1.1 General
16.1.2 Scope of HR/DSSS PHY services
16.1.3 HR/DSSS PHY functions
16.1.3.1 General
2774 16.1.3.2 PLME
16.1.4 Service specification method and notation
16.2 HR/DSSS PHY
16.2.1 Overview
16.2.2 PPDU format
16.2.2.1 General
16.2.2.2 Long PPDU format
2775 16.2.2.3 Short PPDU format
2776 16.2.3 PPDU field definitions
16.2.3.1 General
16.2.3.2 Long PHY SYNC field
16.2.3.3 Long PHY SFD
16.2.3.4 Long PHY SIGNAL field
16.2.3.5 Long PHY SERVICE field
2777 16.2.3.6 Long PHY LENGTH field
2778 16.2.3.7 PHY CRC (CRC-16) field
2780 16.2.3.8 Long PHY data modulation and modulation rate change
16.2.3.9 Short PHY synchronization (shortSYNC)
16.2.3.10 Short PHY SFD field (shortSFD)
2781 16.2.3.11 Short PHY SIGNAL field (shortSIGNAL)
16.2.3.12 Short PHY SERVICE field (shortSERVICE)
16.2.3.13 Short PHY LENGTH field (shortLENGTH)
16.2.3.14 Short CRC-16 field (shortCRC)
16.2.3.15 Short PHY data modulation and modulation rate change
16.2.4 PHY/HR/DSSS PHY data scrambler and descrambler
2782 16.2.5 Transmit PHY
2783 16.2.6 Receive PHY
2786 16.3 HR/DSSS PLME
16.3.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives
2788 16.3.2 HR/DSSS PHY MIB
16.3.3 HR/DSSS PHY
16.3.4 HR/DSSS TXTIME calculation
2789 16.3.5 Vector descriptions
2790 16.3.6 PHY operating specifications, general
16.3.6.1 General
16.3.6.2 Operating frequency range
16.3.6.3 Channel Numbering of operating channels
2791 16.3.6.4 Modulation and channel data rates
16.3.6.5 Spreading sequence and modulation for 1 Mb/s and 2 Mb/s
2792 16.3.6.6 Spreading sequences and modulation for CCK modulation at 5.5 Mb/s and 11 Mb/s
16.3.6.6.1 General
2793 16.3.6.6.2 Cover code for CCK
16.3.6.6.3 CCK 5.5 Mb/s modulation
2794 16.3.6.6.4 CCK 11 Mb/s modulation
16.3.6.7 Transmit and receive in-band and out-of-band spurious emissions
16.3.6.8 TX-to-RX turnaround time
16.3.6.9 RX-to-TX turnaround time
16.3.6.10 Slot time
16.3.6.11 Transmit and receive impedance at the antenna connector
2795 16.3.7 PHY transmit specifications
16.3.7.1 Introduction
16.3.7.2 Transmit power levels
16.3.7.3 Transmit power level control
16.3.7.4 Transmit spectrum mask
2796 16.3.7.5 Transmit center frequency tolerance
16.3.7.6 Chip clock frequency tolerance
16.3.7.7 Transmit power-on and power-down ramp
2797 16.3.7.8 RF carrier suppression
16.3.7.9 Transmit modulation accuracy
2799 16.3.7.10 Time of Departure accuracy
16.3.8 PHY receiver specifications
16.3.8.1 Introduction
16.3.8.2 Receiver minimum input level sensitivity
2800 16.3.8.3 Receiver maximum input level
16.3.8.4 Receiver adjacent channel rejection
16.3.8.5 CCA
2801 16.3.8.6 Received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement
2802 17. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) PHY specification
17.1 Introduction
17.1.1 General
17.1.2 Scope of OFDM services
17.1.3 OFDM PHY functions
17.1.3.1 General
17.1.3.2 PLME
2803 17.1.3.3 Service specification method
17.2 OFDM PHY specific service parameter list
17.2.1 Introduction
17.2.2 TXVECTOR parameters
17.2.2.1 General
2804 17.2.2.2 TXVECTOR LENGTH
17.2.2.3 TXVECTOR DATARATE
17.2.2.4 TXVECTOR SERVICE
17.2.2.5 TXVECTOR TXPWR_LEVEL_INDEX
17.2.2.6 TXVECTOR TIME_OF_DEPARTURE_REQUESTED
2805 17.2.2.7 TXVECTOR CH_BANDWIDTH_IN_NON_HT
17.2.2.8 TXVECTOR DYN_BANDWIDTH_IN_NON_HT
17.2.3 RXVECTOR parameters
17.2.3.1 General
2806 17.2.3.2 RXVECTOR LENGTH
17.2.3.3 RXVECTOR RSSI
17.2.3.4 RXVECTOR DATARATE
17.2.3.5 RXVECTOR SERVICE
17.2.3.6 PHY-RXEND.indication parameter RCPI
2807 17.2.3.7 RXVECTOR CH_BANDWIDTH_IN_NON_HT
17.2.3.8 RXVECTOR DYN_BANDWIDTH_IN_NON_HT
17.2.4 TXSTATUS parameters
17.2.4.1 General
2808 17.2.4.2 TXSTATUS TIME_OF_DEPARTURE
17.2.4.3 TXSTATUS TIME_OF_DEPARTURE_ClockRate
17.3 OFDM PHY
17.3.1 Introduction
17.3.2 PPDU format
17.3.2.1 General
2809 17.3.2.2 Overview of the PPDU encoding process
2810 17.3.2.3 Modulation-dependent parameters
2811 17.3.2.4 Timing-related parameters
17.3.2.5 Mathematical conventions in the signal descriptions
2813 17.3.2.6 Discrete time implementation considerations
2814 17.3.3 PHY preamble (SYNC)
2815 17.3.4 SIGNAL field
17.3.4.1 General
2816 17.3.4.2 RATE field
17.3.4.3 PHY LENGTH field
2817 17.3.4.4 Parity (P), Reserved (R), and SIGNAL TAIL fields
17.3.5 DATA field
17.3.5.1 General
17.3.5.2 SERVICE field
17.3.5.3 PPDU TAIL field
17.3.5.4 Pad bits (PAD)
2818 17.3.5.5 PHY DATA scrambler and descrambler
2821 17.3.5.6 Convolutional encoder
2823 17.3.5.7 Data interleaving
17.3.5.8 Subcarrier modulation mapping
2826 17.3.5.9 Pilot subcarriers
17.3.5.10 OFDM modulation
2828 17.3.6 CCA
17.3.7 PHY data modulation and modulation rate change
17.3.8 PHY operating specifications (general)
17.3.8.1 General
2829 17.3.8.2 Outline description
2830 17.3.8.3 Regulatory requirements
17.3.8.4 Operating channel frequencies
17.3.8.4.1 Operating frequency range
17.3.8.4.2 Channel numbering
2831 17.3.8.4.3 Channelization
17.3.8.5 Transmit and receive in-band and out-of-band spurious emissions
17.3.8.6 Slot time
17.3.8.7 Transmit and receive impedance at the antenna connector
17.3.9 PHY transmit specifications
17.3.9.1 General
17.3.9.2 Transmit power levels
17.3.9.3 Transmit spectrum mask
2833 17.3.9.4 Transmission spurious
17.3.9.5 Transmit center frequency tolerance
17.3.9.6 Symbol clock frequency tolerance
17.3.9.7 Modulation accuracy
17.3.9.7.1 Introduction
17.3.9.7.2 Transmitter center frequency leakage
2834 17.3.9.7.3 Transmitter spectral flatness
17.3.9.7.4 Transmitter constellation error
17.3.9.8 Transmit modulation accuracy test
2836 17.3.9.9 Time of Departure accuracy
17.3.10 PHY receiver specifications
17.3.10.1 Introduction
17.3.10.2 Receiver minimum input sensitivity
2837 17.3.10.3 Adjacent channel rejection
17.3.10.4 Nonadjacent channel rejection
2838 17.3.10.5 Receiver maximum input level
17.3.10.6 CCA requirements
17.3.10.7 Received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement
2839 17.3.11 Transmit PHY
2842 17.3.12 Receive PHY
2844 17.4 OFDM PLME
17.4.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives
2846 17.4.2 OFDM PHY MIB
17.4.3 OFDM TXTIME calculation
2847 17.4.4 OFDM PHY
2848 18. Extended Rate PHY (ERP) specification
18.1 Overview
18.1.1 General
18.1.2 Introduction
2849 18.1.3 Operational modes
18.1.4 Scope of ERP PHY services
2850 18.1.5 ERP functions
18.2 PHY-specific service parameter list
2852 18.3 Extended Rate PHY sublayer
18.3.1 Introduction
18.3.2 PPDU format
18.3.2.1 General
18.3.2.2 Long preamble PPDU format
18.3.2.3 Short preamble PPDU format
2853 18.3.2.4 ERP-OFDM PPDU format
18.3.3 PHY data modulation and rate change
18.3.3.1 Long and short preamble formats
18.3.3.2 ERP-OFDM format
18.3.4 CCA
2854 18.3.5 PHY receive procedure
18.4 ERP operating specifications (general)
18.4.1 Introduction
18.4.2 Regulatory requirements
18.4.3 Operating channel frequencies
18.4.4 Transmit and receive in-band and out-of-band spurious emissions
2855 18.4.5 SIFS
18.4.6 CCA performance
18.4.7 PHY transmit specifications
18.4.7.1 General
18.4.7.2 Transmit power levels
18.4.7.3 Transmit spectral mask
18.4.7.4 Transmit center frequency tolerance
18.4.7.5 Symbol clock frequency tolerance
2856 18.4.7.6 Time of Departure accuracy
18.4.8 PHY receive specifications
18.4.8.1 General
18.4.8.2 Receiver minimum input level sensitivity
18.4.8.3 Adjacent channel rejection
18.4.8.4 Receive maximum input level capability
18.5 ERP PLME
18.5.1 PLME SAP
18.5.2 MIB
2858 18.5.3 TXTIME
18.5.3.1 General
18.5.3.2 ERP-OFDM TXTIME calculations
2859 18.5.4 ERP
2860 19. High-throughput (HT) PHY specification
19.1 Introduction
19.1.1 Introduction to the HT PHY
2861 19.1.2 Scope of HT PHY services
19.1.3 HT PHY functions
19.1.3.1 General
19.1.3.2 PHY management entity (PLME)
19.1.3.3 Service specification method
19.1.4 PPDU formats
2862 19.2 HT PHY service interface
19.2.1 Introduction
19.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters
2869 19.2.3 PHYCONFIG_VECTOR parameters
19.2.4 Effect of CH_BANDWIDTH, CH_OFFSET, and MCS parameters on PPDU format
2870 19.2.5 Support for NON_HT formats
2872 19.2.6 TXSTATUS parameters
19.3 HT PHY
19.3.1 Introduction
2873 19.3.2 PPDU format
2875 19.3.3 Transmitter block diagram
2877 19.3.4 Overview of the PPDU encoding process
2879 19.3.5 Modulation and coding scheme (MCS)
2880 19.3.6 Timing-related parameters
2882 19.3.7 Mathematical description of signals
2885 19.3.8 Transmission in the upper/lower 20 MHz of a 40 MHz channel
19.3.9 HT preamble
19.3.9.1 Introduction
2886 19.3.9.2 HT-mixed format preamble
19.3.9.3 Non-HT portion of the HT-mixed format preamble
19.3.9.3.1 Introduction
19.3.9.3.2 Cyclic shift definition
2887 19.3.9.3.3 L-STF definition
2888 19.3.9.3.4 L-LTF definition
19.3.9.3.5 L-SIG definition
2889 19.3.9.4 HT portion of HT-mixed format preamble
19.3.9.4.1 Introduction
2890 19.3.9.4.2 Cyclic shift definition
19.3.9.4.3 HT-SIG definition
2893 19.3.9.4.4 CRC calculation for HT-SIG
2894 19.3.9.4.5 HT-STF definition
19.3.9.4.6 HT-LTF definition
2899 19.3.9.5 HT-greenfield format preamble
19.3.9.5.1 General
19.3.9.5.2 Cyclic shift definition for HT-greenfield format preamble
19.3.9.5.3 HT-GF-STF definition
19.3.9.5.4 HT-greenfield format HT-SIG
2901 19.3.9.5.5 HT-greenfield format LTF
19.3.10 Transmission of NON_HT format PPDUs with more than one transmit chain
19.3.11 Data field
19.3.11.1 General
2902 19.3.11.2 SERVICE field
19.3.11.3 Scrambler
19.3.11.4 Coding
19.3.11.5 Encoder parsing operation for two BCC FEC encoders
2903 19.3.11.6 BCC coding and puncturing
19.3.11.7 LDPC codes
19.3.11.7.1 Introduction
19.3.11.7.2 LDPC coding rates and codeword block lengths
2904 19.3.11.7.3 LDPC encoder
19.3.11.7.4 Parity-check matrices
2905 19.3.11.7.5 LDPC PPDU encoding process
2907 19.3.11.7.6 LDPC parser
19.3.11.8 Data interleaver
19.3.11.8.1 Overview
2908 19.3.11.8.2 Stream parser
19.3.11.8.3 Frequency interleaver
2910 19.3.11.9 Constellation mapping
19.3.11.9.1 General
19.3.11.9.2 Space-time block coding (STBC)
2911 19.3.11.10 Pilot subcarriers
2913 19.3.11.11 OFDM modulation
19.3.11.11.1 General
19.3.11.11.2 Spatial mapping
2915 19.3.11.11.3 Transmission in 20 MHz HT format
2916 19.3.11.11.4 Transmission in 40 MHz HT format
2917 19.3.11.11.5 Transmission in MCS 32 format
2918 19.3.11.11.6 Transmission with a short GI
19.3.11.12 Non-HT duplicate transmission
19.3.12 Beamforming
19.3.12.1 General
2919 19.3.12.2 Implicit feedback beamforming
2922 19.3.12.3 Explicit feedback beamforming
19.3.12.3.1 General
19.3.12.3.2 CSI matrices feedback
19.3.12.3.3 CSI matrices feedback decoding procedure
2923 19.3.12.3.4 Example of CSI matrices feedback encoding
19.3.12.3.5 Noncompressed beamforming feedback matrix
2924 19.3.12.3.6 Compressed beamforming feedback matrix
2926 19.3.13 HT Preamble format for sounding PPDUs
19.3.13.1 General
2927 19.3.13.2 Sounding with a NDP
19.3.13.3 Sounding PPDU for calibration
19.3.13.4 Sounding PPDU for channel quality assessment
2928 19.3.14 Regulatory requirements
2929 19.3.15 Channel numbering and channelization
19.3.15.1 General
19.3.15.2 Channel allocation in the 2.4 GHz band
19.3.15.3 Channel allocation in the 5 GHz band
19.3.15.4 40 MHz channelization
2930 19.3.16 Slot time
19.3.17 Transmit and receive impedance at the antenna connector
19.3.18 PHY transmit specification
19.3.18.1 Transmit spectrum mask
2932 19.3.18.2 Spectral flatness
2933 19.3.18.3 Transmit power
19.3.18.4 Transmit center frequency tolerance
19.3.18.5 Packet alignment
19.3.18.6 Symbol clock frequency tolerance
19.3.18.7 Modulation accuracy
19.3.18.7.1 Introduction to modulation accuracy tests
19.3.18.7.2 Transmit center frequency leakage
2934 19.3.18.7.3 Transmitter constellation error
19.3.18.7.4 Transmitter modulation accuracy (EVM) test
2935 19.3.18.8 Time of Departure accuracy
2936 19.3.19 HT PHY receiver specification
19.3.19.1 Receiver minimum input sensitivity
19.3.19.2 Adjacent channel rejection
2937 19.3.19.3 Nonadjacent channel rejection
19.3.19.4 Receiver maximum input level
19.3.19.5 CCA sensitivity
19.3.19.5.1 General
2938 19.3.19.5.2 CCA-Energy Detect (CCA-ED)
19.3.19.5.3 CCA sensitivity for non-HT PPDUs
19.3.19.5.4 CCA sensitivity in 20 MHz
19.3.19.5.5 CCA sensitivity in 40 MHz
2939 19.3.19.6 Received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement
19.3.19.7 Reduced interframe space (RIFS)
19.3.20 PHY transmit procedure
2942 19.3.21 PHY receive procedure
2946 19.4 HT PLME
19.4.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives
2951 19.4.2 PHY MIB
19.4.3 TXTIME calculation
2952 19.4.4 HT PHY
2953 19.5 Parameters for HT-MCSs
2962 20. Directional multi-gigabit (DMG) PHY specification
20.1 DMG PHY introduction
20.1.1 Scope of DMG PHY services
20.1.2 DMG PHY functions
20.1.2.1 PHY management entity (PLME)
20.1.2.2 Service specification method
20.2 DMG PHY service interface
20.2.1 Introduction
2963 20.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters
2965 20.2.3 PHYCONFIG_VECTOR parameters
20.2.4 TXSTATUS parameters
20.3 Common parameters
20.3.1 Channelization
2966 20.3.2 Transmit mask
20.3.3 Common requirements
20.3.3.1 Introduction
20.3.3.2 Center frequency tolerance
20.3.3.2.1 General
20.3.3.2.2 Center frequency convergence
2967 20.3.3.3 Symbol clock tolerance
20.3.3.4 Transmit center frequency leakage
20.3.3.5 Transmit rampup and rampdown
20.3.3.6 Antenna setting
20.3.3.7 Maximum input requirement
20.3.3.8 Receive minimum input sensitivity
2969 20.3.4 Timing-related parameters
20.3.5 Mathematical conventions in the signal description
20.3.5.1 General
2970 20.3.6 Common preamble
20.3.6.1 General
2971 20.3.6.2 Short Training field
20.3.6.3 Channel Estimation field
2972 20.3.7 HCS calculation for headers of DMG control mode and DMG SC mode
20.3.8 Common LDPC parity matrices
20.3.8.1 General
2973 20.3.8.2 Rate 1/2 LDPC code matrix H = 336 rows x 672 columns, Z = 42
20.3.8.3 Rate 5/8 LDPC code matrix H = 252 rows x 672 columns, Z = 42
20.3.8.4 Rate 3/4 LDPC code matrix H = 168 rows x 672 columns, Z = 42
2974 20.3.8.5 Rate 13/16 LDPC code matrix H = 126 rows x 672 columns, Z = 42
20.3.9 Scrambler
20.3.10 Received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement
2975 20.4 DMG control mode
20.4.1 Introduction
20.4.2 PPDU format
20.4.3 Transmission
20.4.3.1 Preamble
20.4.3.1.1 General
2976 20.4.3.1.2 Short Training field
20.4.3.1.3 Channel Estimation field
20.4.3.2 Header
20.4.3.2.1 General
2977 20.4.3.2.2 Generation of HCS bits
20.4.3.2.3 Header encoding and modulation
20.4.3.3 Data field
20.4.3.3.1 General
20.4.3.3.2 Scrambler
20.4.3.3.3 Encoder
2978 20.4.3.3.4 Modulation
20.4.3.3.5 Spreading
20.4.4 Performance requirements
20.4.4.1 Transmit requirements
20.4.4.1.1 Introduction
20.4.4.1.2 Transmit EVM
2979 20.4.4.2 Receive requirements
20.4.4.2.1 Introduction
20.4.4.2.2 CCA sensitivity
20.5 DMG SC mode
20.5.1 Introduction
20.5.2 PPDU format
2980 20.5.3 Transmission
20.5.3.1 Header
20.5.3.1.1 General
2982 20.5.3.1.2 Modulation and coding scheme
2983 20.5.3.1.3 Generation of the HCS bits
2984 20.5.3.1.4 Header encoding and modulation
20.5.3.1.5 Length recovery for extended SC MCSs at receiver
2985 20.5.3.2 Data field
20.5.3.2.1 General
20.5.3.2.2 Scrambler
20.5.3.2.3 Encoding
2988 20.5.3.2.4 Modulation mapping
2991 20.5.3.2.5 Symbol blocking and guard insertion
2992 20.5.4 Performance requirements
20.5.4.1 Transmit requirements
20.5.4.1.1 Transmit EVM
2993 20.5.4.1.2 Time of Departure accuracy
20.5.4.2 Receive requirements
20.5.4.2.1 Introduction
20.5.4.2.2 CCA sensitivity
2994 20.6 DMG low-power SC mode
20.6.1 Introduction
20.6.2 Transmission
20.6.2.1 Preamble
20.6.2.2 Header
20.6.2.2.1 General
20.6.2.2.2 Header encoding and modulation
20.6.2.3 Data field
20.6.2.3.1 General
2995 20.6.2.3.2 Scrambler
20.6.2.3.3 Encoding
2997 20.6.2.3.4 Modulation
20.6.2.3.5 Blocking
20.7 PHY transmit procedure
3000 20.8 PHY receive procedure
3001 20.9 Beamforming
20.9.1 Beamforming concept
20.9.2 Beamforming frame format
20.9.2.1 Sector-level sweep
20.9.2.2 Beam refinement
20.9.2.2.1 General
3003 20.9.2.2.2 BRP PPDU structure
20.9.2.2.3 BRP PPDU header fields
20.9.2.2.4 BRP PPDU duration
3004 20.9.2.2.5 AGC field
3005 20.9.2.2.6 TRN field
20.9.2.2.7 Channel measurement
20.10 Golay sequences
3007 20.11 DMG PLME
20.11.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives
20.11.2 DMG PHY MIB
20.11.3 TXTIME calculation
3008 20.11.4 DMG PHY
3010 21. Very high throughput (VHT) PHY specification
21.1 Introduction
21.1.1 Introduction to the VHT PHY
3011 21.1.2 Scope of VHT PHY services
21.1.3 VHT PHY functions
21.1.3.1 General
21.1.3.2 PHY management entity (PLME)
21.1.3.3 Service specification method
21.1.4 PPDU formats
3012 21.2 VHT PHY service interface
21.2.1 Introduction
21.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters
3020 21.2.3 PHYCONFIG_VECTOR parameters
3021 21.2.4 Effects of CH_BANDWIDTH parameter on PPDU format
3023 21.2.5 Support for NON_HT and HT formats
21.2.5.1 General
3025 21.2.5.2 Support for NON_HT format when NON_HT_MODULATION is OFDM
3026 21.2.5.3 Support for HT formats
3027 21.2.6 TXSTATUS parameters
21.3 VHT PHY
21.3.1 Introduction
21.3.2 VHT PPDU format
3028 21.3.3 Transmitter block diagram
3036 21.3.4 Overview of the PPDU encoding process
21.3.4.1 General
21.3.4.2 Construction of L-STF
3037 21.3.4.3 Construction of the L-LTF
21.3.4.4 Construction of L-SIG
3038 21.3.4.5 Construction of VHT-SIG-A
21.3.4.6 Construction of VHT-STF
21.3.4.7 Construction of VHT-LTF
3039 21.3.4.8 Construction of VHT-SIG-B
3040 21.3.4.9 Construction of the Data field in a VHT SU PPDU
21.3.4.9.1 Using BCC
21.3.4.9.2 Using LDPC
3041 21.3.4.10 Construction of the Data field in a VHT MU PPDU
21.3.4.10.1 General
21.3.4.10.2 Using BCC
21.3.4.10.3 Using LDPC
21.3.4.10.4 Combining to form a VHT MU PPDU
3042 21.3.5 VHT modulation and coding scheme (VHT-MCS)
21.3.6 Timing-related parameters
3045 21.3.7 Mathematical description of signals
21.3.7.1 Notation
3046 21.3.7.2 Subcarrier indices in use
21.3.7.3 Channel frequencies
3048 21.3.7.4 Transmitted signal
3052 21.3.7.5 Definition of tone rotation
21.3.8 VHT preamble
21.3.8.1 Introduction
3053 21.3.8.2 Non-VHT portion of VHT format preamble
21.3.8.2.1 Cyclic shift for pre-VHT modulated fields
21.3.8.2.2 L-STF definition
3054 21.3.8.2.3 L-LTF definition
21.3.8.2.4 L-SIG definition
3056 21.3.8.3 VHT portion of VHT format preamble
21.3.8.3.1 Introduction
21.3.8.3.2 Cyclic shift for VHT modulated fields
3057 21.3.8.3.3 VHT-SIG-A definition
3060 21.3.8.3.4 VHT-STF definition
3062 21.3.8.3.5 VHT-LTF definition
3065 21.3.8.3.6 VHT-SIG-B definition
3069 21.3.9 Transmission of NON_HT and HT PPDUs with multiple transmit chains
21.3.9.1 Transmission of 20 MHz NON_HT PPDUs with more than one transmit chain
21.3.9.2 Transmission of HT PPDUs with more than four transmit chains
21.3.10 Data field
21.3.10.1 General
3070 21.3.10.2 SERVICE field
3071 21.3.10.3 CRC calculation for VHT-SIG-B
21.3.10.4 Scrambler
3072 21.3.10.5 Coding
21.3.10.5.1 General
21.3.10.5.2 BCC encoder parsing operation
21.3.10.5.3 BCC coding and puncturing
21.3.10.5.4 LDPC coding
3073 21.3.10.5.5 Encoding process for VHT MU PPDUs
3074 21.3.10.6 Stream parser
3076 21.3.10.7 Segment parser
3077 21.3.10.8 BCC interleaver
3079 21.3.10.9 Constellation mapping
21.3.10.9.1 General
3084 21.3.10.9.2 LDPC tone mapping
3085 21.3.10.9.3 Segment deparser
3086 21.3.10.9.4 Space-time block coding
3087 21.3.10.10 Pilot subcarriers
3088 21.3.10.11 OFDM modulation
21.3.10.11.1 Transmission in VHT format
3090 21.3.10.12 Non-HT duplicate transmission
3091 21.3.11 SU-MIMO and DL-MU-MIMO Beamforming
21.3.11.1 General
21.3.11.2 Beamforming Feedback Matrix V
3092 21.3.11.3 Maximum Number of Total Spatial Streams in VHT MU PPDUs
21.3.11.4 Group ID
3093 21.3.12 VHT preamble format for sounding PPDUs
21.3.13 Regulatory requirements
21.3.14 Channelization
3095 21.3.15 Slot time
21.3.16 Transmit and receive port impedance
21.3.17 VHT transmit specification
21.3.17.1 Transmit spectrum mask
3098 21.3.17.2 Spectral flatness
3100 21.3.17.3 Transmit center frequency and symbol clock frequency tolerance
21.3.17.4 Modulation accuracy
21.3.17.4.1 Introduction to modulation accuracy tests
21.3.17.4.2 Transmit center frequency leakage
21.3.17.4.3 Transmitter constellation error
3101 21.3.17.4.4 Transmitter modulation accuracy (EVM) test
3102 21.3.17.5 Time of Departure accuracy
3103 21.3.18 VHT receiver specification
21.3.18.1 Receiver minimum input sensitivity
21.3.18.2 Adjacent channel rejection
3104 21.3.18.3 Nonadjacent channel rejection
3105 21.3.18.4 Receiver maximum input level
21.3.18.5 CCA sensitivity
21.3.18.5.1 General
21.3.18.5.2 CCA sensitivity for operating classes requiring CCA-ED
3106 21.3.18.5.3 CCA sensitivity for signals occupying the primary 20 MHz channel
21.3.18.5.4 CCA sensitivity for signals not occupying the primary 20 MHz channel
3107 21.3.18.6 RSSI
21.3.19 PHY transmit procedure
3110 21.3.20 PHY receive procedure
3114 21.4 VHT PLME
21.4.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives
3117 21.4.2 PHY MIB
21.4.3 TXTIME and PSDU_LENGTH calculation
3119 21.4.4 VHT PHY
3120 21.5 Parameters for VHT-MCSs
3137 22. Television very high throughput (TVHT) PHY specification
22.1 Introduction
22.1.1 Introduction to the TVHT PHY
3138 22.1.2 Scope of TVHT PHY services
22.1.3 TVHT PHY functions
22.1.3.1 General
22.1.3.2 PHY management entity (PLME)
22.1.3.3 Service specification method
3139 22.1.4 PPDU formats
22.2 TVHT PHY service interface
22.2.1 Introduction
22.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters
3146 22.2.3 Effects of CH_BANDWIDTH parameter on PPDU format
3147 22.2.4 Support for NON_HT and HT formats
3150 22.3 TVHT PHY sublayer
22.3.1 Introduction
22.3.2 VHT PPDU format in TVWS bands
3151 22.3.3 Transmitter block diagram
3152 22.3.4 Overview of the PPDU encoding process
22.3.4.1 General
22.3.4.2 Construction of L-STF
22.3.4.3 Construction of the L-LTF
3153 22.3.4.4 Construction of L-SIG
22.3.4.5 Construction of TVHT-SIG-A
3154 22.3.4.6 Construction of TVHT-STF
22.3.4.7 Construction of TVHT-LTF
22.3.4.8 Construction of TVHT-SIG-B
3155 22.3.4.9 Construction of the Data field in an SU PPDU
22.3.4.9.1 Using BCC
22.3.4.9.2 Using LDPC
22.3.4.10 Construction of the Data field in an MU PPDU
22.3.4.10.1 General
22.3.4.10.2 Using BCC
22.3.4.10.3 Using LDPC
22.3.4.10.4 Combining to form an MU PPDU
3156 22.3.5 Modulation and coding scheme (MCS)
22.3.6 Timing-related parameters
3157 22.3.7 Mathematical description of signals
3161 22.3.8 TVHT preamble
22.3.8.1 Introduction
22.3.8.2 Non-TVHT portion of TVHT format preamble
22.3.8.2.1 Cyclic shift definition for pre-TVHT modulated fields
22.3.8.2.2 L-STF definition
22.3.8.2.3 L-LTF definition
3162 22.3.8.2.4 L-SIG definition
22.3.8.3 TVHT portion of TVHT format preamble
22.3.8.3.1 Introduction
22.3.8.3.2 Cyclic shift for TVHT modulated fields
22.3.8.3.3 TVHT-SIG-A definition
3163 22.3.8.3.4 TVHT-STF definition
22.3.8.3.5 TVHT-LTF definition
3164 22.3.8.3.6 TVHT-SIG-B definition
22.3.9 Transmission of NON_HT and HT PPDUs with multiple antennas
22.3.10 Data field
22.3.10.1 General
22.3.10.2 SERVICE field
22.3.10.3 CRC calculation for TVHT-SIG-B
22.3.10.4 Scrambler
22.3.10.5 Coding
22.3.10.6 Stream parser
3165 22.3.10.7 Segment parser
22.3.10.8 BCC interleaver
22.3.10.9 Constellation mapping
22.3.10.9.1 General
22.3.10.9.2 LDPC tone mapping
3166 22.3.10.9.3 Segment deparser
22.3.10.9.4 Space-time block coding
22.3.10.10 Pilot subcarriers
22.3.10.11 OFDM modulation transmission in VHT format
3167 22.3.10.12 Non-HT duplicate transmission
22.3.11 SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO Beamforming
22.3.11.1 General
22.3.11.2 Beamforming Feedback Matrix V
22.3.11.3 Group ID
22.3.12 TVHT preamble format for sounding PPDUs
3168 22.3.13 Regulatory requirements
22.3.14 Channelization
3170 22.3.15 Slot time
22.3.16 Transmit and receive port impedance
22.3.17 TVHT transmit specification
22.3.17.1 Transmit spectrum mask
3171 22.3.17.2 Spectral flatness
3172 22.3.17.3 Transmit center frequency and symbol clock frequency tolerance
3173 22.3.17.4 Modulation accuracy
22.3.17.4.1 Introduction to modulation accuracy tests
22.3.17.4.2 Transmit center frequency leakage
22.3.17.4.3 Transmitter constellation error
22.3.17.4.4 Transmitter modulation accuracy (EVM) test
22.3.17.5 Time of Departure accuracy
22.3.18 TVHT receiver specification
22.3.18.1 General
3174 22.3.18.2 Receiver minimum input sensitivity
22.3.18.3 Adjacent channel rejection
3175 22.3.18.4 Nonadjacent channel rejection
22.3.18.5 Receiver maximum input level
3176 22.3.18.6 CCA sensitivity
22.3.18.6.1 General
22.3.18.6.2 CCA sensitivity for operating classes requiring CCA-ED
22.3.18.6.3 CCA sensitivity for signals occupying the primary channel
3177 22.3.18.6.4 CCA sensitivity for signals not occupying the primary channel
22.3.18.7 RSSI
22.3.19 PHY transmit procedure
22.3.20 PHY receive procedure
3178 22.4 TVHT PLME
22.4.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives
22.4.2 PHY MIB
22.4.3 TXTIME and PSDU_LENGTH calculation
22.4.4 TVHT PHY
3179 22.5 Parameters for TVHT-MCSs
3186 23. Sub 1 GHz (S1G) PHY specification
23.1 Introduction
23.1.1 Introduction to the S1G PHY
3187 23.1.2 Scope of S1G PHY services
23.1.3 S1G PHY features
23.1.3.1 General
23.1.3.2 PHY management entity (PLME)
23.1.3.3 Service specification method
3188 23.1.4 PPDU formats
23.2 S1G PHY service interface
23.2.1 Introduction
3189 23.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters
3197 23.2.3 Effect of CH_BANDWIDTH parameter on PPDU format
3198 23.3 S1G PHY sublayer
23.3.1 Introduction
23.3.2 S1G PPDU format
3200 23.3.3 Transmitter block diagram
3201 23.3.4 Overview of the PPDU encoding process
23.3.4.1 General
23.3.4.2 Construction of the Preamble part in an S1G_LONG PPDU
23.3.4.2.1 Construction of STF
3202 23.3.4.2.2 Construction of LTF1
23.3.4.2.3 Construction of SIG-A
3203 23.3.4.2.4 Construction of D-STF
23.3.4.2.5 Construction of D-LTF
23.3.4.2.6 Construction of SIG-B
3204 23.3.4.3 Construction of the Preamble part in an S1G_SHORT PPDU
23.3.4.3.1 Construction of STF
3205 23.3.4.3.2 Construction of LTF1
23.3.4.3.3 Construction of SIG
3206 23.3.4.3.4 Construction of LTF2-LTFNLTF
23.3.4.4 Construction of the Preamble part in an S1G_1M PPDU
23.3.4.4.1 Construction of 1 MHz STF
3207 23.3.4.4.2 Construction of 1 MHz LTF1
23.3.4.4.3 Construction of 1 MHz SIG
3208 23.3.4.4.4 Construction of 1 MHz LTF2-LTFNLTF
23.3.4.5 Construction of Preambles for S1G_DUP_2M and S1G_DUP_1M
23.3.4.6 Construction of Data field in S1G SU PPDUs for all cases except 1 MHz MCS 10
23.3.4.6.1 Using BCC
3209 23.3.4.6.2 Using LDPC
3210 23.3.4.7 Construction of the Data field in an S1G SU PPDU (1 MHz MCS 10 mode)
23.3.4.7.1 Using BCC
23.3.4.7.2 Using LDPC
3211 23.3.4.8 Construction of the Data field in an S1G MU PPDU
23.3.4.8.1 General
23.3.4.8.2 Using BCC
23.3.4.8.3 Using LDPC
23.3.4.8.4 Combining to form an S1G MU PPDU
3212 23.3.5 Modulation and coding scheme
23.3.6 Timing-related parameters
3216 23.3.7 Mathematical description of signals
3222 23.3.8 S1G preamble
23.3.8.1 Introduction
23.3.8.2 Formats for greater than or equal to 2 MHz
23.3.8.2.1 Introduction
3223 23.3.8.2.2 S1G_SHORT preamble
3230 23.3.8.2.3 S1G_LONG preamble
3244 23.3.8.3 Format for 1 MHz
23.3.8.3.1 Introduction
23.3.8.3.2 Cyclic shift for S1G modulated fields
23.3.8.3.3 STF definition
3245 23.3.8.3.4 LTF definition
3247 23.3.8.3.5 SIG definition
3249 23.3.9 Data field
23.3.9.1 General
23.3.9.2 SERVICE field
23.3.9.3 Scrambler
3250 23.3.9.4 Coding
23.3.9.4.1 General
23.3.9.4.2 BCC encoder parsing operation
23.3.9.4.3 BCC coding and puncturing
3251 23.3.9.4.4 LDPC coding
3252 23.3.9.4.5 Encoding process for S1G MU PPDUs
23.3.9.5 Repetition for 1 MHz MCS 10
23.3.9.6 Stream parser
23.3.9.7 Segment parser
3253 23.3.9.8 BCC interleaver
23.3.9.9 Constellation mapping
23.3.9.9.1 General
23.3.9.9.2 LDPC tone mapping
23.3.9.9.3 Segment deparser
23.3.9.9.4 Space-time block coding
3254 23.3.9.10 Pilot subcarriers
3259 23.3.9.11 OFDM modulation
3261 23.3.9.12 S1G 1 MHz and 2 MHz duplicate transmission
23.3.9.12.1 S1G 1 MHz duplicate transmission
3262 23.3.9.12.2 S1G 2 MHz duplicate transmission
3263 23.3.10 SU-MIMO and DL-MU-MIMO Beamforming
23.3.10.1 General
23.3.10.2 Beamforming Feedback Matrix V
3264 23.3.10.3 Maximum Number of Total Spatial Streams in S1G MU PPDUs
23.3.10.4 Group ID
23.3.11 S1G preamble format for NDPs
3266 23.3.12 NDP CMAC PPDUs
23.3.12.1 General
3267 23.3.12.2 NDP CMAC PPDU details
23.3.12.2.1 NDP CTS
3268 23.3.12.2.2 NDP CF-End
3269 23.3.12.2.3 NDP PS-Poll
3271 23.3.12.2.4 NDP Ack
3272 23.3.12.2.5 NDP PS-Poll-Ack
3273 23.3.12.2.6 NDP BlockAck
3275 23.3.12.2.7 NDP Beamforming Report Poll
23.3.12.2.8 NDP Paging
3277 23.3.12.2.9 NDP Probe Request
3278 23.3.13 Regulatory requirements
23.3.14 Channelization
3279 23.3.15 Slot time
23.3.16 Transmit and receive port impedance
23.3.17 S1G transmit specification
23.3.17.1 Transmit spectrum mask
3282 23.3.17.2 Spectral flatness
3284 23.3.17.3 Transmit center frequency and symbol clock frequency tolerance
23.3.17.4 Modulation accuracy
23.3.17.4.1 Introduction to modulation accuracy tests
23.3.17.4.2 Transmitter center frequency leakage
3285 23.3.17.4.3 Transmitter constellation error
23.3.17.4.4 Transmitter modulation accuracy (EVM) test
3286 23.3.17.5 Time of Departure accuracy
3287 23.3.18 S1G receiver specification
23.3.18.1 Receiver minimum input sensitivity
23.3.18.2 Adjacent channel rejection
3288 23.3.18.3 Nonadjacent channel rejection
23.3.18.4 Receiver maximum input level
3289 23.3.18.5 CCA sensitivity
23.3.18.5.1 General
23.3.18.5.2 Type 1 and type 2 channelization for CCA levels
23.3.18.5.3 CCA sensitivity for operating classes requiring CCA-ED
3290 23.3.18.5.4 CCA sensitivity for signals occupying the primary 2 MHz and/or primary 1 MHz channel
3293 23.3.18.5.5 CCA sensitivity for signals not occupying the primary 2 MHz channel
3294 23.3.18.6 RSSI
3295 23.3.19 PHY transmit procedure
3299 23.3.20 PHY receive procedure
3306 23.4 S1G PMLE
23.4.1 PLME_SAP sublayer management primitives
3308 23.4.2 PHY MIB
23.4.3 TXTIME and PSDU_LENGTH calculation
3311 23.4.4 PHY characteristics
23.5 Parameters for S1G-MCSs
3320 24. China directional multi-gigabit (CDMG) PHY specification
24.1 CDMG PHY introduction
24.1.1 Scope
24.1.2 CDMG PHY functions
24.1.2.1 General
24.1.2.2 PHY management entity
24.1.2.3 Service specification method
24.2 CDMG PHY service interface
24.2.1 Introduction
3321 24.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters
3323 24.2.3 TXSTATUS parameters
24.3 Common parameters
24.3.1 Channelization
24.3.2 Transmit mask
3324 24.3.3 Common requirements
24.3.3.1 Introduction
24.3.3.2 Center frequency tolerance
24.3.3.2.1 General
24.3.3.2.2 Center frequency convergence
24.3.3.3 Symbol clock tolerance
24.3.3.4 Transmit center frequency leakage
24.3.3.5 Transmit rampup and rampdown
3325 24.3.3.6 Antenna setting
24.3.3.7 Maximum input requirement
24.3.3.8 Receiver minimum input sensitivity
3326 24.3.4 Timing-related parameters
3327 24.3.5 Mathematical conventions in the signal description
24.3.6 Common preamble
24.3.6.1 General
24.3.6.2 Short training field
24.3.6.3 Channel estimation field
3328 24.3.7 HCS calculation for headers of CDMG control mode and CDMG SC mode
24.3.8 Common LDPC parity matrices
24.3.9 Scrambler
24.3.10 Received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement
3329 24.4 CDMG control mode
24.4.1 Introduction
24.4.2 PPDU format
24.4.3 Transmission
24.4.3.1 Preamble
24.4.3.1.1 General
3330 24.4.3.1.2 Short Training field
24.4.3.1.3 Channel Estimation field
24.4.3.2 Header
24.4.3.2.1 General
3331 24.4.3.2.2 Generation of HCS bits
24.4.3.2.3 Header encoding and modulation
24.4.3.3 Data field
24.4.4 Performance requirements
24.4.4.1 Transmit requirements
24.4.4.1.1 Introduction
24.4.4.1.2 Transmit EVM
24.4.4.2 Receive requirements
24.4.4.2.1 Introduction
24.4.4.2.2 CCA
3332 24.5 CDMG SC mode
24.5.1 Introduction
24.5.2 PPDU format
24.5.3 Transmission
24.5.3.1 Header
24.5.3.1.1 General
3334 24.5.3.1.2 Modulation and coding scheme
3335 24.5.3.1.3 Generation of the HCS bits
24.5.3.1.4 Header encoding and modulation
24.5.3.2 The Data field
24.5.3.2.1 General
24.5.3.2.2 Scrambler
24.5.3.2.3 Encoding
24.5.3.2.4 Modulation mapping
3336 24.5.3.2.5 Symbol blocking and guard insertion
3337 24.5.4 Performance requirements
24.5.4.1 Transmit requirements
24.5.4.1.1 Transmit EVM
3338 24.5.4.1.2 Time of departure accuracy
24.5.4.2 Receive requirements
24.5.4.2.1 Introduction
24.5.4.2.2 CCA sensitivity
3339 24.6 CDMG low-power SC mode
24.6.1 Introduction
24.6.2 Transmission
24.6.2.1 Preamble
24.6.2.2 Header
24.6.2.2.1 General
24.6.2.2.2 Header encoding and modulation
24.6.2.3 Data field
3340 24.7 PHY transmit procedure
3342 24.8 PHY receive procedure
24.9 Beamforming
24.9.1 Beamforming concept
24.9.2 Beamforming frame format
24.9.2.1 Sector-level sweep
24.9.2.2 Beam refinement
24.9.2.2.1 General
24.9.2.2.2 BRP PPDU structure
3343 24.9.2.2.3 BRP PPDU header fields
24.9.2.2.4 BRP PPDU duration
3344 24.9.2.2.5 AGC field
24.9.2.2.6 TRN field
24.9.2.2.7 Channel measurement
24.10 CDMG PLME
24.10.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives
24.10.2 CDMG PHY MIB
3345 24.10.3 TXTIME calculation
24.10.4 PHY characteristics
3346 25. China millimeter-wave multi-gigabit (CMMG) PHY specification
25.1 Introduction
25.1.1 Introduction to CMMG PHY
25.1.2 Scope of CMMG PHY services
3347 25.1.3 CMMG PHY functions
25.1.3.1 General
25.1.3.2 PHY management entity (PLME)
25.1.3.3 Service specification method
25.1.3.4 PPDU formats
25.2 CMMG PHY service interface
25.2.1 Introduction
3348 25.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters
3351 25.3 Common parameters
25.3.1 Introduction
25.3.2 Common requirements
25.3.2.1 Introduction
25.3.2.2 Transmit RF delay
25.3.2.3 Center frequency tolerance
25.3.2.3.1 General
3352 25.3.2.3.2 Center frequency convergence
25.3.2.3.3 Symbol clock tolerance
25.3.2.3.4 Transmit rampup and rampdown
25.3.2.3.5 Maximum input requirement
25.3.2.3.6 Receive sensitivity
3353 25.3.3 Time-related parameters
3355 25.3.4 Mathematical conventions in the signal description
25.3.4.1 Notation
25.3.4.2 Subcarrier indices in use
25.3.4.3 Transmitted signal
3357 25.3.4.4 Definition of tone rotation for OFDM mode transmission
3358 25.3.4.5 The windowing function
25.3.5 CMMG PHY preamble
25.3.5.1 General
25.3.5.2 CMMG Short Training field
25.3.5.2.1 STF of control mode
3359 25.3.5.2.2 STF of SC and OFDM mode
25.3.5.3 CMMG Channel Estimation field
25.3.5.3.1 CEF of control mode
25.3.5.3.2 CEF of SC mode
3360 25.3.5.3.3 CEF of OFDM mode
3361 25.3.6 CRC calculation
3362 25.3.7 Scrambler
3363 25.3.8 Common LDPC parity matrices
25.3.8.1 Introduction
25.3.8.2 General
3365 25.3.9 CMMG SIG
25.3.9.1 General
3368 25.3.9.2 Encoding of SIG
25.3.10 CMMG duplication transmission on a 1080 MHz channel
3369 25.3.11 hFilt definition
25.3.12 Encoding of Data field
3370 25.3.13 Received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement
3371 25.4 CMMG control mode
25.4.1 Introduction
25.4.2 PPDU format
25.4.3 CMMG preamble transmission
25.4.4 CMMG control mode SIG transmission
25.4.4.1 General
25.4.4.2 Generation of CRC bits
25.4.4.3 Scrambler
25.4.4.4 Encoding
3372 25.4.4.5 Modulation
25.4.4.6 Spreading
25.4.5 CMMG control mode Data field
25.4.5.1 General
3373 25.4.5.2 Scrambler
25.4.5.3 Encoding
25.4.5.4 Modulation
25.4.5.5 Spreading
25.4.6 CMMG control mode performance requirements
25.4.6.1 Transmit requirements
25.4.6.1.1 Introduction
25.4.6.1.2 Transmit EVM
3374 25.4.6.2 Receive requirements
25.4.6.2.1 Introduction
25.4.6.2.2 CCA
25.5 CMMG SC mode
25.5.1 Introduction
25.5.2 Transmitter block diagram
3375 25.5.3 Overview of the PPDU encoding process
25.5.3.1 General
25.5.3.2 Construction of CMMG SC mode SIG
3376 25.5.3.3 Construction of CMMG SC mode PPDUs
25.5.4 CMMG SC mode PPDU format
25.5.5 CMMG SC mode SIG transmission
25.5.5.1 SIG field
25.5.5.2 Generation of the CRC bits of SIG
25.5.5.3 Scrambler
3377 25.5.5.4 Encoding and modulations
25.5.5.4.1 General
25.5.5.4.2 Encoding
25.5.5.4.3 Modulation
25.5.5.4.4 Duplication
25.5.5.4.5 Symbol blocking, CSD, and GI insertion
25.5.6 Data field transmission
25.5.6.1 General
25.5.6.2 Scrambler
3378 25.5.6.3 Encoding
25.5.6.4 Symbol block padding zeros
3379 25.5.6.5 Stream parser
25.5.6.6 Constellation mapping
3381 25.5.6.7 Spatial expansion
3383 25.5.6.8 Duplication transmission
25.5.7 Performance requirements
25.5.7.1 Transmit requirements
25.5.7.1.1 Introduction
3384 25.5.7.1.2 Transmit EVM
25.5.7.1.3 Time of Departure accuracy
3385 25.5.7.2 Receive requirements
25.5.7.2.1 Introduction
25.5.7.2.2 CCA
25.6 CMMG OFDM mode
25.6.1 Introduction
25.6.2 CMMG OFDM mode PPDU format
3386 25.6.3 Transmission block diagram
3387 25.6.4 Overview of CMMG OFDM mode PPDU encoding process
25.6.4.1 General
25.6.4.2 Construction of CMMG OFDM mode SIG
25.6.4.3 Construction of CMMG OFDM mode PPDU
3388 25.6.4.4 Construction of OSTF
25.6.4.5 Construction of OCEF
25.6.5 CMMG OFDM mode SIG fields
25.6.5.1 SIG fields
25.6.5.2 Modulation
3389 25.6.5.3 Duplication
25.6.5.4 Symbol blocking, CSD, and GI insertion
25.6.5.5 Symbol rate change
25.6.6 OSTF definition
3390 25.6.7 OCEF definition
3392 25.6.8 Data fields
25.6.8.1 General
25.6.8.2 Scrambler
3393 25.6.8.3 Encoding
25.6.8.4 OFDM symbol padding zeros
25.6.8.5 Stream parser
3394 25.6.8.6 Subcarrier modulation mapping
3397 25.6.8.7 Tone mapping
25.6.8.8 Space-time block coding
3398 25.6.8.9 Pilot subcarriers
3399 25.6.8.10 Cyclic shift diversity (CSD) for OFDM mode data fields transmission
25.6.8.11 OFDM modulation
3401 25.6.8.12 Duplication transmission
25.6.8.13 Beamforming
25.6.8.13.1 General
25.6.8.13.2 Compressed Beamforming feedback matrix
3402 25.6.8.14 CMMG preamble format for sounding PPDU
25.6.8.14.1 General
25.6.8.14.2 Sounding with an NDP
25.6.8.14.3 Sounding PPDU for channel quality assessment
3403 25.6.9 Performance requirements
25.6.9.1 Transmit requirements
25.6.9.1.1 Introduction
25.6.9.1.2 Transmit EVM
3405 25.6.9.2 TX flatness
25.6.9.2.1 TX flatness for 540 MHz channel
25.6.9.2.2 TX flatness for 1080 MHz channel
25.6.9.2.3 Time of Departure accuracy
25.6.9.3 Receive requirements
25.6.9.3.1 Introduction
25.6.9.3.2 CCA
25.7 Analog beamforming PHY frame format
25.7.1 TX sector sweep
3406 25.7.2 Beam refinement
25.7.2.1 General
25.7.2.2 BRP PPDU structure
25.7.2.3 BRP PPDU SIG fields
25.7.2.4 Beam refinement AGC field
3407 25.7.2.5 Beam refinement TRN-R subfield
25.7.2.6 Beam refinement TRN-T subfield
25.7.2.7 Channel measurement
3408 25.7.2.8 BRP resampling in an OFDM mode packet
25.8 ZCZ sequence
3412 25.9 Regulatory requirements
3413 25.10 Channelization
3414 25.11 Transmit spectrum mask
25.12 PHY transmit procedure
25.12.1 PHY transmit procedure for a CMMG SC mode transmission
3415 25.12.2 PHY transmit procedure for a CMMG OFDM mode transmission
3417 25.13 Receive procedure
3420 25.14 CMMG PLME
25.14.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitive
25.14.2 PHY MIB
3421 25.14.3 TXTIME calculation
3422 25.14.4 PHY characteristics
25.15 Parameters for CMMG-MCSs
25.15.1 General
3423 25.15.2 Parameters for CMMG-MCSs with SC mode transmission
3426 25.15.3 Parameters for CMMG-MCSs with OFDM mode transmission
3430 Annex A (informative) Bibliography
3434 Annex B (normative) Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) proforma
B.1 Introduction
B.2 Abbreviations and special symbols
B.2.1 Symbols for Status column
B.2.2 General abbreviations for Item and Support columns
3435 B.3 Instructions for completing the PICS proforma
B.3.1 General structure of the PICS proforma
3436 B.3.2 Additional information
B.3.3 Exception information
B.3.4 Conditional status
3438 B.4 PICS proforma—IEEE Std 802.11-2020
B.4.1 Implementation identification
B.4.2 Protocol summary
3439 B.4.3 IUT configuration
3441 B.4.4 MAC protocol
B.4.4.1 MAC protocol capabilities
3450 B.4.4.2 MAC frames
3459 B.4.4.3 Frame exchange sequences
B.4.4.4 MAC addressing functions
3460 B.4.5 Direct sequence PHY functions
3463 B.4.6 OFDM PHY functions
3474 B.4.7 High rate, direct sequence PHY functions
3478 B.4.8 Regulatory domain extensions
3479 B.4.9 ERP functions
3482 B.4.10 Spectrum management extensions
3485 B.4.11 Operating classes extensions
B.4.12 QoS base functionality
3486 B.4.13 QoS enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA)
3487 B.4.14 QoS hybrid coordination function (HCF) controlled channel access (HCCA)
3488 B.4.15 Radio management extensions
3493 B.4.16 DSE functions
3496 B.4.17 High-throughput (HT) features
B.4.17.1 HT MAC features
3500 B.4.17.2 HT PHY features
3505 B.4.18 Tunneled direct-link setup extensions
3506 B.4.19 WNM extensions
3510 B.4.20 Interworking (IW) with external networks extensions
3512 B.4.21 Mesh protocol capabilities
B.4.21.1 General mesh support
3515 B.4.21.2 HWMP path selection protocol capabilities
B.4.22 QMF extensions
3516 B.4.23 RobustAVT extensions
3517 B.4.24 DMG features
B.4.24.1 DMG MAC features
3525 B.4.24.2 DMG PHY features
B.4.25 Very high throughput (VHT) features
B.4.25.1 VHT MAC features
3528 B.4.25.2 VHT PHY features
3532 B.4.26 TVWS functions
3533 B.4.26.1 TVHT MAC features
3535 B.4.26.2 TVHT PHY features
3538 B.4.27 FILS features
3539 B.4.28 Sub 1 GHz (S1G) features
B.4.28.1 S1G MAC features
3546 B.4.28.2 S1G PHY features
3551 B.4.29 S1G relay features
B.4.30 CDMG features
B.4.30.1 CDMG MAC features
3552 B.4.30.2 CDMG PHY features
3553 B.4.31 CMMG features
B.4.31.1 CMMG PHY features
3554 B.4.32 Preassociation discovery extensions
3555 Annex C (normative) ASN.1 encoding of the MAC and PHY MIB
C.1 General
C.2 Guidelines for IEEE 802.11 MIB authors/editors
C.3 MIB detail
4104 Annex D (normative) Regulatory references
D.1 External regulatory references
4106 D.2 Radio performance specifications
D.2.1 Transmit and receive in-band and out-of-band spurious emissions
D.2.2 Transmit power levels
4108 D.2.3 Transmit spectrum mask
4109 D.2.4 Transmit Mask M
4110 D.2.5 CCA-ED threshold
4111 Annex E (normative) Country elements and operating classes
E.1 Country information and operating classes
4126 E.2 Band-specific operating requirements
E.2.1 General
E.2.2 3650–3700 MHz band in the United States
4127 E.2.3 5.9 GHz band in the United States (5.850–5.925 GHz)
E.2.4 5.9 GHz band in Europe (5.855–5.925 GHz)
E.2.5 TVWS band in the United States and Canada (54–698 MHz)
4130 E.2.6 TVWS band in Europe
4131 Annex F (normative) HT LDPC matrix definitions
4134 Annex G (normative) Frame exchange sequences
G.1 General
4136 G.2 Basic sequences
G.3 EDCA and HCCA sequences
4139 G.4 HT, VHT, and S1G sequences
4149 Annex H (normative) Usage of Ethertype 89-0d
4150 Annex I (informative) Examples of encoding a frame for OFDM PHYs and DMG PHYs
I.1 Example 1—BCC encoding
I.1.1 Introduction
4151 I.1.2 The message for the BCC example
4152 I.1.3 Generation of the preamble
I.1.3.1 Generation of the short sequences
4155 I.1.3.2 Generation of the long sequences
4157 I.1.4 Generation of the SIGNAL field
I.1.4.1 SIGNAL field bit assignment
4158 I.1.4.2 Coding the SIGNAL field bits
I.1.4.3 Interleaving the SIGNAL field bits
4159 I.1.4.4 SIGNAL field frequency domain
4160 I.1.4.5 SIGNAL field time domain
4161 I.1.5 Generating the DATA bits for the BCC example
I.1.5.1 Delineating, SERVICE field prepending, and zero padding
4163 I.1.5.2 Scrambling the BCC example
4165 I.1.6 Generating the first DATA symbol for the BCC example
I.1.6.1 Coding the DATA bits
4167 I.1.6.2 Interleaving the DATA bits
4170 I.1.6.3 Mapping into symbols
4171 I.1.7 Generating the additional DATA symbols
I.1.8 The entire packet for the BCC example
4179 I.2 Generating encoded DATA bits—LDPC example 1
I.2.1 General
I.2.2 The message for LDPC example 1
4181 I.2.3 Prepending the SERVICE field for LDPC example 1
4182 I.2.4 Scrambling LDPC example 1
4183 I.2.5 Inserting shortening bits for LDPC example 1
4186 I.2.6 Encoding data for LDPC example 1
4188 I.2.7 Removing shortening bits and puncturing for LDPC example 1
4190 I.3 Generating encoded DATA bits—LDPC example 2
I.3.1 General
4191 I.3.2 The message for LDPC example 2
4192 I.3.3 Prepending the SERVICE field for LDPC example 2
4194 I.3.4 Scrambling LDPC example 2
4196 I.3.5 Inserting the shortening bits for LDPC example 2
4198 I.3.6 Encoding the data for LDPC example 2
4201 I.3.7 Removing shortening bits and repetition for LDPC example 2
4205 I.4 DMG example data vectors
4206 I.5 DMG Example 1—DMG control mode encoding
I.5.1 DMG control mode preamble
I.5.2 Control mode header
I.5.2.1 General
I.5.2.2 DMG control mode header and payload bits
4207 I.5.2.3 DMG control mode scrambled header and payload bits
4208 I.5.2.4 DMG control mode LDPC encoded header bits
I.5.2.5 DMG control mode differentially encoded header symbols
I.5.2.6 DMG control mode header samples
4209 I.5.3 DMG control mode payload
I.5.3.1 General
I.5.3.2 DMG control mode payload bits
I.5.3.3 DMG control mode scrambled payload bits
I.5.3.4 DMG control mode LDPC encoded payload bits
4210 I.5.3.5 DMG control mode differentially encoded payload symbols
I.5.3.6 DMG control mode payload samples
I.6 DMG Example 2—DMG SC mode encoding
I.6.1 DMG SC mode preamble
I.6.2 DMG SC mode header
I.6.2.1 General
4211 I.6.2.2 DMG SC control header bits
4212 I.6.2.3 DMG SC mode scrambled header bits
I.6.2.4 DMG SC mode LDPC encoded header bits
I.6.2.5 DMG SC mode LDPC data shortened bits
I.6.2.6 DMG SC mode CS1/CS2 sequence bits
4213 I.6.2.7 DMG SC mode header samples
I.6.3 DMG SC mode payload
I.6.3.1 General
I.6.3.2 DMG SC mode MCS 1 payload
4216 I.6.3.3 DMG SC mode MCS 5 payload
I.6.3.4 DMG SC mode MCS 7 payload
4217 I.6.3.5 DMG SC mode MCS 12 payload
4218 I.7 DMG Example 3—DMG low-power SC mode encoding
I.7.1 DMG low-power SC mode preamble
I.7.2 DMG low-power SC mode header
I.7.3 DMG low-power SC mode MCS 26 payload
I.7.3.1 General
I.7.3.2 Payload bits
I.7.3.3 Scrambled payload bits
4219 I.7.3.4 RS(224,208) encoded payload bits
4220 I.7.3.5 (12,8) block coded payload bits
I.7.3.6 Interleaved payload bits
I.7.3.7 Payload samples
I.7.4 DMG low-power SC mode MCS 30 payload
I.7.4.1 Payload bits
I.7.4.2 Scrambled payload bits
I.7.4.3 RS(224,208) encoded payload bits
4221 I.7.4.4 Spc(9,8) block coded payload bits
I.7.4.5 Interleaved payload bits
I.7.4.6 Payload samples
4222 Annex J (informative) RSNA reference implementations and test vectors
J.1 TKIP temporal key mixing function reference implementation and test vector
J.1.1 TKIP temporal key mixing function reference implementation
4233 J.1.2 Test vectors
4234 J.2 Michael reference implementation and test vectors
J.2.1 Michael test vectors
J.2.1.1 Introduction
J.2.1.2 Block function
J.2.1.3 Michael
4235 J.2.2 Sample code for michael
4242 J.3 PRF reference implementation and test vectors
J.3.1 PRF reference code
4243 J.3.2 PRF test vectors
J.4 Suggested pass-phrase-to-PSK mapping
J.4.1 Introduction
4244 J.4.2 Test vectors
J.5 Suggestions for random number generation
J.5.1 General
4245 J.5.2 Software sampling
4246 J.5.3 Hardware-assisted solution
4247 J.6 Additional test vectors
J.6.1 Notation
J.6.2 WEP cryptographic encapsulation
4248 J.6.3 TKIP test vector
4249 J.6.4 CCMP test vectors
4253 J.6.5 PRF test vectors
4255 J.7 Key hierarchy test vectors for pairwise keys
J.7.1 General
J.7.2 CCMP-128 pairwise key derivation
J.7.3 TKIP pairwise key derivation
4256 J.8 Test vectors for AES-128-CMAC
J.9 Management frame protection test vectors
J.9.1 BIP with broadcast Deauthentication frame
4258 J.9.2 CCMP-128 with individually addressed Deauthentication frame
4259 J.10 SAE test vector
4263 J.11 GCMP
J.11.1 GCMP test vectors
4265 J.11.2 Example of encryption C code
4279 Annex K (informative) TSPECs and Admission control
K.1 Example use of TSPEC for admission control
4280 K.2 Recommendation for implementation of contention based admission control
K.2.1 Use of ACM (admission control mandatory) subfield
K.2.2 Deriving medium time
4283 K.3 Guidelines and reference design for sample scheduler and admission control unit
K.3.1 Guidelines for deriving service schedule parameters
K.3.2 Reference design for sample scheduler and admission control unit
K.3.2.1 General
K.3.2.2 Sample scheduler
4285 K.3.2.3 Admission control unit
4286 K.4 TSPEC construction
K.4.1 General
K.4.2 Surplus Bandwidth Allocation
4290 K.4.3 Minimum and Maximum Service Interval
K.4.3.1 Scheduled traffic
K.4.3.2 Use of Maximum Service Interval with Aggregation of Packets
4291 K.4.4 Minimum, Mean, and Peak Data Rate
4293 Annex L (informative) Examples and sample code for encoding a TIM Partial Virtual Bitmap
L.1 Introduction
L.2 Examples
4301 L.3 Sample C code
4307 Annex M (informative) EPD and LPD headers and the integration function
M.1 Introduction
M.2 Integration function header conversions
M.3 A-MSDU subframes
4309 M.4 Integration service versus bridging
4310 Annex N (informative) AP functional description
N.1 Introduction
N.2 Terminology
4314 N.3 Primary ACM_STA functions
N.4 Primary AP functions
4316 N.5 Primary DS functions
N.6 Primary portal function
4317 Annex O (informative) Additional HT, VHT, and S1G information
O.1 HT, VHT, and S1G waveform generator tool
4318 O.2 A-MPDU deaggregation
4319 O.3 Example of an RD exchange sequence
4320 O.4 Illustration of determination of NDP addresses
4321 O.5 20/40 MHz BSS establishment and maintenance
O.5.1 Signaling 20/40 MHz BSS capability and operation
O.5.2 Establishing a 20/40 MHz BSS
4322 O.5.3 Monitoring channels for other BSS operation
4324 Annex P (informative) Location and Time Difference accuracy test
P.1 Location via Time Difference of arrival
P.2 Time Difference of departure accuracy test
4326 P.3 Differential Distance Computation using Fine Timing Measurement frames
4328 Annex Q (informative) Example use of the Destination URI for Event and Diagnostic Reports
Q.1 Destination URI payload
Q.2 Use of HTTP (or HTTPS) for Destination URI of Event and Diagnostic Reports
4329 Annex R (informative) Interworking with external networks
R.1 General
R.2 Network discovery and selection
R.2.1 General
R.2.2 Airport
4330 R.2.3 Shopping
4331 R.2.4 Sales meeting
R.2.5 Museum
4332 R.2.6 Emergency call
4333 R.2.7 Emergency alert
R.3 QoS mapping guidelines for interworking with external networks
R.3.1 General
4334 R.3.2 Determination of the mapping for a STA
4335 R.3.3 QoS mapping and GLK
4336 R.4 Interworking and SSPN interface support
R.4.1 General
R.4.2 SSPN interface parameters
R.4.2.1 General
4337 R.4.2.2 Non-AP STA MAC
R.4.2.3 Non-AP STA User ID
4338 R.4.2.4 Non-AP STA Interworking Capability
R.4.2.5 Link Layer Encryption Method
R.4.2.6 Authorized Priority
R.4.2.7 Authorized Maximum Rate
4339 R.4.2.8 Authorized Service Access Type
R.4.2.9 Authorized Delay
R.4.2.10 Authorized Service Access Information
R.4.2.11 Non-AP STA Transmission Count
4340 R.4.2.12 Non-AP STA Location Information
R.4.2.13 Non-AP STA State Information
R.5 Interworking with external networks and emergency call support
R.5.1 General
4341 R.5.2 Background on emergency call support over IEEE 802.11 infrastructure
R.5.3 System aspects for emergency call support
4343 R.5.4 Description of the Expedited Bandwidth Request element
R.5.5 Access to emergency services in an RSN
4344 R.6 Peer information
4345 R.7 Calculating Estimated Throughput
4348 Annex S (informative) Mesh BSS operation
S.1 Clarification of mesh Data frame format
S.2 Operational considerations for interworking
S.3 Power save parameters selection
S.3.1 General
4349 S.3.2 Selecting the mesh power management mode based on traffic load
S.3.3 Scanning of mesh BSSs
4350 S.3.4 Default parameters
S.3.5 MSDU forwarding in an MBSS containing mesh STAs in light or deep sleep mode
S.3.6 Synchronization maintenance of mesh STAs in deep sleep mode
4351 S.4 SIV key wrapping test vector
4352 S.5 Airtime link metric usage example
S.6 Link metric report example
4353 S.7 Generation of proactive PREP elements in the proactive PREQ mechanism of HWMP
S.7.1 General
S.7.2 Additions to forwarding information
S.7.3 Actions when sending Data frames as source mesh STA
4354 S.7.4 Actions on receipt of a proactive PREQ element
S.7.5 Generation of proactive PREP elements
S.8 Generation of PREQ elements in proactive RANN mechanism of HWMP
S.8.1 General
S.8.2 Additions to forwarding information
4355 S.8.3 Actions when sending Data frames as source mesh STA
S.8.4 Actions on receipt of proactive RANN element
S.8.5 Actions on receipt of a PREP element
4356 Annex T (informative) Overlapping BSS (OBSS) management
T.1 Introduction
T.2 QLoad Report element
T.2.1 General
4357 T.2.2 Calculating medium time
T.2.3 Calculation of potential traffic self
4359 T.2.4 Calculation of allocated traffic self
4360 T.2.5 Calculation of allocated traffic shared
T.2.6 Calculation of EDCA Access Factor
4361 T.2.7 EDCA Overhead Factor
T.2.8 Calculation of HCCA Access Factor
4362 T.3 Channel selection using QLoad report
T.3.1 General
T.3.2 AP with admission control mandatory
T.3.3 AP with an HC
4363 T.3.4 Channel selection procedures
4364 T.4 Sharing in an OBSS situation
T.4.1 General
4365 T.4.2 Sharing schemes
T.4.2.1 General
T.4.2.2 Proportional sharing scheme
4366 T.4.2.3 On-demand sharing scheme
4367 T.5 Mitigating consequences of OBSS sharing in presence of noncollaborating devices
4368 Annex U (informative) Functions of the centralized coordination service root (CCSR)
4369 Annex V (informative) TSPEC aggregation for DMG BSSs
4371 Annex W (informative) Informative procedures for CDMG STAs
W.1 Selection of candidate SPs for spatial sharing
W.2 N-phase beamforming codebook for CDMG STAs
W.2.1 General
W.2.2 1-D (one-dimensional) antenna array
4373 W.2.3 2-D (two-dimensional) antenna array
W.3 Beam tracking and switching for enhanced beam tracking mechanism
4375 Annex X (informative) Link rate considerations
4376 Annex Y (informative) Preassociation discovery (PAD) additional information
Y.1 Preassociation discovery usage models
Y.2 Background search
4377 Y.3 Immediate search
4379 Back cover

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