IEEE 802.11af 2014
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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 Amendment 5: Television White Spaces (TVWS) Operation
Published By | Publication Date | Number of Pages |
IEEE | 2014 | 198 |
Amendment Standard – Active. Enhancements to the IEEE 802.11 physical layers (PHYs) and medium access control (MAC) sublayer to support operation in the white spaces in television bands are defined. (The PDF of this standard is available at no cost compliments of the GETIEEE802 program, located at http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/
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PDF Pages | PDF Title |
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1 | IEEE Std 802.11af™-2013 front cover |
3 | Title page |
4 | Abstract/Keywords |
5 | Important Notices and Disclaimers Concerning IEEE Standards Documents |
8 | Participants |
12 | Introduction |
13 | Contents |
19 | Tables |
21 | Figures |
23 | IMPORTANT NOTICE |
24 | 2. Normative references 3. Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations 3.1 Definitions 3.2 Definitions specific to IEEE 802.11 |
26 | 3.2a Definitions specific to IEEE 802.11 operation in some regulatory domains |
29 | 3.3 Abbreviations and acronyms 3.4 Abbreviations and acronyms in some regulatory domains |
30 | 4. General description 4.3 Components of IEEE 802.11 architecture 4.3.10a Very high throughput (VHT) STA 4.3.10b Television very high throughput (TVHT) STA |
31 | 4.3.19 Operation under geolocation database (GDB) control |
34 | 6. Layer management 6.3 MLME SAP Interface 6.3.3 Scan 6.3.3.3 MLME-SCAN.confirm 6.3.3.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.95 Channel Availability Query 6.3.95.1 Introduction 6.3.95.2 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.request 6.3.95.2.1 Function |
35 | 6.3.95.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.95.2.3 When generated 6.3.95.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.95.3 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.confirm 6.3.95.3.1 Function |
36 | 6.3.95.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.95.3.3 When generated 6.3.95.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.95.4 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.indication 6.3.95.4.1 Function |
37 | 6.3.95.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.95.4.3 When generated 6.3.95.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.95.5 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.response 6.3.95.5.1 Function |
38 | 6.3.95.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.95.5.3 When generated 6.3.95.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.96 Channel schedule management 6.3.96.1 Introduction |
39 | 6.3.96.2 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.request 6.3.96.2.1 Function 6.3.96.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.96.2.3 When generated 6.3.96.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.96.3 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.confirm 6.3.96.3.1 Function |
40 | 6.3.96.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.96.3.3 When generated 6.3.96.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.96.4 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.indication 6.3.96.4.1 Function |
41 | 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-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.response 6.3.96.5.1 Function |
42 | 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 Contact Verification Signal 6.3.97.1 Introduction 6.3.97.2 MLME-CVS.request 6.3.97.2.1 Function 6.3.97.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive |
43 | 6.3.97.2.3 When generated 6.3.97.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.97.3 MLME-CVS.indication 6.3.97.3.1 Function |
44 | 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 6.3.98 GDD Enablement 6.3.98.1 Introduction 6.3.98.2 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.request 6.3.98.2.1 Function |
45 | 6.3.98.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.98.2.3 When generated 6.3.98.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.98.3 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.confirm 6.3.98.3.1 Function |
46 | 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 6.3.98.4 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.indication 6.3.98.4.1 Function |
47 | 6.3.98.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.98.4.3 When generated 6.3.98.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.98.5 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.response 6.3.98.5.1 Function |
48 | 6.3.98.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.98.5.3 When generated 6.3.98.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.99 Network channel control management 6.3.99.1 Introduction 6.3.99.2 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.request 6.3.99.2.1 Function |
49 | 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 6.3.99.3 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.confirm 6.3.99.3.1 Function |
50 | 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 6.3.99.4 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.indication 6.3.99.4.1 Function |
51 | 6.3.99.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.99.4.3 When generated 6.3.99.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.99.5 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.response 6.3.99.5.1 Function |
52 | 6.3.99.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.99.5.3 When generated 6.3.99.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.100 White space map (WSM) 6.3.100.1 Introduction |
53 | 6.3.100.2 MLME-WSM.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-WSM.indication 6.3.100.3.1 Function |
54 | 6.3.100.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.100.3.3 When generated 6.3.100.3.4 Effect of receipt |
55 | 7. PHY service specification 7.3 Detailed PHY service specifications 7.3.5 PHY-SAP detailed service specification 7.3.5.11 PHY-CCA.indication 7.3.5.11.2 Semantics of the service primitive |
57 | 8. Frame formats 8.2 MAC frame formats 8.2.4 Frame fields 8.2.4.6 HT Control field 8.2.4.6.3 VHT variant 8.2.4.7 Frame Body field 8.2.4.7.1 General 8.2.6 TLV encodings 8.2.6.1 General |
58 | 8.2.6.2 Common TLVs 8.2.6.2.1 Device Class 8.2.6.2.2 Device Identification Information |
59 | 8.2.6.2.3 Device Location Information 8.2.6.2.4 Channel Schedule Descriptor |
60 | 8.2.6.2.5 WSM information values |
62 | 8.3 Format of individual frame types 8.3.3 Management frames 8.3.3.2 Beacon frame format 8.3.3.9 Probe Request frame format |
63 | 8.3.3.10 Probe Response frame format 8.4 Management frame body components 8.4.1 Fields that are not information elements 8.4.1.9 Status Code field |
64 | 8.4.1.32 Rate Identification field 8.4.1.48 VHT Compressed Beamforming Report field 8.4.1.48a TVHT Compressed Beamforming Report field |
65 | 8.4.1.49 MU Exclusive Beamforming Report field 8.4.1.49a TVHT MU Exclusive Beamforming Report field |
66 | 8.4.1.50 Operating Mode field 8.4.1.53 Channel Schedule Management element |
68 | 8.4.1.54 Device Location Information Body 8.4.1.55 WSM type and information |
69 | 8.4.2 Information elements 8.4.2.1 General 8.4.2.24 Extended Capabilities element 8.4.2.24.10 Location Configuration Information Report |
70 | 8.4.2.29 Extended Capabilities element 8.4.2.31 EDCA Parameter Set element |
71 | 8.4.2.54 DSE Registered Location element 8.4.2.95 Advertisement Protocol element |
72 | 8.4.2.160.2 VHT Capabilities Info field 8.4.2.164 VHT Transmit Power Envelope element 8.4.2.165 Channel Switch Wrapper element |
73 | 8.4.2.169 Device Location Information element 8.4.2.170 White Space Map element 8.4.2.171 Reduced Neighbor Report element |
74 | 8.4.2.171.1 Neighbor AP Information field |
75 | 8.4.2.172 TVHT Operation element |
77 | 8.4.5 Registered Location Query Protocol (RLQP) elements 8.4.5.1 General 8.4.5.2 Channel Availability Query RLQP-element |
79 | 8.4.5.3 Channel Schedule Management RLQP-element |
80 | 8.4.5.4 Network Channel Control RLQP-element |
81 | 8.5 Action frame format details 8.5.8 Public Action details 8.5.8.1 Public Action frames |
82 | 8.5.8.27 Channel Availability Query frame format 8.5.8.28 Channel Schedule Management frame format |
83 | 8.5.8.29 Contact Verification Signal frame format 8.5.8.30 GDD Enablement Request frame format |
84 | 8.5.8.31 GDD Enablement Response frame format 8.5.8.32 Network Channel Control frame format |
85 | 8.5.8.33 White Space Map Announcement frame format |
86 | 8.5.11 Protected Dual of Public Action frames 8.5.11.1 Protected Dual of Public Action details |
87 | 9. MAC sublayer functional description 9.2 MAC architecture 9.2.1 General 9.3 DCF 9.3.2 Procedures common to the DCF and EDCAF 9.3.2.3 IFS 9.3.2.3.4 PIFS 9.7 Multirate support 9.7.1 Overview |
88 | 9.12 A-MPDU operation 9.12.2 A-MPDU length limit rules 9.19 HCF 9.19.2 HCF contention-based channel access (EDCA) 9.19.2.8 EDCA channel access in a VHT and TVHT BSSs 9.24 MAC frame processing 9.24.9 Extensible subelement parsing 9.24.10 Extensible TLV parsing |
89 | 9.31 Null data packet (NDP) sounding 9.31.5 VHT sounding protocol 9.31.5.2 Rules for VHT sounding protocol sequences 9.31.5.3 Rules for fragmented feedback in VHT sounding protocol sequences |
90 | 10. MLME 10.11 Radio measurement procedures 10.11.9 Specific measurement usage 10.11.9.6 Location Configuration Information Report 10.24 WLAN interworking with external networks procedures 10.24.3 Interworking procedures: generic advertisement service (GAS) 10.24.3.2 ANQP procedures 10.24.3.3 Registered Location Query Protocol (RLQP) procedures 10.42 Basic TVHT BSS functionality |
92 | 10.43 Operation under the control of a GDB 10.43.1 General 10.43.2 GDD enabling STA operation |
93 | 10.43.3 GDD dependent STA operation |
94 | 10.43.4 Channel availability query (CAQ) procedure 10.43.4.1 Introduction |
95 | 10.43.4.2 CAQ requesting STA |
96 | 10.43.4.3 CAQ responding STA |
97 | 10.43.5 Channel schedule management (CSM) procedures 10.43.5.1 Introduction |
98 | 10.43.5.2 CSM requesting STA 10.43.5.3 CSM responding STA |
99 | 10.43.6 Contact verification signal (CVS) 10.43.7 Network channel control (NCC) procedures 10.43.7.1 Introduction |
100 | 10.43.7.2 NCC requesting STA |
101 | 10.43.7.3 NCC responding STA 10.43.8 Reduced neighbor report |
102 | 10.43.9 White space map (WSM) |
104 | 23. Television Very High Throughput (TVHT) PHY specification 23.1 Introduction 23.1.1 Introduction to the TVHT PHY |
105 | 23.1.2 Scope |
106 | 23.1.3 TVHT PHY functions 23.1.3.1 General 23.1.3.2 PHY management entity (PLME) 23.1.3.3 Service specification method 23.1.4 PPDU formats 23.2 TVHT PHY service interface 23.2.1 Introduction 23.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters |
113 | 23.2.3 Effects of CH_BANDWIDTH parameter on PPDU format |
114 | 23.2.4 Support for NON_HT and HT formats |
118 | 23.3 TVHT PHY sublayer 23.3.1 Introduction 23.3.2 VHT PPDU format in TVWS bands 23.3.3 Transmitter block diagram |
120 | 23.3.4 Overview of the PPDU encoding process 23.3.4.1 General 23.3.4.2 Construction of L-STF 23.3.4.3 Construction of the L-LTF |
121 | 23.3.4.4 Construction of L-SIG 23.3.4.5 Construction of TVHT-SIG-A 23.3.4.6 Construction of TVHT-STF 23.3.4.7 Construction of TVHT-LTF 23.3.4.8 Construction of TVHT-SIG-B |
122 | 23.3.4.9 Construction of the Data field in an SU PPDU 23.3.4.9.1 Using BCC 23.3.4.9.2 Using LDPC 23.3.4.10 Construction of the Data field in an MU PPDU 23.3.4.10.1 General 23.3.4.10.2 Using BCC |
123 | 23.3.4.10.3 Using LDPC 23.3.4.10.4 Combining to form MU PPDU 23.3.5 Modulation and coding scheme (MCS) 23.3.6 Timing-related parameters |
124 | 23.3.7 Mathematical description of signals |
128 | 23.3.8 TVHT preamble 23.3.8.1 Introduction 23.3.8.2 Non-TVHT portion of VHT format preamble 23.3.8.2.1 Cyclic shift definition for pre-TVHT modulated fields 23.3.8.2.2 L-STF definition 23.3.8.2.3 L-LTF definition |
129 | 23.3.8.2.4 L-SIG definition 23.3.8.3 TVHT portion of VHT format preamble 23.3.8.3.1 Introduction 23.3.8.3.2 Cyclic shift for TVHT modulated fields 23.3.8.3.3 TVHT-SIG-A definition |
130 | 23.3.8.3.4 TVHT-STF definition 23.3.8.3.5 TVHT-LTF definition |
131 | 23.3.8.3.6 TVHT-SIG-B definition 23.3.9 Transmission of NON_HT and HT PPDUs with multiple antennas 23.3.9.1 Transmission of NON_HT PPDUs with more than one antenna 23.3.9.2 Transmission of HT format PPDUs with more than four antennas 23.3.10 Data field 23.3.10.1 General 23.3.10.2 SERVICE field 23.3.10.3 CRC calculation for TVHT-SIG-B 23.3.10.4 Scrambler 23.3.10.5 Coding |
132 | 23.3.10.6 Stream parser 23.3.10.7 Segment parser 23.3.10.8 BCC interleaver 23.3.10.9 Constellation mapping 23.3.10.9.1 General 23.3.10.9.2 LDPC tone mapping |
133 | 23.3.10.9.3 Segment deparser 23.3.10.9.4 Space-time block coding 23.3.10.10 Pilot subcarriers 23.3.10.11 OFDM modulation transmission in VHT format |
134 | 23.3.10.12 Non-HT duplicate transmission 23.3.11 SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO Beamforming 23.3.11.1 General |
135 | 23.3.11.2 Beamforming Feedback Matrix V 23.3.11.3 Group ID 23.3.12 TVHT preamble format for sounding PPDUs 23.3.13 Regulatory requirements 23.3.14 Channelization |
137 | 23.3.15 Transmit RF delay 23.3.16 Slot time 23.3.17 Transmit and receive port impedance 23.3.18 PMD transmit specification 23.3.18.1 Transmit spectrum mask |
138 | 23.3.18.2 Spectral flatness |
140 | 23.3.18.3 Transmit center frequency and symbol clock frequency tolerance 23.3.18.4 Modulation accuracy 23.3.18.4.1 Introduction to modulation accuracy tests 23.3.18.4.2 Transmit center frequency leakage 23.3.18.4.3 Transmitter constellation error 23.3.18.4.4 Transmitter modulation accuracy (EVM) test |
141 | 23.3.18.5 Time of Departure accuracy 23.3.19 TVHT receiver specification 23.3.19.1 General 23.3.19.2 Receiver minimum input sensitivity |
142 | 23.3.19.3 Adjacent channel rejection 23.3.19.4 Nonadjacent channel rejection |
143 | 23.3.19.5 Receiver maximum input level 23.3.19.6 CCA sensitivity 23.3.19.6.1 General 23.3.19.6.2 CCA sensitivity for operating classes requiring CCA-ED 23.3.19.6.3 CCA sensitivity for signals occupying the primary channel |
144 | 23.3.19.6.4 CCA sensitivity for signals not occupying the primary channel 23.3.19.7 RSSI |
145 | 23.3.20 PLCP transmit procedure 23.3.21 PLCP receive procedure 23.4 TVHT PLME 23.4.1 PLME_SAP sublayer management primitives 23.4.2 PHY MIB 23.4.3 TXTIME and PSDU_LENGTH calculation 23.4.4 PHY characteristics |
146 | 23.5 Parameters for TVHT MCSs |
153 | Annex B (normative) Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) proforma B.2 Abbreviations and special symbols B.2.2 General abbreviations for Item and Support columns B.4 PICS proforma—IEEE Std. 802.11-2012 |
155 | B.4.12 Spectrum management extensions |
157 | B.4.14 QoS base functionality B.4.18 DSE functions |
161 | B.4.21 WNM extensions |
162 | B.4.25 RobustAVT extensions B.4.28 TVWS functions |
168 | Annex C (normative) ASN.1 encoding of the MAC and PHY MIB C.3 MIB Detail |
192 | Annex D (normative) Regulatory references D.1 External regulatory references |
193 | Annex E (normative) Country elements and operating classes E.1 Country information and operating classes E.2 Band specific operating requirements E.2.5 TVWS band in the United States and Canada (54 MHz to 698 MHz) |
196 | E.2.6 TVWS band in Europe |
197 | Annex H (normative) Usage of Ethertype 89-0d |
198 | Annex T (informative) Location and Time Difference accuracy test T.2 Time Difference of Departure accuracy test |