IEEE 802.11ak 2018
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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 4: Enhancements for Transit Links Within Bridged Networks
| Published By | Publication Date | Number of Pages |
| IEEE | 2018 | 97 |
Amendment Standard – Active. Protocols, procedures, and managed objects to enhance the ability of IEEE 802.11™ media to provide transit links internal to IEEE 802.1Q™ bridged networks are specified in this amendment to IEEE Std 802.11™-2016.
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| PDF Pages | PDF Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | IEEE Std 802.11ak™-2018 Front cover |
| 2 | Title page |
| 4 | Important Notices and Disclaimers Concerning IEEE Standards Documents |
| 7 | Participants |
| 11 | Introduction |
| 12 | Contents |
| 17 | Tables |
| 18 | Figures |
| 19 | 1. Overview 1.3 Supplementary information on purpose |
| 20 | 2. Normative references 3. Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations 3.1 Definitions 3.2 Definitions specific to IEEE Std 802.11 |
| 21 | 3.4 Abbreviations and acronyms 4. General description 4.2 How wireless local area networks (WLANs) are different 4.2.5 Interaction with other IEEE 802® layers 4.3 Components of the IEEE 802.11 architecture 4.3.5 Distribution system (DS) concepts 4.3.5.1 Overview 4.3.7 Integration with non-IEEE 802.11 LANs |
| 22 | 4.3.20 Mesh BSS 4.3.20.4 IEEE 802.11 components and mesh BSS 4.3.27 General link (GLK) 4.3.27.1 General |
| 23 | 4.3.27.2 Selective reception of group addressed frames |
| 24 | 4.3.27.3 GLK Service Sets 4.3.27.3.1 Provision of the MAC service 4.3.27.3.2 GLK IBSS and PBSS |
| 26 | 4.3.27.3.3 Infrastructure BSS with general links |
| 27 | 4.3.27.3.4 Infrastructure BSSs with general links in the presence of an ESS |
| 28 | 4.3.28 Ethertype protocol discrimination (EPD) |
| 29 | 4.5 Overview of the services 4.5.2 Distribution of MSDUs within a DS 4.5.2.1 Distribution 4.5.3 Connectivity-related sServices that support the distribution service and the PCP service 4.5.3.3 Association |
| 30 | 4.5.3.4 Reassociation 4.5.3.5 Disassociation 4.6 Multiple logical address spaces |
| 31 | 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 5.1.4 MSDU format |
| 32 | 5.1.5 MAC data service architecture 5.1.5.1 General |
| 35 | 5.1.5.2 Non-GLK nNon-AP STA role 5.1.5.3 Non-GLK AP role 5.1.5.4 Non-GLK mMesh STA role 5.1.5.6 S1G Relay 5.1.5.7 GLK STA role 5.1.5.8 GLK AP role |
| 37 | 5.1.5.9 GLK mesh STA role 5.2 MAC data service specification 5.2.1 General 5.2.1a GLK MAC data service specification |
| 38 | 5.2.2 MA-UNITDATA.request 5.2.2.1 Function 5.2.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive |
| 39 | 5.2.2.3 When generated 5.2.2.4 Effect of receipt 5.2.3 MA-UNITDATA.indication 5.2.3.1 Function 5.2.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive |
| 40 | 5.2.3.3 When generated 5.2.3.4 Effect of receipt 5.2.4 MA-UNITDATA-STATUS.indication 5.2.4.1 Function 5.2.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 5.2.4.3 When generated 5.2.4.4 Effect of receipt |
| 41 | 6. Layer management 6.3 MLME SAP interface 6.3.3 Scan 6.3.3.2 MLME-SCAN.request 6.3.3.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive |
| 42 | 6.3.7 Associate 6.3.7.2 MLME-ASSOCIATE.request 6.3.7.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive |
| 43 | 6.3.7.3 MLME-ASSOCIATE.confirm 6.3.7.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive |
| 44 | 6.3.7.4 MLME-ASSOCIATE.indication 6.3.7.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive |
| 45 | 6.3.7.5 MLME-ASSOCIATE.response 6.3.7.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive |
| 46 | 6.3.8 Reassociate 6.3.8.2 MLME-REASSOCIATE.request 6.3.8.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive |
| 47 | 6.3.8.3 MLME-REASSOCIATE.confirm 6.3.8.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive |
| 49 | 6.3.8.4 MLME-REASSOCIATE.indication 6.3.8.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive |
| 50 | 6.3.8.5 MLME-REASSOCIATE.response 6.3.8.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive |
| 51 | 9. Frame formats 9.2 MAC frame formats 9.2.4 Frame fields 9.2.4.1 Frame Control field 9.2.4.1.4 To DS and From DS subfields |
| 52 | 9.3 Format of individual frame types 9.3.1 Control frames 9.3.1.8 BlockAckReq frame format 9.3.1.8.1 Overview |
| 53 | 9.3.1.8.7 GLK-GCR BlockAckReq variant 9.3.1.9 BlockAck frame format 9.3.1.9.1 Overview |
| 54 | 9.3.1.9.7 GLK-GCR BlockAck variant |
| 55 | 9.3.2 Data frames 9.3.2.1 Format of Data frames 9.3.2.1.1 General 9.3.2.1.2 Address and BSSID fields |
| 58 | 9.3.2.1.3 Other MAC Header fields 9.3.2.1.4 The frame body |
| 59 | 9.3.2.1.5 Duration field 9.3.3 Management frames 9.3.3.6 Association Request frame format |
| 60 | 9.3.3.7 Association Response frame format 9.3.3.8 Reassociation Request frame format 9.3.3.9 Reassociation Response frame format |
| 61 | 9.4 Management and Extension frame body components 9.4.1 Fields that are not elements 9.4.1.4 Capability Information field 9.4.1.9 Status Code field |
| 62 | 9.4.1.11 Action field 9.4.2 Elements 9.4.2.1 General 9.4.2.3 Supported Rates and BSS Membership Selectors element |
| 63 | 9.4.2.27 Extended Capabilities element 9.4.2.128 DMG Capabilities element 9.4.2.128.2 DMG STA Capability Information field |
| 64 | 9.4.2.232 GLK-GCR Parameter Set element |
| 65 | 9.6 Action frame format details 9.6.31 GLK Action frame details 9.6.31.1 GLK Action field 9.6.31.2 GLK Groupcast Mode Change Notification |
| 66 | 10. MAC sublayer functional description 10.2 MAC architecture 10.2.8 MAC data service 10.3 DCF 10.3.6 Group addressed MPDU transfer procedure 10.12 A-MSDU operation |
| 67 | 10.24 Block acknowledgment (block ack) 10.24.1 Introduction 10.24.2 Set up and modification of the block ack parameters 10.24.3 Data and acknowledgment transfer using immediate block ack policy and delayed block ack policy 10.24.5 Teardown of the block ack mechanism |
| 68 | 10.24.6 Selection of BlockAck and BlockAckReq variants 10.24.10 GCR and GLK-GCR block ack 10.24.10.1 Introduction 10.24.10.2a Scoreboard context control during GLK-GCR block ack |
| 69 | 10.24.10.3 GCR block ack BlockAckReq and BlockAck frame exchanges |
| 70 | 10.61 Addressing of GLK data frame transmission 10.62 SYNRA filtering operation |
| 71 | 11. MLME 11.2 Power management 11.2.3 Power management in a non-DMG infrastructure network 11.2.3.1 General 11.2.3.3 AP TIM transmissions |
| 72 | 11.2.3.4 TIM types 11.2.3.6 AP operation during the CP |
| 73 | 11.2.3.7 AP operation during the CFP |
| 74 | 11.2.9 Power management with general links 11.3 STA authentication and association 11.3.5 Association, reassociation, and disassociation 11.3.5.3 AP or PCP association receipt procedures 11.3.5.4 Non-AP and non-PCP STA reassociation initiation procedures |
| 75 | 11.3.5.5 AP or PCP reassociation receipt procedures 11.24 Wireless network management procedures 11.24.16 Group addressed transmission service 11.24.16.3 GCR procedures 11.24.16.3.1 Overview 11.24.16.3.2 GCR group membership procedures 11.24.16.3.3 GCR setup procedures 11.24.16.3.4 GCR frame exchange procedures |
| 76 | 11.24.16.3.5 Concealment of GCR transmissions 11.24.16.3.6 GCR unsolicited retry 11.24.16.3.7 GCR block ack 11.24.16.3.8 GCR-SP 11.24.16.4 GLK-GCR 11.24.16.4.1 Overview 11.24.16.4.2 GLK-GCR frame exchange procedures |
| 77 | 11.24.16.4.3 GLK-GCR unsolicited retry 11.24.16.4.4 GLK-GCR block ack 11.51 GLK operation 11.51.1 General 11.51.2 Reported general link metrics |
| 79 | 11.52 EPD operation 14. MLME mesh procedures 14.1 Mesh STA dependencies 14.2 Mesh discovery 14.2.3 Mesh profile |
| 80 | 14.11 Interworking with the DS or an attached bridge 14.11.1 Overview of interworking between a mesh BSS and a DS or attached bridge |
| 81 | Annex A (informative) Bibliography |
| 82 | Annex B (normative) Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) proforma B.4 PICS proforma—IEEE Std 802.11-2016 B.4.3 IUT configuration B.4.4 MAC protocol B.4.4.2 MAC frames B.4.4.4 MAC addressing functions |
| 83 | Annex C (normative) ASN.1 encoding of the MAC and PHY MIB C.3 MIB detail |
| 89 | Annex M (informative) EPD and LPD headers and the iIntegration function M.1 Introduction M.2 Ethernet V2.0/IEEE 802.3 LAN iIntegration function header conversions |
| 90 | M.3 ExampleA-MSDU subframes |
| 91 | M.4 Integration service versus bridging |
| 93 | Annex N (informative) AP functional description N.1 Introduction |
| 94 | Annex R (informative) Interworking with external networks R.3 QoS mapping guidelines for interworking with external networks R.3.4 QoS mapping and GLK |
| 96 | Annex X (informative) |
| 97 | Back cover |
