IEEE 802.21-2008

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IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks – Media Independent Handover Services

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New IEEE Standard – Superseded. This standard specifies IEEE 802® media access-independent mechanisms that optimize handovers between heterogeneous IEEE 802 systems and between IEEE 802 systems and cellular systems.

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PDF Pages	PDF Title
3	IEEE Std 802.21-2008
6	Introduction Notice to users Laws and regulations Copyrights Updating of IEEE document Errata
7	Interpretations Patents Participants
11	CONTENTS
19	List of Figures
21	List of Tables
23	Important Notice 1. Overview 1.1 Scope 1.2 Purpose 1.3 General
25	1.4 Assumptions
26	1.5 Media independence
27	2. Normative references
30	3. Definitions
34	4. Abbreviations and acronyms
36	5. General architecture 5.1 Introduction 5.1.1 General 5.1.2 Service continuity 5.1.3 Application class 5.1.4 Quality of service
37	5.1.5 Network discovery 5.1.6 Network selection 5.1.7 Power management 5.1.8 Handover policy 5.2 General design principles 5.2.1 MIHF design principles
38	5.2.2 QoS design principles 5.3 MIHF service overview 5.3.1 General
39	5.3.2 Media independent event service 5.3.2.1 General 5.3.2.2 Event origination 5.3.2.3 Event destination 5.3.2.4 Event service flow 5.3.2.5 Event service use cases and functions 5.3.3 Media independent command service 5.3.3.1 General
40	5.3.3.2 Command origination 5.3.3.3 Command destination 5.3.3.4 Command service flow 5.3.3.5 Command service use cases and functions 5.3.4 Media independent information service
42	5.4 Media independent handover reference framework 5.4.1 General 5.4.2 MIHF communication model
44	5.4.3 A deployment example for the MIH services
46	5.5 MIHF reference models for link-layer technologies 5.5.1 IEEE 802 architectural considerations
47	5.5.2 General MIHF reference model and SAPs
49	5.5.3 MIHF reference model for IEEE 802.3 5.5.4 MIHF reference model for IEEE 802.11
50	5.5.5 MIHF reference model for IEEE 802.16
51	5.5.6 MIHF reference model for 3GPP
52	5.5.7 MIHF reference model for 3GPP2
53	5.6 Service access points (SAPs) 5.6.1 General
54	5.6.2 Media dependent SAPs 5.6.2.1 General 5.6.2.2 MIH_LINK_SAP 5.6.2.3 MIH_NET_SAP 5.6.2.4 MLME_SAP 5.6.2.5 C_SAP
55	5.6.2.6 M_SAP 5.6.2.7 MSGCF_SAP 5.6.2.8 MIH_3GLINK_SAP 5.6.2.9 LSAP 5.6.2.10 CS_SAP 5.6.3 Media independent SAP: MIH_SAP 5.7 MIH protocol 5.7.1 General 5.7.2 Ethertype use and encoding
56	5.7.3 Transport considerations 5.7.4 The generic MAC service with IEEE 802.1X 5.7.4.1 Controlled port unblocked state: LSAP transport 5.7.4.2 Controlled port blocked state
57	6. MIHF services 6.1 General 6.2 Service management 6.2.1 General 6.2.2 Service management primitives 6.2.3 MIH capability discovery
58	6.2.4 MIH registration 6.2.5 MIH event subscription 6.2.6 Network communication 6.3 Media independent event service 6.3.1 Introduction
60	6.3.2 Event subscription 6.3.2.1 General 6.3.2.2 Link events subscription 6.3.2.3 MIH events subscription
61	6.3.3 Event service flow model 6.3.4 Link events
63	6.3.5 MIH events 6.3.6 Interaction between MIH events and access routers
64	6.4 Media independent command service 6.4.1 Introduction
66	6.4.2 Command service flow model
67	6.4.3 Command list 6.4.3.1 Link commands 6.4.3.2 MIH commands
69	6.5 Media independent information service 6.5.1 Introduction
70	6.5.2 Access information service before authentication 6.5.3 Restricting query response size
71	6.5.4 Information elements
74	6.5.5 Definition of information element namespace
75	6.5.6 Information element representation and query methods 6.5.6.1 Introduction 6.5.6.2 Binary representation and TLV query
80	6.5.6.3 RDF representation and SPARQL query 6.5.7 Information service schema 6.5.7.1 General 6.5.7.2 MIIS RDF schema 6.5.8 Information service flow
82	7. Service access points (SAPs) and primitives 7.1 Introduction 7.2 SAPs 7.2.1 General 7.2.2 Media dependent SAPs 7.2.2.1 MIH_LINK_SAP
83	7.2.2.2 MIH_NET_SAP 7.2.3 Media independent SAP: MIH_SAP
85	7.3 MIH_LINK_SAP primitives 7.3.1 Link_Detected.indication 7.3.1.1 Function 7.3.1.2 Semantics of service primitive 7.3.1.3 When generated 7.3.1.4 Effect on receipt 7.3.2 Link_Up.indication 7.3.2.1 Function 7.3.2.2 Semantics of service primitive
86	7.3.2.3 When generated 7.3.2.4 Effect on receipt 7.3.3 Link_Down.indication 7.3.3.1 Function 7.3.3.2 Semantics of service primitive 7.3.3.3 When generated
87	7.3.3.4 Effect on receipt 7.3.4 Link_Parameters_Report.indication 7.3.4.1 Function 7.3.4.2 Semantics of service primitive 7.3.4.3 When generated 7.3.4.4 Effect on receipt
88	7.3.5 Link_Going_Down.indication 7.3.5.1 Function 7.3.5.2 Semantics of service primitive 7.3.5.3 When generated 7.3.5.4 Effect on receipt 7.3.6 Link_Handover_Imminent.indication 7.3.6.1 Function
89	7.3.6.2 Semantics of service primitive 7.3.6.3 When generated 7.3.6.4 Effect on receipt 7.3.7 Link_Handover_Complete.indication 7.3.7.1 Function
90	7.3.7.2 Semantics of service primitive 7.3.7.3 When generated 7.3.7.4 Effect on receipt 7.3.8 Link_PDU_Transmit_Status.indication 7.3.8.1 Function
91	7.3.8.2 Semantics of service primitive 7.3.8.3 When generated 7.3.8.4 Effect on receipt 7.3.9 Link_Capability_Discover 7.3.9.1 Link_Capability_Discover.request
92	7.3.9.2 Link_Capability_Discover.confirm 7.3.10 Link_Event_Subscribe 7.3.10.1 Link_Event_Subscribe.request
93	7.3.10.2 Link_Event_Subscribe.confirm
94	7.3.11 Link_Event_Unsubscribe 7.3.11.1 Link_Event_Unsubscribe.request 7.3.11.2 Link_Event_Unsubscribe.confirm
95	7.3.12 Link_Get_Parameters 7.3.12.1 Link_Get_Parameters.request 7.3.12.2 Link_Get_Parameters.confirm
96	7.3.13 Link_Configure_Thresholds 7.3.13.1 Link_Configure_Thresholds.request
97	7.3.13.2 Link_Configure_Thresholds.confirm 7.3.14 Link_Action 7.3.14.1 Link_Action.request
98	7.3.14.2 Link_Action.confirm
99	7.4 MIH_SAP primitives 7.4.1 MIH_Capability_Discover 7.4.1.1 MIH_Capability_Discover.request
100	7.4.1.2 MIH_Capability_Discover.indication
101	7.4.1.3 MIH_Capability_Discover.response
102	7.4.1.4 MIH_Capability_Discover.confirm
103	7.4.2 MIH_Register 7.4.2.1 MIH_Register.request
104	7.4.2.2 MIH_Register.indication
105	7.4.2.3 MIH_Register.response 7.4.2.4 MIH_Register.confirm
106	7.4.3 MIH_DeRegister 7.4.3.1 MIH_DeRegister.request
107	7.4.3.2 MIH_DeRegister.indication 7.4.3.3 MIH_DeRegister.response
108	7.4.3.4 MIH_DeRegister.confirm 7.4.4 MIH_Event_Subscribe 7.4.4.1 MIH_Event_Subscribe.request
109	7.4.4.2 MIH_Event_Subscribe.confirm
110	7.4.5 MIH_Event_Unsubscribe 7.4.5.1 MIH_Event_Unsubscribe.request
111	7.4.5.2 MIH_Event_Unsubscribe.confirm
112	7.4.6 MIH_Link_Detected.indication 7.4.6.1 Function 7.4.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive 7.4.6.3 When generated 7.4.6.4 Effect on receipt 7.4.7 MIH_Link_Up.indication 7.4.7.1 Function 7.4.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive
113	7.4.7.3 When generated 7.4.7.4 Effect on receipt 7.4.8 MIH_Link_Down.indication 7.4.8.1 Function 7.4.8.2 Semantics of the service primitive
114	7.4.8.3 When generated 7.4.8.4 Effect on receipt 7.4.9 MIH_Link_Parameters_Report.indication 7.4.9.1 Function 7.4.9.2 Semantics of service primitive 7.4.9.3 When generated 7.4.9.4 Effect on receipt
115	7.4.10 MIH_Link_Going_Down.indication 7.4.10.1 Function 7.4.10.2 Semantics of the service primitive 7.4.10.3 When generated 7.4.10.4 Effect on receipt 7.4.11 MIH_Link_Handover_Imminent.indication 7.4.11.1 Function 7.4.11.2 Semantics of service primitive
116	7.4.11.3 When generated 7.4.11.4 Effect on receipt 7.4.12 MIH_Link_Handover_Complete.indication 7.4.12.1 Function 7.4.12.2 Semantics of service primitive
117	7.4.12.3 When generated 7.4.12.4 Effect on receipt 7.4.13 MIH_Link_PDU_Transmit_Status.indication 7.4.13.1 Function 7.4.13.2 Semantics of the service primitive
118	7.4.13.3 When generated 7.4.13.4 Effect on receipt 7.4.14 MIH_Link_Get_Parameters 7.4.14.1 General 7.4.14.2 MIH_Link_Get_Parameters.request
119	7.4.14.3 MIH_Link_Get_Parameters.confirm
120	7.4.15 MIH_Link_Configure_Thresholds 7.4.15.1 General 7.4.15.2 MIH_Link_Configure_Thresholds.request
121	7.4.15.3 MIH_Link_Configure_Thresholds.confirm 7.4.16 MIH_Link_Actions 7.4.16.1 MIH_Link_Actions.request
122	7.4.16.2 MIH_Link_Actions.confirm
123	7.4.17 MIH_Net_HO_Candidate_Query 7.4.17.1 General 7.4.17.2 MIH_Net_HO_Candidate_Query.request
124	7.4.17.3 MIH_Net_HO_Candidate_Query.indication 7.4.17.4 MIH_Net_HO_Candidate_Query.response
125	7.4.17.5 MIH_Net_HO_Candidate_Query.confirm
126	7.4.18 MIH_MN_HO_Candidate_Query 7.4.18.1 MIH_MN_HO_Candidate_Query.request
127	7.4.18.2 MIH_MN_HO_Candidate_Query.indication
128	7.4.18.3 MIH_MN_HO_Candidate_Query.response
129	7.4.18.4 MIH_MN_HO_Candidate_Query.confirm
130	7.4.19 MIH_N2N_HO_Query_Resources 7.4.19.1 MIH_N2N_HO_Query_Resources.request
131	7.4.19.2 MIH_N2N_HO_Query_Resources.indication
132	7.4.19.3 MIH_N2N_HO_Query_Resources.response
133	7.4.19.4 MIH_N2N_HO_Query_Resources.confirm
134	7.4.20 MIH_MN_HO_Commit 7.4.20.1 MIH_MN_HO_Commit.request 7.4.20.2 MIH_MN_HO_Commit.indication
135	7.4.20.3 MIH_MN_HO_Commit.response
136	7.4.20.4 MIH_MN_HO_Commit.confirm 7.4.21 MIH_Net_HO_Commit 7.4.21.1 MIH_Net_HO_Commit.request
137	7.4.21.2 MIH_Net_HO_Commit.indication
138	7.4.21.3 MIH_Net_HO_Commit.response
139	7.4.21.4 MIH_Net_HO_Commit.confirm
140	7.4.22 MIH_N2N_HO_Commit 7.4.22.1 MIH_N2N_HO_Commit.request
141	7.4.22.2 MIH_N2N_HO_Commit.indication
142	7.4.22.3 MIH_N2N_HO_Commit.response
143	7.4.22.4 MIH_N2N_HO_Commit.confirm
144	7.4.23 MIH_MN_HO_Complete 7.4.23.1 MIH_MN_HO_Complete.request 7.4.23.2 MIH_MN_HO_Complete.indication
145	7.4.23.3 MIH_MN_HO_Complete.response
146	7.4.23.4 MIH_MN_HO_Complete.confirm 7.4.24 MIH_N2N_HO_Complete 7.4.24.1 MIH_N2N_HO_Complete.request
147	7.4.24.2 MIH_N2N_HO_Complete.indication
148	7.4.24.3 MIH_N2N_HO_Complete.response
149	7.4.24.4 MIH_N2N_HO_Complete.confirm
150	7.4.25 MIH_Get_Information 7.4.25.1 MIH_Get_Information.request
151	7.4.25.2 MIH_Get_Information.indication
152	7.4.25.3 MIH_Get_Information.response
153	7.4.25.4 MIH_Get_Information.confirm
154	7.4.26 MIH_Push_Information 7.4.26.1 MIH_Push_Information.request
155	7.4.26.2 MIH_Push_Information.indication
156	7.5 MIH_NET_SAP primitives 7.5.1 MIH_TP_Data
157	7.5.1.1 MIH_TP_Data.request 7.5.1.2 MIH_TP_Data.indication
158	7.5.1.3 MIH_TP_Data.confirm
160	8. Media independent handover protocol 8.1 Introduction 8.2 MIH protocol description 8.2.1 MIH protocol transaction 8.2.2 MIH protocol acknowledgement service
161	8.2.3 MIH protocol transaction state diagram 8.2.3.1 State machines
162	8.2.3.2 Notational conventions used in state diagrams
163	8.2.3.3 Inter-state-machine variables
166	8.2.3.4 Inter-state-machine procedures 8.2.3.5 Inter-state-machine constants 8.2.3.6 Timers
167	8.2.3.7 Transaction source and destination state machines
169	8.2.3.8 ACK related state machines
171	8.2.4 Other considerations 8.2.4.1 Congestion control and load management
172	8.2.4.2 Reliability 8.2.4.3 MIHF discovery
173	8.3 MIH protocol identifiers 8.3.1 MIHF ID 8.3.2 Transaction ID 8.4 MIH protocol frame format 8.4.1 General frame format
175	8.4.2 Fragmentation and reassembly 8.4.2.1 General
176	8.4.2.2 Fragmentation
177	8.4.2.3 Reassembly 8.5 Message parameter TLV encoding
178	8.6 MIH protocol messages 8.6.1 MIH messages for service management 8.6.1.1 MIH_Capability_Discover request
179	8.6.1.2 MIH_Capability_Discover response
180	8.6.1.3 MIH_Register request 8.6.1.4 MIH_Register response 8.6.1.5 MIH_DeRegister request 8.6.1.6 MIH_DeRegister response
181	8.6.1.7 MIH_Event_Subscribe request 8.6.1.8 MIH_Event_Subscribe response
182	8.6.1.9 MIH_Event_Unsubscribe request 8.6.1.10 MIH_Event_Unsubscribe response 8.6.2 MIH messages for event service 8.6.2.1 MIH_Link_Detected indication
183	8.6.2.2 MIH_Link_Up indication 8.6.2.3 MIH_Link_Down indication
184	8.6.2.4 MIH_Link_Parameters_Report indication 8.6.2.5 MIH_Link_Going_Down indication
185	8.6.2.6 MIH_Link_Handover_Imminent indication 8.6.2.7 MIH_Link_Handover_Complete indication
186	8.6.3 MIH messages for command service 8.6.3.1 MIH_Link_Get_Parameters request 8.6.3.2 MIH_Link_Get_Parameters response
187	8.6.3.3 MIH_Link_Configure_Thresholds request 8.6.3.4 MIH_Link_Configure_Thresholds response
188	8.6.3.5 MIH_Link_Actions request 8.6.3.6 MIH_Link_Actions response
189	8.6.3.7 MIH_Net_HO_Candidate_Query request 8.6.3.8 MIH_Net_HO_Candidate_Query response 8.6.3.9 MIH_MN_HO_Candidate_Query request
190	8.6.3.10 MIH_MN_HO_Candidate_Query response 8.6.3.11 MIH_N2N_HO_Query_Resources request
191	8.6.3.12 MIH_N2N_HO_Query_Resources response 8.6.3.13 MIH_MN_HO_Commit request
192	8.6.3.14 MIH_MN_HO_Commit response 8.6.3.15 MIH_Net_HO_Commit request
193	8.6.3.16 MIH_Net_HO_Commit response 8.6.3.17 MIH_N2N_HO_Commit request
194	8.6.3.18 MIH_N2N_HO_Commit response 8.6.3.19 MIH_MN_HO_Complete request
195	8.6.3.20 MIH_MN_HO_Complete response 8.6.3.21 MIH_N2N_HO_Complete request
196	8.6.3.22 MIH_N2N_HO_Complete response 8.6.4 MIH messages for information service
197	8.6.4.1 MIH_Get_Information request 8.6.4.2 MIH_Get_Information response
198	8.6.4.3 MIH_Push_Information indication
199	Annex A (informative) Bibliography
201	Annex B (normative) Quality of service mapping
209	Annex C (informative) Handover procedures
236	Annex D (normative) Mapping MIH messages to reference points
238	Annex E (normative) Media specific mapping for SAPs
243	Annex F (normative) Data type definition
276	Annex G (normative) Information element identifiers
278	Annex H (normative) MIIS basic schema
296	Annex I (informative) Making user extensions to MIIS schema
297	Annex J (normative) IEEE 802.21 MIB
310	Annex K (informative) Example MIH message fragmentation
311	Annex L (normative) MIH protocol message code assignments
315	Annex M (normative) Protocol implementation conformance statement (PICS) proforma