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IEEE 8802-11-2022

IEEE 8802-11-2022

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ISO/IEC/IEEE – International Standard – Telecommunications and information exchange between systems–Specific requirements for local and metropolitan area networks–Part 11: Wireless LAN medium access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) specifications

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Adoption 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
5 Title page
7 Important Notices and Disclaimers Concerning IEEE Standards Documents
10 Participants
14 Introduction
17 Contents
98 Tables
119 Figures
152 1. Overview
1.1 Scope
1.2 Purpose
1.3 Supplementary information on purpose
153 1.4 Word usage
154 1.5 Terminology for mathematical, logical, and bit operations
157 2. Normative references
161 3. Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations
3.1 Definitions
176 3.2 Definitions specific to IEEE Std 802.11
208 3.3 Definitions specific to IEEE 802.11 operation in some regulatory domains
3.4 Acronyms and abbreviations
221 3.5 Acronyms and abbreviations in some regulatory domains
222 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
223 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
224 4.3.2 Independent BSS (IBSS)
4.3.3 Personal BSS (PBSS)
4.3.4 STA membership in a BSS is dynamic
225 4.3.5 Distribution system (DS) concepts
4.3.5.1 Overview
226 4.3.5.2 Extended service set (ESS): the large coverage network
227 4.3.6 Area concepts
228 4.3.7 Integration with non-IEEE-802.11 LANs
229 4.3.8 Robust security network association (RSNA)
4.3.9 Centralized coordination service set (CCSS) and extended centralized AP or PCP clustering (ECAPC)
231 4.3.10 QoS BSS
232 4.3.11 Wireless LAN radio measurements
4.3.11.1 General
233 4.3.11.2 Beacon
4.3.11.3 Measurement pilot
4.3.11.4 Frame
4.3.11.5 Channel load
234 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
235 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
236 4.3.14 Sub 1 GHz (S1G) STA
4.3.14.1 Overview
237 4.3.14.2 S1G relay
4.3.15 Very high throughput (VHT) STA
238 4.3.16 Television very high throughput (TVHT) STA
240 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
241 4.3.19.2 BSS max idle period management
4.3.19.3 BSS transition management
4.3.19.4 Channel usage
242 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
243 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
244 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
245 4.3.21 Mesh BSS
4.3.21.1 General
4.3.21.2 Overview of the mesh BSS
246 4.3.21.3 Mesh STA
4.3.21.4 IEEE 802.11 components and mesh BSS
248 4.3.21.5 Introduction to mesh functions
4.3.21.5.1 General
249 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
250 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
251 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
252 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)
253 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
254 4.3.25 Operation under geolocation database (GDB) control
255 4.3.26 CDMG STA
256 4.3.27 CMMG STA
257 4.3.28 General link (GLK)
4.3.28.1 General
4.3.28.2 Selective reception of group addressed frames
258 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
260 4.3.28.3.3 Infrastructure BSS with general links
261 4.3.28.3.4 Infrastructure BSSs with general links in the presence of an ESS
262 4.3.29 Ethertype protocol discrimination (EPD)
263 4.4 Logical service interfaces
4.4.1 General
4.4.2 SS
264 4.4.3 PBSS control point service (PCPS)
4.4.4 DSS
265 4.5 Overview of the services
4.5.1 General
266 4.5.2 Distribution of MSDUs within a DS
4.5.2.1 Distribution
267 4.5.2.2 Integration
4.5.2.3 QoS traffic scheduling
4.5.3 Connectivity-related services
4.5.3.1 General
268 4.5.3.2 Mobility types
4.5.3.3 Association
269 4.5.3.4 Reassociation
4.5.3.5 Disassociation
270 4.5.4 Access control and data confidentiality services
4.5.4.1 General
4.5.4.2 Authentication
271 4.5.4.3 Deauthentication
272 4.5.4.4 Data confidentiality
273 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
274 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
275 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
276 4.5.8 Radio measurement service
4.5.9 Interworking with external networks
4.5.9.1 General
277 4.5.9.2 Preassociation discovery (PAD)
4.5.9.2.1 Introduction
4.5.9.2.2 Architecture
278 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)
279 4.6 Multiple logical address spaces
4.7 Differences among ESS, PBSS, and IBSS LANs
281 4.8 Differences between ESS and MBSS LANs
282 4.9 Reference model
4.9.1 General
4.9.2 Interworking reference model
284 4.9.3 Reference model for supporting multiple MAC sublayers
285 4.9.4 Reference model for multi-band operation
287 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
290 4.10.3.3 AKM operations with a password or PSK
291 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
292 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
293 4.10.4.3 Sample IBSS 4-way handshakes
294 4.10.4.4 IBSS IEEE 802.1X example
295 4.10.5 PBSS functional model description
296 4.10.6 Authenticator-to-AS protocol
4.10.7 PMKSA caching
297 4.10.8 Protection of group addressed robust Management frames
298 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
299 5.1.1.4 Interpretation of service class parameter in MAC service primitives in a STA
300 5.1.2 Security services
5.1.3 MSDU ordering
301 5.1.4 MSDU format
302 5.1.5 MAC data service architecture
5.1.5.1 General
305 5.1.5.2 Non-GLK non-AP STA role
5.1.5.3 Non-GLK AP role
306 5.1.5.4 Non-GLK mesh STA role
5.1.5.5 Mesh gate role
5.1.5.6 S1G relay
308 5.1.5.7 GLK STA role
5.1.5.8 GLK AP role
5.1.5.9 GLK mesh STA role
310 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
311 5.2.3.3 When generated
5.2.3.4 Effect of receipt
313 5.2.4 MA-UNITDATA.indication
5.2.4.1 Function
5.2.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
314 5.2.4.3 When generated
5.2.4.4 Effect of receipt
316 5.2.5 MA-UNITDATA-STATUS.indication
5.2.5.1 Function
5.2.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
317 5.2.5.3 When generated
5.2.5.4 Effect of receipt
318 6. Layer management
6.1 Overview of management model
319 6.2 Generic management primitives
6.3 MLME SAP interface
6.3.1 Introduction
320 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
321 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
325 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
339 6.3.3.3.3 When generated
6.3.3.3.4 Effect of receipt
340 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
342 6.3.4.2.3 When generated
6.3.4.2.4 Effect of receipt
343 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
344 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
345 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
347 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
348 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
349 6.3.5.5.3 When generated
6.3.5.5.4 Effect of receipt
350 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
351 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
352 6.3.7.2 MLME-ASSOCIATE.request
6.3.7.2.1 Function
6.3.7.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
355 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
361 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
365 6.3.7.4.3 When generated
6.3.7.4.4 Effect of receipt
366 6.3.7.5 MLME-ASSOCIATE.response
6.3.7.5.1 Function
6.3.7.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
370 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
374 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
380 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
386 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
390 6.3.8.5.3 When generated
6.3.8.5.4 Effect of receipt
391 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
392 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
393 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
399 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
400 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
401 6.3.12.2.4 Effect of receipt
6.3.13 Protocol layer model for spectrum management and radio measurement
404 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
405 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
406 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
407 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
408 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
409 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
410 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
411 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
412 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
413 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
414 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
415 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
416 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
417 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
418 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
419 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
420 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
421 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
422 6.3.25.2 MLME-ADDTS.request
6.3.25.2.1 Function
6.3.25.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
423 6.3.25.2.3 When generated
6.3.25.2.4 Effect of receipt
424 6.3.25.3 MLME-ADDTS.confirm
6.3.25.3.1 Function
6.3.25.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
426 6.3.25.3.3 When generated
6.3.25.3.4 Effect of receipt
427 6.3.25.4 MLME-ADDTS.indication
6.3.25.4.1 Function
6.3.25.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
428 6.3.25.4.3 When generated
6.3.25.4.4 Effect of receipt
429 6.3.25.5 MLME-ADDTS.response
6.3.25.5.1 Function
6.3.25.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
431 6.3.25.5.3 When generated
6.3.25.5.4 Effect of receipt
432 6.3.25.6 MLME-DELTS.request
6.3.25.6.1 Function
6.3.25.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
433 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
434 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
435 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
436 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
437 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
438 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
439 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
440 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
441 6.3.27.3.3 When generated
442 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
443 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
444 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
445 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
446 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
447 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
448 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
449 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
450 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
451 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
452 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
453 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
454 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
455 6.3.32.3 MLME-LINKMEASURE.confirm
6.3.32.3.1 Function
6.3.32.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
456 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
457 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
458 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
459 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
460 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
461 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
462 6.3.35.2 MLME-EXTCHANNELSWITCH.request
6.3.35.2.1 Function
6.3.35.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
463 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
464 6.3.35.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive
465 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
466 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
467 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
468 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
469 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
470 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
471 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
472 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
473 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
474 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
475 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
476 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
477 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
478 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
479 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
480 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
481 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
482 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
483 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
484 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
485 6.3.43.3 MLME-TDLSSETUPREQUEST.indication
6.3.43.3.1 Function
486 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
487 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
488 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
489 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
490 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
491 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
492 6.3.45.2 MLME-TDLSPTI.request
6.3.45.2.1 Function
6.3.45.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
493 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
494 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
495 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
496 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
497 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
498 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
499 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
500 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
501 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
502 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
503 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
504 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
505 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
506 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
507 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
508 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
509 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
510 6.3.53.2 MLME-LOCATIONCFG.request
6.3.53.2.1 Function
6.3.53.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
511 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
512 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
513 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
514 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
515 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
516 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
517 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
518 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
519 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
520 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
521 6.3.56.2 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMTRQ.request
6.3.56.2.1 Function
6.3.56.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
522 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
523 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
524 6.3.56.4.3 When generated
6.3.56.4.4 Effect of receipt
525 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
526 6.3.56.6 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMT.indication
6.3.56.6.1 Function
6.3.56.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive
527 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
528 6.3.57.2 MLME-BTMQUERY.request
6.3.57.2.1 Function
6.3.57.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
529 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
530 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
531 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
532 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
533 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
534 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
535 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
536 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
537 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
538 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
539 6.3.59.2 MLME-CLINTERFERENCEREQUEST.request
6.3.59.2.1 Function
6.3.59.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
540 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
541 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
542 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
543 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
544 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
545 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
546 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
547 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
548 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
549 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
550 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
551 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
552 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
553 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
554 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
555 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
556 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
557 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
558 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
559 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
560 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
561 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
562 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
563 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
564 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
565 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
566 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
567 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
568 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
569 6.3.69.2.3 When generated
6.3.69.2.4 Effect of receipt
570 6.3.69.3 MLME-GAS.confirm
6.3.69.3.1 Function
6.3.69.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive
571 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
572 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
573 6.3.69.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive
574 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
575 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
576 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
577 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
578 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
579 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
580 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
581 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
582 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
583 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
584 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
585 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
586 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
587 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
588 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
589 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
590 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
591 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
592 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
593 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
594 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
595 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
596 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
597 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
598 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
599 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
600 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
601 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
602 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
603 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
604 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
605 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
606 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
607 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
608 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
609 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
610 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
611 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
612 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
613 6.3.82.2 MLME-SCS.request
6.3.82.2.1 Function
6.3.82.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive
614 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
615 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
616 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
617 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
618 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
619 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
620 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
621 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
622 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
623 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
624 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
625 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
626 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
627 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
628 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
629 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
630 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
631 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
632 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
633 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
634 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
635 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
636 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
637 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
638 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
639 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
640 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
641 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
642 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
643 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
644 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
645 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
646 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
647 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
648 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
649 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
650 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
651 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
652 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
653 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
654 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
655 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
656 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
657 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
658 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
659 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
660 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
661 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
662 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
663 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
664 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
665 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
666 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
667 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
668 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
669 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
670 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
671 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
672 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
673 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
674 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
675 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
676 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
677 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
678 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
679 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
680 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
681 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
682 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
683 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
684 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
685 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
686 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
687 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
688 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
689 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
690 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
691 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
692 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
693 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
694 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
695 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
696 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
697 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
698 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
699 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
700 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
701 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
702 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
703 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
704 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
705 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
706 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
707 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
708 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
709 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
710 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
711 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
712 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
713 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
714 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
715 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
716 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
717 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
718 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
719 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
720 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
721 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
722 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
723 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
724 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
725 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
726 6.4.8.2.3 When generated
6.4.8.2.4 Effect of receipt
727 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
728 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
729 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
730 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
731 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
732 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
733 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
736 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
737 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
738 7. DS SAP specification
7.1 Introduction
7.2 SAP primitives
7.2.1 General
739 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
740 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
741 7.2.3.2.3 When generated
7.2.3.2.4 Effect of receipt
742 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
743 8.3.4.2 PHY SAP inter-(sub)layer service primitives
8.3.4.3 PHY SAP service primitives parameters
744 8.3.4.4 Vector descriptions
745 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
746 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
747 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
748 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
749 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
750 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
751 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
754 8.3.5.12.3 When generated
755 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
756 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
757 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
758 9. Frame formats
9.1 General requirements
9.2 MAC frame formats
9.2.1 Basic components
9.2.2 Conventions
760 9.2.3 General frame format
761 9.2.4 Frame fields
9.2.4.1 Frame Control field
9.2.4.1.1 General
762 9.2.4.1.2 Protocol Version subfield
9.2.4.1.3 Type and Subtype subfields
765 9.2.4.1.4 To DS and From DS subfields
766 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
768 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
769 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
770 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
771 9.2.4.3 Address fields
9.2.4.3.1 General
9.2.4.3.2 Address representation
772 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
773 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
774 9.2.4.4.3 Fragment Number field
9.2.4.5 QoS Control field
9.2.4.5.1 QoS Control field structure
775 9.2.4.5.2 TID subfield
776 9.2.4.5.3 EOSP (end of service period) subfield
9.2.4.5.4 Ack Policy Indicator subfield
777 9.2.4.5.5 TXOP Limit subfield
778 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
779 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
780 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
781 9.2.4.6.2 HT variant
785 9.2.4.6.3 VHT variant
788 9.2.4.6.4 CMMG variant HT Control field
790 9.2.4.7 Frame Body field
9.2.4.7.1 General
791 9.2.4.7.2 Overhead for encryption
9.2.4.7.3 Mesh Control field
793 9.2.4.8 FCS field
794 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)
797 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
798 9.2.5.6 Settings within a dual CTS sequence
9.2.5.7 Setting for control response frames
799 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
800 9.3.1.2 RTS frame format
801 9.3.1.3 CTS frame format
9.3.1.4 Ack frame format
802 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
803 9.3.1.7 BlockAckReq frame format
9.3.1.7.1 Overview
804 9.3.1.7.2 Compressed BlockAckReq variant
805 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
806 9.3.1.7.6 GLK-GCR BlockAckReq variant
9.3.1.8 BlockAck frame format
9.3.1.8.1 Overview
807 9.3.1.8.2 Compressed BlockAck variant
808 9.3.1.8.3 Multi-TID BlockAck variant
809 9.3.1.8.4 Extended Compressed BlockAck variant
9.3.1.8.5 GCR Block Ack variant
810 9.3.1.8.6 GLK-GCR BlockAck variant
9.3.1.9 Control Wrapper frame format
811 9.3.1.10 Poll frame format
9.3.1.11 Service period request (SPR) frame format
812 9.3.1.12 Grant frame format
9.3.1.13 DMG CTS frame format
813 9.3.1.14 DMG DTS frame format
9.3.1.15 Sector sweep (SSW) frame format
814 9.3.1.16 Sector sweep feedback (SSW-Feedback) frame format
9.3.1.17 Sector sweep Ack (SSW-Ack) frame format
815 9.3.1.18 Grant Ack frame format
9.3.1.19 VHT NDP Announcement frame format
817 9.3.1.20 Beamforming Report Poll frame format
9.3.1.21 TACK frame format
818 9.3.2 Data frames
9.3.2.1 Format of Data frames
9.3.2.1.1 General
819 9.3.2.1.2 Address and BSSID fields
821 9.3.2.1.3 Other MAC Header fields
9.3.2.1.4 The frame body
822 9.3.2.1.5 Duration field
9.3.2.2 Aggregate MSDU (A-MSDU) format
9.3.2.2.1 General
823 9.3.2.2.2 Basic A-MSDU subframe format
824 9.3.2.2.3 Short A-MSDU subframe format
9.3.2.2.4 Dynamic A-MSDU format
825 9.3.3 (PV0) Management frames
9.3.3.1 Format of (PV0) Management frames
828 9.3.3.2 Beacon frame format
832 9.3.3.3 ATIM frame format
9.3.3.4 Disassociation frame format
833 9.3.3.5 Association Request frame format
835 9.3.3.6 Association Response frame format
838 9.3.3.7 Reassociation Request frame format
842 9.3.3.8 Reassociation Response frame format
846 9.3.3.9 Probe Request frame format
848 9.3.3.10 Probe Response frame format
853 9.3.3.11 Authentication frame format
859 9.3.3.12 Deauthentication
9.3.3.13 Action frame format
9.3.3.14 Action No Ack frame format
860 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
866 9.3.4.3 S1G Beacon frame format
868 9.3.5 Frame addressing in an MBSS
870 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
871 9.4.1.3 Beacon Interval field
9.4.1.4 Capability Information field
873 9.4.1.5 Current AP Address field
9.4.1.6 Listen Interval field
874 9.4.1.7 Reason Code field
877 9.4.1.8 AID field
878 9.4.1.9 Status Code field
883 9.4.1.10 Timestamp field
9.4.1.11 Action field
885 9.4.1.12 Dialog Token field
9.4.1.13 Block Ack Parameter Set field
886 9.4.1.14 Block Ack Timeout Value field
9.4.1.15 Originator Preferred MCS field
887 9.4.1.16 DELBA Parameter Set field
9.4.1.17 QoS Info field
888 9.4.1.18 Measurement Pilot Interval field
889 9.4.1.19 Max Transmit Power field
9.4.1.20 Transmit Power Used field
9.4.1.21 Channel Width field
890 9.4.1.22 Operating Class and Channel field
9.4.1.23 SM Power Control field
891 9.4.1.24 PSMP Parameter Set field
9.4.1.25 PSMP STA Info field
892 9.4.1.26 MIMO Control field
894 9.4.1.27 CSI Report field
896 9.4.1.28 Noncompressed Beamforming Report field
898 9.4.1.29 Compressed Beamforming Report field
901 9.4.1.30 Antenna Selection Indices field
9.4.1.31 Organization Identifier field
902 9.4.1.32 Rate Identification field
903 9.4.1.33 GAS Query Response Fragment ID field
904 9.4.1.34 Venue Info field
907 9.4.1.35 Target Channel
9.4.1.36 Operating Class
9.4.1.37 Send-Confirm field
908 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
909 9.4.1.43 TXOP Reservation field
9.4.1.44 Relay Capable STA Info field
910 9.4.1.45 Band ID field
9.4.1.46 DMG Parameters field
911 9.4.1.47 CMMG Parameters field
9.4.1.48 VHT MIMO Control field
913 9.4.1.49 VHT Compressed Beamforming Report field
924 9.4.1.50 TVHT Compressed Beamforming Report field
925 9.4.1.51 MU Exclusive Beamforming Report field
929 9.4.1.52 TVHT MU Exclusive Beamforming Report field
9.4.1.53 Operating Mode field
933 9.4.1.54 Membership Status Array field
9.4.1.55 User Position Array field
934 9.4.1.56 Device Location Information Body field
9.4.1.57 WSM Type field and WSM Information field
935 9.4.1.58 Sync Control field
9.4.1.59 Suspend Duration field
936 9.4.1.60 TWT Information field
937 9.4.1.61 CMMG MIMO Control field
938 9.4.1.62 CMMG Compressed Beamforming Report field
942 9.4.1.63 CMMG Operating Mode field
943 9.4.2 Elements
9.4.2.1 General
952 9.4.2.2 SSID element
953 9.4.2.3 Supported Rates and BSS Membership Selectors element
954 9.4.2.4 DSSS Parameter Set element
9.4.2.5 TIM element
9.4.2.5.1 General
959 9.4.2.5.2 Block Bitmap mode
9.4.2.5.3 Single AID mode
960 9.4.2.5.4 OLB mode
9.4.2.5.5 ADE mode
962 9.4.2.6 IBSS Parameter Set element
9.4.2.7 Challenge Text element
9.4.2.8 Country element
965 9.4.2.9 Request element
9.4.2.10 Extended Request element
966 9.4.2.11 ERP element
967 9.4.2.12 Extended Supported Rates and BSS Membership Selectors element
9.4.2.13 Power Constraint element
968 9.4.2.14 Power Capability element
9.4.2.15 TPC Request element
969 9.4.2.16 TPC Report element
9.4.2.17 Supported Channels element
970 9.4.2.18 Channel Switch Announcement element
9.4.2.19 Secondary Channel Offset element
971 9.4.2.20 Measurement Request element
9.4.2.20.1 General
973 9.4.2.20.2 Basic request
974 9.4.2.20.3 CCA request (Clear channel access request)
9.4.2.20.4 RPI histogram request (Received power indicator histogram request)
975 9.4.2.20.5 Channel Load request
976 9.4.2.20.6 Noise Histogram request
978 9.4.2.20.7 Beacon request
982 9.4.2.20.8 Frame request
983 9.4.2.20.9 STA Statistics request
988 9.4.2.20.10 LCI request (Location configuration information request)
990 9.4.2.20.11 Transmit Stream/Category Measurement request
993 9.4.2.20.12 Measurement Pause request
994 9.4.2.20.13 Multicast Diagnostics request
996 9.4.2.20.14 Location Civic request
997 9.4.2.20.15 Location Identifier request
998 9.4.2.20.16 Directional Channel Quality request
1000 9.4.2.20.17 Directional Measurement request
1001 9.4.2.20.18 Directional Statistics request
1002 9.4.2.20.19 Fine Timing Measurement Range request
1003 9.4.2.21 Measurement Report element
9.4.2.21.1 General
1006 9.4.2.21.2 Basic report
1007 9.4.2.21.3 CCA report
9.4.2.21.4 RPI histogram report
1008 9.4.2.21.5 Channel Load report
1010 9.4.2.21.6 Noise Histogram report
1012 9.4.2.21.7 Beacon report
1015 9.4.2.21.8 Frame report
1017 9.4.2.21.9 STA Statistics report
1026 9.4.2.21.10 LCI report (Location configuration information report)
1033 9.4.2.21.11 Transmit Stream/Category Measurement report
1036 9.4.2.21.12 Multicast Diagnostics report
1038 9.4.2.21.13 Location Civic report
1045 9.4.2.21.14 Location Identifier report
1047 9.4.2.21.15 Directional Channel Quality report
1048 9.4.2.21.16 Directional Measurement report
1049 9.4.2.21.17 Directional Statistics report
1050 9.4.2.21.18 Fine Timing Measurement Range report
1052 9.4.2.22 Quiet element
1053 9.4.2.23 IBSS DFS element
1054 9.4.2.24 RSNE
9.4.2.24.1 General
1055 9.4.2.24.2 Cipher suites
1057 9.4.2.24.3 AKM suites
1061 9.4.2.24.4 RSN capabilities
1063 9.4.2.24.5 PMKID
9.4.2.25 Vendor Specific element
1064 9.4.2.26 Extended Capabilities element
1070 9.4.2.27 BSS Load element
1071 9.4.2.28 EDCA Parameter Set element
1074 9.4.2.29 TSPEC element
1081 9.4.2.30 TCLAS element
1095 9.4.2.31 TS Delay element
9.4.2.32 TCLAS Processing element
1096 9.4.2.33 Schedule element
1097 9.4.2.34 QoS Capability element
9.4.2.35 AP Channel Report element
9.4.2.36 Neighbor Report element
1104 9.4.2.37 RCPI element
9.4.2.38 BSS Average Access Delay element
1105 9.4.2.39 Antenna element
1106 9.4.2.40 RSNI element
9.4.2.41 Measurement Pilot Transmission element
1107 9.4.2.42 BSS Available Admission Capacity element
1108 9.4.2.43 BSS AC Access Delay element
1110 9.4.2.44 RM Enabled Capabilities element
1113 9.4.2.45 Multiple BSSID element
1115 9.4.2.46 Mobility Domain element (MDE)
9.4.2.47 Fast BSS Transition element (FTE)
1119 9.4.2.48 Timeout Interval element (TIE)
9.4.2.49 RIC Data element (RDE)
1120 9.4.2.50 RIC Descriptor element
9.4.2.51 DSE Registered Location element
1122 9.4.2.52 Extended Channel Switch Announcement element
9.4.2.53 Supported Operating Classes element
1124 9.4.2.54 Management MIC element
9.4.2.55 HT Capabilities element
9.4.2.55.1 HT Capabilities element structure
1125 9.4.2.55.2 HT Capability Information field
1127 9.4.2.55.3 A-MPDU Parameters field
9.4.2.55.4 Supported MCS Set field
1128 9.4.2.55.5 HT Extended Capabilities field
1129 9.4.2.55.6 Transmit Beamforming Capabilities
1132 9.4.2.55.7 ASEL Capability field
9.4.2.56 HT Operation element
1136 9.4.2.57 20/40 BSS Intolerant Channel Report element
1137 9.4.2.58 Overlapping BSS Scan Parameters element
9.4.2.59 20/40 BSS Coexistence element
1138 9.4.2.60 Time Advertisement element
1140 9.4.2.61 Link Identifier element
9.4.2.62 Wakeup Schedule element
1141 9.4.2.63 Channel Switch Timing element
9.4.2.64 PTI Control element
9.4.2.65 TPU Buffer Status element
1142 9.4.2.66 Event Request element
9.4.2.66.1 Event Request definition
1143 9.4.2.66.2 Transition event request
1145 9.4.2.66.3 RSNA event request
1147 9.4.2.66.4 Peer-to-peer link event request
1149 9.4.2.66.5 Vendor specific event request
9.4.2.67 Event Report element
9.4.2.67.1 Event Report definition
1150 9.4.2.67.2 Transition event report
1152 9.4.2.67.3 RSNA event report
1153 9.4.2.67.4 Peer-to-peer link event report
1154 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
1155 9.4.2.68.2 Association Diagnostic request
9.4.2.68.3 IEEE 802.1X Authentication Diagnostic request
1156 9.4.2.68.4 Vendor Specific diagnostic request
9.4.2.68.5 Diagnostic subelement descriptions
1165 9.4.2.69 Diagnostic Report element
9.4.2.69.1 Diagnostic report definition
1166 9.4.2.69.2 Manufacturer Information STA Report
9.4.2.69.3 Configuration Profile report
1167 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
1168 9.4.2.70.2 Location Indication Parameters subelement
1170 9.4.2.70.3 Location Indication Channels subelement
1171 9.4.2.70.4 Location Status subelement
9.4.2.70.5 Radio subelement
1172 9.4.2.70.6 Motion subelement
1173 9.4.2.70.7 Location Indication Broadcast Data Rate subelement
1174 9.4.2.70.8 Time of Departure subelement
9.4.2.70.9 Location Indication Options subelement
1175 9.4.2.71 Nontransmitted BSSID Capability element
1176 9.4.2.72 SSID List element
9.4.2.73 Multiple BSSID-Index element
1177 9.4.2.74 FMS Descriptor element
1178 9.4.2.75 FMS Request element
1179 9.4.2.76 FMS Response element
1182 9.4.2.77 QoS Traffic Capability element
1183 9.4.2.78 BSS Max Idle Period element
1184 9.4.2.79 TFS Request element
1186 9.4.2.80 TFS Response element
1187 9.4.2.81 WNM Sleep Mode element
1188 9.4.2.82 TIM Broadcast Request element
1189 9.4.2.83 TIM Broadcast Response element
1190 9.4.2.84 Collocated Interference Report element
1192 9.4.2.85 Channel Usage element
9.4.2.86 Time Zone element
1193 9.4.2.87 DMS Request element
1196 9.4.2.88 DMS Response element
1198 9.4.2.89 Destination URI element
1199 9.4.2.90 U-APSD Coexistence element
1200 9.4.2.91 Interworking element
1202 9.4.2.92 Advertisement Protocol element
1203 9.4.2.93 Expedited Bandwidth Request element
1204 9.4.2.94 QoS Map element
1205 9.4.2.95 Roaming Consortium element
1206 9.4.2.96 Emergency Alert Identifier element
1207 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
1208 9.4.2.97.4 Congestion Control Mode Identifier
9.4.2.97.5 Synchronization Method Identifier
1209 9.4.2.97.6 Authentication Protocol Identifier
1210 9.4.2.97.7 Mesh Formation Info
9.4.2.97.8 Mesh Capability
1211 9.4.2.98 Mesh ID element
9.4.2.99 Mesh Link Metric Report element
1212 9.4.2.100 Congestion Notification element
9.4.2.101 Mesh Peering Management element
1214 9.4.2.102 Mesh Channel Switch Parameters element
1215 9.4.2.103 Mesh Awake Window element
9.4.2.104 Beacon Timing element
1216 9.4.2.105 MCCAOP Setup Request element
9.4.2.105.1 General
1217 9.4.2.105.2 MCCAOP Reservation field
9.4.2.106 MCCAOP Setup Reply element
1218 9.4.2.107 MCCAOP Advertisement Overview element
1219 9.4.2.108 MCCAOP Advertisement element
9.4.2.108.1 General
1220 9.4.2.108.2 MCCAOP Advertisement Element Information field
9.4.2.108.3 MCCAOP Reservation Report field
1221 9.4.2.109 MCCAOP Teardown element
9.4.2.110 GANN element
1222 9.4.2.111 RANN element
1223 9.4.2.112 PREQ element
1225 9.4.2.113 PREP element
1226 9.4.2.114 PERR element
1228 9.4.2.115 PXU element
1229 9.4.2.116 PXUC element
1230 9.4.2.117 Authenticated Mesh Peering Exchange element
9.4.2.118 MIC element
1231 9.4.2.119 Quality-of-Service Management Frame Policy element
1232 9.4.2.120 Intra-Access Category Priority element
1233 9.4.2.121 SCS Descriptor element
1234 9.4.2.122 QLoad Report element
9.4.2.122.1 QLoad Report element format
1236 9.4.2.122.2 QLoad field format
9.4.2.123 HCCA TXOP Update Count element
1237 9.4.2.124 Higher Layer Stream ID element
9.4.2.125 GCR Group Address element
1238 9.4.2.126 DMG BSS Parameter Change element
9.4.2.127 DMG Capabilities element
9.4.2.127.1 General
1239 9.4.2.127.2 DMG STA Capability Information field
1242 9.4.2.127.3 DMG AP Or PCP Capability Information field
1243 9.4.2.127.4 DMG STA Beam Tracking Time Limit field
9.4.2.127.5 Extended SC MCS Capabilities field
1244 9.4.2.127.6 Maximum number of A-MSDU subframes in an A-MSDU
1245 9.4.2.128 DMG Operation element
1247 9.4.2.129 DMG Beam Refinement element
1249 9.4.2.130 DMG Wakeup Schedule element
9.4.2.131 Extended Schedule element
1253 9.4.2.132 STA Availability element
1254 9.4.2.133 DMG TSPEC element
1257 9.4.2.134 CMMG TSPEC element
1258 9.4.2.135 Next DMG ATI element
9.4.2.136 Channel Measurement Feedback element
1261 9.4.2.137 Awake Window element
9.4.2.138 Multi-band element
1263 9.4.2.139 ADDBA Extension element
1264 9.4.2.140 Next PCP List element
9.4.2.141 PCP Handover element
1265 9.4.2.142 DMG Link Margin element
9.4.2.142.1 General
1266 9.4.2.142.2 Activity field
9.4.2.143 DMG Link Adaptation Acknowledgment element
9.4.2.144 Switching Stream element
1268 9.4.2.145 Session Transition element
1269 9.4.2.146 Cluster Report element
1271 9.4.2.147 Relay Capabilities element
1272 9.4.2.148 Relay Transfer Parameter Set element
1273 9.4.2.149 Quiet Period Request element
1274 9.4.2.150 Quiet Period Response element
9.4.2.151 BeamLink Maintenance element
9.4.2.152 Multiple MAC Sublayers (MMS) element
1276 9.4.2.153 U-PID element
1277 9.4.2.154 ECAPC Policy element
1278 9.4.2.155 Cluster Time Offset element
9.4.2.156 Antenna Sector ID Pattern element
1280 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
1285 9.4.2.157.3 Supported VHT-MCS and NSS Set field
1287 9.4.2.158 VHT Operation element
1289 9.4.2.159 Extended BSS Load element
1290 9.4.2.160 Wide Bandwidth Channel Switch element
1291 9.4.2.161 Transmit Power Envelope element
1293 9.4.2.162 Channel Switch Wrapper element
1294 9.4.2.163 AID element
9.4.2.164 Quiet Channel element
1295 9.4.2.165 Operating Mode Notification element
9.4.2.166 UPSIM element
1296 9.4.2.167 Fine Timing Measurement Parameters element
1300 9.4.2.168 Device Location element
9.4.2.169 White Space Map element
1301 9.4.2.170 Reduced Neighbor Report element
9.4.2.170.1 General
9.4.2.170.2 Neighbor AP Information field
1303 9.4.2.170.3 Calculating the short SSID
9.4.2.171 TVHT Operation element
1304 9.4.2.172 FTM Synchronization Information element
1305 9.4.2.173 Estimated Service Parameters Inbound element
1307 9.4.2.174 Future Channel Guidance element
9.4.2.175 Association Delay Info element
1308 9.4.2.176 CAG Number element
1309 9.4.2.177 FILS Request Parameters element(
1311 9.4.2.178 FILS Key Confirmation element
1312 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
1313 9.4.2.182 FILS Indication element
1314 9.4.2.183 FILS HLP Container element
1315 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
1317 9.4.2.184.3 IP Address Data field for response
1319 9.4.2.185 Key Delivery element
9.4.2.186 DILS element
1321 9.4.2.187 FILS Wrapped Data element
9.4.2.188 Fragment element
1322 9.4.2.189 FILS Nonce element
9.4.2.190 S1G Open-Loop Link Margin Index element
1323 9.4.2.191 RPS element
1328 9.4.2.192 Page Slice element
1330 9.4.2.193 AID Request element
1332 9.4.2.194 AID Response element
1333 9.4.2.195 S1G Sector Operation element
1335 9.4.2.196 S1G Beacon Compatibility element
1336 9.4.2.197 Short Beacon Interval element(
9.4.2.198 Change Sequence element
9.4.2.199 TWT element
1342 9.4.2.200 S1G Capabilities element
9.4.2.200.1 S1G Capabilities element structure
1343 9.4.2.200.2 S1G Capabilities Information field
1350 9.4.2.200.3 Supported S1G-MCS and NSS Set field
1352 9.4.2.201 Subchannel Selective Transmission (SST) element
1354 9.4.2.202 Authentication Control element
1356 9.4.2.203 TSF Timer Accuracy element
9.4.2.204 S1G Relay element
1357 9.4.2.205 Reachable Address element
1358 9.4.2.206 S1G Relay Activation element
1359 9.4.2.207 S1G Relay Discovery element
1361 9.4.2.208 AID Announcement element
9.4.2.209 PV1 Probe Response Option element
1365 9.4.2.210 EL Operation element
9.4.2.211 Sectorized Group ID List element
1366 9.4.2.212 S1G Operation element
1368 9.4.2.213 Header Compression element
1369 9.4.2.214 SST Operation element
1370 9.4.2.215 MAD element
9.4.2.216 Password Identifier element
9.4.2.217 Max Channel Switch Time element
1371 9.4.2.218 Vendor Specific Request element
1372 9.4.2.219 CDMG Capabilities element
9.4.2.219.1 General
9.4.2.219.2 CDMG STA Capability Information field
1373 9.4.2.219.3 CDMG AP Or PCP Capability Information field
1374 9.4.2.220 Dynamic Bandwidth Control element
1375 9.4.2.221 CDMG Extended Schedule element
1377 9.4.2.222 SSW Report element
1378 9.4.2.223 Cluster Probe element
9.4.2.224 Extended Cluster Report element
1379 9.4.2.225 Cluster Switch Announcement element
1380 9.4.2.226 Enhanced Beam Tracking element
1381 9.4.2.227 SPSH Report element
1382 9.4.2.228 Clustering Interference Assessment element
1383 9.4.2.229 CMMG Capabilities element
9.4.2.229.1 CMMG Capabilities element structure
1384 9.4.2.229.2 CMMG Capabilities Info field
1388 9.4.2.229.3 A-MPDU Parameters field
9.4.2.229.4 Supported CMMG-MCS and NSS Set field
1390 9.4.2.229.5 Transmit Beamforming Capabilities field
1391 9.4.2.229.6 CMMG AP Or PCP Capability Information field
1392 9.4.2.230 CMMG Operation element
1393 9.4.2.231 CMMG Operating Mode Notification element
1394 9.4.2.232 CMMG Link Margin element
9.4.2.232.1 General
9.4.2.232.2 Activity field
1395 9.4.2.233 CMMG Link Adaptation Acknowledgment element
9.4.2.234 GLK-GCR Parameter Set element
1396 9.4.2.235 Estimated Service Parameters Outbound element
1398 9.4.2.236 OCI element
9.4.2.237 Service Hint element
1400 9.4.2.238 Service Hash element
9.4.2.239 GAS Extension element
1401 9.4.2.240 Non-Inheritance element
1402 9.4.2.241 RSN Extension element (RSNXE)
1403 9.4.2.242 TCLAS Mask element
9.4.2.243 MSCS Descriptor element
1405 9.4.2.244 Supplemental Class 2 Capabilities element
9.4.2.245 OCT Source element
1406 9.4.2.246 Rejected Groups element
9.4.2.247 Anti-Clogging Token Container element
1407 9.4.3 Subelements
9.4.4 TLV encodings
9.4.4.1 General
1408 9.4.4.2 Common TLVs
9.4.4.2.1 General
9.4.4.2.2 Device Class
1409 9.4.4.2.3 Device Identification Information
9.4.4.2.4 Device Location Information
9.4.4.2.5 Channel Schedule Descriptor
1411 9.4.4.2.6 WSM information values
1412 9.4.5 Access network query protocol (ANQP) elements
9.4.5.1 General
1413 9.4.5.2 Query List ANQP-element
1414 9.4.5.3 Capability List ANQP-element
9.4.5.4 Venue Name ANQP-element
1415 9.4.5.5 Emergency Call Number ANQP-element
1416 9.4.5.6 Network Authentication Type ANQP-element
1417 9.4.5.7 Roaming Consortium ANQP-element
1418 9.4.5.8 Vendor Specific ANQP-element
9.4.5.9 IP Address Type Availability ANQP-element
1419 9.4.5.10 NAI Realm ANQP-element
1423 9.4.5.11 3GPP Cellular Network ANQP-element
9.4.5.12 AP Geospatial Location ANQP-element
1424 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
1425 9.4.5.16 Emergency Alert URI ANQP-element
9.4.5.17 Emergency NAI ANQP-element
1426 9.4.5.18 TDLS Capability ANQP-element
9.4.5.19 Neighbor Report ANQP-element
9.4.5.20 Venue URL ANQP-element
1427 9.4.5.21 Advice of Charge ANQP-element
1428 9.4.5.22 Local Content ANQP-element
1429 9.4.5.23 Network Authentication Type with Timestamp ANQP-element
1430 9.4.5.24 Query AP List ANQP-element
1431 9.4.5.25 AP List Response ANQP-element
1432 9.4.5.26 CAG ANQP-element
9.4.5.27 Service Information Request ANQP-element
1433 9.4.5.28 Service Information Response ANQP-element
9.4.5.29 Local MAC Address Policy ANQP-element
1436 9.4.6 Registered location query protocol (RLQP) elements
9.4.6.1 General
9.4.6.2 Channel Availability Query RLQP-element
1438 9.4.6.3 Channel Schedule Management RLQP-element
1439 9.4.6.4 Network Channel Control RLQP-element
1440 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
1441 9.5.2 Dynamic Allocation Info field
1442 9.5.3 Sector Sweep Feedback field
1443 9.5.4 BRP Request field
1444 9.5.5 Beamforming Control field
1445 9.5.6 Beamformed Link Maintenance field
1446 9.6 Action frame format details
9.6.1 Introduction
9.6.2 Spectrum Management Action frames
9.6.2.1 General
1447 9.6.2.2 Spectrum Measurement Request frame format
9.6.2.3 Spectrum Measurement Report frame format
1448 9.6.2.4 TPC Request frame format
9.6.2.5 TPC Report frame format
1449 9.6.2.6 Channel Switch Announcement frame format
1450 9.6.3 QoS Action frame details
9.6.3.1 General
1451 9.6.3.2 Basic and DMG ADDTS Request frame format
9.6.3.2.1 Basic ADDTS Request frame variant
1452 9.6.3.2.2 DMG ADDTS Request frame variant
1453 9.6.3.3 Basic and DMG ADDTS Response frame format
9.6.3.3.1 Basic ADDTS Response frame variant
1454 9.6.3.3.2 DMG ADDTS Response frame variant
1455 9.6.3.4 DELTS frame format
1456 9.6.3.5 Schedule frame format
9.6.3.6 QoS Map Configure frame format
1457 9.6.3.7 ADDTS Reserve Request frame format
9.6.3.8 ADDTS Reserve Response frame format
1458 9.6.4 Block Ack Action frame details
9.6.4.1 General
1459 9.6.4.2 ADDBA Request frame format
1460 9.6.4.3 ADDBA Response frame format
1461 9.6.4.4 DELBA frame format
9.6.5 Vendor-specific action details
1462 9.6.6 Radio Measurement action details
9.6.6.1 General
9.6.6.2 Radio Measurement Request frame format
1463 9.6.6.3 Radio Measurement Report frame format
9.6.6.4 Link Measurement Request frame format
1464 9.6.6.5 Link Measurement Report frame format
1465 9.6.6.6 Neighbor Report Request frame format
1466 9.6.6.7 Neighbor Report Response frame format
9.6.7 Public Action details
9.6.7.1 Public Action frames
1468 9.6.7.2 20/40 BSS Coexistence Management frame format
9.6.7.3 Measurement Pilot frame format
1470 9.6.7.4 DSE Enablement frame format
1471 9.6.7.5 DSE Deenablement frame format
9.6.7.6 DSE Registered Location Announcement frame format
1472 9.6.7.7 Extended Channel Switch Announcement frame format
1473 9.6.7.8 DSE Measurement Request frame format
9.6.7.9 DSE Measurement Report frame format
1474 9.6.7.10 DSE Power Constraint frame format
1475 9.6.7.11 Vendor Specific Public Action frame format
1476 9.6.7.12 GAS Initial Request frame format
1477 9.6.7.13 GAS Initial Response frame format
1478 9.6.7.14 GAS Comeback Request frame format
1479 9.6.7.15 GAS Comeback Response frame format
1480 9.6.7.16 TDLS Discovery Response frame format
1482 9.6.7.17 Location Track Notification frame format
1483 9.6.7.18 QMF Policy frame format
9.6.7.19 QMF Policy Change frame format
1484 9.6.7.20 QLoad Request frame format
9.6.7.21 QLoad Report frame format
1485 9.6.7.22 HCCA TXOP Advertisement frame
9.6.7.23 HCCA TXOP Response frame
1486 9.6.7.24 Public Key frame
1487 9.6.7.25 Channel Availability Query frame format
1488 9.6.7.26 Channel Schedule Management frame format
1489 9.6.7.27 Contact Verification Signal frame format
1490 9.6.7.28 GDD Enablement Request frame format
9.6.7.29 GDD Enablement Response frame format
1491 9.6.7.30 Network Channel Control frame format
1492 9.6.7.31 White Space Map Announcement frame format
9.6.7.32 Fine Timing Measurement Request frame format
1493 9.6.7.33 Fine Timing Measurement frame format
1495 9.6.7.34 QAB Request frame format
1496 9.6.7.35 QAB Response frame format
1497 9.6.7.36 FILS Discovery frame format
1503 9.6.7.37 DCS Measurement Request frame format
1504 9.6.7.38 DCS Measurement Response frame format
1506 9.6.7.39 DCS Request frame format
9.6.7.40 DCS Response frame format
1507 9.6.7.41 Extended Notification Period Request frame format
1508 9.6.7.42 Extended Notification Period Response frame format
9.6.7.43 Extended Channel Splitting Request frame format
1509 9.6.7.44 Extended Channel Splitting Response frame format
9.6.7.45 Group Addressed GAS Request frame format
1510 9.6.7.46 Group Addressed GAS Response frame format
1511 9.6.7.47 On-channel Tunnel Request frame format
1512 9.6.8 FT Action frame details
9.6.8.1 General
9.6.8.2 FT Request frame
1513 9.6.8.3 FT Response frame
1514 9.6.8.4 FT Confirm frame
9.6.8.5 FT Ack frame
1515 9.6.9 SA Query Action frame details
9.6.9.1 General
1516 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
1518 9.6.11 HT Action frame details
9.6.11.1 HT Action field
9.6.11.2 Notify Channel Width frame format
1519 9.6.11.3 SM Power Save frame format
9.6.11.4 PSMP frame format
1520 9.6.11.5 CSI frame format
9.6.11.6 Noncompressed Beamforming frame format
1521 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
1522 9.6.12.2 TDLS Setup Request Action field format
1524 9.6.12.3 TDLS Setup Response Action field format
1525 9.6.12.4 TDLS Setup Confirm Action field format
1527 9.6.12.5 TDLS Teardown Action field format
9.6.12.6 TDLS Peer Traffic Indication Action field format
1528 9.6.12.7 TDLS Channel Switch Request Action field format
9.6.12.8 TDLS Channel Switch Response Action field format
1529 9.6.12.9 TDLS Peer PSM Request Action field format
9.6.12.10 TDLS Peer PSM Response Action field format
1530 9.6.12.11 TDLS Peer Traffic Response Action field format
9.6.12.12 TDLS Discovery Request Action field format
1531 9.6.13 WNM Action details
9.6.13.1 WNM Action fields
1532 9.6.13.2 Event Request frame format
1533 9.6.13.3 Event Report frame format
9.6.13.4 Diagnostic Request frame format
1534 9.6.13.5 Diagnostic Report frame format
9.6.13.6 Location Configuration Request frame format
1535 9.6.13.7 Location Configuration Response frame format
1536 9.6.13.8 BSS Transition Management Query frame format
1537 9.6.13.9 BSS Transition Management Request frame format
1539 9.6.13.10 BSS Transition Management Response frame format
1540 9.6.13.11 FMS Request frame format
9.6.13.12 FMS Response frame format
1541 9.6.13.13 Collocated Interference Request frame format
1542 9.6.13.14 Collocated Interference Report frame format
9.6.13.15 TFS Request frame format
1543 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
1544 9.6.13.19 WNM Sleep Mode Request frame format
9.6.13.20 WNM Sleep Mode Response frame format
1547 9.6.13.21 TIM Broadcast Request frame format
9.6.13.22 TIM Broadcast Response frame format
1548 9.6.13.23 QoS Traffic Capability Update frame format
9.6.13.24 Channel Usage Request frame format
1549 9.6.13.25 Channel Usage Response frame format
1550 9.6.13.26 DMS Request frame format
9.6.13.27 DMS Response frame format
1551 9.6.13.28 Timing Measurement Request frame format
9.6.13.29 WNM Notification Request frame format
1552 9.6.13.30 WNM Notification Response frame format
1553 9.6.14 Unprotected WNM Action details
9.6.14.1 Unprotected WNM Action fields
9.6.14.2 TIM frame format
1554 9.6.14.3 Timing Measurement frame format
1555 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
1557 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
1558 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
1559 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
1560 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
1561 9.6.16.2 Mesh Link Metric Report frame format
9.6.16.3 HWMP Mesh Path Selection frame format
1562 9.6.16.4 Gate Announcement frame format
1563 9.6.16.5 Congestion Control Notification frame format
9.6.16.6 MCCA Setup Request frame format
1564 9.6.16.7 MCCA Setup Reply frame format
9.6.16.8 MCCA Advertisement Request frame format
1565 9.6.16.9 MCCA Advertisement frame format
9.6.16.10 MCCA Teardown frame format
1566 9.6.16.11 TBTT Adjustment Request frame format
9.6.16.12 TBTT Adjustment Response frame format
1567 9.6.17 Multihop Action frame details
9.6.17.1 Multihop Action fields
9.6.17.2 Proxy Update frame format
1568 9.6.17.3 Proxy Update Confirmation frame format
9.6.18 Robust AV Streaming Action frame details
9.6.18.1 General
1569 9.6.18.2 SCS Request frame format
9.6.18.3 SCS Response frame format
1570 9.6.18.4 Group Membership Request frame format
9.6.18.5 Group Membership Response frame format
1571 9.6.18.6 MSCS Request frame format
9.6.18.7 MSCS Response frame format
1572 9.6.19 DMG Action frame details
9.6.19.1 DMG Action field
1573 9.6.19.2 Power Save Configuration Request frame format
9.6.19.3 Power Save Configuration Response frame format
1574 9.6.19.4 Information Request frame format
1575 9.6.19.5 Information Response frame format
1576 9.6.19.6 Handover Request frame format
9.6.19.7 Handover Response frame format
1577 9.6.19.8 Relay Search Request frame format
9.6.19.9 Relay Search Response frame format
1578 9.6.19.10 Multi-relay Channel Measurement Request frame format
9.6.19.11 Multi-relay Channel Measurement Report frame format
1580 9.6.19.12 RLS Request frame format
1581 9.6.19.13 RLS Response frame format
9.6.19.14 RLS Announcement frame format
1582 9.6.19.15 RLS Teardown frame format
9.6.19.16 Relay Ack Request frame format
1583 9.6.19.17 Relay Ack Response frame format
9.6.19.18 TPA Request frame format
1584 9.6.19.19 TPA Response frame format
1585 9.6.19.20 TPA Report frame format
9.6.19.21 ROC Request frame format
1586 9.6.19.22 ROC Response frame format
9.6.20 FST Action frame details
9.6.20.1 FST Action field
1587 9.6.20.2 FST Setup Request frame format
1588 9.6.20.3 FST Setup Response frame format
1589 9.6.20.4 FST Teardown frame format
9.6.20.5 FST Ack Request frame format
1590 9.6.20.6 FST Ack Response frame format
9.6.20.7 On-channel Tunnel Request frame format
1591 9.6.21 Unprotected DMG Action frame details
9.6.21.1 Unprotected DMG Action field
9.6.21.2 Announce frame format
1593 9.6.21.3 BRP frame format
1594 9.6.22 VHT Action frame details
9.6.22.1 VHT Action field
1595 9.6.22.2 VHT Compressed Beamforming frame format
9.6.22.3 Group ID Management frame format
1596 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
1597 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
1598 9.6.24.3 AID Switch Response frame format
1599 9.6.24.4 Sync Control frame format
9.6.24.5 STA Information Announcement frame format
1600 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
1601 9.6.24.9 TWT Teardown frame format
1602 9.6.24.10 Sectorized Group ID List frame format
9.6.24.11 Sector ID Feedback frame format
1603 9.6.24.12 TWT Information frame format
1604 9.6.25 S1G Action frame details
9.6.25.1 S1G Action field
9.6.25.2 Reachable Address Update frame format
1605 9.6.25.3 Relay Activation Request frame format
9.6.25.4 Relay Activation Response frame format
1606 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
1607 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
1608 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
1609 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
1610 9.6.28.2 Notification Period Request frame format
9.6.28.3 Notification Period Response frame format
1611 9.6.28.4 Channel Splitting Request frame format
9.6.28.5 Channel Splitting Response frame format
1612 9.6.28.6 CDMG Allocation Request frame format
9.6.28.7 CDMG Allocation Response frame format
1613 9.6.29 CMMG Action frame details
9.6.29.1 CMMG Action field
9.6.29.2 CMMG Compressed Beamforming frame format
1614 9.6.29.3 CMMG Operating Mode Notification frame format
9.6.30 GLK Action frame details
9.6.30.1 GLK Action field
1615 9.6.30.2 GLK Groupcast Mode Change Notification
9.7 Aggregate MPDU (A-MPDU)
9.7.1 A-MPDU format
1618 9.7.2 MPDU delimiter CRC field
9.7.3 A-MPDU contents
1622 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
1624 9.8.3.2 Address fields
1625 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
1626 9.8.4 PV1 Control frames
9.8.4.1 General
9.8.4.2 STACK frame format
1627 9.8.4.3 BAT frame format
1628 9.8.5 PV1 Management frames
9.8.5.1 Format of PV1 Management frames
1629 9.8.5.2 Action and Action No Ack frames
1630 9.8.5.3 PV1 Probe Response frame format
1631 9.8.5.4 Resource Allocation frame format
1634 10. MAC sublayer functional description
10.1 Introduction
10.2 MAC architecture
10.2.1 General
1636 10.2.2 DCF
10.2.3 Hybrid coordination function (HCF)
10.2.3.1 General
1637 10.2.3.2 HCF contention based channel access (EDCA)
1640 10.2.3.3 HCF controlled channel access (HCCA)
1641 10.2.4 Mesh coordination function (MCF)
10.2.5 Combined use of DCF and HCF
10.2.6 Fragmentation/defragmentation overview
1642 10.2.7 MAC data service
1643 10.3 DCF
10.3.1 General
1645 10.3.2 Procedures common to the DCF and EDCAF
10.3.2.1 CS mechanism
1646 10.3.2.2 MAC-level acknowledgments
10.3.2.3 IFS
10.3.2.3.1 General
1647 10.3.2.3.2 RIFS
10.3.2.3.3 SIFS
1648 10.3.2.3.4 PIFS
1649 10.3.2.3.5 DIFS
10.3.2.3.6 AIFS
1650 10.3.2.3.7 EIFS
10.3.2.3.8 SBIFS
1651 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
1653 10.3.2.5 Setting and resetting the RID
10.3.2.5.1 General
1655 10.3.2.5.2 RID update
1656 10.3.2.6 RTS/CTS with fragmentation
1657 10.3.2.7 VHT and S1G RTS procedure
1658 10.3.2.8 CMMG RTS procedure
10.3.2.9 CTS and DMG CTS procedure
1660 10.3.2.10 Dual CTS protection
10.3.2.10.1 Dual CTS protection procedure
1662 10.3.2.10.2 Dual CTS protection examples
1663 10.3.2.11 Acknowledgment procedure
1666 10.3.2.12 Fragment BA procedure
1667 10.3.2.13 MU acknowledgment procedure
1668 10.3.2.14 Duplicate detection and recovery
10.3.2.14.1 General
10.3.2.14.2 Transmitter requirements
1669 10.3.2.14.3 Receiver requirements
1672 10.3.2.15 NAV distribution
1673 10.3.2.16 Operation of aSlotTime
10.3.2.17 Response Indication procedure
1675 10.3.3 Random backoff procedure
1676 10.3.4 DCF access procedure
10.3.4.1 Introduction
10.3.4.2 Basic access
1677 10.3.4.3 Backoff procedure for DCF
1680 10.3.4.4 Recovery procedures and retransmit limits
1681 10.3.4.5 Control of the channel
1682 10.3.5 Individually addressed MPDU transfer procedure
10.3.6 Group addressed MPDU transfer procedure
1683 10.3.7 DCF timing relations
1686 10.3.8 Signal extension
1687 10.3.9 Determination of PLME aCWmin characteristics
10.4 MSDU and MMPDU fragmentation
1688 10.5 MSDU and MMPDU defragmentation
1689 10.6 Multirate support
10.6.1 Overview
1690 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
1691 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
1692 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
1694 10.6.6 Rate selection for Control frames
10.6.6.1 General rules for rate selection for Control frames
1695 10.6.6.2 Rate selection for Control frames that initiate a TXOP
10.6.6.3 Rate selection for CF-End frames
1696 10.6.6.4 Rate selection for Control frames that are not control response frames
1697 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
1698 10.6.6.5.3 Control response frame MCS computation
1701 10.6.6.5.4 Selection of an alternate rate or MCS for a control response frame
1702 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
1704 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
1705 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
1706 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
1707 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
1708 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
1709 10.6.8.5 Rate selection for BRP PPDUs for CMMG STAs
10.6.9 Multiple BSSID Rate Selection
10.6.10 Modulation classes
1711 10.6.11 Non-HT basic rate calculation
10.6.12 Channel Width in non-HT and non-HT duplicate PPDUs
1712 10.6.13 Rate selection constraints for VHT STAs
10.6.13.1 Rx Supported VHT-MCS and NSS Set
1713 10.6.13.2 Tx Supported VHT-MCS and NSS Set
1714 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
1715 10.6.14.2 TX Supported S1G-MCS and NSS Set
10.6.14.3 Additional rate selection constraints for S1G PPDUs
1716 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
1717 10.8 HT Control field operation
1718 10.9 Control Wrapper operation
10.10 MSDU processing
10.11 A-MSDU operation
1722 10.12 A-MPDU operation
10.12.1 A-MPDU contents
10.12.2 A-MPDU length limit rules
1723 10.12.3 Minimum MPDU Start Spacing field
1724 10.12.4 A-MPDU aggregation of group addressed Data frames
1725 10.12.5 Transport of A-MPDU by the PHY data service
10.12.6 A-MPDU padding for VHT PPDU or S1G PPDU
1726 10.12.7 Setting the EOF field of the MPDU delimiter
1727 10.12.8 Transport of S-MPDUs
10.13 PPDU duration constraint
10.14 DMG A-PPDU operation
1728 10.15 Low-density parity check code (LDPC) operation
10.16 STBC operation
1729 10.17 Short GI operation
1732 10.18 Greenfield operation
10.19 Group ID and partial AID in VHT and CMMG PPDUs
1734 10.20 S1G dynamic AID assignment operation
1736 10.21 Group ID, partial AID, Uplink Indication, and COLOR in S1G PPDUs
1738 10.22 Operation across regulatory domains
10.22.1 General
10.22.2 Operation upon entering a regulatory domain
1739 10.22.3 Operation with operating classes
10.22.4 Operation with the Transmit Power Envelope element
1740 10.22.5 Operation with coverage classes
10.23 HCF
10.23.1 General
1741 10.23.2 HCF contention based channel access (EDCA)
10.23.2.1 Reference model
1742 10.23.2.2 EDCA backoff procedure
1744 10.23.2.3 EDCA TXOPs
10.23.2.4 Obtaining an EDCA TXOP
1746 10.23.2.5 EDCA channel access in a VHT or TVHT BSS
1748 10.23.2.6 EDCA channel access in an S1G BSS
1749 10.23.2.7 Sharing an EDCA TXOP
1750 10.23.2.8 Multiple frame transmission in an EDCA TXOP
1753 10.23.2.9 TXOP limits
1754 10.23.2.10 Truncation of TXOP
1756 10.23.2.11 Termination of TXOP
1757 10.23.2.12 Retransmit procedures
10.23.2.12.1 General
1758 10.23.2.12.2 Unsolicited retry procedure
1759 10.23.2.13 EDCA channel access in a CMMG BSS
10.23.3 HCF controlled channel access (HCCA)
10.23.3.1 General
1760 10.23.3.2 HCCA procedure
10.23.3.2.1 General
10.23.3.2.2 CAP generation
1761 10.23.3.2.3 Recovery from the absence of an expected reception
1762 10.23.3.3 HCCA TXOP structure and timing
1763 10.23.3.4 NAV operation of a TXOP under HCCA
1764 10.23.3.5 HCCA transfer rules
10.23.3.5.1 General
1765 10.23.3.5.2 TXOP requests
10.23.3.5.3 Use of RTS/CTS
1766 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
1767 10.23.4.2.2 Procedures at the AP
10.23.4.2.3 Procedure at non-AP STAs
1768 10.23.4.3 Controlled-access admission control
1770 10.23.5 Restricted access window (RAW) operation
10.23.5.1 General
1772 10.23.5.2 RAW structure and timing
1773 10.23.5.3 Slot assignment procedure in RAW
1774 10.23.5.4 Slotted channel access procedure in RAW
1775 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
1776 10.23.5.7 RAW Operation with Resource Allocation frame
10.23.5.8 Periodic RAW (PRAW) operation
1777 10.24 Mesh coordination function (MCF)
10.24.1 General
1778 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
1779 10.24.3.3 MCCAOP reservations
1780 10.24.3.4 Neighborhood MCCAOP periods at a mesh STA
10.24.3.5 MCCA access fraction (MAF)
1781 10.24.3.6 MCCAOP setup procedure
1782 10.24.3.7 MCCAOP advertisement
10.24.3.7.1 General
10.24.3.7.2 Construction of an MCCAOP advertisement set
1784 10.24.3.7.3 Setting the MCCAOP advertisement set sequence number
10.24.3.7.4 Advertisement procedure
1785 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
1786 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
1787 10.24.3.8.2 MCCAOP teardown procedure
10.24.3.9 Access during MCCAOPs
10.24.3.9.1 Access by MCCAOP owners
1788 10.24.3.9.2 Access during an MCCAOP by mesh STAs that are not the MCCAOP owner
1789 10.24.3.10 Interaction with time synchronization
10.25 Block acknowledgment (block ack)
10.25.1 Introduction
1790 10.25.2 Setup and modification of the block ack parameters
1792 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
1794 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
1795 10.25.6.3 Scoreboard context control during full-state operation
1796 10.25.6.4 Scoreboard context control during partial-state operation
1797 10.25.6.5 Generation and transmission of BlockAck frames by an HT STA, DMG STA, or S1G STA
1798 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
1799 10.25.6.6.3 Operation for each received BlockAckReq
1800 10.25.6.7 Originator’s behavior
1801 10.25.6.8 Maintaining block ack state at the originator
1802 10.25.6.9 Originator’s support of recipient’s partial state
10.25.7 Protected block ack agreement
1803 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
1804 10.25.8.3 Scoreboard context control during GLK-GCR block ack
1805 10.25.8.4 GCR block ack BlockAckReq and BlockAck frame exchanges
1807 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
1808 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
1809 10.25.9.4.2 Operation for DMG block ack agreement initialization
10.25.9.4.3 Operation for each received Data frame
1810 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
1811 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
1813 10.27.3 Protection mechanisms for transmissions of HT PPDUs
10.27.3.1 General
1815 10.27.3.2 Protection rules for HT STA operating a direct link
1816 10.27.3.3 RIFS protection
10.27.3.4 Use of OBSS Non-HT STAs Present field
1817 10.27.3.5 Protection rules for an HT mesh STA
1818 10.27.4 L_LENGTH and L_DATARATE parameter values for HT-mixed format PPDUs
10.27.5 Protection rules for VHT STAs
1819 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
1820 10.28.8 Extensible element parsing
10.28.9 Extensible subelement parsing
10.28.10 Extensible TLV parsing
10.28.11 Element fragmentation
1822 10.28.12 Element defragmentation
10.29 Reverse direction protocol
10.29.1 General
10.29.2 Reverse direction (RD) exchange sequence
1823 10.29.3 Rules for RD initiator
1824 10.29.4 Rules for RD responder
1826 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)
1827 10.30.2.2 PSMP downlink transmission (PSMP-DTT)
10.30.2.3 PSMP uplink transmission (PSMP-UTT)
1828 10.30.2.4 PSMP burst
1829 10.30.2.5 Resource allocation within a PSMP burst
1831 10.30.2.6 PSMP-UTT retransmission
10.30.2.7 PSMP acknowledgment rules
1832 10.30.2.8 PSMP group addressed transmission rules
10.30.2.8.1 Rules at the AP
1833 10.30.2.8.2 Rules at the STA
10.30.3 Scheduled PSMP
10.30.4 Unscheduled PSMP
1834 10.31 Sounding PPDUs
1835 10.32 Link adaptation
10.32.1 Introduction
10.32.2 Link adaptation using the HT variant HT Control field
1837 10.32.3 Link adaptation using the VHT variant HT Control field
1840 10.32.4 Link adaptation using the CMMG variant HT Control field
1843 10.33 CMMG beamforming
10.34 Transmit beamforming
10.34.1 HT steering matrix calculations
1844 10.34.2 HT transmit beamforming with implicit feedback
10.34.2.1 General
1846 10.34.2.2 Unidirectional implicit transmit beamforming
10.34.2.3 Bidirectional implicit transmit beamforming
1848 10.34.2.4 Calibration
10.34.2.4.1 Introduction
10.34.2.4.2 Calibration capabilities
1849 10.34.2.4.3 Sounding exchange for calibration
1852 10.34.2.4.4 CSI reporting for calibration
10.34.3 Explicit feedback beamforming
1856 10.34.4 VHT MU beamforming
10.34.5 Explicit feedback beamforming for CMMG STAs
1859 10.35 Antenna selection (ASEL)
10.35.1 Introduction
1860 10.35.2 ASEL frame exchange procedure
1863 10.36 Null data PPDU (NDP) sounding
10.36.1 HT NDP sounding protocol
1865 10.36.2 Transmission of an HT NDP
10.36.3 Determination of HT NDP destination
10.36.4 Determination of HT NDP source
1866 10.36.5 VHT sounding protocol
10.36.5.1 General
10.36.5.2 Rules for VHT sounding protocol sequences
1870 10.36.5.3 Rules for fragmented feedback in VHT sounding protocol sequences
1871 10.36.6 Transmission of a VHT NDP
1872 10.36.7 Transmission of an S1G NDP
10.37 Null data PPDU (NDP) sounding for CMMG STAs
10.37.1 NDP rules
1873 10.37.2 Transmission of a CMMG NDP
10.37.3 Determination of CMMG NDP destination
1874 10.37.4 Determination of CMMG NDP source
10.38 Mesh forwarding framework
10.38.1 General
10.38.2 Forwarding information
1875 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)
1877 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)
1878 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
1879 10.38.5.3 MMPDU forwarding using group addressed Multihop Action frames
10.38.6 Detection of duplicate MSDUs/MMPDUs
1880 10.38.7 Mesh STAs that do not forward
10.38.8 MSDU forwarding and unknown destination
1881 10.39 DMG and CMMG channel access
10.39.1 General
10.39.2 Access periods within a beacon interval
1882 10.39.3 ATI transmission rules
1885 10.39.4 DTI transmission rules
10.39.5 Contention based access period (CBAP) transmission rules
1887 10.39.6 Channel access in scheduled DTI
10.39.6.1 General
1888 10.39.6.2 Service period (SP) allocation
1889 10.39.6.3 Contention based access period (CBAP) allocation
1890 10.39.6.4 Pseudo-static allocations
1891 10.39.6.5 Guard time
10.39.6.6 DMG and CMMG protected period
10.39.6.6.1 Introduction
1893 10.39.6.6.2 DMG and CMMG protected period establishment and maintenance
1895 10.39.6.6.3 CDMG protected period establishment and maintenance
1896 10.39.6.6.4 Dynamic and static bandwidth operation during CMMG protected period
1897 10.39.6.6.5 NAV update in DMG and CMMG protected period
10.39.6.6.6 Interference report
1898 10.39.6.7 Service period recovery
1899 10.39.7 Dynamic allocation of service period
10.39.7.1 General
1900 10.39.7.2 Polling period (PP)
1901 10.39.7.3 Grant period (GP)
1903 10.39.8 Dynamic truncation of service period
10.39.8.1 DMG dynamic truncation of service period
1904 10.39.8.2 CDMG dynamic truncation of service period
10.39.9 Dynamic extension of service period
1905 10.39.10 Updating multiple NAVs
1909 10.39.11 Opportunistic transmission in alternative channel for CDMG STAs
1911 10.40 DMG and CMMG AP or PCP clustering
10.40.1 General
1912 10.40.2 Cluster formation
10.40.2.1 Decentralized AP or PCP cluster formation
1913 10.40.2.2 Centralized AP or PCP cluster formation
1917 10.40.3 Cluster maintenance
10.40.3.1 General cluster maintenance
10.40.3.2 Decentralized AP or PCP cluster maintenance
1918 10.40.3.3 Centralized AP or PCP cluster maintenance
1919 10.40.3.4 Centralized AP or PCP cluster MAC requirements
1920 10.40.4 Cluster report and rescheduling
1922 10.40.5 Decentralized AP or PCP cluster request
10.41 CDMG AP or PCP clustering
10.41.1 General
1923 10.41.2 Cluster formation
10.41.2.1 Decentralized CDMG AP or PCP cluster formation
1927 10.41.2.2 Centralized CDMG AP or PCP cluster formation
1928 10.41.3 Cluster maintenance
10.41.3.1 General cluster maintenance
10.41.3.2 Decentralized CDMG AP or PCP cluster maintenance
1930 10.41.3.3 Cluster coordination
10.41.3.4 Centralized CDMG AP or PCP cluster maintenance
1931 10.41.3.5 Centralized CDMG AP or PCP cluster MAC requirements
10.41.4 Cluster report and rescheduling
1932 10.41.5 Decentralized AP or PCP cluster request
10.41.6 Spatial sharing in a CDMG AP or PCP cluster
1934 10.42 DMG beamforming
10.42.1 General
1936 10.42.2 Sector-level sweep (SLS) phase
10.42.2.1 General
1938 10.42.2.2 Initiator sector sweep (ISS)
10.42.2.2.1 General
10.42.2.2.2 Initiator TXSS
1940 10.42.2.2.3 Initiator RXSS
10.42.2.3 Responder sector sweep (RSS)
10.42.2.3.1 General
1941 10.42.2.3.2 Responder TXSS
1942 10.42.2.3.3 Responder RXSS
1943 10.42.2.4 Sector sweep (SSW) feedback
1944 10.42.2.5 SSW ack
10.42.3 Beam Refinement Protocol (BRP) phase
10.42.3.1 General
1946 10.42.3.2 BRP setup subphase
1949 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
1953 10.42.5.3 STA Beamforming after A-BFT
1954 10.42.5.4 Beamforming in A-BFT with multiple DMG antennas
1955 10.42.6 Beamforming in DTI
10.42.6.1 General
10.42.6.2 SLS phase execution
1956 10.42.6.3 Multiple sector ID capture (MIDC) subphase
10.42.6.3.1 General
1958 10.42.6.3.2 MIDC subphase with MID and BC subphases
1962 10.42.6.3.3 MIDC subphase with MID subphase only
1963 10.42.6.3.4 MIDC subphase with BC subphase only
1964 10.42.6.4 BRP phase execution
10.42.6.4.1 General
1965 10.42.6.4.2 Beam refinement transaction
1966 10.42.6.4.3 Beam refinement transaction after SLS
10.42.6.4.4 Antenna configuration setting during a beam refinement transaction
1967 10.42.7 Beam tracking
1969 10.42.8 State machines
1970 10.42.9 CDMG enhanced beam tracking
1973 10.43 DMG link adaptation
10.43.1 General
1974 10.43.2 DMG TPC
10.43.3 Fast link adaptation
1975 10.44 Link adaptation using the CMMG link measurement
10.44.1 General
1976 10.44.2 CMMG TPC
1977 10.44.3 CMMG fast link adaptation
1978 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
1979 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
1980 10.45.2.4.3 Additional frame exchange rules for HD-DF RDS
1982 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
1983 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
1984 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
1986 10.46.2 System information update procedure
1987 10.46.3 S1G BSS channel selection methods
10.46.4 S1G BSS channel switching methods
1988 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
1989 10.46.8 S1G coexistence with non-IEEE-802.11 systems
10.47 Target wake time (TWT)
10.47.1 TWT overview
1992 10.47.2 TWT acknowledgment procedure
1993 10.47.3 Explicit TWT operation
1994 10.47.4 Implicit TWT operation
1995 10.47.5 TWT grouping
10.47.6 NDP Paging setup
1998 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
1999 10.48.1.2 Resource protection for S1G STAs in non-TIM mode using periodic RAW (PRAW) operation
2000 10.48.2 Rescheduling of awake/doze cycle
2001 10.49 Sync frame operation
2003 10.50 Bidirectional TXOP
10.50.1 Overview
10.50.2 Rules for BDT
2005 10.51 Page slicing
2008 10.52 Subchannel selective transmission (SST)
10.52.1 SST overview
10.52.2 Aperiodic SST operation
2012 10.52.3 Periodic SST operation
10.53 Sectorized beam operation
10.53.1 Introduction
10.53.2 Sector Capabilities Exchange
2013 10.53.3 Group sectorization operation
2015 10.53.4 TXOP-based sectorization operation
2020 10.53.5 Sector training operation
10.53.5.1 Introduction
10.53.5.2 Procedure
2022 10.53.5.3 Sector ID feedback
10.53.5.4 Fast Sector Discovery
10.54 S1G relay operation
10.54.1 General
2023 10.54.2 S1G relay operation
2026 10.54.3 Addressing and forwarding of individually addressed relay frames
2027 10.54.4 Addressing and forwarding of group addressed relay frames
2028 10.54.5 Procedures of TXOP sharing for S1G relay operation
10.54.5.1 General
2029 10.54.5.2 Explicit Ack procedure
10.54.5.3 Implicit Ack procedure
2030 10.54.5.4 Relay-shared TXOP protection mechanisms
2031 10.54.6 S1G relay discovery procedure
2032 10.55 Group AID
2033 10.56 Traveling pilot operation
10.57 Bitmap protection for NDP BlockAck frames
10.58 Generation of PV1 MPDUs and header compression procedure
2035 10.59 Transmission of an NDP CMAC PPDU
2036 10.60 S1G_Long operation
10.61 S1G flow control
2037 10.62 Energy limited STAs operation
2039 10.63 S1G BSS type and STA type
10.64 DBC mechanism for CDMG STAs
10.64.1 General
2040 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
2042 10.64.2.3 Synchronization of CDMG infrastructure BSS or PBSSs on the adjacent 1.08 GHz channels within a 2.16 GHz channel
2045 10.64.3 Channel splitting of a 2.16 GHz channel
2046 10.64.4 Channel expansion of a 1.08 GHz channel
2047 10.64.5 Backward compatibility and interoperation
2050 10.65 Addressing of GLK Data frame transmission
2051 10.66 SYNRA filtering operation
2052 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
2053 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
2054 11.1.3.2 Beacon generation in non-DMG infrastructure networks
2055 11.1.3.3 Beacon generation in a DMG infrastructure BSS and in a PBSS
11.1.3.3.1 General
2056 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
2057 11.1.3.5 Beacon generation in an IBSS
2058 11.1.3.6 Beacon generation in an MBSS
11.1.3.7 Beacon reception
2059 11.1.3.8 Multiple BSSID procedure
2060 11.1.3.9 TSF timer accuracy
2061 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
2062 11.1.4 Acquiring synchronization, scanning
11.1.4.1 General
2064 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
2066 11.1.4.3.3 Active scanning procedure for a DMG STA
2068 11.1.4.3.4 Criteria for sending a response
2071 11.1.4.3.5 Active scanning for relay discovery
11.1.4.3.6 NDP Probing
2072 11.1.4.3.7 Active scanning using PV1 Probe Response
2073 11.1.4.3.8 Non-scanning probe request transmission
2074 11.1.4.3.9 Contents of a probe response
2075 11.1.4.3.10 PCP selection in a PBSS
2076 11.1.4.3.11 Enhanced FILS active scanning to preferred AP
2078 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
2079 11.1.4.6 Operation of Supported Rates and BSS Membership Selectors element and Extended Supported Rates and BSS Membership Selectors element
2080 11.1.5 Adjusting STA timers
2081 11.1.6 Terminating a BSS
11.2 Power management
11.2.1 General
11.2.2 Bufferable MMPDUs
2082 11.2.3 Power management in a non-DMG infrastructure network
11.2.3.1 General
2084 11.2.3.2 Non-AP STA power management modes
2085 11.2.3.3 AP TIM transmissions
2086 11.2.3.4 TIM types
2087 11.2.3.5 Power management with APSD
11.2.3.5.1 Power management with APSD procedures
2089 11.2.3.5.2 U-APSD coexistence
2090 11.2.3.6 AP operation
2094 11.2.3.7 Receive operation for STAs in PS mode
2095 11.2.3.8 Receive operation using APSD
2096 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
2099 11.2.3.13 TDLS peer U-APSD (TPU)
11.2.3.13.1 General
2100 11.2.3.13.2 TPU at the TPU buffer STA
2101 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
2103 11.2.3.14.4 FMS Response procedures
2104 11.2.3.15 TIM Broadcast
2106 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
2107 11.2.3.16.3 WNM sleep mode AP operation
2108 11.2.3.17 VHT TXOP power save
2109 11.2.3.18 AP power management
2111 11.2.3.19 CMMG TXOP power save
2112 11.2.4 Power management in an IBSS
11.2.4.1 Introduction
11.2.4.2 Basic approach
2114 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
2115 11.2.6 SM power save
11.2.7 Power management in a PBSS and DMG infrastructure BSS
11.2.7.1 General
2118 11.2.7.2 Non-AP and non-PCP STA power management mode
11.2.7.2.1 General
2119 11.2.7.2.2 Non-AP and non-PCP STA operation without a wakeup schedule
2120 11.2.7.2.3 Non-AP and non-PCP STA operation with a wakeup schedule
2121 11.2.7.2.4 Non-AP and non-PCP STA operation with or without a wakeup schedule
2122 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
2123 11.2.7.3.3 PCP operation with a wakeup schedule
2125 11.2.7.4 ATIM frame usage for power management of non-AP STAs
2127 11.2.8 ATIM frame and frame transmission in IBSS, DMG infrastructure BSS, and PBSS
2128 11.2.9 Power management with general links
2129 11.3 STA authentication and association
11.3.1 State variables
11.3.2 State transition diagram for nonmesh STAs
2130 11.3.3 Frame filtering based on STA state
2133 11.3.4 Authentication and deauthentication
11.3.4.1 General
11.3.4.2 Authentication—originating STA
2134 11.3.4.3 Authentication—destination STA
11.3.4.4 Deauthentication—originating STA
2135 11.3.4.5 Deauthentication—destination STA
11.3.5 Association, reassociation, and disassociation
11.3.5.1 General
2136 11.3.5.2 Non-AP and non-PCP STA association initiation procedures
2138 11.3.5.3 AP or PCP association receipt procedures
2140 11.3.5.4 Non-AP and non-PCP STA reassociation initiation procedures
2143 11.3.5.5 AP or PCP reassociation receipt procedures
2145 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
2146 11.3.5.8 AP or PCP disassociation initiation procedure
11.3.5.9 AP or PCP disassociation receipt procedure
2147 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
2148 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
2149 11.3.9.3 Distributed authentication control
2150 11.4 TS operation
11.4.1 Introduction
2152 11.4.2 TSPEC construction
2153 11.4.3 TS life cycle
2154 11.4.4 TS setup
11.4.4.1 General
11.4.4.2 Non-AP-STA-initiated TS setup
2155 11.4.4.3 AP-initiated TS setup
2156 11.4.4.4 TS setup procedures for both AP and non-AP STA initiation
2159 11.4.4.5 TS renegotiation
11.4.5 TS setup by resource request during a fast BSS transition
2160 11.4.6 PSMP management
2161 11.4.7 Failed TS setup
2162 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
2163 11.4.9.2 Peer-to-peer TS deletion and deletion of an allocation
2165 11.4.10 TS timeout
2168 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
2169 11.4.14 PTP TS operation
2170 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
2171 11.5.2.3 Procedure at the recipient
2172 11.5.2.4 Procedure common to both originator and recipient
2173 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
2175 11.6 Higher layer timer synchronization
11.6.1 Introduction
11.6.2 Procedure at the STA
2176 11.7 TPC procedures
11.7.1 General
2177 11.7.2 Association based on transmit power capability
11.7.3 Peering based on transmit power capability
2178 11.7.4 Interpretation of transmit power capability
11.7.5 Specification of regulatory and local maximum transmit power levels
2179 11.7.6 Transmit power selection
2180 11.7.7 Transmit power adaptation
11.8 DFS procedures
11.8.1 General
2181 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
2182 11.8.3 Quieting channels for testing
2183 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
2185 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
2186 11.8.8.3 Selecting and advertising a new channel in an IBSS
2188 11.8.8.4 MBSS channel switching
11.8.8.4.1 General
11.8.8.4.2 Initiating MBSS channel switch
2189 11.8.8.4.3 Processing channel switch announcement
2190 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
2191 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
2192 11.9 Extended channel switching (ECS)
11.9.1 General
11.9.2 Advertising supported operating classes
2193 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
2194 11.9.3.3 Selecting and advertising a new channel in an IBSS
2195 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
2196 11.10.3 Measurement start time
11.10.4 Measurement duration
2197 11.10.5 Station responsibility for conducting measurements
2198 11.10.6 Requesting and reporting of measurements
2200 11.10.7 Repeated Measurement Request frames
2201 11.10.8 Triggered autonomous reporting
2202 11.10.9 Specific measurement usage
11.10.9.1 Beacon report
2206 11.10.9.2 Frame report
11.10.9.3 Channel load report
2207 11.10.9.4 Noise Histogram report
2208 11.10.9.5 STA Statistics report
2209 11.10.9.6 LCI report (Location configuration information report)
2211 11.10.9.7 Measurement pause
11.10.9.8 Transmit Stream/Category Measurement report
2213 11.10.9.9 Location Civic report
2214 11.10.9.10 Location Identifier report
2216 11.10.9.11 Fine Timing Measurement Range report
2217 11.10.10 Usage of the neighbor report
11.10.10.1 General
11.10.10.2 Requesting a neighbor report
2218 11.10.10.3 Responding to a neighbor report request
2220 11.10.11 Link measurement
11.10.12 Measurement of the RPI histogram
11.10.13 Operation of the Max Transmit Power field
2221 11.10.14 Multiple BSSID set
11.10.15 Measurement Pilot frame generation and usage
11.10.15.1 General
2222 11.10.15.2 Measurement Pilot frame generation by an AP
2224 11.10.15.3 Measurement pilot usage by a STA
11.10.16 Access delay measurement
11.10.17 BSS Available Admission Capacity
2225 11.10.18 AP Channel Report
11.10.19 Multicast diagnostic reporting
2226 11.10.20 CCA request and report
11.10.21 RPI Histogram request and report
11.11 DSE procedures
11.11.1 General
2227 11.11.2 Enablement and deenablement
11.11.2.1 General
2228 11.11.2.2 Enablement requester STA
11.11.2.3 Enablement responder STA
11.11.2.4 Deenablement requester STA
2229 11.11.2.5 Deenablement responder STA
11.11.3 Registered STA operation
11.11.4 Enabling STA operation with DSE
2230 11.11.5 Dependent STA operation with DSE
2232 11.12 Group addressed management frame protection procedures
11.13 SA Query procedures
2233 11.14 HT BSS Operation
2234 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
2235 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
2237 11.15.3.3 Channel management at the AP and in an IBSS
2238 11.15.4 40 MHz PPDU transmission restrictions
11.15.4.1 Fields used to determine 40 MHz PPDU transmission restrictions
2239 11.15.4.2 Infrastructure non-AP STA restrictions
2240 11.15.4.3 AP restrictions
2241 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
2242 11.15.6 Exemption from OBSS scanning
2243 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
2244 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
2246 11.16 20/40 BSS Coexistence Management frame usage
2247 11.17 Public Action frame addressing
11.18 STAs communicating Data frames outside the context of a BSS
2248 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
2250 11.20.2 TDLS payload
11.20.3 TDLS Discovery
11.20.4 TDLS direct-link establishment
2252 11.20.5 TDLS direct-link teardown
2253 11.20.6 TDLS channel switching
11.20.6.1 General
2256 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
2257 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
2258 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
2259 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
2261 11.21.2.2 Transition event request and report
2262 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
2263 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
2264 11.21.3.2 Configuration Profile report
2265 11.21.3.3 Manufacturer information STA report
11.21.3.4 Association diagnostic
11.21.3.5 IEEE 802.1X authentication diagnostic
2266 11.21.4 Location track procedures
11.21.4.1 Location track configuration procedures
2268 11.21.4.2 Location track notification procedures
2271 11.21.5 Timing measurement procedure
2272 11.21.6 Fine timing measurement (FTM) procedure
11.21.6.1 Overview
2274 11.21.6.2 FTM capabilities
11.21.6.3 Fine timing measurement procedure negotiation
2276 11.21.6.4 Measurement exchange
2281 11.21.6.5 Fine timing measurement parameter modification
11.21.6.6 Fine timing measurement termination
2282 11.21.6.7 LCI and Location Civic retrieval using FTM procedure
2283 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
2284 11.21.7.3 BSS transition management request
2285 11.21.7.4 BSS transition management response
2286 11.21.8 FMS multicast rate processing
2287 11.21.9 Collocated interference reporting
2288 11.21.10 QoS Traffic capability procedure
2289 11.21.11 AC Station Count
11.21.12 TFS procedures
11.21.12.1 TFS capability
2290 11.21.12.2 TFS non-AP STA operation
2291 11.21.12.3 TFS AP operation
2292 11.21.13 BSS max idle period management
2293 11.21.14 Proxy ARP service
11.21.15 Channel usage procedures
2294 11.21.16 Group addressed transmission service
11.21.16.1 General
11.21.16.2 DMS procedures
2297 11.21.16.3 GCR procedures
11.21.16.3.1 Overview
2299 11.21.16.3.2 GCR group membership procedures
11.21.16.3.3 GCR setup procedures
2302 11.21.16.3.4 GCR operation
2306 11.21.16.3.5 Concealment of GCR transmissions
2307 11.21.16.3.6 GCR unsolicited retry
11.21.16.3.7 GCR block ack
11.21.16.3.8 GCR-SP
2308 11.21.16.4 GLK-GCR
11.21.16.4.1 Overview
11.21.16.4.2 GLK-GCR operation
2309 11.21.16.4.3 GLK-GCR unsolicited retry
11.21.16.4.4 GLK-GCR block ack
11.21.17 WNM notification
2310 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
2311 11.22.3.2 GAS Protocol
11.22.3.2.1 General
2316 11.22.3.2.2 STA procedures to transmit a GAS Query Request
2317 11.22.3.2.3 STA procedures to post a GAS Query Request to an Advertisement Server
2318 11.22.3.2.4 STA procedures for transmitting the GAS Query Response
2322 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
2325 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
2326 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
2327 11.22.3.3.9 Emergency NAI procedure
11.22.3.3.10 TDLS Capability procedure
11.22.3.3.11 Venue URL procedure
2328 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
2329 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
2330 11.22.4 Interworking procedures: IEEE 802.21 MIS support
11.22.5 Interworking procedures: interactions with SSPN
11.22.5.1 General operation
2331 11.22.5.2 Authentication and cipher suites selection with SSPN
11.22.5.3 Reporting and session control with SSPN
2332 11.22.6 Interworking procedures: emergency services support
2333 11.22.7 Interworking procedures: emergency alert system (EAS) support
2334 11.22.8 Interworking procedures: support for the advertisement of roaming consortiums
2335 11.22.9 Interworking procedures: support for QoS mapping from external networks
11.23 Preassociation discovery (PAD) procedures
11.23.1 General
2336 11.23.2 Unsolicited PAD procedure
2337 11.23.3 Solicited PAD procedure
11.23.4 Service hash procedure
2338 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
2339 11.24.1.2 Default QMF policy
2342 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
2344 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
2345 11.24.3 Interpreting QMF access categories
2346 11.25 Robust AV streaming
11.25.1 Robust AV streaming dependencies
11.25.2 SCS procedures
2347 11.25.3 MSCS procedures
2350 11.26 Procedures to manage OBSS
11.26.1 General
2351 11.26.2 QLoad Report element
11.26.2.1 Introduction
11.26.2.2 Calculating field values
2353 11.26.2.3 Requesting QLoad Reports using radio measurement requests
11.26.3 HCCA TXOP negotiation
2357 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
2358 11.27 DMG beamformed link and BSS maintenance
11.27.1 Beamformed link maintenance
2360 11.27.2 PCP Handover
11.27.2.1 General
2361 11.27.2.2 Explicit handover procedure
2362 11.27.2.3 Implicit handover procedure
11.28 DMG BSS peer and service discovery
11.28.1 Information Request and Response
2363 11.28.2 Peer Service Discovery
2364 11.29 Changing DMG BSS parameters
11.29.1 General
11.29.2 Moving the TBTT
2365 11.29.3 Changing beacon interval duration
2366 11.29.4 Maintaining synchronization in an AP or PCP cluster
11.29.5 Recommending DMG BSS parameters to the AP or PCP
2367 11.30 Spatial sharing and interference mitigation for DMG STAs
11.30.1 General
11.30.2 Spatial sharing and interference assessment
2368 11.30.3 Achieving spatial sharing and interference mitigation
2370 11.30.4 PBSS and infrastructure BSS stability in OBSS scenarios
11.31 Multi-band operation
11.31.1 General
2371 11.31.2 General FST rules
2372 11.31.3 FST setup protocol
11.31.3.1 General
2374 11.31.3.2 Transitioning between states
2379 11.31.3.3 FST TS switching
2381 11.31.4 FST teardown
11.31.5 On-channel Tunneling (OCT) operation
2386 11.31.6 FST payload
11.32 MMSL cluster operation
11.32.1 Introduction
2387 11.32.2 MMSL cluster setup
11.32.2.1 General
2388 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
2389 11.34 DMG relay procedures
11.34.1 General
2390 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
2391 11.34.2.4 RLS procedure
11.34.3 Relay operation-type change procedure
2392 11.34.4 Relay teardown
11.35 Quieting adjacent DMG BSSs
11.35.1 General
2393 11.35.2 Procedure at the requester AP
11.35.3 Procedure at the responder AP
2394 11.36 DMG beamforming
2396 11.37 DMG MAC sublayer attributes
11.38 VHT BSS operation
11.38.1 Basic VHT BSS functionality
2400 11.38.2 Channel selection methods for a VHT BSS
11.38.3 Scanning requirements for VHT STA
2401 11.38.4 Channel switching methods for a VHT BSS
2403 11.38.5 NAV assertion in a VHT BSS
2404 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
2405 11.40 Notification of operating mode changes
2408 11.41 Basic TVHT BSS functionality
2409 11.42 Operation under the control of a GDB
11.42.1 General
2410 11.42.2 GDD enabling STA operation
11.42.3 GDD dependent STA operation
2412 11.42.4 Channel availability query (CAQ) procedure
11.42.4.1 Introduction
2413 11.42.4.2 CAQ requesting STA
11.42.4.3 CAQ responding STA
2415 11.42.5 Channel schedule management (CSM) procedures
11.42.5.1 Introduction
2416 11.42.5.2 CSM requesting STA
11.42.5.3 CSM responding STA
2417 11.42.6 Contact verification signal (CVS)
11.42.7 Network channel control (NCC) procedures
11.42.7.1 Introduction
2418 11.42.7.2 NCC requesting STA
11.42.7.3 NCC responding STA
2419 11.42.8 White space map (WSM)
2420 11.43 Beacon RSSI
11.44 Estimated throughput
2423 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
2424 11.45.2.2 FILS Discovery frame reception
2425 11.45.3 Higher layer setup during (re)association procedure
11.45.3.1 General
11.45.3.2 Higher layer protocol encapsulation
2427 11.45.3.3 FILS IP address configuration
2428 11.45.4 FILS authentication and higher layer setup capability indications
11.45.5 DILS
11.45.5.1 General
2429 11.45.5.2 AP procedures for DILS
11.45.5.3 Non-AP STA procedures for DILS
2430 11.46 Support for energy limited STAs
11.47 DCS procedure for CDMG BSS
11.47.1 General
2432 11.47.2 Assessing current channel condition
11.47.3 Requesting measurements for new operating channel
2433 11.47.4 Reporting measurements
11.47.5 Requesting existing BSS to migrate to a new channel
2434 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
2435 11.48.3 Scanning requirements for CMMG STAs
11.48.4 Channel switching methods for a CMMG BSS
2437 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
2438 11.49 Reduced neighbor report
2439 11.50 GLK operation
11.50.1 General
11.50.2 Reported general link metrics
2441 11.51 EPD operation
11.52 Beacon frame protection procedures
2442 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
2443 12.2.4 RSNA establishment
2445 12.2.5 RSNA assumptions and constraints
2446 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
2447 12.2.10 Requirements for support of MAC privacy enhancements
2448 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
2449 12.3.2.2 WEP MPDU format
12.3.2.3 WEP state
2450 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
2451 12.3.2.4.5 WEP MPDU decapsulation
12.3.3 Pre-RSNA authentication
12.3.3.1 Overview
2452 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
2453 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)
2454 12.3.3.3.6 Shared key MIB attributes
2456 12.4 Authentication using a password
12.4.1 SAE overview
12.4.2 Assumptions on SAE
2457 12.4.3 Representation of a password
12.4.4 Finite cyclic groups
12.4.4.1 General
2458 12.4.4.2 Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) groups
12.4.4.2.1 ECC group definition
2459 12.4.4.2.2 Generation of the password element with ECC groups by looping
2461 12.4.4.2.3 Hash-to-curve generation of the password element with ECC groups
2463 12.4.4.3 Finite field cryptography (FFC) groups
12.4.4.3.1 FFC group definition
2464 12.4.4.3.2 Generation of the password element with FFC groups by looping
2465 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
2466 12.4.5.2 PWE and secret generation
12.4.5.3 Construction of an SAE Commit message
2467 12.4.5.4 Processing of a peer’s SAE Commit message
2468 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
2469 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
2470 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
2471 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
2472 12.4.8.2 States
12.4.8.2.1 Parent process states
12.4.8.2.2 Protocol instance states
2473 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
2474 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
2475 12.4.8.6 Behavior of state machine
12.4.8.6.1 Parent process behavior
2476 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
2478 12.4.8.6.5 Protocol instance behavior—Confirmed state
12.4.8.6.6 Protocol instance behavior—Accepted state
2479 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
2480 12.5.2.1.3 TKIP decapsulation
2481 12.5.2.2 TKIP MPDU formats
2482 12.5.2.3 TKIP MIC
12.5.2.3.1 General
12.5.2.3.2 Motivation for the TKIP MIC
2484 12.5.2.3.3 Definition of the TKIP MIC
2485 12.5.2.4 TKIP countermeasures procedures
12.5.2.4.1 General
2486 12.5.2.4.2 TKIP countermeasures for an Authenticator
2487 12.5.2.4.3 TKIP countermeasures for a Supplicant
2488 12.5.2.5 TKIP mixing function
12.5.2.5.1 General
2489 12.5.2.5.2 S-Box
2490 12.5.2.5.3 Phase 1 Definition
2491 12.5.2.5.4 Phase 2 definition
2492 12.5.2.6 TKIP replay protection procedures
2493 12.5.3 CTR with CBC-MAC protocol (CCMP)
12.5.3.1 General
2494 12.5.3.2 CCMP MPDU format
2495 12.5.3.3 CCMP cryptographic encapsulation
12.5.3.3.1 General
2496 12.5.3.3.2 PN processing
12.5.3.3.3 Construct AAD
2498 12.5.3.3.4 Construct CCM nonce
2499 12.5.3.3.5 Construct CCMP header for PV0 MPDUs
12.5.3.3.6 Construct CCMP header for PV1 MPDUs
2500 12.5.3.3.7 CCM originator processing
2501 12.5.3.4 CCMP decapsulation
12.5.3.4.1 General
2502 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
2503 12.5.4 Broadcast/multicast integrity protocol (BIP)
12.5.4.1 BIP overview
2504 12.5.4.2 BIP MMPDU format
12.5.4.3 BIP AAD construction
12.5.4.4 BIP replay protection
2505 12.5.4.5 BIP transmission
2506 12.5.4.6 BIP reception
2507 12.5.5 GCM protocol (GCMP)
12.5.5.1 GCMP overview
12.5.5.2 GCMP MPDU format
2508 12.5.5.3 GCMP cryptographic encapsulation
12.5.5.3.1 General
2509 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
2510 12.5.5.4 GCMP decapsulation
12.5.5.4.1 General
2511 12.5.5.4.2 GCM recipient processing
12.5.5.4.3 Decrypted GCMP MPDU
2512 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
2513 12.6.1.1.2 PMKSA
2514 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
2515 12.6.1.1.6 PTKSA
12.6.1.1.7 Mesh TKSA
2516 12.6.1.1.8 GTKSA
12.6.1.1.9 IGTKSA
2517 12.6.1.1.10 Mesh GTKSA
12.6.1.1.11 BIGTKSA
2518 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
2520 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
2521 12.6.2 RSNA selection
12.6.3 RSNA policy selection in an infrastructure BSS
2523 12.6.4 TSN policy selection in an infrastructure BSS
12.6.5 RSNA policy selection in an IBSS
2525 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
2526 12.6.10 RSNA authentication in an infrastructure BSS
12.6.10.1 General
2527 12.6.10.2 Preauthentication and RSNA key management
2528 12.6.10.3 Cached PMKSAs and RSNA key management
2529 12.6.11 RSNA authentication in an IBSS
2530 12.6.12 RSNA authentication in an MBSS
12.6.13 RSNA authentication in a PBSS
2531 12.6.14 RSNA key management in an infrastructure BSS
12.6.15 RSNA key management in an IBSS
2532 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
2533 12.6.19 Protection of robust Management frames
2534 12.6.20 Robust management frame selection procedure
2535 12.6.21 RSNA rekeying
12.6.22 Multi-band RSNA
12.6.22.1 General
2536 12.6.22.2 Nontransparent multi-band RSNA
2537 12.6.22.3 Transparent multi-band RSNA
12.6.22.4 Multi-band RSNA with TDLS in a non-DMG BSS
2538 12.6.23 Protection of Beacon frames
12.7 Keys and key distribution
12.7.1 Key hierarchy
12.7.1.1 General
2539 12.7.1.2 PRF
2541 12.7.1.3 Pairwise key hierarchy
2543 12.7.1.4 Group key hierarchy
2544 12.7.1.5 Integrity group key hierarchy
2545 12.7.1.6 FT key hierarchy
12.7.1.6.1 Overview
2546 12.7.1.6.2 Key derivation function (KDF)
2547 12.7.1.6.3 PMK-R0
2548 12.7.1.6.4 PMK-R1
2549 12.7.1.6.5 PTK
2550 12.7.1.7 Beacon protection key hierarchy
12.7.2 EAPOL-Key frames
2559 12.7.3 EAPOL-Key frame construction and processing
2560 12.7.4 EAPOL-Key frame notation
2561 12.7.5 Nonce generation
12.7.6 4-way handshake
12.7.6.1 General
2562 12.7.6.2 4-way handshake message 1
2563 12.7.6.3 4-way handshake message 2
2565 12.7.6.4 4-way handshake message 3
2567 12.7.6.5 4-way handshake message 4
2568 12.7.6.6 4-way handshake implementation considerations
12.7.6.7 Sample 4-way handshake
2569 12.7.6.8 4-way handshake analysis
2571 12.7.7 Group key handshake
12.7.7.1 General
2572 12.7.7.2 Group key handshake message 1
2573 12.7.7.3 Group key handshake message 2
2574 12.7.7.4 Group key handshake implementation considerations
12.7.7.5 Sample group key handshake
2575 12.7.8 TDLS PeerKey (TPK) security protocol
12.7.8.1 General
12.7.8.2 TPK handshake
2577 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
2578 12.7.8.4.3 TPK handshake message 2
2580 12.7.8.4.4 TPK handshake message 3
2581 12.7.9 RSNA Supplicant key management state machine
12.7.9.1 General
12.7.9.2 Supplicant state machine states
2582 12.7.9.3 Supplicant state machine variables
12.7.9.4 Supplicant state machine procedures
2585 12.7.10 RSNA Authenticator key management state machine
12.7.10.1 General
2588 12.7.10.2 Authenticator state machine states
12.7.10.2.1 Authenticator state machine: 4-way handshake (per STA)
2589 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)
2590 12.7.10.3 Authenticator state machine variables
2591 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
2592 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)
2593 12.10 AP PeerKey support
12.10.1 AP PeerKey overview
12.10.2 AP PeerKey protocol
2596 12.11 Authentication for FILS
12.11.1 General
2597 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
2598 12.11.2.3.2 Non-AP STA construction of Authentication frame
2599 12.11.2.3.3 AP processing of Authentication frame
2600 12.11.2.3.4 AP construction of Authentication frame
12.11.2.3.5 Non-AP STA processing of Authentication frame
2601 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
2602 12.11.2.4.3 Processing after receipt
12.11.2.4.4 Post processing
2603 12.11.2.4.5 Upon receipt
12.11.2.5 Key establishment with FILS authentication
12.11.2.5.1 General
2604 12.11.2.5.2 PMKSA key derivation with FILS authentication
12.11.2.5.3 PTKSA Key derivation with FILS authentication
2605 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
2607 12.11.2.6.3 (Re)Association Response for FILS key confirmation
2610 12.11.2.7 AEAD cipher mode for FILS
2611 13. Fast BSS transition
13.1 Overview
13.2 Key holders
13.2.1 Introduction
2612 13.2.2 Authenticator key holders
2613 13.2.3 Supplicant key holders
2614 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
2617 13.4.3 FT initial mobility domain association in a non-RSN
2618 13.4.4 FT initial mobility domain association over FILS in an RSN
2619 13.5 FT protocol
13.5.1 Overview
2620 13.5.2 Over-the-air FT protocol authentication in an RSN
2621 13.5.3 Over-the-DS FT protocol in an RSN
2624 13.5.4 Over-the-air FT protocol in a non-RSN
2625 13.5.5 Over-the-DS FT protocol in a non-RSN
2626 13.6 FT resource request protocol
13.6.1 Overview
13.6.2 Over-the-air fast BSS transition with resource request
2629 13.6.3 Over-the-DS fast BSS transition with resource request
2631 13.7 FT reassociation
13.7.1 FT reassociation in an RSN
2633 13.7.2 FT reassociation in a non-RSN
2634 13.8 FT authentication sequence
13.8.1 Overview
2635 13.8.2 FT authentication sequence: contents of first message
2636 13.8.3 FT authentication sequence: contents of second message
13.8.4 FT authentication sequence: contents of third message
2637 13.8.5 FT authentication sequence: contents of fourth message
2639 13.9 FT security architecture state machines
13.9.1 Introduction
13.9.2 R0KH state machine
13.9.2.1 General
2640 13.9.2.2 R0KH state machine states
2641 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
2643 13.9.3.2 R1KH state machine states
2644 13.9.3.3 R1KH state machine variables
2645 13.9.3.4 R1KH state machine procedures
13.9.4 S0KH state machine
13.9.4.1 General
2646 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
2649 13.9.5.2 S1KH state machine states
2650 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
2651 13.10.2 Remote request broker (RRB)
13.10.3 Remote Request/Response frame definition
2652 13.11 Resource request procedures
13.11.1 General
2653 13.11.2 Resource information container (RIC)
2655 13.11.3 Creation and handling of a resource request
13.11.3.1 FTO procedures
2656 13.11.3.2 AP procedures
2659 14. MLME mesh procedures
14.1 Mesh STA dependencies
14.2 Mesh discovery
14.2.1 General
14.2.2 Mesh identifier
2660 14.2.3 Mesh profile
14.2.4 Mesh STA configuration
2661 14.2.5 Supplemental information for the mesh discovery
14.2.6 Scanning mesh BSSs
14.2.7 Candidate peer mesh STA
2662 14.2.8 Establishing or becoming a member of a mesh BSS
14.2.9 Establishing mesh peerings
2663 14.3 Mesh peering management (MPM)
14.3.1 General
2664 14.3.2 State variable management
14.3.3 Mesh authentication
2665 14.3.4 Mesh peering instance controller
14.3.4.1 Overview
14.3.4.2 Creating a new mesh peering instance
2666 14.3.4.3 Deleting mesh peering instances
14.3.5 Mesh peering instance selection
2667 14.3.6 Mesh peering open
14.3.6.1 Generating Mesh Peering Open frames
14.3.6.2 Mesh Peering Open frame processing
2668 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
2669 14.4.2 States
14.4.3 Events and actions
2670 14.4.4 Timers
2671 14.4.5 State transitions
2672 14.4.6 IDLE state
2673 14.4.7 OPN_SNT state
14.4.8 CNF_RCVD state
2674 14.4.9 OPN_RCVD state
2675 14.4.10 ESTAB state
14.4.11 HOLDING state
14.5 Authenticated mesh peering exchange (AMPE)
14.5.1 Overview
2676 14.5.2 Security capabilities selection
14.5.2.1 Instance Pairwise Cipher Suite selection
2677 14.5.2.2 Group cipher suite selection
14.5.3 Construction and processing AES-SIV-protected mesh peering Management frames
2678 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
2679 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
2680 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
2681 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
2683 14.5.7 Keys and key derivation algorithm for the authenticated mesh peering exchange (AMPE)
2684 14.6 Mesh group key handshake
14.6.1 General
2685 14.6.2 Protection on mesh group key handshake frames
2686 14.6.3 Mesh Group Key Inform frame construction and processing
2687 14.6.4 Mesh Group Key Acknowledge frame construction and processing
14.6.5 Mesh group key implementation considerations
2688 14.7 Mesh security
14.8 Mesh path selection and metric framework
14.8.1 General
14.8.2 Extensible path selection framework
2689 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
2691 14.10 Hybrid wireless mesh protocol (HWMP)
14.10.1 General
14.10.2 Terminology
2693 14.10.3 On-demand path selection mode
2694 14.10.4 Proactive tree building mode
14.10.4.1 General
14.10.4.2 Proactive PREQ mechanism
2695 14.10.4.3 Proactive RANN mechanism
14.10.5 Collocated STAs
2696 14.10.6 Parameters for extensible path selection framework
14.10.7 Addressing of HWMP Mesh Path Selection frame
2698 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
2699 14.10.8.4 Forwarding information
2701 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
2702 14.10.9.3 Conditions for generating and sending a PREQ element
2710 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
2711 14.10.10 Path reply (PREP) mechanism
14.10.10.1 General
14.10.10.2 Function
2712 14.10.10.3 Conditions for generating and sending a PREP element
2715 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
2716 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
2719 14.10.11.4 PERR element processing
14.10.11.4.1 General
2720 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
2721 14.10.12.3 Conditions for generating and sending a RANN element
2722 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
2723 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
2724 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
2725 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
2726 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
2728 14.11.4 Proxy information and proxy update
14.11.4.1 General
14.11.4.2 Proxy information
2729 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
2730 14.11.4.3.4 Effect of receipt of a PXU element
2731 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
2732 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
2733 14.13 Synchronization and beaconing in MBSSs
14.13.1 TSF for MBSSs
14.13.2 Extensible synchronization framework
14.13.2.1 General
2734 14.13.2.2 Neighbor offset synchronization method
14.13.2.2.1 General
14.13.2.2.2 Timing offset calculation
2735 14.13.2.2.3 Clock drift adjustment
2736 14.13.3 Beaconing
14.13.3.1 Beacon generation in MBSSs
14.13.3.2 Beacon reception for mesh STA
2737 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
2738 14.13.4.2.2 Calculation of neighbor STA’s TBTT
14.13.4.2.3 Beacon timing information
2739 14.13.4.2.4 Maintenance of the status number
14.13.4.2.5 Transmitter’s procedure
2740 14.13.4.2.6 Receiver’s procedure
14.13.4.3 TBTT selection
2741 14.13.4.4 TBTT adjustment
14.13.4.4.1 Self-determined TBTT adjustment
14.13.4.4.2 Requested TBTT adjustment
2742 14.13.4.4.3 TBTT scanning and adjustment procedures
14.13.4.5 Frame transmission across reported TBTT
2743 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
2744 14.14.2.2 Peer-specific mesh power management modes
2745 14.14.2.3 Nonpeer mesh power management modes
14.14.3 Mesh power management mode indications and transitions
14.14.3.1 General
2746 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
2747 14.14.6 Mesh awake window
14.14.7 Power save support
2748 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
2749 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
2750 14.14.9.2 Initiation of a mesh peer service period
2751 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
2752 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
2753 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
2754 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
2755 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
2756 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
2757 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
2758 15.3.3.7 PHY CRC field
2759 15.3.4 PHY/DSSS PHY data scrambler and descrambler
2760 15.3.5 PHY data modulation and modulation rate change
15.3.6 Transmit PHY
2762 15.3.7 Receive PHY
2765 15.4 DSSS PLME
15.4.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives
2766 15.4.2 DSSS PHY MIB
15.4.3 DSSS PHY
2767 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
2768 15.4.4.4 Spreading sequence
15.4.4.5 Modulation and channel data rates
2769 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
2770 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
2771 15.4.5.9 RF carrier suppression
15.4.5.10 Transmit modulation accuracy
2773 15.4.5.11 Time of Departure accuracy
2774 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
2775 15.4.6.6 Received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement
15.4.6.7 DSSS PHY TXTIME calculation
2776 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
2777 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
2778 16.2.2.3 Short PPDU format
2779 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
2780 16.2.3.6 Long PHY LENGTH field
2781 16.2.3.7 PHY CRC (CRC-16) field
2783 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)
2784 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
2785 16.2.5 Transmit PHY
2786 16.2.6 Receive PHY
2789 16.3 HR/DSSS PLME
16.3.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives
2791 16.3.2 HR/DSSS PHY MIB
16.3.3 HR/DSSS PHY
16.3.4 HR/DSSS TXTIME calculation
2792 16.3.5 Vector descriptions
2793 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
2794 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
2795 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
2796 16.3.6.6.2 Cover code for CCK
16.3.6.6.3 CCK 5.5 Mb/s modulation
2797 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
2798 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
2799 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
2800 16.3.7.8 RF carrier suppression
16.3.7.9 Transmit modulation accuracy
2802 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
2803 16.3.8.3 Receiver maximum input level
16.3.8.4 Receiver adjacent channel rejection
16.3.8.5 CCA
2804 16.3.8.6 Received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement
2805 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
2806 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
2807 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
2808 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
2809 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
2810 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
2811 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
2812 17.3.2.2 Overview of the PPDU encoding process
2813 17.3.2.3 Modulation-dependent parameters
2814 17.3.2.4 Timing-related parameters
17.3.2.5 Mathematical conventions in the signal descriptions
2816 17.3.2.6 Discrete time implementation considerations
2817 17.3.3 PHY preamble (SYNC)
2818 17.3.4 SIGNAL field
17.3.4.1 General
2819 17.3.4.2 RATE field
17.3.4.3 PHY LENGTH field
2820 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)
2821 17.3.5.5 PHY DATA scrambler and descrambler
2824 17.3.5.6 Convolutional encoder
2826 17.3.5.7 Data interleaving
17.3.5.8 Subcarrier modulation mapping
2829 17.3.5.9 Pilot subcarriers
17.3.5.10 OFDM modulation
2831 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
2832 17.3.8.2 Outline description
2833 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
2834 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
2836 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
2837 17.3.9.7.3 Transmitter spectral flatness
17.3.9.7.4 Transmitter constellation error
17.3.9.8 Transmit modulation accuracy test
2839 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
2840 17.3.10.3 Adjacent channel rejection
17.3.10.4 Nonadjacent channel rejection
2841 17.3.10.5 Receiver maximum input level
17.3.10.6 CCA requirements
17.3.10.7 Received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement
2842 17.3.11 Transmit PHY
2845 17.3.12 Receive PHY
2847 17.4 OFDM PLME
17.4.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives
2849 17.4.2 OFDM PHY MIB
17.4.3 OFDM TXTIME calculation
2850 17.4.4 OFDM PHY
2851 18. Extended Rate PHY (ERP) specification
18.1 Overview
18.1.1 General
18.1.2 Introduction
2852 18.1.3 Operational modes
18.1.4 Scope of ERP PHY services
2853 18.1.5 ERP functions
18.2 PHY-specific service parameter list
2855 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
2856 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
2857 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
2858 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
2859 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
2861 18.5.3 TXTIME
18.5.3.1 General
18.5.3.2 ERP-OFDM TXTIME calculations
2862 18.5.4 ERP
2863 19. High-throughput (HT) PHY specification
19.1 Introduction
19.1.1 Introduction to the HT PHY
2864 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
2865 19.2 HT PHY service interface
19.2.1 Introduction
19.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters
2872 19.2.3 PHYCONFIG_VECTOR parameters
19.2.4 Effect of CH_BANDWIDTH, CH_OFFSET, and MCS parameters on PPDU format
2873 19.2.5 Support for NON_HT formats
2875 19.2.6 TXSTATUS parameters
19.3 HT PHY
19.3.1 Introduction
2876 19.3.2 PPDU format
2878 19.3.3 Transmitter block diagram
2880 19.3.4 Overview of the PPDU encoding process
2882 19.3.5 Modulation and coding scheme (MCS)
2883 19.3.6 Timing-related parameters
2885 19.3.7 Mathematical description of signals
2888 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
2889 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
2890 19.3.9.3.3 L-STF definition
2891 19.3.9.3.4 L-LTF definition
19.3.9.3.5 L-SIG definition
2892 19.3.9.4 HT portion of HT-mixed format preamble
19.3.9.4.1 Introduction
2893 19.3.9.4.2 Cyclic shift definition
19.3.9.4.3 HT-SIG definition
2896 19.3.9.4.4 CRC calculation for HT-SIG
2897 19.3.9.4.5 HT-STF definition
19.3.9.4.6 HT-LTF definition
2902 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
2904 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
2905 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
2906 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
2907 19.3.11.7.3 LDPC encoder
19.3.11.7.4 Parity-check matrices
2908 19.3.11.7.5 LDPC PPDU encoding process
2910 19.3.11.7.6 LDPC parser
19.3.11.8 Data interleaver
19.3.11.8.1 Overview
2911 19.3.11.8.2 Stream parser
19.3.11.8.3 Frequency interleaver
2913 19.3.11.9 Constellation mapping
19.3.11.9.1 General
19.3.11.9.2 Space-time block coding (STBC)
2914 19.3.11.10 Pilot subcarriers
2916 19.3.11.11 OFDM modulation
19.3.11.11.1 General
19.3.11.11.2 Spatial mapping
2918 19.3.11.11.3 Transmission in 20 MHz HT format
2919 19.3.11.11.4 Transmission in 40 MHz HT format
2920 19.3.11.11.5 Transmission in MCS 32 format
2921 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
2922 19.3.12.2 Implicit feedback beamforming
2925 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
2926 19.3.12.3.4 Example of CSI matrices feedback encoding
19.3.12.3.5 Noncompressed beamforming feedback matrix
2927 19.3.12.3.6 Compressed beamforming feedback matrix
2929 19.3.13 HT Preamble format for sounding PPDUs
19.3.13.1 General
2930 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
2931 19.3.14 Regulatory requirements
2932 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
2933 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
2935 19.3.18.2 Spectral flatness
2936 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
2937 19.3.18.7.3 Transmitter constellation error
19.3.18.7.4 Transmitter modulation accuracy (EVM) test
2938 19.3.18.8 Time of Departure accuracy
2939 19.3.19 HT PHY receiver specification
19.3.19.1 Receiver minimum input sensitivity
19.3.19.2 Adjacent channel rejection
2940 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
2941 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
2942 19.3.19.6 Received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement
19.3.19.7 Reduced interframe space (RIFS)
19.3.20 PHY transmit procedure
2945 19.3.21 PHY receive procedure
2949 19.4 HT PLME
19.4.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives
2954 19.4.2 PHY MIB
19.4.3 TXTIME calculation
2955 19.4.4 HT PHY
2956 19.5 Parameters for HT-MCSs
2965 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
2966 20.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters
2968 20.2.3 PHYCONFIG_VECTOR parameters
20.2.4 TXSTATUS parameters
20.3 Common parameters
20.3.1 Channelization
2969 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
2970 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
2972 20.3.4 Timing-related parameters
20.3.5 Mathematical conventions in the signal description
20.3.5.1 General
2973 20.3.6 Common preamble
20.3.6.1 General
2974 20.3.6.2 Short Training field
20.3.6.3 Channel Estimation field
2975 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
2976 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
2977 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
2978 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
2979 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
2980 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
2981 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
2982 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
2983 20.5.3 Transmission
20.5.3.1 Header
20.5.3.1.1 General
2985 20.5.3.1.2 Modulation and coding scheme
2986 20.5.3.1.3 Generation of the HCS bits
2987 20.5.3.1.4 Header encoding and modulation
20.5.3.1.5 Length recovery for extended SC MCSs at receiver
2988 20.5.3.2 Data field
20.5.3.2.1 General
20.5.3.2.2 Scrambler
20.5.3.2.3 Encoding
2991 20.5.3.2.4 Modulation mapping
2994 20.5.3.2.5 Symbol blocking and guard insertion
2995 20.5.4 Performance requirements
20.5.4.1 Transmit requirements
20.5.4.1.1 Transmit EVM
2996 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
2997 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
2998 20.6.2.3.2 Scrambler
20.6.2.3.3 Encoding
3000 20.6.2.3.4 Modulation
20.6.2.3.5 Blocking
20.7 PHY transmit procedure
3003 20.8 PHY receive procedure
3004 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
3006 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
3007 20.9.2.2.5 AGC field
3008 20.9.2.2.6 TRN field
20.9.2.2.7 Channel measurement
20.10 Golay sequences
3010 20.11 DMG PLME
20.11.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives
20.11.2 DMG PHY MIB
20.11.3 TXTIME calculation
3011 20.11.4 DMG PHY
3013 21. Very high throughput (VHT) PHY specification
21.1 Introduction
21.1.1 Introduction to the VHT PHY
3014 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
3015 21.2 VHT PHY service interface
21.2.1 Introduction
21.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters
3023 21.2.3 PHYCONFIG_VECTOR parameters
3024 21.2.4 Effects of CH_BANDWIDTH parameter on PPDU format
3026 21.2.5 Support for NON_HT and HT formats
21.2.5.1 General
3028 21.2.5.2 Support for NON_HT format when NON_HT_MODULATION is OFDM
3029 21.2.5.3 Support for HT formats
3030 21.2.6 TXSTATUS parameters
21.3 VHT PHY
21.3.1 Introduction
21.3.2 VHT PPDU format
3031 21.3.3 Transmitter block diagram
3039 21.3.4 Overview of the PPDU encoding process
21.3.4.1 General
21.3.4.2 Construction of L-STF
3040 21.3.4.3 Construction of the L-LTF
21.3.4.4 Construction of L-SIG
3041 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
3042 21.3.4.8 Construction of VHT-SIG-B
3043 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
3044 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
3045 21.3.5 VHT modulation and coding scheme (VHT-MCS)
21.3.6 Timing-related parameters
3048 21.3.7 Mathematical description of signals
21.3.7.1 Notation
3049 21.3.7.2 Subcarrier indices in use
21.3.7.3 Channel frequencies
3051 21.3.7.4 Transmitted signal
3055 21.3.7.5 Definition of tone rotation
21.3.8 VHT preamble
21.3.8.1 Introduction
3056 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
3057 21.3.8.2.3 L-LTF definition
21.3.8.2.4 L-SIG definition
3059 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
3060 21.3.8.3.3 VHT-SIG-A definition
3063 21.3.8.3.4 VHT-STF definition
3065 21.3.8.3.5 VHT-LTF definition
3068 21.3.8.3.6 VHT-SIG-B definition
3072 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
3073 21.3.10.2 SERVICE field
3074 21.3.10.3 CRC calculation for VHT-SIG-B
21.3.10.4 Scrambler
3075 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
3076 21.3.10.5.5 Encoding process for VHT MU PPDUs
3077 21.3.10.6 Stream parser
3079 21.3.10.7 Segment parser
3080 21.3.10.8 BCC interleaver
3082 21.3.10.9 Constellation mapping
21.3.10.9.1 General
3087 21.3.10.9.2 LDPC tone mapping
3088 21.3.10.9.3 Segment deparser
3089 21.3.10.9.4 Space-time block coding
3090 21.3.10.10 Pilot subcarriers
3091 21.3.10.11 OFDM modulation
21.3.10.11.1 Transmission in VHT format
3093 21.3.10.12 Non-HT duplicate transmission
3094 21.3.11 SU-MIMO and DL-MU-MIMO Beamforming
21.3.11.1 General
21.3.11.2 Beamforming Feedback Matrix V
3095 21.3.11.3 Maximum Number of Total Spatial Streams in VHT MU PPDUs
21.3.11.4 Group ID
3096 21.3.12 VHT preamble format for sounding PPDUs
21.3.13 Regulatory requirements
21.3.14 Channelization
3098 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
3101 21.3.17.2 Spectral flatness
3103 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
3104 21.3.17.4.4 Transmitter modulation accuracy (EVM) test
3105 21.3.17.5 Time of Departure accuracy
3106 21.3.18 VHT receiver specification
21.3.18.1 Receiver minimum input sensitivity
21.3.18.2 Adjacent channel rejection
3107 21.3.18.3 Nonadjacent channel rejection
3108 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
3109 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
3110 21.3.18.6 RSSI
21.3.19 PHY transmit procedure
3113 21.3.20 PHY receive procedure
3117 21.4 VHT PLME
21.4.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives
3120 21.4.2 PHY MIB
21.4.3 TXTIME and PSDU_LENGTH calculation
3122 21.4.4 VHT PHY
3123 21.5 Parameters for VHT-MCSs
3140 22. Television very high throughput (TVHT) PHY specification
22.1 Introduction
22.1.1 Introduction to the TVHT PHY
3141 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
3142 22.1.4 PPDU formats
22.2 TVHT PHY service interface
22.2.1 Introduction
22.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters
3149 22.2.3 Effects of CH_BANDWIDTH parameter on PPDU format
3150 22.2.4 Support for NON_HT and HT formats
3153 22.3 TVHT PHY sublayer
22.3.1 Introduction
22.3.2 VHT PPDU format in TVWS bands
3154 22.3.3 Transmitter block diagram
3155 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
3156 22.3.4.4 Construction of L-SIG
22.3.4.5 Construction of TVHT-SIG-A
3157 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
3158 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
3159 22.3.5 Modulation and coding scheme (MCS)
22.3.6 Timing-related parameters
3160 22.3.7 Mathematical description of signals
3164 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
3165 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
3166 22.3.8.3.4 TVHT-STF definition
22.3.8.3.5 TVHT-LTF definition
3167 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
3168 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
3169 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
3170 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
3171 22.3.13 Regulatory requirements
22.3.14 Channelization
3173 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
3174 22.3.17.2 Spectral flatness
3175 22.3.17.3 Transmit center frequency and symbol clock frequency tolerance
3176 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
3177 22.3.18.2 Receiver minimum input sensitivity
22.3.18.3 Adjacent channel rejection
3178 22.3.18.4 Nonadjacent channel rejection
22.3.18.5 Receiver maximum input level
3179 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
3180 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
3181 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
3182 22.5 Parameters for TVHT-MCSs
3189 23. Sub 1 GHz (S1G) PHY specification
23.1 Introduction
23.1.1 Introduction to the S1G PHY
3190 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
3191 23.1.4 PPDU formats
23.2 S1G PHY service interface
23.2.1 Introduction
3192 23.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters
3200 23.2.3 Effect of CH_BANDWIDTH parameter on PPDU format
3201 23.3 S1G PHY sublayer
23.3.1 Introduction
23.3.2 S1G PPDU format
3203 23.3.3 Transmitter block diagram
3204 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
3205 23.3.4.2.2 Construction of LTF1
23.3.4.2.3 Construction of SIG-A
3206 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
3207 23.3.4.3 Construction of the Preamble part in an S1G_SHORT PPDU
23.3.4.3.1 Construction of STF
3208 23.3.4.3.2 Construction of LTF1
23.3.4.3.3 Construction of SIG
3209 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
3210 23.3.4.4.2 Construction of 1 MHz LTF1
23.3.4.4.3 Construction of 1 MHz SIG
3211 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
3212 23.3.4.6.2 Using LDPC
3213 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
3214 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
3215 23.3.5 Modulation and coding scheme
23.3.6 Timing-related parameters
3219 23.3.7 Mathematical description of signals
3225 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
3226 23.3.8.2.2 S1G_SHORT preamble
3233 23.3.8.2.3 S1G_LONG preamble
3247 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
3248 23.3.8.3.4 LTF definition
3250 23.3.8.3.5 SIG definition
3252 23.3.9 Data field
23.3.9.1 General
23.3.9.2 SERVICE field
23.3.9.3 Scrambler
3253 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
3254 23.3.9.4.4 LDPC coding
3255 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
3256 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
3257 23.3.9.10 Pilot subcarriers
3262 23.3.9.11 OFDM modulation
3264 23.3.9.12 S1G 1 MHz and 2 MHz duplicate transmission
23.3.9.12.1 S1G 1 MHz duplicate transmission
3265 23.3.9.12.2 S1G 2 MHz duplicate transmission
3266 23.3.10 SU-MIMO and DL-MU-MIMO Beamforming
23.3.10.1 General
23.3.10.2 Beamforming Feedback Matrix V
3267 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
3269 23.3.12 NDP CMAC PPDUs
23.3.12.1 General
3270 23.3.12.2 NDP CMAC PPDU details
23.3.12.2.1 NDP CTS
3271 23.3.12.2.2 NDP CF-End
3272 23.3.12.2.3 NDP PS-Poll
3274 23.3.12.2.4 NDP Ack
3275 23.3.12.2.5 NDP PS-Poll-Ack
3276 23.3.12.2.6 NDP BlockAck
3278 23.3.12.2.7 NDP Beamforming Report Poll
23.3.12.2.8 NDP Paging
3280 23.3.12.2.9 NDP Probe Request
3281 23.3.13 Regulatory requirements
23.3.14 Channelization
3282 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
3285 23.3.17.2 Spectral flatness
3287 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
3288 23.3.17.4.3 Transmitter constellation error
23.3.17.4.4 Transmitter modulation accuracy (EVM) test
3289 23.3.17.5 Time of Departure accuracy
3290 23.3.18 S1G receiver specification
23.3.18.1 Receiver minimum input sensitivity
23.3.18.2 Adjacent channel rejection
3291 23.3.18.3 Nonadjacent channel rejection
23.3.18.4 Receiver maximum input level
3292 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
3293 23.3.18.5.4 CCA sensitivity for signals occupying the primary 2 MHz and/or primary 1 MHz channel
3296 23.3.18.5.5 CCA sensitivity for signals not occupying the primary 2 MHz channel
3297 23.3.18.6 RSSI
3298 23.3.19 PHY transmit procedure
3302 23.3.20 PHY receive procedure
3309 23.4 S1G PMLE
23.4.1 PLME_SAP sublayer management primitives
3311 23.4.2 PHY MIB
23.4.3 TXTIME and PSDU_LENGTH calculation
3314 23.4.4 PHY characteristics
23.5 Parameters for S1G-MCSs
3323 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
3324 24.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters
3326 24.2.3 TXSTATUS parameters
24.3 Common parameters
24.3.1 Channelization
24.3.2 Transmit mask
3327 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
3328 24.3.3.6 Antenna setting
24.3.3.7 Maximum input requirement
24.3.3.8 Receiver minimum input sensitivity
3329 24.3.4 Timing-related parameters
3330 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
3331 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
3332 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
3333 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
3334 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
3335 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
3337 24.5.3.1.2 Modulation and coding scheme
3338 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
3339 24.5.3.2.5 Symbol blocking and guard insertion
3340 24.5.4 Performance requirements
24.5.4.1 Transmit requirements
24.5.4.1.1 Transmit EVM
3341 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
3342 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
3343 24.7 PHY transmit procedure
3345 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
3346 24.9.2.2.3 BRP PPDU header fields
24.9.2.2.4 BRP PPDU duration
3347 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
3348 24.10.3 TXTIME calculation
24.10.4 PHY characteristics
3349 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
3350 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
3351 25.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters
3354 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
3355 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
3356 25.3.3 Time-related parameters
3358 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
3360 25.3.4.4 Definition of tone rotation for OFDM mode transmission
3361 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
3362 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
3363 25.3.5.3.3 CEF of OFDM mode
3364 25.3.6 CRC calculation
3365 25.3.7 Scrambler
3366 25.3.8 Common LDPC parity matrices
25.3.8.1 Introduction
25.3.8.2 General
3368 25.3.9 CMMG SIG
25.3.9.1 General
3371 25.3.9.2 Encoding of SIG
25.3.10 CMMG duplication transmission on a 1080 MHz channel
3372 25.3.11 hFilt definition
25.3.12 Encoding of Data field
3373 25.3.13 Received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement
3374 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
3375 25.4.4.5 Modulation
25.4.4.6 Spreading
25.4.5 CMMG control mode Data field
25.4.5.1 General
3376 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
3377 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
3378 25.5.3 Overview of the PPDU encoding process
25.5.3.1 General
25.5.3.2 Construction of CMMG SC mode SIG
3379 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
3380 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
3381 25.5.6.3 Encoding
25.5.6.4 Symbol block padding zeros
3382 25.5.6.5 Stream parser
25.5.6.6 Constellation mapping
3384 25.5.6.7 Spatial expansion
3386 25.5.6.8 Duplication transmission
25.5.7 Performance requirements
25.5.7.1 Transmit requirements
25.5.7.1.1 Introduction
3387 25.5.7.1.2 Transmit EVM
25.5.7.1.3 Time of Departure accuracy
3388 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
3389 25.6.3 Transmission block diagram
3390 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
3391 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
3392 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
3393 25.6.7 OCEF definition
3395 25.6.8 Data fields
25.6.8.1 General
25.6.8.2 Scrambler
3396 25.6.8.3 Encoding
25.6.8.4 OFDM symbol padding zeros
25.6.8.5 Stream parser
3397 25.6.8.6 Subcarrier modulation mapping
3400 25.6.8.7 Tone mapping
25.6.8.8 Space-time block coding
3401 25.6.8.9 Pilot subcarriers
3402 25.6.8.10 Cyclic shift diversity (CSD) for OFDM mode data fields transmission
25.6.8.11 OFDM modulation
3404 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
3405 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
3406 25.6.9 Performance requirements
25.6.9.1 Transmit requirements
25.6.9.1.1 Introduction
25.6.9.1.2 Transmit EVM
3408 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
3409 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
3410 25.7.2.5 Beam refinement TRN-R subfield
25.7.2.6 Beam refinement TRN-T subfield
25.7.2.7 Channel measurement
3411 25.7.2.8 BRP resampling in an OFDM mode packet
25.8 ZCZ sequence
3415 25.9 Regulatory requirements
3416 25.10 Channelization
3417 25.11 Transmit spectrum mask
25.12 PHY transmit procedure
25.12.1 PHY transmit procedure for a CMMG SC mode transmission
3418 25.12.2 PHY transmit procedure for a CMMG OFDM mode transmission
3420 25.13 Receive procedure
3423 25.14 CMMG PLME
25.14.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitive
25.14.2 PHY MIB
3424 25.14.3 TXTIME calculation
3425 25.14.4 PHY characteristics
25.15 Parameters for CMMG-MCSs
25.15.1 General
3426 25.15.2 Parameters for CMMG-MCSs with SC mode transmission
3429 25.15.3 Parameters for CMMG-MCSs with OFDM mode transmission
3433 Annex A (informative) Bibliography
3437 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
3438 B.3 Instructions for completing the PICS proforma
B.3.1 General structure of the PICS proforma
3439 B.3.2 Additional information
B.3.3 Exception information
B.3.4 Conditional status
3441 B.4 PICS proforma—IEEE Std 802.11-2020
B.4.1 Implementation identification
B.4.2 Protocol summary
3442 B.4.3 IUT configuration
3444 B.4.4 MAC protocol
B.4.4.1 MAC protocol capabilities
3453 B.4.4.2 MAC frames
3462 B.4.4.3 Frame exchange sequences
B.4.4.4 MAC addressing functions
3463 B.4.5 Direct sequence PHY functions
3466 B.4.6 OFDM PHY functions
3477 B.4.7 High rate, direct sequence PHY functions
3481 B.4.8 Regulatory domain extensions
3482 B.4.9 ERP functions
3485 B.4.10 Spectrum management extensions
3488 B.4.11 Operating classes extensions
B.4.12 QoS base functionality
3489 B.4.13 QoS enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA)
3490 B.4.14 QoS hybrid coordination function (HCF) controlled channel access (HCCA)
3491 B.4.15 Radio management extensions
3496 B.4.16 DSE functions
3499 B.4.17 High-throughput (HT) features
B.4.17.1 HT MAC features
3503 B.4.17.2 HT PHY features
3508 B.4.18 Tunneled direct-link setup extensions
3509 B.4.19 WNM extensions
3513 B.4.20 Interworking (IW) with external networks extensions
3515 B.4.21 Mesh protocol capabilities
B.4.21.1 General mesh support
3518 B.4.21.2 HWMP path selection protocol capabilities
B.4.22 QMF extensions
3519 B.4.23 RobustAVT extensions
3520 B.4.24 DMG features
B.4.24.1 DMG MAC features
3528 B.4.24.2 DMG PHY features
B.4.25 Very high throughput (VHT) features
B.4.25.1 VHT MAC features
3531 B.4.25.2 VHT PHY features
3535 B.4.26 TVWS functions
3536 B.4.26.1 TVHT MAC features
3538 B.4.26.2 TVHT PHY features
3541 B.4.27 FILS features
3542 B.4.28 Sub 1 GHz (S1G) features
B.4.28.1 S1G MAC features
3549 B.4.28.2 S1G PHY features
3554 B.4.29 S1G relay features
B.4.30 CDMG features
B.4.30.1 CDMG MAC features
3555 B.4.30.2 CDMG PHY features
3556 B.4.31 CMMG features
B.4.31.1 CMMG PHY features
3557 B.4.32 Preassociation discovery extensions
3558 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
4107 Annex D (normative) Regulatory references
D.1 External regulatory references
4109 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
4111 D.2.3 Transmit spectrum mask
4112 D.2.4 Transmit Mask M
4113 D.2.5 CCA-ED threshold
4114 Annex E (normative) Country elements and operating classes
E.1 Country information and operating classes
4129 E.2 Band-specific operating requirements
E.2.1 General
E.2.2 3650–3700 MHz band in the United States
4130 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)
4133 E.2.6 TVWS band in Europe
4134 Annex F (normative) HT LDPC matrix definitions
4137 Annex G (normative) Frame exchange sequences
G.1 General
4139 G.2 Basic sequences
G.3 EDCA and HCCA sequences
4142 G.4 HT, VHT, and S1G sequences
4152 Annex H (normative) Usage of Ethertype 89-0d
4153 Annex I (informative) Examples of encoding a frame for OFDM PHYs and DMG PHYs
I.1 Example 1—BCC encoding
I.1.1 Introduction
4154 I.1.2 The message for the BCC example
4155 I.1.3 Generation of the preamble
I.1.3.1 Generation of the short sequences
4158 I.1.3.2 Generation of the long sequences
4160 I.1.4 Generation of the SIGNAL field
I.1.4.1 SIGNAL field bit assignment
4161 I.1.4.2 Coding the SIGNAL field bits
I.1.4.3 Interleaving the SIGNAL field bits
4162 I.1.4.4 SIGNAL field frequency domain
4163 I.1.4.5 SIGNAL field time domain
4164 I.1.5 Generating the DATA bits for the BCC example
I.1.5.1 Delineating, SERVICE field prepending, and zero padding
4166 I.1.5.2 Scrambling the BCC example
4168 I.1.6 Generating the first DATA symbol for the BCC example
I.1.6.1 Coding the DATA bits
4170 I.1.6.2 Interleaving the DATA bits
4173 I.1.6.3 Mapping into symbols
4174 I.1.7 Generating the additional DATA symbols
I.1.8 The entire packet for the BCC example
4182 I.2 Generating encoded DATA bits—LDPC example 1
I.2.1 General
I.2.2 The message for LDPC example 1
4184 I.2.3 Prepending the SERVICE field for LDPC example 1
4185 I.2.4 Scrambling LDPC example 1
4186 I.2.5 Inserting shortening bits for LDPC example 1
4189 I.2.6 Encoding data for LDPC example 1
4191 I.2.7 Removing shortening bits and puncturing for LDPC example 1
4193 I.3 Generating encoded DATA bits—LDPC example 2
I.3.1 General
4194 I.3.2 The message for LDPC example 2
4195 I.3.3 Prepending the SERVICE field for LDPC example 2
4197 I.3.4 Scrambling LDPC example 2
4199 I.3.5 Inserting the shortening bits for LDPC example 2
4201 I.3.6 Encoding the data for LDPC example 2
4204 I.3.7 Removing shortening bits and repetition for LDPC example 2
4208 I.4 DMG example data vectors
4209 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
4210 I.5.2.3 DMG control mode scrambled header and payload bits
4211 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
4212 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
4213 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
4214 I.6.2.2 DMG SC control header bits
4215 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
4216 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
4219 I.6.3.3 DMG SC mode MCS 5 payload
I.6.3.4 DMG SC mode MCS 7 payload
4220 I.6.3.5 DMG SC mode MCS 12 payload
4221 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
4222 I.7.3.4 RS(224,208) encoded payload bits
4223 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
4224 I.7.4.4 Spc(9,8) block coded payload bits
I.7.4.5 Interleaved payload bits
I.7.4.6 Payload samples
4225 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
4236 J.1.2 Test vectors
4237 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
4238 J.2.2 Sample code for michael
4245 J.3 PRF reference implementation and test vectors
J.3.1 PRF reference code
4246 J.3.2 PRF test vectors
J.4 Suggested pass-phrase-to-PSK mapping
J.4.1 Introduction
4247 J.4.2 Test vectors
J.5 Suggestions for random number generation
J.5.1 General
4248 J.5.2 Software sampling
4249 J.5.3 Hardware-assisted solution
4250 J.6 Additional test vectors
J.6.1 Notation
J.6.2 WEP cryptographic encapsulation
4251 J.6.3 TKIP test vector
4252 J.6.4 CCMP test vectors
4256 J.6.5 PRF test vectors
4258 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
4259 J.8 Test vectors for AES-128-CMAC
J.9 Management frame protection test vectors
J.9.1 BIP with broadcast Deauthentication frame
4261 J.9.2 CCMP-128 with individually addressed Deauthentication frame
4262 J.10 SAE test vector
4266 J.11 GCMP
J.11.1 GCMP test vectors
4268 J.11.2 Example of encryption C code
4282 Annex K (informative) TSPECs and Admission control
K.1 Example use of TSPEC for admission control
4283 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
4286 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
4288 K.3.2.3 Admission control unit
4289 K.4 TSPEC construction
K.4.1 General
K.4.2 Surplus Bandwidth Allocation
4293 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
4294 K.4.4 Minimum, Mean, and Peak Data Rate
4296 Annex L (informative) Examples and sample code for encoding a TIM Partial Virtual Bitmap
L.1 Introduction
L.2 Examples
4304 L.3 Sample C code
4310 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
4312 M.4 Integration service versus bridging
4313 Annex N (informative) AP functional description
N.1 Introduction
N.2 Terminology
4317 N.3 Primary ACM_STA functions
N.4 Primary AP functions
4319 N.5 Primary DS functions
N.6 Primary portal function
4320 Annex O (informative) Additional HT, VHT, and S1G information
O.1 HT, VHT, and S1G waveform generator tool
4321 O.2 A-MPDU deaggregation
4322 O.3 Example of an RD exchange sequence
4323 O.4 Illustration of determination of NDP addresses
4324 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
4325 O.5.3 Monitoring channels for other BSS operation
4327 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
4329 P.3 Differential Distance Computation using Fine Timing Measurement frames
4331 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
4332 Annex R (informative) Interworking with external networks
R.1 General
R.2 Network discovery and selection
R.2.1 General
R.2.2 Airport
4333 R.2.3 Shopping
4334 R.2.4 Sales meeting
R.2.5 Museum
4335 R.2.6 Emergency call
4336 R.2.7 Emergency alert
R.3 QoS mapping guidelines for interworking with external networks
R.3.1 General
4337 R.3.2 Determination of the mapping for a STA
4338 R.3.3 QoS mapping and GLK
4339 R.4 Interworking and SSPN interface support
R.4.1 General
R.4.2 SSPN interface parameters
R.4.2.1 General
4340 R.4.2.2 Non-AP STA MAC
R.4.2.3 Non-AP STA User ID
4341 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
4342 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
4343 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
4344 R.5.2 Background on emergency call support over IEEE 802.11 infrastructure
R.5.3 System aspects for emergency call support
4346 R.5.4 Description of the Expedited Bandwidth Request element
R.5.5 Access to emergency services in an RSN
4347 R.6 Peer information
4348 R.7 Calculating Estimated Throughput
4351 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
4352 S.3.2 Selecting the mesh power management mode based on traffic load
S.3.3 Scanning of mesh BSSs
4353 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
4354 S.4 SIV key wrapping test vector
4355 S.5 Airtime link metric usage example
S.6 Link metric report example
4356 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
4357 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
4358 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
4359 Annex T (informative) Overlapping BSS (OBSS) management
T.1 Introduction
T.2 QLoad Report element
T.2.1 General
4360 T.2.2 Calculating medium time
T.2.3 Calculation of potential traffic self
4362 T.2.4 Calculation of allocated traffic self
4363 T.2.5 Calculation of allocated traffic shared
T.2.6 Calculation of EDCA Access Factor
4364 T.2.7 EDCA Overhead Factor
T.2.8 Calculation of HCCA Access Factor
4365 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
4366 T.3.4 Channel selection procedures
4367 T.4 Sharing in an OBSS situation
T.4.1 General
4368 T.4.2 Sharing schemes
T.4.2.1 General
T.4.2.2 Proportional sharing scheme
4369 T.4.2.3 On-demand sharing scheme
4370 T.5 Mitigating consequences of OBSS sharing in presence of noncollaborating devices
4371 Annex U (informative) Functions of the centralized coordination service root (CCSR)
4372 Annex V (informative) TSPEC aggregation for DMG BSSs
4374 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
4376 W.2.3 2-D (two-dimensional) antenna array
W.3 Beam tracking and switching for enhanced beam tracking mechanism
4378 Annex X (informative) Link rate considerations
4379 Annex Y (informative) Preassociation discovery (PAD) additional information
Y.1 Preassociation discovery usage models
Y.2 Background search
4380 Y.3 Immediate search

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