IEEE P802.11 REVmc D3.0 June2014 DRAFT
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IEEE Draft Standard for Information technology–Telecommunications and information exchange between systems Local and metropolitan area networks–Specific requirements Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications
| Published By | Publication Date | Number of Pages |
| IEEE | N/A | 3701 |
Revision Standard – Unapproved Draft. This revision specifies 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. TBD: It also incorporates Amendments 1 and 2 published in 2012.
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| PDF Pages | PDF Title |
|---|---|
| 4 | Notice to users Laws and regulations Copyrights Updating of IEEE documents Errata Patents |
| 5 | Participants |
| 6 | Introduction Incorporating published amendments |
| 7 | Technical corrections, clarifications, and enhancements |
| 8 | Contents |
| 79 | Tables |
| 95 | Figures |
| 119 | Editor’s notes Cross-reference style Professional Editing by the IEEE-SA |
| 121 | IEEE Standard for Information technology— Telecommunications and information exchange between systems Local and metropolitan area networks— Specific requirements 1. Overview 1.1 Scope 1.2 Purpose 1.3 Supplementary information on purpose |
| 122 | 1.4 Word Usage 1.5 Mathematical Usage |
| 123 | 2. Normative references |
| 126 | 3. Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations 3.1 Definitions |
| 141 | 3.2 Definitions specific to IEEE Std 802.11 |
| 166 | 3.3 Definitions specific to IEEE 802.11 operation in some regulatory domains |
| 170 | 3.4 Abbreviations and acronyms |
| 181 | 3.5 Abbreviations and acronyms in some regulatory domains |
| 182 | 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 |
| 183 | 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 Std 802.11 architecture 4.3.1 General |
| 184 | 4.3.2 The independent BSS (IBSS) 4.3.3 The personal BSS (PBSS) 4.3.4 STA membership in a BSS is dynamic |
| 185 | 4.3.5 Distribution system (DS) concepts 4.3.5.1 Overview |
| 186 | 4.3.5.2 Extended service set (ESS): The large coverage network |
| 187 | 4.3.5.3 Robust security network association (RSNA) 4.3.5.4 Centralized coordination service set (CCSS) and extended centralized AP or PCP clustering (ECAPC) |
| 188 | 4.3.6 Area concepts |
| 190 | 4.3.7 Integration with wired LANs 4.3.8 QoS BSS |
| 192 | 4.3.9 Wireless LAN Radio Measurements 4.3.9.1 General |
| 193 | 4.3.9.2 Beacon 4.3.9.3 Measurement Pilot 4.3.9.4 Frame |
| 194 | 4.3.9.5 Channel load 4.3.9.6 Noise histogram 4.3.9.7 STA statistics 4.3.9.8 Location 4.3.9.9 Measurement pause 4.3.9.10 Neighbor report 4.3.9.11 Link measurement 4.3.9.12 Transmit stream/category measurement |
| 195 | 4.3.10 Operation in licensed frequency bands 4.3.10.1 General 4.3.10.2 Dynamic STA enablement (DSE) in licensed bands 4.3.10.3 Contention Based Protocol (CBP) in nonexclusively licensed bands 4.3.10.4 Using DSE STA identification to resolve interference 4.3.10.5 Further coexistence enhancements in nonexclusively licensed bands |
| 196 | 4.3.11 High throughput (HT) STA 4.3.12 Very high throughput (VHT) STA |
| 197 | 4.3.13 Television very high throughput (TVHT) STA |
| 199 | 4.3.14 STA transmission of Data frames outside the context of a BSS 4.3.15 Tunneled direct-link setup 4.3.16 Wireless network management 4.3.16.1 Overview |
| 200 | 4.3.16.2 BSS max idle period management 4.3.16.3 BSS transition management 4.3.16.4 Channel usage |
| 201 | 4.3.16.5 Collocated interference reporting 4.3.16.6 Diagnostic reporting 4.3.16.7 Directed multicast service (DMS) 4.3.16.8 Event reporting 4.3.16.9 FMS 4.3.16.10 Location services |
| 202 | 4.3.16.11 Multicast diagnostic reporting 4.3.16.12 Multiple BSSID capability 4.3.16.13 Proxy ARP 4.3.16.14 QoS traffic capability 4.3.16.15 SSID list 4.3.16.16 Triggered STA statistics 4.3.16.17 TIM broadcast 4.3.16.18 Timing measurement 4.3.16.19 Fine timing measurement |
| 203 | 4.3.16.20 Traffic filtering service 4.3.16.21 U-APSD Coexistence 4.3.16.22 WNM-Notification 4.3.16.23 WNM-Sleep mode 4.3.17 Subscription service provider network (SSPN) interface |
| 204 | 4.3.18 Mesh BSS 4.3.18.1 General 4.3.18.2 Overview of the mesh BSS |
| 205 | 4.3.18.3 Mesh STA 4.3.18.4 IEEE Std 802.11 components and mesh BSS |
| 207 | 4.3.18.5 Introduction to mesh functions |
| 210 | 4.3.19 DMG STA |
| 211 | 4.3.20 DMG relay 4.3.21 Robust audio video (AV) streaming 4.3.21.1 Groupcast with retries (GCR) |
| 212 | 4.3.21.2 Stream classification service (SCS) 4.3.21.3 Overlapping BSS (OBSS) management 4.3.21.4 Interworking with IEEE Std 802.1Q Stream Reservation Protocol (SRP) 4.3.21.5 Intra-access category prioritization 4.3.22 Operation under geolocation database (GDB) control |
| 215 | 4.4 Logical service interfaces 4.4.1 General 4.4.2 SS |
| 216 | 4.4.3 PBSS control point service (PCPS) 4.4.4 DSS |
| 217 | 4.5 Overview of the services 4.5.1 General |
| 218 | 4.5.2 Distribution of MSDUs within a DS 4.5.2.1 Distribution 4.5.2.2 Integration |
| 219 | 4.5.2.3 QoS traffic scheduling 4.5.3 Services that support the distribution service and the PCP service 4.5.3.1 General 4.5.3.2 Mobility types |
| 220 | 4.5.3.3 Association 4.5.3.4 Reassociation |
| 221 | 4.5.3.5 Disassociation 4.5.4 Access control and data confidentiality services 4.5.4.1 General 4.5.4.2 Authentication |
| 222 | 4.5.4.3 Deauthentication |
| 223 | 4.5.4.4 Data confidentiality |
| 224 | 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 Robust management frame protection |
| 225 | 4.5.5 Spectrum management services 4.5.5.1 General 4.5.5.2 TPC 4.5.5.3 DFS 4.5.6 Traffic differentiation and QoS support 4.5.6.1 General |
| 226 | 4.5.6.2 Quality-of-service management frame support 4.5.7 Support for higher layer timer synchronization 4.5.8 Radio Measurement service 4.5.9 Interworking with external networks |
| 227 | 4.6 Multiple logical address spaces |
| 228 | 4.7 Differences among ESS, PBSS, and IBSS LANs |
| 230 | 4.8 Differences between ESS and MBSS LANs 4.9 Reference model 4.9.1 General 4.9.2 Interworking reference model |
| 232 | 4.9.3 Reference model for supporting multiple MAC sublayers |
| 233 | 4.9.4 Reference model for multi-band operation |
| 235 | 4.10 IEEE Std 802.11 and IEEE Std 802.1X-2010 4.10.1 General 4.10.2 IEEE Std 802.11 usage of IEEE Std 802.1X-2010 |
| 236 | 4.10.3 Infrastructure functional model overview 4.10.3.1 General 4.10.3.2 AKM operations with AS |
| 239 | 4.10.3.3 AKM Operations with a Password or PSK 4.10.3.4 Alternate operations with PSK |
| 240 | 4.10.3.5 Disassociation 4.10.4 IBSS functional model description 4.10.4.1 General 4.10.4.2 Key usage |
| 241 | 4.10.4.3 Sample IBSS 4-Way Handshakes |
| 242 | 4.10.4.4 IBSS IEEE Std 802.1X example 4.10.5 PBSS functional model description |
| 243 | 4.10.6 Authenticator-to-AS protocol |
| 244 | 4.10.7 PMKSA caching 4.10.8 Protection of group addressed robust Management frames |
| 245 | 4.11 Generic advertisement service (GAS) |
| 246 | 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 Determination of UP of received frames at the AP sent by other STAs in the BSS |
| 247 | 5.1.1.4 Interpretation of priority parameter in MAC service primitives 5.1.1.5 Interpretation of service class parameter in MAC service primitives in a STA |
| 248 | 5.1.2 Security services |
| 249 | 5.1.3 MSDU ordering 5.1.4 MSDU format |
| 250 | 5.1.5 MAC data service architecture 5.1.5.1 General |
| 254 | 5.1.5.2 Non-AP STA role 5.1.5.3 AP role 5.1.5.4 Mesh STA role 5.1.5.5 Mesh gate role |
| 255 | 5.2 MAC data service specification 5.2.1 General 5.2.2 MA-UNITDATA.request 5.2.2.1 Function 5.2.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive |
| 256 | 5.2.2.3 When generated 5.2.2.4 Effect of receipt |
| 257 | 5.2.3 MA-UNITDATA.indication 5.2.3.1 Function |
| 258 | 5.2.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 5.2.3.3 When generated 5.2.3.4 Effect of receipt |
| 260 | 5.2.4 MA-UNITDATA-STATUS.indication 5.2.4.1 Function 5.2.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive |
| 261 | 5.2.4.3 When generated 5.2.4.4 Effect of receipt |
| 262 | 6. Layer management 6.1 Overview of management model |
| 263 | 6.2 Generic management primitives 6.3 MLME SAP interface 6.3.1 Introduction |
| 264 | 6.3.2 Power management 6.3.2.1 Introduction 6.3.2.2 MLME-POWERMGT.request 6.3.2.3 MLME-POWERMGT.confirm |
| 265 | 6.3.3 Scan 6.3.3.1 Introduction 6.3.3.2 MLME-SCAN.request |
| 267 | 6.3.3.3 MLME-SCAN.confirm |
| 277 | 6.3.4 Synchronization 6.3.4.1 Introduction 6.3.4.2 MLME-JOIN.request |
| 279 | 6.3.4.3 MLME-JOIN.confirm 6.3.5 Authenticate 6.3.5.1 Introduction 6.3.5.2 MLME-AUTHENTICATE.request |
| 281 | 6.3.5.3 MLME-AUTHENTICATE.confirm |
| 282 | 6.3.5.4 MLME-AUTHENTICATE.indication |
| 283 | 6.3.5.5 MLME-AUTHENTICATE.response |
| 285 | 6.3.6 Deauthenticate 6.3.6.1 Introduction 6.3.6.2 MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.request |
| 286 | 6.3.6.3 MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.confirm 6.3.6.4 MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.indication |
| 287 | 6.3.7 Associate 6.3.7.1 Introduction 6.3.7.2 MLME-ASSOCIATE.request |
| 290 | 6.3.7.3 MLME-ASSOCIATE.confirm |
| 294 | 6.3.7.4 MLME-ASSOCIATE.indication |
| 297 | 6.3.7.5 MLME-ASSOCIATE.response |
| 301 | 6.3.8 Reassociate 6.3.8.1 Introduction 6.3.8.2 MLME-REASSOCIATE.request |
| 304 | 6.3.8.3 MLME-REASSOCIATE.confirm |
| 307 | 6.3.8.4 MLME-REASSOCIATE.indication |
| 311 | 6.3.8.5 MLME-REASSOCIATE.response |
| 315 | 6.3.9 Disassociate 6.3.9.1 MLME-DISASSOCIATE.request |
| 316 | 6.3.9.2 MLME-DISASSOCIATE.confirm |
| 317 | 6.3.9.3 MLME-DISASSOCIATE.indication 6.3.10 Reset 6.3.10.1 Introduction 6.3.10.2 MLME-RESET.request |
| 318 | 6.3.11 Start 6.3.11.1 Introduction 6.3.11.2 MLME-START.request |
| 323 | 6.3.11.3 MLME-START.confirm |
| 324 | 6.3.12 Stop 6.3.12.1 General 6.3.12.2 MLME-STOP.request |
| 325 | 6.3.13 Protocol layer model for spectrum management and radio measurement |
| 328 | 6.3.14 Measurement request 6.3.14.1 Introduction 6.3.14.2 MLME-MREQUEST.request |
| 329 | 6.3.14.3 MLME-MREQUEST.indication |
| 330 | 6.3.15 Channel measurement 6.3.15.1 Introduction 6.3.15.2 MLME-MEASURE.request |
| 331 | 6.3.15.3 MLME-MEASURE.confirm |
| 332 | 6.3.16 Measurement report 6.3.16.1 Introduction 6.3.16.2 MLME-MREPORT.request |
| 333 | 6.3.16.3 MLME-MREPORT.indication |
| 334 | 6.3.17 Channel switch 6.3.17.1 MLME-CHANNELSWITCH.request |
| 335 | 6.3.17.2 MLME-CHANNELSWITCH.confirm 6.3.17.3 MLME-CHANNELSWITCH.indication |
| 336 | 6.3.17.4 MLME-CHANNELSWITCH.response |
| 337 | 6.3.18 TPC request 6.3.18.1 Introduction 6.3.18.2 MLME-TPCADAPT.request |
| 338 | 6.3.18.3 MLME-TPCADAPT.confirm |
| 339 | 6.3.19 SetKeys 6.3.19.1 MLME-SETKEYS.request |
| 340 | 6.3.20 DeleteKeys 6.3.20.1 MLME-DELETEKEYS.request |
| 341 | 6.3.21 MIC (michael) failure event 6.3.21.1 MLME-MICHAELMICFAILURE.indication |
| 342 | 6.3.22 EAPOL 6.3.22.1 MLME-EAPOL.request 6.3.22.2 MLME-EAPOL.confirm |
| 343 | 6.3.23 MLME-PEERKEY-START 6.3.23.1 MLME-PEERKEY-START.request |
| 344 | 6.3.24 SetProtection 6.3.24.1 MLME-SETPROTECTION.request |
| 345 | 6.3.25 MLME-PROTECTEDFRAMEDROPPED 6.3.25.1 MLME- PROTECTEDFRAMEDROPPED.indication 6.3.26 TS management interface 6.3.26.1 General |
| 346 | 6.3.26.2 MLME-ADDTS.request |
| 348 | 6.3.26.3 MLME-ADDTS.confirm |
| 351 | 6.3.26.4 MLME-ADDTS.indication |
| 353 | 6.3.26.5 MLME-ADDTS.response |
| 356 | 6.3.26.6 MLME-DELTS.request |
| 357 | 6.3.26.7 MLME-DELTS.indication |
| 359 | 6.3.26.8 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.request 6.3.26.9 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.confirm |
| 360 | 6.3.26.10 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.indication |
| 361 | 6.3.26.11 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.response |
| 362 | 6.3.27 Management of direct links 6.3.27.1 Introduction 6.3.27.2 MLME-DLS.request |
| 363 | 6.3.27.3 MLME-DLS.confirm |
| 364 | 6.3.27.4 MLME-DLS.indication |
| 365 | 6.3.27.5 MLME-DLS.response |
| 366 | 6.3.27.6 MLME-DLS-TEARDOWN.request |
| 367 | 6.3.27.7 MLME-DLS-TEARDOWN.indication |
| 368 | 6.3.28 Higher layer synchronization support 6.3.28.1 Introduction 6.3.28.2 MLME-HL-SYNC.request 6.3.28.3 MLME-HL-SYNC.indication |
| 369 | 6.3.29 Block Ack 6.3.29.1 General 6.3.29.2 MLME-ADDBA.request |
| 371 | 6.3.29.3 MLME-ADDBA.confirm |
| 372 | 6.3.29.4 MLME-ADDBA.indication |
| 373 | 6.3.29.5 MLME-ADDBA.response |
| 375 | 6.3.29.6 MLME-DELBA.request |
| 376 | 6.3.29.7 MLME-DELBA.indication |
| 377 | 6.3.30 Schedule element management 6.3.30.1 Introduction 6.3.30.2 MLME-SCHEDULE.request 6.3.30.3 MLME-SCHEDULE.indication |
| 378 | 6.3.31 Vendor-specific action 6.3.31.1 Introduction 6.3.31.2 MLME-VSPECIFIC.request |
| 379 | 6.3.31.3 MLME-VSPECIFIC.indication |
| 380 | 6.3.32 Neighbor report request 6.3.32.1 General 6.3.32.2 MLME-NEIGHBORREPREQ.request |
| 381 | 6.3.32.3 MLME-NEIGHBORREPREQ.indication |
| 382 | 6.3.33 Neighbor report response 6.3.33.1 General 6.3.33.2 MLME-NEIGHBORREPRESP.request |
| 383 | 6.3.33.3 MLME-NEIGHBORREPRESP.indication |
| 384 | 6.3.34 Link Measure Request 6.3.34.1 General 6.3.34.2 MLME-LINKMEASURE.request |
| 385 | 6.3.34.3 MLME-LINKMEASURE.confirm |
| 387 | 6.3.35 MLME SAP interface for resource request 6.3.35.1 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST.request |
| 388 | 6.3.35.2 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST.indication 6.3.35.3 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST.response |
| 389 | 6.3.35.4 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST.confirm |
| 390 | 6.3.35.5 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST-LOCAL.request 6.3.35.6 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST-LOCAL.confirm |
| 391 | 6.3.36 MLME SAP interface for remote requests 6.3.36.1 MLME-REMOTE-REQUEST.request |
| 392 | 6.3.36.2 MLME-REMOTE-REQUEST.indication 6.3.37 Extended channel switch announcement 6.3.37.1 General 6.3.37.2 MLME-EXTCHANNELSWITCH.request |
| 393 | 6.3.37.3 MLME-EXTCHANNELSWITCH.confirm |
| 394 | 6.3.37.4 MLME-EXTCHANNELSWITCH.indication |
| 395 | 6.3.37.5 MLME-EXTCHANNELSWITCH.response |
| 396 | 6.3.38 DSE power constraint announcement 6.3.38.1 General 6.3.38.2 MLME-DSETPC.request |
| 397 | 6.3.38.3 MLME-DSETPC.confirm |
| 398 | 6.3.38.4 MLME-DSETPC.indication |
| 399 | 6.3.38.5 MLME-DSETPC.response |
| 400 | 6.3.39 Enablement 6.3.39.1 General 6.3.39.2 MLME-ENABLEMENT.request |
| 401 | 6.3.39.3 MLME-ENABLEMENT.confirm |
| 402 | 6.3.39.4 MLME-ENABLEMENT.indication |
| 403 | 6.3.39.5 MLME-ENABLEMENT.response |
| 404 | 6.3.40 Deenablement 6.3.40.1 MLME-DEENABLEMENT.request |
| 405 | 6.3.40.2 MLME-DEENABLEMENT.indication |
| 406 | 6.3.41 SA Query support 6.3.41.1 MLME-SA-QUERY.request |
| 407 | 6.3.41.2 MLME-SA-QUERY.confirm |
| 408 | 6.3.41.3 MLME-SA-QUERY.indication 6.3.41.4 MLME-SA-QUERY.response |
| 409 | 6.3.42 Get TSF timer 6.3.42.1 General 6.3.42.2 MLME-GETTSFTIME.request |
| 410 | 6.3.42.3 MLME-GETTSFTIME.confirm 6.3.43 Timing Advertisement 6.3.43.1 General 6.3.43.2 MLME-TIMING-ADVERTISEMENT.request |
| 412 | 6.3.43.3 MLME-TIMING-ADVERTISEMENT.indication |
| 413 | 6.3.44 TDLS Discovery 6.3.44.1 General |
| 414 | 6.3.44.2 MLME-TDLSDISCOVERY.request 6.3.44.3 MLME-TDLSDISCOVERY.confirm |
| 415 | 6.3.44.4 MLME-TDLSDISCOVERY.indication 6.3.44.5 MLME-TDLSDISCOVERY.response |
| 417 | 6.3.45 TDLS direct-link establishment 6.3.45.1 General |
| 418 | 6.3.45.2 MLME-TDLSSETUPREQUEST.request 6.3.45.3 MLME-TDLSSETUPREQUEST.indication |
| 419 | 6.3.45.4 MLME-TDLSSETUPRESPONSE.request 6.3.45.5 MLME-TDLSSETUPRESPONSE.indication |
| 420 | 6.3.45.6 MLME-TDLSSETUPCONFIRM.request 6.3.45.7 MLME-TDLSSETUPCONFIRM.indication |
| 421 | 6.3.45.8 MLME-TDLSPOTENTIALPEERSTA.request |
| 422 | 6.3.45.9 MLME-TDLSPOTENTIALPEERSTA.confirm |
| 423 | 6.3.46 TDLS direct-link teardown 6.3.46.1 General 6.3.46.2 MLME-TDLSTEARDOWN.request |
| 424 | 6.3.46.3 MLME-TDLSTEARDOWN.indication |
| 425 | 6.3.47 TDLS Peer U-APSD 6.3.47.1 General 6.3.47.2 MLME-TDLSPTI.request |
| 426 | 6.3.47.3 MLME-TDLSPTI.confirm |
| 427 | 6.3.47.4 MLME-TDLSPTI.indication 6.3.47.5 MLME-TDLSPTI.response |
| 428 | 6.3.48 TDLS channel switching 6.3.48.1 General |
| 429 | 6.3.48.2 MLME-TDLSCHANNELSWITCH.request 6.3.48.3 MLME-TDLSCHANNELSWITCH.confirm |
| 430 | 6.3.48.4 MLME-TDLSCHANNELSWITCH.indication |
| 431 | 6.3.48.5 MLME-TDLSCHANNELSWITCH.response |
| 432 | 6.3.49 TDLS Peer PSM 6.3.49.1 General 6.3.49.2 MLME-TDLSPEERPSM.request |
| 433 | 6.3.49.3 MLME-TDLSPEERPSM.confirm |
| 434 | 6.3.49.4 MLME-TDLSPEERPSM.indication 6.3.49.5 MLME-TDLSPEERPSM.response |
| 435 | 6.3.50 Event request 6.3.50.1 General |
| 436 | 6.3.50.2 MLME-EVLREQUEST.request 6.3.50.3 MLME-EVLREQUEST.indication |
| 437 | 6.3.51 Event report 6.3.51.1 General 6.3.51.2 MLME-EVLREPORT.request |
| 438 | 6.3.51.3 MLME-EVLREPORT.indication |
| 439 | 6.3.52 Event 6.3.52.1 General 6.3.52.2 MLME-EVLOG.request |
| 440 | 6.3.52.3 MLME-EVLOG.confirm |
| 441 | 6.3.53 Diagnostic request 6.3.53.1 General 6.3.53.2 MLME-DIAGREQUEST.request |
| 442 | 6.3.53.3 MLME-DIAGREQUEST.indication |
| 443 | 6.3.54 Diagnostic report 6.3.54.1 MLME-DIAGREPORT.request |
| 444 | 6.3.54.2 MLME-DIAGREPORT.indication |
| 445 | 6.3.55 Location Configuration request 6.3.55.1 General 6.3.55.2 MLME-LOCATIONCFG.request |
| 446 | 6.3.55.3 MLME-LOCATIONCFG.confirm |
| 447 | 6.3.55.4 MLME-LOCATIONCFG.indication |
| 448 | 6.3.55.5 MLME-LOCATIONCFG.response |
| 449 | 6.3.56 Location track notification 6.3.56.1 General |
| 450 | 6.3.56.2 MLME-LOCATIONTRACKNOTIF.request 6.3.56.3 MLME-LOCATIONTRACKNOTIF.indication |
| 452 | 6.3.57 Timing measurement 6.3.57.1 General 6.3.57.2 MLME-TIMINGMSMT.request |
| 453 | 6.3.57.3 MLME-TIMINGMSMT.confirm |
| 454 | 6.3.57.4 MLME-TIMINGMSMT.indication |
| 456 | 6.3.58 Fine timing measurement 6.3.58.1 General 6.3.58.2 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMT.request |
| 458 | 6.3.58.3 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMT.confirm |
| 459 | 6.3.58.4 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMT.indication |
| 461 | 6.3.59 BSS transition management 6.3.59.1 BSS transition management procedure 6.3.59.2 MLME-BTMQUERY.request |
| 462 | 6.3.59.3 MLME-BTMQUERY.indication |
| 463 | 6.3.59.4 MLME-BTM.request |
| 465 | 6.3.59.5 MLME-BTM.indication |
| 466 | 6.3.59.6 MLME-BTM.response |
| 467 | 6.3.59.7 MLME-BTM.confirm |
| 469 | 6.3.60 FMS setup 6.3.60.1 General 6.3.60.2 MLME-FMS.request |
| 470 | 6.3.60.3 MLME-FMS.confirm |
| 471 | 6.3.60.4 MLME-FMS.indication 6.3.60.5 MLME-FMS.response |
| 472 | 6.3.61 Collocated Interference request 6.3.61.1 General |
| 473 | 6.3.61.2 MLME-CLINTERFERENCEREQUEST.request |
| 474 | 6.3.61.3 MLME-CLINTERFERENCEREQUEST.indication |
| 475 | 6.3.62 Collocated Interference report 6.3.62.1 General 6.3.62.2 MLME-CLINTERFERENCEREPORT.request |
| 476 | 6.3.62.3 MLME-CLINTERFERENCEREPORT.indication |
| 477 | 6.3.63 TFS setup 6.3.63.1 General |
| 478 | 6.3.63.2 MLME-TFS.request 6.3.63.3 MLME-TFS.confirm |
| 479 | 6.3.63.4 MLME-TFS.indication |
| 480 | 6.3.63.5 MLME-TFS.response |
| 482 | 6.3.64 Sleep Mode request 6.3.64.1 General 6.3.64.2 MLME-SLEEPMODE.request |
| 483 | 6.3.64.3 MLME-SLEEPMODE.indication |
| 484 | 6.3.64.4 MLME-SLEEPMODE.response |
| 485 | 6.3.64.5 MLME-SLEEPMODE.confirm |
| 487 | 6.3.65 TIM broadcast setup 6.3.65.1 General 6.3.65.2 MLME-TIMBROADCAST.request |
| 488 | 6.3.65.3 MLME-TIMBROADCAST.confirm |
| 489 | 6.3.65.4 MLME-TIMBROADCAST.indication |
| 490 | 6.3.65.5 MLME-TIMBROADCAST.response |
| 491 | 6.3.66 QoS Traffic Capability Update 6.3.66.1 General |
| 492 | 6.3.66.2 MLME-QOSTRAFFICCAPUPDATE.request |
| 493 | 6.3.66.3 MLME-QOSTRAFFICCAPUPDATE.indication |
| 494 | 6.3.67 Channel Usage request 6.3.67.1 General 6.3.67.2 MLME-CHANNELUSAGE.request |
| 495 | 6.3.67.3 MLME-CHANNELUSAGE.confirm |
| 496 | 6.3.67.4 MLME-CHANNELUSAGE.indication |
| 497 | 6.3.67.5 MLME-CHANNELUSAGE.response |
| 499 | 6.3.68 DMS or GCR request and response procedure 6.3.68.1 General 6.3.68.2 MLME-GATS.request |
| 500 | 6.3.68.3 MLME-GATS.confirm |
| 501 | 6.3.68.4 MLME-GATS.indication |
| 502 | 6.3.68.5 MLME-GATS.response |
| 503 | 6.3.68.6 MLME-GATS-TERM.request |
| 504 | 6.3.68.7 MLME-GATS-TERM.indication 6.3.69 Timing measurement request 6.3.69.1 General 6.3.69.2 MLME-TIMINGMSMTRQ.request |
| 505 | 6.3.69.3 MLME-TIMINGMSMTRQ.indication |
| 506 | 6.3.70 Fine timing measurement request 6.3.70.1 General 6.3.70.2 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMTRQ.request 6.3.70.3 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMTRQ.indication |
| 507 | 6.3.71 WNM-Notification request 6.3.71.1 General 6.3.71.2 MLME-WNMNOTIFICATIONREQUEST.request |
| 509 | 6.3.71.3 MLME-WNMNOTIFICATIONREQUEST indication |
| 510 | 6.3.72 WNM-Notification response 6.3.72.1 MLME-WNMNOTIFICATIONRESPONSE.request 6.3.72.2 MLME-WNMNOTIFICATIONRESPONSE.indication |
| 511 | 6.3.73 Network discovery and selection support 6.3.73.1 General 6.3.73.2 MLME-GAS.request |
| 512 | 6.3.73.3 MLME-GAS.confirm |
| 514 | 6.3.73.4 MLME-GAS.indication |
| 515 | 6.3.73.5 MLME-GAS.response |
| 516 | 6.3.74 QoS Map Set element management 6.3.74.1 General |
| 517 | 6.3.74.2 MLME-QOS-MAP.request 6.3.74.3 MLME-QOS-MAP.indication |
| 518 | 6.3.75 Mesh peering management 6.3.75.1 Introduction 6.3.75.2 MLME-MESHPEERINGMANAGEMENT.request |
| 519 | 6.3.75.3 MLME-MESHPEERINGMANAGEMENT.confirm |
| 520 | 6.3.75.4 MLME-MESHPEERINGMANAGEMENT.indication 6.3.75.5 MLME-MESHPEERINGMANAGEMENT.response |
| 521 | 6.3.76 Mesh power management 6.3.76.1 Introduction 6.3.76.2 MLME-MESHPOWERMGT.request |
| 522 | 6.3.76.3 MLME-MESHPOWERMGT.confirm 6.3.77 Mesh neighbor offset synchronization 6.3.77.1 Introduction |
| 523 | 6.3.77.2 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETSYNCSTART.request 6.3.77.3 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETSYNCSTART.confirm |
| 524 | 6.3.77.4 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETCALCULATE.request 6.3.77.5 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETCALCULATE.confirm |
| 525 | 6.3.77.6 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETSYNCSTOP.request 6.3.77.7 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETSYNCSTOP.confirm |
| 526 | 6.3.78 Mesh TBTT adjustment 6.3.78.1 Introduction 6.3.78.2 MLME-MESHTBTTADJUSTMENT.request |
| 527 | 6.3.78.3 MLME-MESHTBTTADJUSTMENT.confirm |
| 528 | 6.3.78.4 MLME-MESHTBTTADJUSTMENT.indication |
| 529 | 6.3.78.5 MLME-MESHTBTTADJUSTMENT.response 6.3.79 MCCA management interface 6.3.79.1 Introduction |
| 530 | 6.3.79.2 MLME-ACTIVATEMCCA.request 6.3.79.3 MLME-MCCASETUP.request |
| 531 | 6.3.79.4 MLME-MCCASETUP.confirm |
| 532 | 6.3.79.5 MLME-MCCASETUP.indication |
| 533 | 6.3.79.6 MLME-MCCASETUP.response |
| 534 | 6.3.79.7 MLME-MCCAADVERTISEMENT.request 6.3.79.8 MLME-MCCAADVERTISEMENT.confirm |
| 535 | 6.3.79.9 MLME-MCCAADVERTISEMENT.indication |
| 536 | 6.3.79.10 MLME-MCCAADVERTISEMENT.response 6.3.79.11 MLME-MCCATEARDOWN.request |
| 537 | 6.3.79.12 MLME-MCCATEARDOWN.indication |
| 538 | 6.3.80 MBSS congestion control 6.3.80.1 Introduction 6.3.80.2 MLME-MBSSCONGESTIONCONTROL.request |
| 539 | 6.3.80.3 MLME-MBSSCONGESTIONCONTROL.indication 6.3.81 MBSS proxy update 6.3.81.1 Introduction |
| 540 | 6.3.81.2 MLME-MBSSPROXYUPDATE.request 6.3.81.3 MLME-MBSSPROXYUPDATE.confirm |
| 541 | 6.3.81.4 MLME-MBSSPROXYUPDATE.indication |
| 542 | 6.3.81.5 MLME-MBSSPROXYUPDATE.response |
| 543 | 6.3.82 MBSS mesh gate announcement 6.3.82.1 Introduction 6.3.82.2 MLME-MBSSGATEANNOUNCEMENT.request 6.3.82.3 MLME-MBSSGATEANNOUNCEMENT.indication |
| 544 | 6.3.83 Mesh link metric 6.3.83.1 Introduction 6.3.83.2 MLME-MESHLINKMETRICREAD.request |
| 545 | 6.3.83.3 MLME-MESHLINKMETRICREAD.confirm |
| 546 | 6.3.83.4 MLME-MESHLINKMETRICREPORT.request |
| 547 | 6.3.83.5 MLME-MESHLINKMETRICREPORT.indication 6.3.84 HWMP mesh path selection 6.3.84.1 Introduction |
| 548 | 6.3.84.2 MLME-HWMPMESHPATHSELECTION.request |
| 549 | 6.3.84.3 MLME-HWMPMESHPATHSELECTION.indication |
| 550 | 6.3.85 QMF policy 6.3.85.1 Introduction 6.3.85.2 MLME-QMFPOLICY.request |
| 551 | 6.3.85.3 MLME-QMFPOLICY.indication 6.3.85.4 MLME-QMFPOLICYCHANGE.request |
| 552 | 6.3.85.5 MLME-QMFPOLICYCHANGE.confirm |
| 553 | 6.3.85.6 MLME-QMFPOLICYCHANGE.indication |
| 554 | 6.3.85.7 MLME-QMFPOLICYCHANGE.response |
| 555 | 6.3.85.8 MLME-QMFPOLICYSET.request |
| 556 | 6.3.86 SCS request and response procedure 6.3.86.1 General 6.3.86.2 MLME-SCS.request |
| 557 | 6.3.86.3 MLME-SCS.confirm |
| 558 | 6.3.86.4 MLME-SCS.indication |
| 559 | 6.3.86.5 MLME-SCS.response |
| 560 | 6.3.86.6 MLME-SCS-TERM.request |
| 561 | 6.3.86.7 MLME-SCS-TERM.indication |
| 562 | 6.3.87 QLoad report management 6.3.87.1 General 6.3.87.2 MLME-QLOAD.request |
| 563 | 6.3.87.3 MLME-QLOAD.confirm |
| 564 | 6.3.87.4 MLME-QLOAD.indication |
| 565 | 6.3.87.5 MLME-QLOAD.response |
| 566 | 6.3.88 HCCA TXOP advertisement management 6.3.88.1 General 6.3.88.2 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.request |
| 567 | 6.3.88.3 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.confirm |
| 568 | 6.3.88.4 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.indication |
| 569 | 6.3.88.5 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.response |
| 570 | 6.3.89 GCR group membership management 6.3.89.1 General |
| 571 | 6.3.89.2 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.request 6.3.89.3 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.confirm |
| 572 | 6.3.89.4 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.indication |
| 573 | 6.3.89.5 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.response |
| 574 | 6.3.90 AP PeerKey management 6.3.90.1 General 6.3.90.2 MLME-APPEERKEY.request |
| 575 | 6.3.90.3 MLME-APPEERKEY.indication 6.3.91 On-channel Tunneling operation 6.3.91.1 General |
| 576 | 6.3.91.2 MLME-OCTunnel.request |
| 577 | 6.3.91.3 MLME-OCTunnel.indication |
| 578 | 6.3.92 Multi-band operation 6.3.92.1 General 6.3.92.2 MLME-FST-SETUP.request 6.3.92.3 MLME-FST-SETUP.indication |
| 579 | 6.3.92.4 MLME-FST-SETUP.response 6.3.92.5 MLME-FST-SETUP.confirm |
| 581 | 6.3.92.6 MLME-FST-ACK.request 6.3.92.7 MLME-FST-ACK.indication |
| 582 | 6.3.92.8 MLME-FST-ACK.response |
| 583 | 6.3.92.9 MLME-FST-ACK.confirm 6.3.92.10 MLME-FST-TEARDOWN.request |
| 584 | 6.3.92.11 MLME-FST-TEARDOWN.indication |
| 585 | 6.3.92.12 MLME-FST-INCOMING.request 6.3.93 DMG relay operation 6.3.93.1 General |
| 586 | 6.3.93.2 MLME-RELAY-SEARCH.request 6.3.93.3 MLME-RELAY-SEARCH.confirm |
| 587 | 6.3.93.4 MLME-RELAY-SEARCH.indication 6.3.93.5 MLME-RELAY-SEARCH.response |
| 588 | 6.3.93.6 MLME-RLS.request |
| 589 | 6.3.93.7 MLME-RLS.confirm |
| 590 | 6.3.93.8 MLME-RLS.indication |
| 591 | 6.3.93.9 MLME-RLS.response 6.3.93.10 MLME-RLS-TEARDOWN.request |
| 592 | 6.3.93.11 MLME-RLS-TEARDOWN.indication |
| 593 | 6.3.94 Quieting adjacent BSS operation 6.3.94.1 General 6.3.94.2 MLME-QAB.request |
| 594 | 6.3.94.3 MLME-QAB.confirm |
| 595 | 6.3.94.4 MLME-QAB.indication 6.3.94.5 MLME-QAB.response |
| 596 | 6.3.95 DMG beamforming 6.3.95.1 General 6.3.95.2 MLME-BF-TRAINING.request |
| 597 | 6.3.95.3 MLME-BF-TRAINING.confirm |
| 598 | 6.3.95.4 MLME-BF-TRAINING.indication 6.3.96 PN event report 6.3.96.1 General 6.3.96.2 MLME-PN-EXHAUSTION.indication |
| 599 | 6.3.96.3 MLME-PN-WARNING.indication |
| 600 | 6.3.97 Channel Availability Query 6.3.97.1 Introduction 6.3.97.2 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.request |
| 601 | 6.3.97.3 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.confirm |
| 602 | 6.3.97.4 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.indication |
| 603 | 6.3.97.5 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.response |
| 604 | 6.3.98 Channel schedule management 6.3.98.1 Introduction |
| 605 | 6.3.98.2 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.request 6.3.98.3 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.confirm |
| 606 | 6.3.98.4 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.indication |
| 607 | 6.3.98.5 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.response |
| 608 | 6.3.99 Contact verification signal 6.3.99.1 Introduction 6.3.99.2 MLME-CVS.request |
| 609 | 6.3.99.3 MLME-CVS.indication |
| 610 | 6.3.100 GDD Enablement 6.3.100.1 Introduction 6.3.100.2 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.request |
| 611 | 6.3.100.3 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.confirm |
| 612 | 6.3.100.4 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.indication |
| 613 | 6.3.100.5 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.response |
| 614 | 6.3.101 Network channel control management 6.3.101.1 Introduction |
| 615 | 6.3.101.2 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.request |
| 616 | 6.3.101.3 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.confirm 6.3.101.4 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.indication |
| 617 | 6.3.101.5 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.response |
| 618 | 6.3.102 White space map (WSM) 6.3.102.1 Introduction |
| 619 | 6.3.102.2 MLME-WSM.request 6.3.102.3 MLME-WSM.indication |
| 620 | 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 6.4.3 Convergence function state list 6.4.3.1 ESS_CONNECTED |
| 621 | 6.4.3.2 ESS_DISCONNECTED 6.4.3.3 ESS_DISENGAGING 6.4.3.4 STANDBY |
| 622 | 6.4.4 Convergence function state transitions 6.4.4.1 Transitions to ESS_CONNECTED 6.4.4.2 Transitions to ESS_ DISCONNECTED 6.4.4.3 Transitions to ESS_DISENGAGING 6.4.4.4 Transitions to STANDBY |
| 623 | 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 |
| 624 | 6.4.7.2 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-DOWN.indication |
| 625 | 6.4.7.3 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-GOING-DOWN |
| 626 | 6.4.7.4 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-EVENT-ROLLBACK.indication |
| 627 | 6.4.7.5 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-DETECTED.indication |
| 629 | 6.4.7.6 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-SCAN.request 6.4.7.7 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-SCAN.confirm |
| 630 | 6.4.8 Network configuration 6.4.8.1 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-CAPABILITY.request |
| 631 | 6.4.8.2 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-CAPABILITY.confirm |
| 632 | 6.4.8.3 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-PARAMETERS.request |
| 634 | 6.4.8.4 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-PARAMETERS.confirm |
| 635 | 6.4.8.5 MSGCF-GET-ESS-LINK-PARAMETERS.request |
| 636 | 6.4.8.6 MSGCF-GET-ESS-LINK-PARAMETERS.confirm 6.4.9 Network events 6.4.9.1 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-THRESHOLD-REPORT.indication |
| 637 | 6.4.10 Network command interface 6.4.10.1 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-COMMAND.request |
| 638 | 6.4.11 MAC state SME SAP—mobility management 6.4.11.1 MSSME-ESS-LINK-DOWN-PREDICTED.indication |
| 640 | 6.5 PLME SAP interface 6.5.1 General 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 |
| 641 | 6.5.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.5.4.3 When generated |
| 644 | 6.5.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.5.5 PLME-DSSSTESTMODE.request 6.5.5.1 Function 6.5.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive |
| 645 | 6.5.5.3 When generated 6.5.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.5.6 PLME-DSSSTESTOUTPUT.request 6.5.6.1 Function 6.5.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive |
| 646 | 6.5.6.3 When generated 6.5.6.4 Effect of receipt 6.5.7 PLME-TXTIME.request 6.5.7.1 Function 6.5.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.5.7.3 When generated 6.5.7.4 Effect of receipt 6.5.8 PLME-TXTIME.confirm 6.5.8.1 Function |
| 647 | 6.5.8.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.5.8.3 When generated 6.5.8.4 Effect of receipt 6.5.9 PLME-DMGTESTMODE.request 6.5.9.1 Function 6.5.9.2 Semantics of the service primitive |
| 648 | 6.5.9.3 When generated 6.5.9.4 Effect of receipt 6.5.9.5 Payload Types |
| 649 | 6.5.10 PLME-DMGTESTOUTPUT.request 6.5.10.1 Function |
| 650 | 6.5.10.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.5.10.3 When generated 6.5.10.4 Effect of receipt |
| 651 | 7. PHY service specification 7.1 Scope 7.2 PHY functions 7.3 Detailed PHY service specifications 7.3.1 Scope and field of application 7.3.2 Overview of the service 7.3.3 Overview of interactions 7.3.4 Basic service and options 7.3.4.1 PHY-SAP peer-to-peer service primitives |
| 652 | 7.3.4.2 PHY-SAP inter-(sub)layer service primitives 7.3.4.3 PHY-SAP service primitives parameters |
| 653 | 7.3.4.4 Vector descriptions |
| 654 | 7.3.5 PHY-SAP detailed service specification 7.3.5.1 Introduction 7.3.5.2 PHY-DATA.request |
| 655 | 7.3.5.3 PHY-DATA.indication 7.3.5.4 PHY-DATA.confirm |
| 656 | 7.3.5.5 PHY-TXSTART.request 7.3.5.6 PHY-TXSTART.confirm |
| 657 | 7.3.5.7 PHY-TXEND.request 7.3.5.8 PHY-TXEND.confirm |
| 658 | 7.3.5.9 PHY-TXHEADEREND.indication 7.3.5.10 PHY-CCARESET.request |
| 659 | 7.3.5.11 PHY-CCARESET.confirm |
| 660 | 7.3.5.12 PHY-CCA.indication |
| 664 | 7.3.5.13 PHY-RXSTART.indication 7.3.5.14 PHY-RXEND.indication |
| 665 | 7.3.5.15 PHY-CONFIG.request |
| 666 | 7.3.5.16 PHY-CONFIG.confirm 7.3.5.17 PHY-TXBUSY.indication |
| 667 | 7.4 PHY management |
| 668 | 8. Frame formats 8.1 General requirements 8.2 MAC frame formats 8.2.1 Basic components 8.2.2 Conventions |
| 669 | 8.2.3 General frame format |
| 670 | 8.2.4 Frame fields 8.2.4.1 Frame Control field |
| 676 | 8.2.4.2 Duration/ID field |
| 677 | 8.2.4.3 Address fields |
| 679 | 8.2.4.4 Sequence Control field |
| 680 | 8.2.4.5 QoS Control field |
| 686 | 8.2.4.6 HT Control field |
| 694 | 8.2.4.7 Frame Body field |
| 698 | 8.2.4.8 FCS field |
| 699 | 8.2.5 Duration/ID field (QoS STA) 8.2.5.1 General 8.2.5.2 Setting for single and multiple protection under enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) |
| 701 | 8.2.5.3 Setting for QoS CF-Poll frames 8.2.5.4 Setting for frames sent by a TXOP holder under HCCA |
| 702 | 8.2.5.5 Settings within a PSMP sequence 8.2.5.6 Settings within a dual CTS sequence 8.2.5.7 Setting for control response frames |
| 703 | 8.2.5.8 Setting for other response frames 8.2.6 TLV encodings 8.2.6.1 General 8.2.6.2 Common TLVs |
| 707 | 8.3 Format of individual frame types 8.3.1 Control frames 8.3.1.1 Format of Control frames 8.3.1.2 RTS frame format |
| 708 | 8.3.1.3 CTS frame format |
| 709 | 8.3.1.4 Ack frame format 8.3.1.5 PS-Poll frame format 8.3.1.6 CF-End frame format |
| 710 | 8.3.1.7 CF-End+CF-Ack frame format 8.3.1.8 BlockAckReq frame format |
| 714 | 8.3.1.9 BlockAck frame format |
| 719 | 8.3.1.10 Control Wrapper frame 8.3.1.11 Poll frame format |
| 720 | 8.3.1.12 Service Period Request (SPR) frame format 8.3.1.13 Grant frame format |
| 721 | 8.3.1.14 DMG CTS frame format 8.3.1.15 DMG DTS frame format 8.3.1.16 Sector sweep (SSW) frame format |
| 722 | 8.3.1.17 Sector sweep feedback (SSW-Feedback) frame format 8.3.1.18 Sector sweep Ack (SSW-Ack) frame format |
| 723 | 8.3.1.19 Grant Ack frame format 8.3.1.20 VHT NDP Announcement frame format |
| 725 | 8.3.1.21 Beamforming Report Poll frame format 8.3.2 Data frames 8.3.2.1 Data frame format |
| 728 | 8.3.2.2 Aggregate MSDU (A-MSDU) format |
| 730 | 8.3.3 Management frames 8.3.3.1 Format of Management frames |
| 732 | 8.3.3.2 Beacon frame format |
| 737 | 8.3.3.3 ATIM frame format 8.3.3.4 Disassociation frame format 8.3.3.5 Association Request frame format |
| 739 | 8.3.3.6 Association Response frame format |
| 741 | 8.3.3.7 Reassociation Request frame format |
| 742 | 8.3.3.8 Reassociation Response frame format |
| 744 | 8.3.3.9 Probe Request frame format |
| 746 | 8.3.3.10 Probe Response frame format |
| 750 | 8.3.3.11 Authentication frame format |
| 753 | 8.3.3.12 Deauthentication 8.3.3.13 Action frame format |
| 754 | 8.3.3.14 Action No Ack frame format 8.3.3.15 Timing Advertisement frame format 8.3.4 Extension frames 8.3.4.1 DMG Beacon |
| 758 | 8.4 Management and Extension frame body components 8.4.1 Fields that are not elements 8.4.1.1 Authentication Algorithm Number field |
| 759 | 8.4.1.2 Authentication Transaction Sequence Number field 8.4.1.3 Beacon Interval field 8.4.1.4 Capability Information field |
| 762 | 8.4.1.5 Current AP Address field 8.4.1.6 Listen Interval field |
| 763 | 8.4.1.7 Reason Code field |
| 766 | 8.4.1.8 AID field 8.4.1.9 Status Code field |
| 771 | 8.4.1.10 Timestamp field 8.4.1.11 Action field |
| 773 | 8.4.1.12 Dialog Token field 8.4.1.13 DLS Timeout Value field 8.4.1.14 Block Ack Parameter Set field |
| 774 | 8.4.1.15 Block Ack Timeout Value field 8.4.1.16 DELBA Parameter Set field |
| 775 | 8.4.1.17 QoS Info field |
| 776 | 8.4.1.18 Measurement Pilot Interval field 8.4.1.19 Max Transmit Power field |
| 777 | 8.4.1.20 Transmit Power Used field 8.4.1.21 Channel Width field |
| 778 | 8.4.1.22 SM Power Control field 8.4.1.23 PCO Phase Control field 8.4.1.24 PSMP Parameter Set field |
| 779 | 8.4.1.25 PSMP STA Info field |
| 780 | 8.4.1.26 MIMO Control field |
| 782 | 8.4.1.27 CSI Report field |
| 784 | 8.4.1.28 Noncompressed Beamforming Report field |
| 786 | 8.4.1.29 Compressed Beamforming Report field |
| 789 | 8.4.1.30 Antenna Selection Indices field 8.4.1.31 Organization Identifier field |
| 790 | 8.4.1.32 Rate Identification field |
| 792 | 8.4.1.33 GAS Query Response Fragment ID field 8.4.1.34 Venue Info field |
| 795 | 8.4.1.35 Target Channel 8.4.1.36 Operating Class |
| 796 | 8.4.1.37 Send-Confirm field 8.4.1.38 Anti-Clogging Token field 8.4.1.39 Scalar field 8.4.1.40 Element field |
| 797 | 8.4.1.41 Confirm field 8.4.1.42 Finite Cyclic Group field 8.4.1.43 TXOP Reservation field 8.4.1.44 Relay Capable STA Info field |
| 798 | 8.4.1.45 Band ID field 8.4.1.46 DMG Parameters field |
| 799 | 8.4.1.47 VHT MIMO Control field |
| 801 | 8.4.1.48 VHT Compressed Beamforming Report field |
| 810 | 8.4.1.49 TVHT Compressed Beamforming Report field |
| 811 | 8.4.1.50 MU Exclusive Beamforming Report field |
| 815 | 8.4.1.51 TVHT MU Exclusive Beamforming Report field |
| 816 | 8.4.1.52 Operating Mode field |
| 817 | 8.4.1.53 Membership Status Array field |
| 818 | 8.4.1.54 User Position Array field 8.4.1.55 Channel Schedule Management element |
| 820 | 8.4.1.56 Device Location Information Body |
| 821 | 8.4.1.57 WSM type and information |
| 822 | 8.4.2 Elements 8.4.2.1 General |
| 830 | 8.4.2.2 SSID element |
| 831 | 8.4.2.3 Supported Rates element |
| 832 | 8.4.2.4 DSSS Parameter Set element 8.4.2.5 CF Parameter Set element |
| 833 | 8.4.2.6 TIM element |
| 835 | 8.4.2.7 IBSS Parameter Set element 8.4.2.8 Challenge Text element 8.4.2.9 Country element |
| 838 | 8.4.2.10 Request element |
| 839 | 8.4.2.11 ERP element 8.4.2.12 Extended Supported Rates element |
| 840 | 8.4.2.13 Power Constraint element 8.4.2.14 Power Capability element |
| 841 | 8.4.2.15 TPC Request element 8.4.2.16 TPC Report element |
| 842 | 8.4.2.17 Supported Channels element 8.4.2.18 Channel Switch Announcement element |
| 843 | 8.4.2.19 Secondary Channel Offset element |
| 844 | 8.4.2.20 Measurement Request element |
| 878 | 8.4.2.21 Measurement Report element |
| 927 | 8.4.2.22 Quiet element 8.4.2.23 IBSS DFS element |
| 928 | 8.4.2.24 RSNE |
| 937 | 8.4.2.25 Vendor Specific element 8.4.2.26 Extended Capabilities element |
| 943 | 8.4.2.27 BSS Load element |
| 944 | 8.4.2.28 EDCA Parameter Set element |
| 947 | 8.4.2.29 TSPEC element |
| 953 | 8.4.2.30 TCLAS element |
| 961 | 8.4.2.31 TS Delay element |
| 962 | 8.4.2.32 TCLAS Processing element 8.4.2.33 Schedule element |
| 963 | 8.4.2.34 QoS Capability element |
| 964 | 8.4.2.35 AP Channel Report element 8.4.2.36 Neighbor Report element |
| 970 | 8.4.2.37 RCPI element 8.4.2.38 BSS Average Access Delay element |
| 971 | 8.4.2.39 Antenna element |
| 972 | 8.4.2.40 RSNI element 8.4.2.41 Measurement Pilot Transmission element |
| 973 | 8.4.2.42 BSS Available Admission Capacity element |
| 974 | 8.4.2.43 BSS AC Access Delay element |
| 976 | 8.4.2.44 RM Enabled Capabilities element |
| 978 | 8.4.2.45 Multiple BSSID element |
| 981 | 8.4.2.46 Mobility Domain element (MDE) 8.4.2.47 Fast BSS Transition element (FTE) |
| 984 | 8.4.2.48 Timeout Interval element (TIE) 8.4.2.49 RIC Data element (RDE) |
| 985 | 8.4.2.50 RIC Descriptor element |
| 986 | 8.4.2.51 DSE Registered Location element |
| 987 | 8.4.2.52 Extended Channel Switch Announcement element |
| 988 | 8.4.2.53 Supported Operating Classes element |
| 989 | 8.4.2.54 Management MIC element |
| 990 | 8.4.2.55 HT Capabilities element |
| 999 | 8.4.2.56 HT Operation element |
| 1003 | 8.4.2.57 20/40 BSS Intolerant Channel Report element |
| 1004 | 8.4.2.58 Overlapping BSS Scan Parameters element |
| 1005 | 8.4.2.59 20/40 BSS Coexistence element |
| 1006 | 8.4.2.60 Time Advertisement element |
| 1008 | 8.4.2.61 Link Identifier element 8.4.2.62 Wakeup Schedule element |
| 1009 | 8.4.2.63 Channel Switch Timing element 8.4.2.64 PTI Control element |
| 1010 | 8.4.2.65 TPU Buffer Status element |
| 1011 | 8.4.2.66 Event Request element |
| 1018 | 8.4.2.67 Event Report element |
| 1024 | 8.4.2.68 Diagnostic Request element |
| 1035 | 8.4.2.69 Diagnostic Report element |
| 1038 | 8.4.2.70 Location Parameters element |
| 1046 | 8.4.2.71 Nontransmitted BSSID Capability element |
| 1047 | 8.4.2.72 SSID List element 8.4.2.73 Multiple BSSID-Index element |
| 1048 | 8.4.2.74 FMS Descriptor element |
| 1049 | 8.4.2.75 FMS Request element |
| 1050 | 8.4.2.76 FMS Response element |
| 1053 | 8.4.2.77 QoS Traffic Capability element |
| 1054 | 8.4.2.78 BSS Max Idle Period element |
| 1055 | 8.4.2.79 TFS Request element |
| 1057 | 8.4.2.80 TFS Response element |
| 1058 | 8.4.2.81 WNM-Sleep Mode element |
| 1059 | 8.4.2.82 TIM Broadcast Request element |
| 1060 | 8.4.2.83 TIM Broadcast Response element |
| 1061 | 8.4.2.84 Collocated Interference Report element |
| 1063 | 8.4.2.85 Channel Usage element 8.4.2.86 Time Zone element |
| 1064 | 8.4.2.87 DMS Request element |
| 1067 | 8.4.2.88 DMS Response element |
| 1070 | 8.4.2.89 Destination URI element |
| 1071 | 8.4.2.90 U-APSD Coexistence element |
| 1072 | 8.4.2.91 Interworking element |
| 1074 | 8.4.2.92 Advertisement Protocol element |
| 1076 | 8.4.2.93 Expedited Bandwidth Request element 8.4.2.94 QoS Map Set element |
| 1077 | 8.4.2.95 Roaming Consortium element |
| 1078 | 8.4.2.96 Emergency Alert Identifier element |
| 1079 | 8.4.2.97 Mesh Configuration element |
| 1083 | 8.4.2.98 Mesh ID element 8.4.2.99 Mesh Link Metric Report element |
| 1084 | 8.4.2.100 Congestion Notification element 8.4.2.101 Mesh Peering Management element |
| 1085 | 8.4.2.102 Mesh Channel Switch Parameters element |
| 1087 | 8.4.2.103 Mesh Awake Window element 8.4.2.104 Beacon Timing element |
| 1088 | 8.4.2.105 MCCAOP Setup Request element |
| 1089 | 8.4.2.106 MCCAOP Setup Reply element |
| 1090 | 8.4.2.107 MCCAOP Advertisement Overview element |
| 1091 | 8.4.2.108 MCCAOP Advertisement element |
| 1093 | 8.4.2.109 MCCAOP Teardown element 8.4.2.110 GANN element |
| 1094 | 8.4.2.111 RANN element |
| 1095 | 8.4.2.112 PREQ element |
| 1097 | 8.4.2.113 PREP element |
| 1099 | 8.4.2.114 PERR element |
| 1100 | 8.4.2.115 PXU element |
| 1101 | 8.4.2.116 PXUC element |
| 1102 | 8.4.2.117 Authenticated Mesh Peering Exchange element |
| 1103 | 8.4.2.118 MIC element 8.4.2.119 Quality-of-Service Management Frame Policy element |
| 1104 | 8.4.2.120 Intra-Access Category Priority element |
| 1105 | 8.4.2.121 SCS Descriptor element |
| 1106 | 8.4.2.122 QLoad Report element |
| 1109 | 8.4.2.123 HCCA TXOP Update Count element 8.4.2.124 Higher Layer Stream ID element |
| 1110 | 8.4.2.125 GCR Group Address element 8.4.2.126 DMG BSS Parameter Change element |
| 1111 | 8.4.2.127 DMG Capabilities element |
| 1116 | 8.4.2.128 DMG Operation element |
| 1117 | 8.4.2.129 DMG Beam Refinement element |
| 1120 | 8.4.2.130 DMG Wakeup Schedule element 8.4.2.131 Extended Schedule element |
| 1122 | 8.4.2.132 STA Availability element |
| 1123 | 8.4.2.133 DMG TSPEC element |
| 1126 | 8.4.2.134 Next DMG ATI element 8.4.2.135 Channel Measurement Feedback element |
| 1129 | 8.4.2.136 Awake Window element 8.4.2.137 Multi-band element |
| 1131 | 8.4.2.138 ADDBA Extension element |
| 1132 | 8.4.2.139 Next PCP List element 8.4.2.140 PCP Handover element |
| 1133 | 8.4.2.141 DMG Link Margin element |
| 1134 | 8.4.2.142 DMG Link Adaptation Acknowledgment element 8.4.2.143 Switching Stream element |
| 1135 | 8.4.2.144 Session Transition element |
| 1137 | 8.4.2.145 Dynamic Tone Pairing (DTP) Report element 8.4.2.146 Cluster Report element |
| 1139 | 8.4.2.147 Relay Capabilities element |
| 1140 | 8.4.2.148 Relay Transfer Parameter Set element |
| 1141 | 8.4.2.149 Quiet Period Request element |
| 1142 | 8.4.2.150 Quiet Period Response element 8.4.2.151 BeamLink Maintenance element |
| 1143 | 8.4.2.152 Multiple MAC Sublayers (MMS) element |
| 1145 | 8.4.2.153 Upper Layer Protocol Identification element 8.4.2.154 ECAPC Policy element |
| 1146 | 8.4.2.155 Cluster Time Offset element |
| 1147 | 8.4.2.156 Antenna Sector ID Pattern element |
| 1148 | 8.4.2.157 VHT Capabilities element |
| 1152 | 8.4.2.158 VHT Operation element |
| 1154 | 8.4.2.159 Extended BSS Load element |
| 1156 | 8.4.2.160 Wide Bandwidth Channel Switch element 8.4.2.161 VHT Transmit Power Envelope element |
| 1158 | 8.4.2.162 Channel Switch Wrapper element |
| 1159 | 8.4.2.163 AID element 8.4.2.164 Quiet Channel element |
| 1160 | 8.4.2.165 Operating Mode Notification element 8.4.2.166 Fine Timing Measurement Parameter element |
| 1163 | 8.4.2.167 Device Location Information element |
| 1164 | 8.4.2.168 White Space Map element 8.4.2.169 Reduced Neighbor Report element |
| 1166 | 8.4.2.170 TVHT Operation element |
| 1167 | 8.4.3 Subelements |
| 1168 | 8.4.4 Access network query protocol (ANQP) elements 8.4.4.1 General |
| 1170 | 8.4.4.2 Query List ANQP-element 8.4.4.3 Capability List ANQP-element |
| 1171 | 8.4.4.4 Venue Name ANQP-element 8.4.4.5 Emergency Call Number ANQP-element |
| 1172 | 8.4.4.6 Network Authentication Type ANQP-element |
| 1173 | 8.4.4.7 Roaming Consortium ANQP-element |
| 1174 | 8.4.4.8 Vendor Specific ANQP-element 8.4.4.9 IP Address Type Availability ANQP-element |
| 1175 | 8.4.4.10 NAI Realm ANQP-element |
| 1179 | 8.4.4.11 3GPP Cellular Network ANQP-element 8.4.4.12 AP Geospatial Location ANQP-element |
| 1180 | 8.4.4.13 AP Civic Location ANQP-element 8.4.4.14 AP Location Public Identifier URI/FQDN ANQP-element 8.4.4.15 Domain Name ANQP-element |
| 1181 | 8.4.4.16 Emergency Alert URI ANQP-element 8.4.4.17 Emergency NAI ANQP-element |
| 1182 | 8.4.4.18 TDLS Capability ANQP-element 8.4.4.19 Neighbor Report ANQP-element 8.4.5 Registered Location Query Protocol (RLQP) elements 8.4.5.1 General |
| 1183 | 8.4.5.2 Channel Availability Query RLQP-element |
| 1185 | 8.4.5.3 Channel Schedule Management RLQP-element 8.4.5.4 Network Channel Control RLQP-element |
| 1187 | 8.5 Fields used in Management and Extension frame bodies and Control frames 8.5.1 Sector Sweep field 8.5.2 Dynamic Allocation Info field |
| 1188 | 8.5.3 Sector Sweep Feedback field |
| 1189 | 8.5.4 BRP Request field |
| 1190 | 8.5.5 Beamforming Control field |
| 1191 | 8.5.6 Beamformed Link Maintenance field |
| 1192 | 8.6 Action frame format details 8.6.1 Introduction |
| 1193 | 8.6.2 Spectrum management Action frames 8.6.2.1 General 8.6.2.2 Measurement Request Action frame format |
| 1194 | 8.6.2.3 Measurement Report frame format 8.6.2.4 TPC Request frame format 8.6.2.5 TPC Report frame format |
| 1195 | 8.6.2.6 Channel Switch Announcement frame format |
| 1196 | 8.6.3 QoS Action frame details 8.6.3.1 General |
| 1197 | 8.6.3.2 Basic and DMG ADDTS Request frame format |
| 1199 | 8.6.3.3 Basic and DMG ADDTS Response frame format |
| 1201 | 8.6.3.4 DELTS frame format |
| 1202 | 8.6.3.5 Schedule frame format |
| 1203 | 8.6.3.6 QoS Map Configure frame format 8.6.3.7 ADDTS Reserve Request frame format |
| 1204 | 8.6.3.8 ADDTS Reserve Response frame format 8.6.4 DLS Action frame details 8.6.4.1 General |
| 1205 | 8.6.4.2 DLS Request frame format |
| 1206 | 8.6.4.3 DLS Response frame format |
| 1207 | 8.6.4.4 DLS Teardown frame format 8.6.5 Block Ack Action frame details 8.6.5.1 General |
| 1208 | 8.6.5.2 ADDBA Request frame format |
| 1209 | 8.6.5.3 ADDBA Response frame format |
| 1210 | 8.6.5.4 DELBA frame format 8.6.6 Vendor-specific action details |
| 1211 | 8.6.7 Radio Measurement action details 8.6.7.1 General 8.6.7.2 Radio Measurement Request frame format |
| 1212 | 8.6.7.3 Radio Measurement Report frame format 8.6.7.4 Link Measurement Request frame format |
| 1213 | 8.6.7.5 Link Measurement Report frame format |
| 1214 | 8.6.7.6 Neighbor Report Request frame format |
| 1215 | 8.6.7.7 Neighbor Report Response frame format 8.6.8 Public Action details 8.6.8.1 Public Action frames |
| 1217 | 8.6.8.2 20/40 BSS Coexistence Management frame format 8.6.8.3 Measurement Pilot frame format |
| 1219 | 8.6.8.4 DSE Enablement frame format |
| 1220 | 8.6.8.5 DSE Deenablement frame format |
| 1221 | 8.6.8.6 DSE Registered Location Announcement frame format 8.6.8.7 Extended Channel Switch Announcement frame format |
| 1222 | 8.6.8.8 DSE Measurement Request frame format |
| 1223 | 8.6.8.9 DSE Measurement Report frame format |
| 1224 | 8.6.8.10 DSE Power Constraint frame format |
| 1225 | 8.6.8.11 Vendor Specific Public Action frame format |
| 1226 | 8.6.8.12 GAS Initial Request frame format |
| 1227 | 8.6.8.13 GAS Initial Response frame format |
| 1228 | 8.6.8.14 GAS Comeback Request frame format |
| 1229 | 8.6.8.15 GAS Comeback Response frame format |
| 1230 | 8.6.8.16 TDLS Discovery Response frame format |
| 1231 | 8.6.8.17 Location Track Notification frame format |
| 1232 | 8.6.8.18 QMF Policy frame format |
| 1233 | 8.6.8.19 QMF Policy Change frame format 8.6.8.20 QLoad Request frame format |
| 1234 | 8.6.8.21 QLoad Report frame format |
| 1235 | 8.6.8.22 HCCA TXOP Advertisement frame 8.6.8.23 HCCA TXOP Response frame |
| 1236 | 8.6.8.24 Public Key frame |
| 1237 | 8.6.8.25 Channel Availability Query frame format |
| 1238 | 8.6.8.26 Channel Schedule Management frame format 8.6.8.27 Contact Verification Signal frame format |
| 1239 | 8.6.8.28 GDD Enablement Request frame format 8.6.8.29 GDD Enablement Response frame format |
| 1240 | 8.6.8.30 Network Channel Control frame format |
| 1241 | 8.6.8.31 White Space Map Announcement frame format 8.6.8.32 Fine Timing Measurement Request frame format |
| 1242 | 8.6.8.33 Fine Timing Measurement frame format |
| 1244 | 8.6.8.34 QAB Request frame format |
| 1245 | 8.6.8.35 QAB Response frame format 8.6.9 FT Action frame details 8.6.9.1 General 8.6.9.2 FT Request frame |
| 1246 | 8.6.9.3 FT Response frame |
| 1247 | 8.6.9.4 FT Confirm frame |
| 1248 | 8.6.9.5 FT Ack frame 8.6.10 SA Query Action frame details 8.6.10.1 General |
| 1249 | 8.6.10.2 SA Query Request frame 8.6.10.3 SA Query Response frame |
| 1250 | 8.6.11 Protected Dual of Public Action frames |
| 1252 | 8.6.12 HT Action frame details 8.6.12.1 HT Action field |
| 1253 | 8.6.12.2 Notify Channel Width frame format 8.6.12.3 SM Power Save frame format |
| 1254 | 8.6.12.4 PSMP frame format 8.6.12.5 Set PCO Phase frame format |
| 1255 | 8.6.12.6 CSI frame format 8.6.12.7 Noncompressed Beamforming frame format |
| 1256 | 8.6.12.8 Compressed Beamforming frame format |
| 1257 | 8.6.12.9 Antenna Selection Indices Feedback frame format 8.6.13 TDLS Action field formats 8.6.13.1 General |
| 1258 | 8.6.13.2 TDLS Setup Request Action field format |
| 1259 | 8.6.13.3 TDLS Setup Response Action field format |
| 1261 | 8.6.13.4 TDLS Setup Confirm Action field format |
| 1262 | 8.6.13.5 TDLS Teardown Action field format |
| 1263 | 8.6.13.6 TDLS Peer Traffic Indication Action field format |
| 1264 | 8.6.13.7 TDLS Channel Switch Request Action field format 8.6.13.8 TDLS Channel Switch Response Action field format |
| 1265 | 8.6.13.9 TDLS Peer PSM Request Action field format 8.6.13.10 TDLS Peer PSM Response Action field format |
| 1266 | 8.6.13.11 TDLS Peer Traffic Response Action field format |
| 1267 | 8.6.13.12 TDLS Discovery Request Action field format 8.6.14 WNM Action details 8.6.14.1 WNM Action fields |
| 1268 | 8.6.14.2 Event Request frame format |
| 1269 | 8.6.14.3 Event Report frame format 8.6.14.4 Diagnostic Request frame format |
| 1270 | 8.6.14.5 Diagnostic Report frame format 8.6.14.6 Location Configuration Request frame format |
| 1271 | 8.6.14.7 Location Configuration Response frame format |
| 1272 | 8.6.14.8 BSS Transition Management Query frame format |
| 1273 | 8.6.14.9 BSS Transition Management Request frame format |
| 1275 | 8.6.14.10 BSS Transition Management Response frame format |
| 1276 | 8.6.14.11 FMS Request frame format |
| 1277 | 8.6.14.12 FMS Response frame format 8.6.14.13 Collocated Interference Request frame format |
| 1278 | 8.6.14.14 Collocated Interference Report frame format |
| 1279 | 8.6.14.15 TFS Request frame format 8.6.14.16 TFS Response frame format |
| 1280 | 8.6.14.17 TFS Notify frame format 8.6.14.18 TFS Notify Response frame format |
| 1281 | 8.6.14.19 WNM-Sleep Mode Request frame format 8.6.14.20 WNM-Sleep Mode Response frame format |
| 1284 | 8.6.14.21 TIM Broadcast Request frame format 8.6.14.22 TIM Broadcast Response frame format |
| 1285 | 8.6.14.23 QoS Traffic Capability Update frame format 8.6.14.24 Channel Usage Request frame format |
| 1286 | 8.6.14.25 Channel Usage Response frame format |
| 1287 | 8.6.14.26 DMS Request frame format 8.6.14.27 DMS Response frame format |
| 1288 | 8.6.14.28 Timing Measurement Request frame format 8.6.14.29 WNM-Notification Request frame format |
| 1289 | 8.6.14.30 WNM-Notification Response frame format |
| 1291 | 8.6.15 Unprotected WNM Action details 8.6.15.1 Unprotected WNM Action fields 8.6.15.2 TIM frame format |
| 1292 | 8.6.15.3 Timing Measurement frame format |
| 1293 | 8.6.16 Self-protected Action frame details 8.6.16.1 Self-protected Action fields |
| 1294 | 8.6.16.2 Mesh Peering Open frame format |
| 1295 | 8.6.16.3 Mesh Peering Confirm frame format |
| 1297 | 8.6.16.4 Mesh Peering Close frame format |
| 1298 | 8.6.16.5 Mesh Group Key Inform frame format 8.6.16.6 Mesh Group Key Acknowledge frame format |
| 1299 | 8.6.17 Mesh Action frame details 8.6.17.1 Mesh Action fields 8.6.17.2 Mesh Link Metric Report frame format |
| 1300 | 8.6.17.3 HWMP Mesh Path Selection frame format |
| 1301 | 8.6.17.4 Gate Announcement frame format 8.6.17.5 Congestion Control Notification frame format |
| 1302 | 8.6.17.6 MCCA Setup Request frame format 8.6.17.7 MCCA Setup Reply frame format |
| 1303 | 8.6.17.8 MCCA Advertisement Request frame format 8.6.17.9 MCCA Advertisement frame format |
| 1304 | 8.6.17.10 MCCA Teardown frame format 8.6.17.11 TBTT Adjustment Request frame format |
| 1305 | 8.6.17.12 TBTT Adjustment Response frame format 8.6.18 Multihop Action frame details 8.6.18.1 Multihop Action fields |
| 1306 | 8.6.18.2 Proxy Update frame format 8.6.18.3 Proxy Update Confirmation frame format |
| 1307 | 8.6.19 Robust AV Streaming Action frame details 8.6.19.1 General 8.6.19.2 SCS Request frame format |
| 1308 | 8.6.19.3 SCS Response frame format 8.6.19.4 Group Membership Request frame format |
| 1309 | 8.6.19.5 Group Membership Response frame format 8.6.20 DMG Action frame details 8.6.20.1 DMG Action field |
| 1310 | 8.6.20.2 Power Save Configuration Request frame format |
| 1311 | 8.6.20.3 Power Save Configuration Response frame format |
| 1312 | 8.6.20.4 Information Request frame format 8.6.20.5 Information Response frame format |
| 1313 | 8.6.20.6 Handover Request frame format |
| 1314 | 8.6.20.7 Handover Response frame format 8.6.20.8 DTP Request frame format |
| 1315 | 8.6.20.9 DTP Report frame format 8.6.20.10 Relay Search Request frame format |
| 1316 | 8.6.20.11 Relay Search Response frame format 8.6.20.12 Multi-relay Channel Measurement Request frame format |
| 1317 | 8.6.20.13 Multi-relay Channel Measurement Report frame format |
| 1318 | 8.6.20.14 RLS Request frame format |
| 1319 | 8.6.20.15 RLS Response frame format 8.6.20.16 RLS Announcement frame format |
| 1320 | 8.6.20.17 RLS Teardown frame format |
| 1321 | 8.6.20.18 Relay Ack Request frame format 8.6.20.19 Relay Ack Response frame format |
| 1322 | 8.6.20.20 TPA Request frame format |
| 1323 | 8.6.20.21 TPA Response frame format 8.6.20.22 TPA Report frame format |
| 1324 | 8.6.20.23 ROC Request frame format |
| 1325 | 8.6.20.24 ROC Response frame format 8.6.21 FST Action frame details 8.6.21.1 FST Action field |
| 1326 | 8.6.21.2 FST Setup Request frame format |
| 1327 | 8.6.21.3 FST Setup Response frame format |
| 1328 | 8.6.21.4 FST Tear Down frame format 8.6.21.5 FST Ack Request frame format |
| 1329 | 8.6.21.6 FST Ack Response frame format 8.6.21.7 On-channel Tunnel Request frame format |
| 1330 | 8.6.22 Unprotected DMG Action frame details 8.6.22.1 Unprotected DMG Action field 8.6.22.2 Announce frame format |
| 1331 | 8.6.22.3 BRP frame format |
| 1332 | 8.6.23 VHT Action frame details 8.6.23.1 VHT Action field 8.6.23.2 VHT Compressed Beamforming frame format |
| 1333 | 8.6.23.3 Group ID Management frame format |
| 1334 | 8.6.23.4 Operating Mode Notification frame format 8.7 Aggregate MPDU (A-MPDU) 8.7.1 A-MPDU format |
| 1337 | 8.7.2 MPDU delimiter CRC field 8.7.3 A-MPDU contents |
| 1343 | 9. MAC sublayer functional description 9.1 Introduction 9.2 MAC architecture 9.2.1 General |
| 1344 | 9.2.2 DCF 9.2.3 PCF |
| 1345 | 9.2.4 Hybrid coordination function (HCF) 9.2.4.1 General 9.2.4.2 HCF contention based channel access (EDCA) |
| 1348 | 9.2.4.3 HCF controlled channel access (HCCA) 9.2.5 Mesh coordination function (MCF) |
| 1349 | 9.2.6 Combined use of DCF, PCF, and HCF 9.2.7 Fragmentation/defragmentation overview |
| 1350 | 9.2.8 MAC data service |
| 1351 | 9.3 DCF 9.3.1 General |
| 1352 | 9.3.2 Procedures common to the DCF and EDCAF 9.3.2.1 CS mechanism |
| 1353 | 9.3.2.2 MAC-Level Acknowledgments 9.3.2.3 IFS |
| 1358 | 9.3.2.4 Setting and resetting the NAV |
| 1359 | 9.3.2.5 RTS/CTS with fragmentation |
| 1361 | 9.3.2.6 VHT RTS procedure 9.3.2.7 CTS and DMG CTS procedure |
| 1362 | 9.3.2.8 Dual CTS protection |
| 1364 | 9.3.2.9 Ack procedure |
| 1365 | 9.3.2.10 Block ack procedure |
| 1366 | 9.3.2.11 MU acknowledgment procedure |
| 1367 | 9.3.2.12 Duplicate detection and recovery |
| 1368 | 9.3.2.13 NAV distribution |
| 1370 | 9.3.2.14 Operation of aSlotTime 9.3.3 Random backoff time |
| 1372 | 9.3.4 DCF access procedure 9.3.4.1 Introduction 9.3.4.2 Basic access 9.3.4.3 Backoff procedure for DCF |
| 1376 | 9.3.4.4 Recovery procedures and retransmit limits |
| 1377 | 9.3.4.5 Control of the channel |
| 1378 | 9.3.5 Individually addressed MPDU transfer procedure |
| 1379 | 9.3.6 Group addressed MPDU transfer procedure 9.3.7 DCF timing relations |
| 1382 | 9.3.8 Signal Extension |
| 1383 | 9.3.9 Determination of PLME aCWmin characteristics 9.4 PCF 9.4.1 General |
| 1384 | 9.4.2 CFP structure and timing |
| 1385 | 9.4.3 PCF access procedure 9.4.3.1 General |
| 1386 | 9.4.3.2 Fundamental access 9.4.3.3 NAV operation during the CFP 9.4.4 PCF transfer procedure 9.4.4.1 General |
| 1387 | 9.4.4.2 PCF transfers when the PC STA is transmitter or recipient |
| 1388 | 9.4.4.3 Operation with overlapping point-coordinated BSSs |
| 1389 | 9.4.4.4 CFPMaxDuration limit 9.4.4.5 CF usage rules 9.4.5 CF polling list 9.4.5.1 General |
| 1390 | 9.4.5.2 Polling list processing 9.4.5.3 Polling list update procedure 9.5 Fragmentation |
| 1391 | 9.6 Defragmentation |
| 1392 | 9.7 Multirate support 9.7.1 Overview |
| 1393 | 9.7.2 Basic MCS Set field 9.7.3 Basic STBC MCS |
| 1394 | 9.7.4 Basic Rate Set and Basic MCS Set for mesh STA 9.7.5 Rate selection for data and Management frames 9.7.5.1 Rate selection for non-STBC Beacon and non-STBC PSMP frames 9.7.5.2 Rate selection for STBC group addressed data and Management frames 9.7.5.3 Rate selection for other group addressed data and Management frames |
| 1395 | 9.7.5.4 Rate selection for polling frames 9.7.5.5 Rate selection for +CF-Ack frames 9.7.5.6 Rate selection for Data frames sent within an FMS stream 9.7.5.7 Rate selection for other individually addressed Data and Management frames |
| 1397 | 9.7.6 Rate selection for Control frames 9.7.6.1 General rules for rate selection for Control frames |
| 1398 | 9.7.6.2 Rate selection for Control frames that initiate a TXOP |
| 1399 | 9.7.6.3 Rate selection for CF-End frames 9.7.6.4 Rate selection for Control frames that are not control response frames |
| 1400 | 9.7.6.5 Rate selection for control response frames |
| 1404 | 9.7.6.6 Channel Width selection for Control frames |
| 1405 | 9.7.6.7 Control frame TXVECTOR parameter restrictions |
| 1406 | 9.7.7 Multirate support for DMG STAs 9.7.7.1 Usage of DMG Control modulation class 9.7.7.2 Rate selection rules for Control frames transmitted by DMG STAs |
| 1407 | 9.7.7.3 Rate selection for group addressed Data and Management frames transmitted by DMG STAs 9.7.7.4 Rate selection for individually addressed Data and Management frames transmitted by DMG STAs 9.7.7.5 Rate selection for BRP packets |
| 1408 | 9.7.8 Multiple BSSID Rate Selection 9.7.9 Modulation classes |
| 1409 | 9.7.10 Non-HT basic rate calculation |
| 1410 | 9.7.11 Channel Width in non-HT and non-HT duplicate PPDUs |
| 1411 | 9.7.12 Rate selection constraints for VHT STAs 9.7.12.1 Rx Supported VHT-MCS and NSS Set 9.7.12.2 Tx Supported VHT-MCS and NSS Set |
| 1412 | 9.7.12.3 Additional rate selection constraints for VHT PPDUs 9.8 MSDU transmission restrictions |
| 1413 | 9.9 HT Control field operation 9.10 Control Wrapper operation |
| 1414 | 9.11 MSDU processing 9.12 A-MSDU operation |
| 1415 | 9.13 A-MPDU operation 9.13.1 A-MPDU contents |
| 1416 | 9.13.2 A-MPDU length limit rules 9.13.3 Minimum MPDU Start Spacing field |
| 1417 | 9.13.4 A-MPDU aggregation of group addressed Data frames |
| 1418 | 9.13.5 Transport of A-MPDU by the PHY data service 9.13.6 A-MPDU padding for VHT PPDU |
| 1419 | 9.13.7 Setting the EOF field of the MPDU delimiter |
| 1420 | 9.13.8 Transport of VHT single MPDUs 9.14 PPDU duration constraint 9.15 DMG A-PPDU operation |
| 1421 | 9.16 LDPC operation 9.17 STBC operation 9.18 Short GI operation |
| 1422 | 9.19 Greenfield operation 9.20 Group ID and partial AID in VHT PPDUs |
| 1424 | 9.21 Operation across regulatory domains 9.21.1 General 9.21.2 Operation upon entering a regulatory domain 9.21.3 Operation with operating classes and the VHT Transmit Power Envelope element |
| 1425 | 9.21.4 Operation with coverage classes |
| 1426 | 9.22 HCF 9.22.1 General 9.22.2 HCF contention based channel access (EDCA) 9.22.2.1 Reference model 9.22.2.2 EDCA backoff procedure |
| 1429 | 9.22.2.3 EDCA TXOPs 9.22.2.4 Obtaining an EDCA TXOP |
| 1431 | 9.22.2.5 EDCA channel access in a VHT or TVHT BSS |
| 1432 | 9.22.2.6 Sharing an EDCA TXOP |
| 1433 | 9.22.2.7 Multiple frame transmission in an EDCA TXOP |
| 1435 | 9.22.2.8 TXOP Limits |
| 1437 | 9.22.2.9 Truncation of TXOP |
| 1438 | 9.22.2.10 Retransmit procedures |
| 1440 | 9.22.3 HCCA 9.22.3.1 General |
| 1441 | 9.22.3.2 HCCA procedure |
| 1444 | 9.22.3.3 TXOP structure and timing 9.22.3.4 NAV operation during a TXOP |
| 1445 | 9.22.3.5 HCCA transfer rules |
| 1447 | 9.22.4 Admission Control at the HC 9.22.4.1 General |
| 1448 | 9.22.4.2 Contention based admission control procedures |
| 1450 | 9.22.4.3 Controlled-access admission control |
| 1451 | 9.23 Mesh coordination function (MCF) 9.23.1 General |
| 1452 | 9.23.2 MCF contention based channel access 9.23.3 MCF controlled channel access (MCCA) 9.23.3.1 General |
| 1453 | 9.23.3.2 MCCA activation 9.23.3.3 MCCAOP reservations |
| 1454 | 9.23.3.4 Neighborhood MCCAOP periods at a mesh STA |
| 1455 | 9.23.3.5 MCCA access fraction (MAF) 9.23.3.6 MCCAOP setup procedure |
| 1456 | 9.23.3.7 MCCAOP advertisement |
| 1461 | 9.23.3.8 MCCAOP teardown |
| 1462 | 9.23.3.9 Access during MCCAOPs |
| 1463 | 9.23.3.10 Interaction with time synchronization |
| 1464 | 9.24 Block acknowledgment (block ack) 9.24.1 Introduction 9.24.2 Setup and modification of the block ack parameters |
| 1466 | 9.24.3 Data and acknowledgment transfer using immediate block ack policy and delayed block ack policy |
| 1469 | 9.24.4 Receive buffer operation |
| 1470 | 9.24.5 Teardown of the block ack mechanism 9.24.6 Selection of BlockAck and BlockAckReq variants |
| 1471 | 9.24.7 HT-immediate block ack extensions 9.24.7.1 Introduction to HT-immediate block ack extensions 9.24.7.2 HT-immediate block ack architecture |
| 1472 | 9.24.7.3 Scoreboard context control during full-state operation |
| 1473 | 9.24.7.4 Scoreboard context control during partial-state operation |
| 1474 | 9.24.7.5 Generation and transmission of BlockAck frames by an HT STA or DMG STA |
| 1475 | 9.24.7.6 Receive reordering buffer control operation |
| 1477 | 9.24.7.7 Originator’s behavior |
| 1478 | 9.24.7.8 Maintaining block ack state at the originator 9.24.7.9 Originator’s support of recipient’s partial state 9.24.8 HT-delayed block ack extensions 9.24.8.1 Introduction 9.24.8.2 HT-delayed block ack negotiation 9.24.8.3 Operation of HT-delayed block ack |
| 1479 | 9.24.9 Protected block ack agreement |
| 1480 | 9.24.10 GCR block ack 9.24.10.1 Introduction 9.24.10.2 Scoreboard context control during GCR block ack |
| 1481 | 9.24.10.3 GCR block ack BlockAckReq and BlockAck frame exchanges |
| 1482 | 9.24.11 DMG block ack with flow control 9.24.11.1 General |
| 1483 | 9.24.11.2 DMG block ack architecture with flow control |
| 1484 | 9.24.11.3 Scoreboard context control with flow control 9.24.11.4 Receive Reordering Buffer with flow control operation |
| 1486 | 9.24.11.5 Generation and transmission of BlockAck frame by a STA with flow control 9.24.11.6 Originator’s behavior with flow control support |
| 1487 | 9.25 No Acknowledgment (No Ack) 9.26 Protection mechanisms 9.26.1 Introduction 9.26.2 Protection mechanism for non-ERP receivers |
| 1490 | 9.26.3 Protection mechanisms for transmissions of HT PPDUs 9.26.3.1 General |
| 1492 | 9.26.3.2 Protection rules for HT STA operating a direct link 9.26.3.3 RIFS protection |
| 1493 | 9.26.3.4 Use of OBSS Non-HT STAs Present field 9.26.3.5 Protection rules for an HT mesh STA in an MBSS |
| 1494 | 9.26.4 L_LENGTH and L_DATARATE parameter values for HT-mixed format PPDUs |
| 1495 | 9.26.5 L-SIG TXOP protection 9.26.5.1 General rules |
| 1497 | 9.26.5.2 L-SIG TXOP protection rules at the TXOP holder |
| 1498 | 9.26.5.3 L-SIG TXOP protection rules at the TXOP responder 9.26.5.4 L-SIG TXOP protection NAV update rule |
| 1499 | 9.26.6 Protection Rules for VHT STAs 9.27 MAC frame processing 9.27.1 Introduction 9.27.2 Revision level field processing 9.27.3 Duration/ID field processing 9.27.4 Response to an invalid Action frame 9.27.5 Operation of the Dialog Token field |
| 1500 | 9.27.6 Element parsing 9.27.7 Vendor specific element parsing 9.27.8 Extensible element parsing 9.27.9 Extensible subelement parsing |
| 1501 | 9.27.10 Extensible TLV parsing 9.28 Reverse direction protocol 9.28.1 General 9.28.2 Reverse direction (RD) exchange sequence |
| 1502 | 9.28.3 Rules for RD initiator |
| 1503 | 9.28.4 Rules for RD responder |
| 1504 | 9.29 PSMP Operation 9.29.1 General 9.29.2 Frame transmission mechanism during PSMP 9.29.2.1 PSMP frame transmission (PSMP-DTT and PSMP-UTT) |
| 1505 | 9.29.2.2 PSMP downlink transmission (PSMP-DTT) 9.29.2.3 PSMP uplink transmission (PSMP-UTT) |
| 1508 | 9.29.2.4 PSMP burst |
| 1509 | 9.29.2.5 Resource allocation within a PSMP burst |
| 1510 | 9.29.2.6 PSMP-UTT retransmission 9.29.2.7 PSMP acknowledgment rules |
| 1512 | 9.29.2.8 PSMP group addressed transmission rules 9.29.3 Scheduled PSMP |
| 1513 | 9.29.4 Unscheduled PSMP 9.30 Sounding PPDUs |
| 1514 | 9.31 Link adaptation 9.31.1 Introduction 9.31.2 Link adaptation using the HT variant HT Control field |
| 1516 | 9.31.3 Link adaptation using the VHT variant HT Control field |
| 1519 | 9.32 Transmit beamforming 9.32.1 HT steering matrix calculations 9.32.2 HT transmit beamforming with implicit feedback 9.32.2.1 General |
| 1521 | 9.32.2.2 Unidirectional implicit transmit beamforming |
| 1522 | 9.32.2.3 Bidirectional implicit transmit beamforming |
| 1523 | 9.32.2.4 Calibration |
| 1528 | 9.32.3 Explicit feedback beamforming |
| 1532 | 9.32.4 VHT MU beamforming 9.33 Antenna selection (ASEL) 9.33.1 Introduction 9.33.2 Procedure |
| 1536 | 9.34 Null data packet (NDP) sounding 9.34.1 NDP rules |
| 1538 | 9.34.2 Transmission of an HT NDP 9.34.3 Determination of HT NDP destination 9.34.4 Determination of HT NDP source |
| 1539 | 9.34.5 VHT sounding protocol 9.34.5.1 General 9.34.5.2 Rules for VHT sounding protocol sequences |
| 1543 | 9.34.5.3 Rules for fragmented feedback in VHT sounding protocol sequences |
| 1544 | 9.34.6 Transmission of a VHT NDP 9.35 Mesh forwarding framework 9.35.1 General |
| 1545 | 9.35.2 Forwarding information 9.35.3 Frame addressing in an MBSS |
| 1547 | 9.35.4 Addressing and forwarding of individually addressed mesh Data frames 9.35.4.1 At source mesh STAs (individually addressed) |
| 1548 | 9.35.4.2 At intermediate and destination mesh STAs (individually addressed) |
| 1549 | 9.35.5 Addressing and forwarding of group addressed mesh Data frames 9.35.5.1 At source mesh STAs (group addressed) |
| 1550 | 9.35.5.2 At recipient mesh STAs (group addressed) 9.35.6 Addressing of Management frames and MMPDU forwarding 9.35.6.1 General |
| 1551 | 9.35.6.2 MMPDU forwarding using individually addressed Multihop Action frames 9.35.6.3 MMPDU forwarding using group addressed Multihop Action frames |
| 1552 | 9.35.7 Detection of duplicate MSDUs/MMPDUs 9.35.8 Mesh STAs that do not forward 9.35.9 Frame forwarding and unknown destination |
| 1553 | 9.36 DMG channel access 9.36.1 General |
| 1554 | 9.36.2 Access periods within a beacon interval 9.36.3 ATI transmission rules |
| 1556 | 9.36.4 DTI transmission rules |
| 1557 | 9.36.5 Contention based access period (CBAP) transmission rules |
| 1558 | 9.36.6 Channel access in scheduled DTI 9.36.6.1 General |
| 1559 | 9.36.6.2 Service period (SP) allocation |
| 1560 | 9.36.6.3 Contention based access period (CBAP) allocation |
| 1561 | 9.36.6.4 Pseudo-static allocations |
| 1562 | 9.36.6.5 Guard time 9.36.6.6 DMG protected period |
| 1566 | 9.36.6.7 Service period recovery 9.36.7 Dynamic allocation of service period 9.36.7.1 General |
| 1568 | 9.36.7.2 Polling period (PP) |
| 1569 | 9.36.7.3 Grant period (GP) |
| 1570 | 9.36.8 Dynamic truncation of service period |
| 1571 | 9.36.9 Dynamic extension of service period |
| 1572 | 9.36.10 Updating multiple NAV timers |
| 1575 | 9.37 DMG AP or PCP clustering 9.37.1 General |
| 1576 | 9.37.2 Cluster formation 9.37.2.1 Decentralized AP or PCP cluster formation |
| 1577 | 9.37.2.2 Centralized AP or PCP cluster formation |
| 1580 | 9.37.3 Cluster maintenance 9.37.3.1 General cluster maintenance 9.37.3.2 Decentralized AP or PCP cluster maintenance |
| 1581 | 9.37.3.3 Centralized AP or PCP cluster maintenance |
| 1583 | 9.37.3.4 Centralized AP or PCP cluster MAC requirements 9.37.4 Cluster report and re-scheduling |
| 1585 | 9.37.5 Decentralized AP or PCP cluster request |
| 1586 | 9.38 DMG beamforming 9.38.1 General |
| 1589 | 9.38.2 Sector-level sweep (SLS) phase 9.38.2.1 General |
| 1590 | 9.38.2.2 Initiator Sector Sweep (ISS) |
| 1593 | 9.38.2.3 Responder Sector Sweep (RSS) |
| 1595 | 9.38.2.4 Sector Sweep Feedback |
| 1596 | 9.38.2.5 Sector Sweep Ack |
| 1597 | 9.38.3 Beam Refinement Protocol (BRP) phase 9.38.3.1 General |
| 1598 | 9.38.3.2 BRP setup subphase |
| 1601 | 9.38.4 Beamforming in BTI |
| 1602 | 9.38.5 Beamforming in A-BFT 9.38.5.1 Allocation of A-BFT 9.38.5.2 Operation during the A-BFT |
| 1605 | 9.38.5.3 STA Beamforming after A-BFT |
| 1606 | 9.38.5.4 Beamforming in A-BFT with multiple DMG antennas |
| 1607 | 9.38.6 Beamforming in DTI 9.38.6.1 General 9.38.6.2 SLS phase execution |
| 1608 | 9.38.6.3 MIDC (multiple sector ID capture) subphase |
| 1616 | 9.38.6.4 BRP phase execution |
| 1619 | 9.38.7 Beam tracking |
| 1620 | 9.38.8 State machines |
| 1622 | 9.39 DMG link adaptation 9.39.1 General |
| 1623 | 9.39.2 DMG TPC 9.39.3 Fast link adaptation |
| 1625 | 9.40 DMG dynamic tone pairing (DTP) 9.41 DMG relay operation 9.41.1 General |
| 1626 | 9.41.2 Link switching type 9.41.2.1 General 9.41.2.2 SP request and allocation 9.41.2.3 Usage of RDS |
| 1627 | 9.41.2.4 Relay frame exchange rules |
| 1630 | 9.41.2.5 Link monitoring 9.41.3 Link cooperating type 9.41.3.1 TPA procedure |
| 1631 | 9.41.3.2 Frame exchange operation |
| 1632 | 9.41.4 Relay link adaptation |
| 1633 | 10. MLME 10.1 Synchronization 10.1.1 General 10.1.2 Basic approach 10.1.2.1 TSF for infrastructure and PBSS networks |
| 1634 | 10.1.2.2 TSF for an IBSS 10.1.2.3 TSF for an MBSS 10.1.3 Maintaining synchronization 10.1.3.1 General 10.1.3.2 Beacon generation in non-DMG infrastructure networks |
| 1635 | 10.1.3.3 Beacon generation in a DMG infrastructure BSS and in a PBSS |
| 1637 | 10.1.3.4 DMG beacon generation before establishment of a BSS |
| 1638 | 10.1.3.5 Beacon generation in an IBSS |
| 1639 | 10.1.3.6 Beacon generation in an MBSS 10.1.3.7 Beacon reception |
| 1640 | 10.1.3.8 Multiple BSSID procedure |
| 1641 | 10.1.3.9 TSF timer accuracy 10.1.4 Acquiring synchronization, scanning 10.1.4.1 General |
| 1643 | 10.1.4.2 Passive scanning 10.1.4.3 Active scanning |
| 1648 | 10.1.4.4 Initializing a BSS 10.1.4.5 Synchronizing with a BSS |
| 1649 | 10.1.4.6 Operation of Supported Rates and Extended Supported Rates elements |
| 1650 | 10.1.5 Adjusting STA timers 10.1.6 Terminating a BSS 10.1.7 Supported rates and extended supported rates advertisement |
| 1651 | 10.2 Power management 10.2.1 Bufferable Management frames 10.2.2 Power management in a non-DMG infrastructure network 10.2.2.1 General |
| 1652 | 10.2.2.2 STA Power Management modes |
| 1654 | 10.2.2.3 AP TIM transmissions 10.2.2.4 TIM types |
| 1655 | 10.2.2.5 Power management with APSD |
| 1658 | 10.2.2.6 AP operation during the CP |
| 1661 | 10.2.2.7 AP operation during the CFP |
| 1662 | 10.2.2.8 Receive operation for STAs in PS mode during the CP |
| 1663 | 10.2.2.9 Receive operation for STAs in PS mode during the CFP |
| 1664 | 10.2.2.10 Receive operation using APSD 10.2.2.11 STAs operating in the Active mode 10.2.2.12 AP aging function 10.2.2.13 PSMP power management |
| 1665 | 10.2.2.14 TDLS Peer Power Save Mode |
| 1668 | 10.2.2.15 TDLS Peer U-APSD |
| 1669 | 10.2.2.16 FMS power management |
| 1672 | 10.2.2.17 TIM Broadcast |
| 1674 | 10.2.2.18 WNM-Sleep mode |
| 1676 | 10.2.2.19 VHT TXOP power save |
| 1677 | 10.2.3 Power management in an IBSS 10.2.3.1 Introduction 10.2.3.2 Basic approach |
| 1678 | 10.2.3.3 Initialization of power management within an IBSS |
| 1679 | 10.2.3.4 STA power state transitions 10.2.3.5 ATIM frame and frame transmission |
| 1681 | 10.2.4 Power management in an MBSS 10.2.5 SM power save 10.2.6 Power management in a PBSS and DMG infrastructure BSS 10.2.6.1 General |
| 1684 | 10.2.6.2 Non-AP and non-PCP STA power management mode |
| 1687 | 10.2.6.3 PCP Power management mode |
| 1689 | 10.3 STA authentication and association 10.3.1 State variables |
| 1690 | 10.3.2 State transition diagram for nonmesh STAs |
| 1691 | 10.3.3 Frame filtering based on STA state |
| 1694 | 10.3.4 Authentication and deauthentication 10.3.4.1 General 10.3.4.2 Authentication—originating STA |
| 1695 | 10.3.4.3 Authentication—destination STA 10.3.4.4 Deauthentication—originating STA |
| 1696 | 10.3.4.5 Deauthentication—destination STA 10.3.5 Association, reassociation, and disassociation 10.3.5.1 General |
| 1697 | 10.3.5.2 Non-AP and non-PCP STA association initiation procedures |
| 1698 | 10.3.5.3 AP or PCP association receipt procedures |
| 1700 | 10.3.5.4 Non-AP and non-PCP STA reassociation initiation procedures |
| 1702 | 10.3.5.5 AP or PCP reassociation receipt procedures |
| 1704 | 10.3.5.6 Non-AP and non-PCP STA disassociation initiation procedures 10.3.5.7 Non-AP and non-PCP STA disassociation receipt procedure |
| 1705 | 10.3.5.8 AP or PCP disassociation initiation procedure |
| 1706 | 10.3.5.9 AP or PCP disassociation receipt procedure 10.3.5.10 PBSS procedures for nonassociated STAs 10.3.6 Additional mechanisms for an AP collocated with a mesh STA |
| 1707 | 10.3.7 Communicating PBSS information 10.4 TS operation 10.4.1 Introduction |
| 1709 | 10.4.2 TSPEC construction 10.4.3 TS life cycle |
| 1711 | 10.4.4 TS setup 10.4.4.1 General 10.4.4.2 Non-AP-STA-initiated TS setup 10.4.4.3 AP-initiated TS setup |
| 1713 | 10.4.4.4 TS setup procedures for both AP and non-AP STA initiation |
| 1716 | 10.4.5 TS setup by resource request during a fast BSS transition 10.4.6 PSMP management |
| 1717 | 10.4.7 Failed TS setup 10.4.8 Data transfer |
| 1719 | 10.4.9 TS deletion 10.4.9.1 Deletion of a TS established between an HC, DMG AP or PCP and a non-AP and non-PCP STA 10.4.9.2 Peer-to-peer TS deletion and deletion of an allocation |
| 1722 | 10.4.10 TS timeout |
| 1723 | 10.4.11 TS suspension 10.4.12 TS Reinstatement 10.4.13 DMG allocation formats 10.4.13.1 General 10.4.13.2 Isochronous allocations |
| 1725 | 10.4.13.3 Asynchronous allocations 10.4.14 PTP TS Operation |
| 1726 | 10.5 Block ack operation 10.5.1 Introduction 10.5.2 Setup and modification of the block ack parameters 10.5.2.1 General |
| 1727 | 10.5.2.2 Procedure at the originator 10.5.2.3 Procedure at the recipient 10.5.2.4 Procedure common to both originator and recipient |
| 1729 | 10.5.3 Teardown of the block ack mechanism 10.5.3.1 General 10.5.3.2 Procedure at the initiator of the block ack teardown 10.5.3.3 Procedure at the recipient of the DELBA frame 10.5.4 Error recovery upon a peer failure |
| 1730 | 10.6 Higher layer timer synchronization 10.6.1 Introduction |
| 1731 | 10.6.2 Procedure at the STA |
| 1732 | 10.7 DLS operation 10.7.1 General |
| 1733 | 10.7.2 DLS procedures 10.7.2.1 General 10.7.2.2 Setup procedure at the QoS STA |
| 1734 | 10.7.2.3 Setup procedure at the AP 10.7.2.4 Operation of the DLS Timeout Value field 10.7.3 Data transfer after setup |
| 1735 | 10.7.4 DLS teardown 10.7.4.1 General 10.7.4.2 STA-initiated DLS teardown procedure |
| 1736 | 10.7.4.3 Teardown procedure at the AP 10.7.4.4 AP-initiated DLS teardown procedure 10.7.5 Error recovery upon a peer failure |
| 1737 | 10.7.6 Secure DLS operation 10.8 TPC procedures 10.8.1 General |
| 1738 | 10.8.2 Association based on transmit power capability |
| 1739 | 10.8.3 Peering based on transmit power capability 10.8.4 Interpretation of transmit power capability 10.8.5 Specification of regulatory and local maximum transmit power levels |
| 1741 | 10.8.6 Selection of a transmit power 10.8.7 Adaptation of the transmit power 10.9 DFS procedures 10.9.1 General |
| 1742 | 10.9.2 Association based on supported channels 10.9.2.1 Association based on supported channels in a non-DMG BSS |
| 1743 | 10.9.2.2 Providing supported channels upon association in a DMG BSS 10.9.3 Quieting channels for testing |
| 1744 | 10.9.4 Testing channels for radars 10.9.5 Discontinuing operations after detecting radars 10.9.6 Detecting radars 10.9.7 Requesting and reporting of measurements |
| 1746 | 10.9.8 Selecting and advertising a new channel 10.9.8.1 General 10.9.8.2 Selecting and advertising a new channel in a non-DMG infrastructure BSS |
| 1747 | 10.9.8.3 Selecting and advertising a new channel in an IBSS |
| 1749 | 10.9.8.4 MBSS channel switching |
| 1751 | 10.9.8.5 HT-greenfield transmissions in operating classes with behavior limits set of 16 10.9.8.6 Selecting and advertising a new channel in a DMG BSS |
| 1752 | 10.9.9 Channel Switch Announcement element operation 10.10 Extended channel switching (ECS) 10.10.1 General 10.10.2 Advertising supported operating classes 10.10.3 Selecting and advertising a new channel and/or operating class 10.10.3.1 General |
| 1753 | 10.10.3.2 Selecting and advertising a new channel in an infrastructure BSS 10.10.3.3 Selecting and advertising a new channel in an IBSS |
| 1754 | 10.10.3.4 Selecting and advertising a new channel in an MBSS 10.11 Radio measurement procedures 10.11.1 General |
| 1755 | 10.11.2 Measurement on operating and nonoperating channels 10.11.3 Measurement start time 10.11.4 Measurement Duration |
| 1757 | 10.11.5 Station responsibility for conducting measurements 10.11.6 Requesting and reporting of measurements |
| 1760 | 10.11.7 Repeated Measurement Request frames 10.11.8 Triggered autonomous reporting |
| 1761 | 10.11.9 Specific measurement usage 10.11.9.1 Beacon report |
| 1765 | 10.11.9.2 Frame report 10.11.9.3 Channel Load report |
| 1766 | 10.11.9.4 Noise Histogram report |
| 1767 | 10.11.9.5 STA Statistics report |
| 1768 | 10.11.9.6 Location Configuration Information Report |
| 1770 | 10.11.9.7 Measurement pause 10.11.9.8 Transmit Stream/Category Measurement report |
| 1772 | 10.11.9.9 Location Civic report |
| 1773 | 10.11.9.10 Location Identifier report |
| 1775 | 10.11.9.11 Fine Timing Measurement Range report |
| 1776 | 10.11.10 Usage of the neighbor report 10.11.10.1 General 10.11.10.2 Requesting a neighbor report 10.11.10.3 Receiving a neighbor report |
| 1778 | 10.11.11 Link Measurement 10.11.12 Measurement of the RPI histogram |
| 1779 | 10.11.13 Operation of the Max Transmit Power field 10.11.14 Multiple BSSID Set 10.11.15 Measurement Pilot frame generation and usage 10.11.15.1 General 10.11.15.2 Measurement Pilot frame generation by an AP |
| 1781 | 10.11.15.3 Measurement pilot usage by a STA |
| 1782 | 10.11.16 Access Delay Measurement 10.11.17 BSS Available Admission Capacity 10.11.18 AP Channel Report |
| 1783 | 10.11.19 Multicast diagnostic reporting |
| 1784 | 10.11.20 CCA request and report 10.11.21 RPI histogram request and report 10.12 DSE procedures 10.12.1 General |
| 1785 | 10.12.2 Enablement and deenablement 10.12.2.1 General |
| 1786 | 10.12.2.2 Enablement requester STA 10.12.2.3 Enablement responder STA |
| 1787 | 10.12.2.4 Deenablement requester STA 10.12.2.5 Deenablement responder STA 10.12.3 Registered STA operation |
| 1788 | 10.12.4 Enabling STA operation with DSE 10.12.5 Dependent STA operation with DSE |
| 1790 | 10.13 Group addressed robust management frame procedures 10.14 SA Query procedures |
| 1791 | 10.15 HT BSS Operation 10.16 20/40 MHz BSS operation 10.16.1 Rules for operation in 20/40 MHz BSS 10.16.2 Basic 20/40 MHz BSS functionality |
| 1792 | 10.16.3 Channel scanning and selection methods for 20/40 MHz operation 10.16.3.1 General 10.16.3.2 Scanning requirements for a 20/40 MHz BSS |
| 1794 | 10.16.3.3 Channel management at the AP and in an IBSS |
| 1796 | 10.16.4 40 MHz PPDU transmission restrictions 10.16.4.1 Fields used to determine 40 MHz PPDU transmission restrictions |
| 1797 | 10.16.4.2 Infrastructure non-AP STA restrictions |
| 1798 | 10.16.4.3 AP restrictions 10.16.4.4 Restrictions on non-AP STAs that are not infrastructure BSS members |
| 1799 | 10.16.5 Scanning requirements for 40-MHz-capable STA |
| 1800 | 10.16.6 Exemption from OBSS scanning 10.16.7 Communicating 20/40 BSS coexistence information 10.16.8 Support of DSSS/CCK in 40 MHz |
| 1801 | 10.16.9 STA CCA sensing in a 20/40 MHz BSS |
| 1802 | 10.16.10 NAV assertion in 20/40 MHz BSS 10.16.11 Signaling 40 MHz intolerance 10.16.12 Switching between 40 MHz and 20 MHz |
| 1804 | 10.17 Phased coexistence operation (PCO) 10.17.1 General description of PCO |
| 1805 | 10.17.2 Operation at a PCO active AP |
| 1807 | 10.17.3 Operation at a PCO active non-AP STA 10.18 20/40 BSS Coexistence Management frame usage |
| 1808 | 10.19 RSNA A-MSDU procedures |
| 1809 | 10.20 Public Action frame addressing |
| 1810 | 10.21 STAs communicating Data frames outside the context of a BSS 10.22 Timing Advertisement 10.22.1 Introduction 10.22.2 Timing advertisement frame procedures |
| 1811 | 10.22.3 UTC TSF Offset procedures 10.23 Tunneled direct-link setup 10.23.1 General |
| 1812 | 10.23.2 TDLS payload |
| 1813 | 10.23.3 TDLS Discovery 10.23.4 TDLS direct-link establishment |
| 1815 | 10.23.5 TDLS direct-link teardown 10.23.6 TDLS channel switching |
| 1818 | 10.23.6.1 General behavior on the off-channel |
| 1819 | 10.23.6.2 Setting up a 40 MHz direct link |
| 1820 | 10.23.6.3 TDLS channel switching and power saving 10.23.6.4 Setting up a wide bandwidth off-channel direct link |
| 1821 | 10.24 Wireless network management procedures 10.24.1 Wireless network management dependencies 10.24.2 Event request and report procedures 10.24.2.1 Event request and event report |
| 1823 | 10.24.2.2 Transition event request and report |
| 1824 | 10.24.2.3 RSNA event request and report 10.24.2.4 Peer-to-Peer Link event request and report |
| 1825 | 10.24.2.5 WNM Log event request and report 10.24.2.6 Vendor Specific event request and report 10.24.3 Diagnostic request and report procedures 10.24.3.1 Diagnostic request and diagnostic report |
| 1827 | 10.24.3.2 Configuration Profile report 10.24.3.3 Manufacturer information STA report 10.24.3.4 Association diagnostic |
| 1828 | 10.24.3.5 IEEE Std 802.1X authentication diagnostic |
| 1829 | 10.24.4 Location track procedures 10.24.4.1 Location track configuration procedures |
| 1830 | 10.24.4.2 Location track notification procedures |
| 1833 | 10.24.5 Timing measurement procedure |
| 1835 | 10.24.6 fine timing measurement procedure 10.24.6.1 Overview |
| 1836 | 10.24.6.2 FTM capabilities |
| 1837 | 10.24.6.3 Fine timing measurement procedure setup 10.24.6.4 Measurement exchange |
| 1842 | 10.24.6.5 Fine timing measurement parameter modification 10.24.6.6 Fine timing measurement termination 10.24.6.7 LCI and Location Civic retrieval using fine timing measurement procedure |
| 1843 | 10.24.7 BSS transition management for network load balancing 10.24.7.1 BSS transition capability |
| 1844 | 10.24.7.2 BSS transition management query 10.24.7.3 BSS transition management request |
| 1846 | 10.24.7.4 BSS transition management response |
| 1847 | 10.24.8 FMS multicast rate processing |
| 1848 | 10.24.9 Collocated interference reporting |
| 1849 | 10.24.10 QoS Traffic capability procedure |
| 1850 | 10.24.11 AC Station Count 10.24.12 TFS procedures 10.24.12.1 TFS capability |
| 1851 | 10.24.12.2 TFS non-AP STA operation |
| 1852 | 10.24.12.3 TFS AP operation |
| 1853 | 10.24.13 BSS max idle period management 10.24.14 Proxy ARP (including Proxy Neighbor Discovery) service |
| 1854 | 10.24.15 Channel usage procedures |
| 1855 | 10.24.16 Group addressed transmission service 10.24.16.1 General 10.24.16.2 Directed multicast service (DMS) procedures |
| 1857 | 10.24.16.3 GCR procedures |
| 1868 | 10.24.17 WNM-Notification 10.25 WLAN interworking with external networks procedures 10.25.1 General 10.25.2 Interworking capabilities and information |
| 1869 | 10.25.3 Interworking procedures: generic advertisement service (GAS) 10.25.3.1 GAS Protocol |
| 1877 | 10.25.3.2 ANQP procedures |
| 1882 | 10.25.3.3 Registered Location Query Protocol (RLQP) procedures |
| 1883 | 10.25.4 Interworking procedures: IEEE Std 802.21 MIH support 10.25.5 Interworking procedures: interactions with SSPN 10.25.5.1 General operation |
| 1884 | 10.25.5.2 Authentication and cipher suites selection with SSPN 10.25.5.3 Reporting and session control with SSPN |
| 1885 | 10.25.6 Interworking procedures: emergency services support |
| 1886 | 10.25.7 Interworking procedures: emergency alert system (EAS) support |
| 1887 | 10.25.8 Interworking procedures: support for the advertisement of roaming consortiums 10.25.9 Interworking procedures: support for QoS mapping from external networks |
| 1888 | 10.26 Quality-of-service management frame (QMF) 10.26.1 General 10.26.1.1 Overview |
| 1890 | 10.26.1.2 Default QMF policy |
| 1891 | 10.26.2 QMF policy advertisement and configuration procedures 10.26.2.1 Overview |
| 1892 | 10.26.2.2 QMF policy change in an infrastructure BSS or in an MBSS |
| 1893 | 10.26.2.3 QMF policy configuration in an infrastructure BSS |
| 1894 | 10.26.2.4 QMF policy configuration in an IBSS or OCB 10.26.2.5 QMF policy configuration in an MBSS 10.26.3 Interpreting QMF access categories |
| 1895 | 10.27 Robust AV streaming 10.27.1 Robust AV streaming dependencies |
| 1896 | 10.27.2 SCS procedures |
| 1897 | 10.28 Procedures to manage OBSS 10.28.1 General |
| 1898 | 10.28.2 QLoad Report element 10.28.2.1 Introduction 10.28.2.2 Calculating field values |
| 1899 | 10.28.2.3 Requesting QLoad Reports using radio measurement requests |
| 1900 | 10.28.3 HCCA TXOP negotiation |
| 1904 | 10.28.4 HCCA AP timing synchronization for HCCA TXOP advertisement 10.28.4.1 General 10.28.4.2 Timing offset 10.28.4.3 Clock drift adjustment |
| 1905 | 10.29 DMG beamformed link and BSS maintenance 10.29.1 Beamformed link maintenance |
| 1907 | 10.29.2 PCP Handover 10.29.2.1 General |
| 1908 | 10.29.2.2 Explicit handover procedure |
| 1909 | 10.29.2.3 Implicit handover procedure 10.30 DMG BSS peer and service discovery 10.30.1 Information Request and Response |
| 1910 | 10.30.2 Peer Service Discovery |
| 1911 | 10.31 Changing DMG BSS parameters 10.31.1 General 10.31.2 Moving the TBTT |
| 1912 | 10.31.3 Changing beacon interval duration |
| 1913 | 10.31.4 Maintaining synchronization in an AP or PCP cluster 10.31.5 Recommending DMG BSS parameters to the AP or PCP |
| 1914 | 10.32 Spatial sharing and interference mitigation for DMG STAs 10.32.1 General 10.32.2 Spatial sharing and interference assessment |
| 1916 | 10.32.3 Achieving spatial sharing and interference mitigation |
| 1917 | 10.32.4 PBSS and infrastructure BSS stability in OBSS scenarios 10.33 Multi-band operation 10.33.1 General |
| 1919 | 10.33.2 FST setup protocol 10.33.2.1 General |
| 1920 | 10.33.2.2 Transitioning between states |
| 1926 | 10.33.2.3 FST TS switching |
| 1928 | 10.33.3 FST teardown 10.33.4 On-channel Tunneling (OCT) operation |
| 1930 | 10.33.5 FST payload 10.34 MMSL cluster operation 10.34.1 Introduction |
| 1931 | 10.34.2 MMSL cluster setup 10.34.2.1 General |
| 1932 | 10.34.2.2 MMSL cluster setup of non-AP and non-PCP MM-SME coordinated STA with AP or PCP 10.34.2.3 MMSL cluster setup of non-AP and non-PCP STA with another non-AP and non- PCP STA 10.35 DMG coexistence with non-IEEE-802.11 systems |
| 1933 | 10.36 DMG relay procedures 10.36.1 General |
| 1934 | 10.36.2 Common relay setup procedures 10.36.2.1 Introduction 10.36.2.2 Relay capabilities and RDS discovery procedures 10.36.2.3 RDS selection procedure |
| 1935 | 10.36.2.4 RLS procedure 10.36.3 Relay operation-type change procedure |
| 1936 | 10.36.4 Relay teardown |
| 1937 | 10.37 Quieting adjacent DMG BSSs 10.37.1 General 10.37.2 Procedure at the requester AP 10.37.3 Procedure at the responder AP 10.38 DMG beamforming |
| 1940 | 10.39 DMG MAC sublayer parameters 10.40 VHT BSS operation 10.40.1 Basic VHT BSS functionality |
| 1942 | 10.40.2 Channel selection methods for a VHT BSS 10.40.3 Scanning requirements for VHT STA |
| 1943 | 10.40.4 Channel switching methods for a VHT BSS |
| 1945 | 10.40.5 NAV assertion in a VHT BSS |
| 1946 | 10.40.6 VHT STA antenna indication 10.40.7 BSS basic VHT-MCS and NSS set operation 10.41 Group ID management operation |
| 1947 | 10.42 Notification of operating mode changes |
| 1949 | 10.43 Basic TVHT BSS functionality |
| 1950 | 10.44 Operation under the control of a GDB 10.44.1 General |
| 1951 | 10.44.2 GDD enabling STA operation |
| 1952 | 10.44.3 GDD dependent STA operation |
| 1953 | 10.44.4 Channel availability query (CAQ) procedure 10.44.4.1 Introduction |
| 1954 | 10.44.4.2 CAQ requesting STA |
| 1955 | 10.44.4.3 CAQ responding STA |
| 1956 | 10.44.5 Channel schedule management (CSM) procedures 10.44.5.1 Introduction |
| 1957 | 10.44.5.2 CSM requesting STA 10.44.5.3 CSM responding STA |
| 1958 | 10.44.6 Contact verification signal (CVS) 10.44.7 Network channel control (NCC) procedures 10.44.7.1 Introduction |
| 1959 | 10.44.7.2 NCC requesting STA |
| 1960 | 10.44.7.3 NCC responding STA |
| 1961 | 10.44.8 Reduced neighbor report 10.44.9 White space map (WSM) |
| 1963 | 11. Security 11.1 Framework 11.1.1 Classes of security algorithm 11.1.2 Security methods 11.1.3 RSNA equipment and RSNA capabilities 11.1.4 RSNA establishment |
| 1965 | 11.1.5 RSNA PeerKey Support |
| 1966 | 11.1.6 RSNA assumptions and constraints |
| 1967 | 11.1.7 Requirements for robust management frame protection 11.1.8 Emergency service establishment in an RSN 11.2 Pre-RSNA security methods 11.2.1 Status of Pre-RSNA security methods 11.2.2 Wired equivalent privacy (WEP) 11.2.2.1 WEP overview |
| 1968 | 11.2.2.2 WEP MPDU format 11.2.2.3 WEP state |
| 1969 | 11.2.2.4 WEP procedures |
| 1970 | 11.2.3 Pre-RSNA authentication 11.2.3.1 Overview |
| 1971 | 11.2.3.2 Open System authentication |
| 1972 | 11.2.3.3 Shared Key authentication |
| 1975 | 11.3 Authentication using a password 11.3.1 SAE overview |
| 1976 | 11.3.2 Assumptions on SAE 11.3.3 Representation of a password 11.3.4 Finite cyclic groups 11.3.4.1 General |
| 1977 | 11.3.4.2 Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) groups |
| 1980 | 11.3.4.3 Finite field cryptography (FFC) groups |
| 1981 | 11.3.5 SAE protocol 11.3.5.1 Message exchanges 11.3.5.2 PWE and secret generation |
| 1982 | 11.3.5.3 Construction of an SAE Commit message 11.3.5.4 Processing of a peer’s SAE Commit message |
| 1983 | 11.3.5.5 Construction of an SAE Confirm message 11.3.5.6 Processing of a peer’s SAE Confirm message 11.3.6 Anti-clogging tokens |
| 1984 | 11.3.7 Framing of SAE 11.3.7.1 General 11.3.7.2 Data type conversion |
| 1985 | 11.3.7.3 Authentication transaction sequence number for SAE 11.3.7.4 Encoding and decoding of SAE Commit messages 11.3.7.5 Encoding and decoding of SAE Confirm messages |
| 1986 | 11.3.7.6 Status codes 11.3.8 SAE finite state machine 11.3.8.1 General |
| 1987 | 11.3.8.2 States |
| 1988 | 11.3.8.3 Events and output 11.3.8.4 Timers |
| 1989 | 11.3.8.5 Variables 11.3.8.6 Behavior of state machine |
| 1993 | 11.4 RSNA confidentiality and integrity protocols 11.4.1 Overview |
| 1994 | 11.4.2 Temporal key integrity protocol (TKIP) 11.4.2.1 TKIP overview |
| 1995 | 11.4.2.2 TKIP MPDU formats |
| 1997 | 11.4.2.3 TKIP MIC |
| 1999 | 11.4.2.4 TKIP countermeasures procedures |
| 2004 | 11.4.2.5 TKIP mixing function |
| 2008 | 11.4.2.6 TKIP replay protection procedures 11.4.3 CTR with CBC-MAC Protocol (CCMP) 11.4.3.1 General |
| 2009 | 11.4.3.2 CCMP MPDU format |
| 2010 | 11.4.3.3 CCMP cryptographic encapsulation |
| 2013 | 11.4.3.4 CCMP decapsulation |
| 2015 | 11.4.4 Broadcast/Multicast Integrity Protocol (BIP) 11.4.4.1 BIP overview |
| 2016 | 11.4.4.2 BIP MMPDU format 11.4.4.3 BIP AAD construction |
| 2017 | 11.4.4.4 BIP replay protection 11.4.4.5 BIP transmission 11.4.4.6 BIP reception |
| 2018 | 11.4.5 GCM with Galois Message Authentication Code (GMAC) Protocol (GCMP) 11.4.5.1 GCMP overview |
| 2019 | 11.4.5.2 GCMP MPDU format 11.4.5.3 GCMP cryptographic encapsulation |
| 2021 | 11.4.5.4 GCMP decapsulation |
| 2023 | 11.5 RSNA security association management 11.5.1 Security associations 11.5.1.1 Security association definitions |
| 2029 | 11.5.1.2 TPKSA 11.5.1.3 Security association life cycle |
| 2032 | 11.5.2 RSNA selection 11.5.3 RSNA policy selection in an ESS |
| 2034 | 11.5.4 TSN policy selection in an ESS 11.5.5 RSNA policy selection in an IBSS and for DLS |
| 2036 | 11.5.6 TSN policy selection in an IBSS 11.5.7 RSNA policy selection in an MBSS 11.5.8 RSNA policy selection in a PBSS 11.5.9 RSN management of the IEEE Std 802.1X Controlled Port |
| 2037 | 11.5.10 RSNA authentication in an ESS 11.5.10.1 General |
| 2038 | 11.5.10.2 Preauthentication and RSNA key management |
| 2039 | 11.5.10.3 Cached PMKSAs and RSNA key management 11.5.11 RSNA authentication in an IBSS |
| 2040 | 11.5.12 RSNA authentication in an MBSS |
| 2041 | 11.5.13 RSNA authentication in a PBSS 11.5.14 RSNA key management in an ESS |
| 2042 | 11.5.15 RSNA key management in an IBSS 11.5.16 RSNA key management in an MBSS 11.5.17 RSNA key management in a PBSS |
| 2043 | 11.5.18 RSNA security association termination |
| 2044 | 11.5.19 Protection of robust Management frames |
| 2045 | 11.5.20 Robust management frame selection procedure 11.5.21 RSNA rekeying |
| 2046 | 11.5.22 Multi-band RSNA 11.5.22.1 General 11.5.22.2 Nontransparent multi-band RSNA |
| 2047 | 11.5.22.3 Transparent multi-band RSNA |
| 2048 | 11.5.22.4 Multi-band RSNA with TDLS in a non-DMG BSS 11.6 Keys and key distribution 11.6.1 Key hierarchy 11.6.1.1 General |
| 2049 | 11.6.1.2 PRF |
| 2050 | 11.6.1.3 Pairwise key hierarchy |
| 2053 | 11.6.1.4 Group key hierarchy |
| 2054 | 11.6.1.5 Integrity group key hierarchy 11.6.1.6 PeerKey key hierarchy |
| 2055 | 11.6.1.7 FT key hierarchy |
| 2060 | 11.6.2 EAPOL-Key frames |
| 2069 | 11.6.3 EAPOL-Key frame construction and processing |
| 2070 | 11.6.4 EAPOL-Key frame notation |
| 2071 | 11.6.5 Nonce generation 11.6.6 4-Way Handshake 11.6.6.1 General |
| 2072 | 11.6.6.2 4-Way Handshake Message 1 |
| 2073 | 11.6.6.3 4-Way Handshake Message 2 |
| 2075 | 11.6.6.4 4-Way Handshake Message 3 |
| 2077 | 11.6.6.5 4-Way Handshake Message 4 |
| 2079 | 11.6.6.6 4-Way Handshake implementation considerations 11.6.6.7 Sample 4-Way Handshake |
| 2080 | 11.6.6.8 4-Way Handshake analysis |
| 2082 | 11.6.7 Group Key Handshake 11.6.7.1 General 11.6.7.2 Group Key Handshake Message 1 |
| 2083 | 11.6.7.3 Group Key Handshake Message 2 |
| 2084 | 11.6.7.4 Group Key Handshake implementation considerations 11.6.7.5 Sample Group Key Handshake |
| 2085 | 11.6.8 PeerKey Handshake 11.6.8.1 General |
| 2086 | 11.6.8.2 SMK Handshake |
| 2091 | 11.6.8.3 PeerKey setup and handshake error conditions |
| 2092 | 11.6.8.4 STKSA rekeying |
| 2093 | 11.6.8.5 Error Reporting |
| 2094 | 11.6.9 TDLS Peer Key security protocol 11.6.9.1 General 11.6.9.2 TDLS Peer Key Handshake |
| 2096 | 11.6.9.3 TDLS Peer Key Handshake security assumptions 11.6.9.4 TDLS Peer Key (TPK) Security Protocol Handshake messages |
| 2100 | 11.6.9.5 Supplicant state machine procedures |
| 2102 | 11.6.9.6 Supplicant PeerKey state machine states |
| 2104 | 11.6.9.7 Supplicant PeerKey state machine variables 11.6.10 RSNA Supplicant key management state machine 11.6.10.1 General |
| 2105 | 11.6.10.2 Supplicant state machine states 11.6.10.3 Supplicant state machine variables |
| 2107 | 11.6.11 RSNA Authenticator key management state machine 11.6.11.1 General |
| 2110 | 11.6.11.2 Authenticator state machine states |
| 2111 | 11.6.11.3 Authenticator state machine variables |
| 2113 | 11.6.11.4 Authenticator state machine procedures 11.7 Mapping EAPOL keys to IEEE Std 802.11 keys 11.7.1 Mapping PTK to TKIP keys 11.7.2 Mapping GTK to TKIP keys 11.7.3 Mapping PTK to CCMP keys |
| 2114 | 11.7.4 Mapping GTK to CCMP keys 11.7.5 Mapping GTK to WEP-40 keys 11.7.6 Mapping GTK to WEP-104 keys 11.7.7 Mapping IGTK to BIP keys 11.7.8 Mapping PTK to GCMP keys 11.8 Per-frame pseudo-code 11.8.1 WEP frame pseudo-code |
| 2116 | 11.8.2 RSNA frame pseudo-code 11.8.2.1 General 11.8.2.2 Per-MSDU/Per-A-MSDU Tx pseudo-code |
| 2117 | 11.8.2.3 Per-MMPDU Tx pseudo-code |
| 2119 | 11.8.2.4 Per-MPDU Tx pseudo-code 11.8.2.5 Per-MPDU Tx pseudo-code for MMPDU |
| 2120 | 11.8.2.6 Per-MPDU Rx pseudo-code |
| 2121 | 11.8.2.7 Per-MPDU Rx pseudo-code for an MMPDU |
| 2124 | 11.8.2.8 Per-MSDU/Per-A-MSDU Rx pseudo-code |
| 2126 | 11.8.2.9 Per-MMPDU Rx pseudo-code |
| 2127 | 11.9 Authenticated mesh peering exchange (AMPE) 11.10 AP PeerKey support 11.10.1 AP PeerKey overview 11.10.2 AP PeerKey protocol |
| 2131 | 12. Fast BSS transition 12.1 Overview 12.2 Key holders 12.2.1 Introduction |
| 2132 | 12.2.2 Authenticator key holders |
| 2133 | 12.2.3 Supplicant key holders |
| 2134 | 12.3 Capability and policy advertisement 12.4 FT initial mobility domain association 12.4.1 Overview 12.4.2 FT initial mobility domain association in an RSN |
| 2137 | 12.4.3 FT initial mobility domain association in a non-RSN |
| 2138 | 12.5 FT Protocol 12.5.1 Overview 12.5.2 Over-the-air FT Protocol authentication in an RSN |
| 2140 | 12.5.3 Over-the-DS FT Protocol authentication in an RSN |
| 2142 | 12.5.4 Over-the-air FT Protocol authentication in a non-RSN |
| 2143 | 12.5.5 Over-the-DS FT Protocol authentication in a non-RSN |
| 2144 | 12.6 FT Resource Request Protocol 12.6.1 Overview 12.6.2 Over-the-air fast BSS transition with resource request |
| 2147 | 12.6.3 Over-the-DS fast BSS transition with resource request |
| 2149 | 12.7 FT reassociation 12.7.1 FT reassociation in an RSN |
| 2150 | 12.7.2 FT reassociation in a non-RSN |
| 2151 | 12.8 FT authentication sequence 12.8.1 Overview |
| 2153 | 12.8.2 FT authentication sequence: contents of first message 12.8.3 FT authentication sequence: contents of second message |
| 2154 | 12.8.4 FT authentication sequence: contents of third message 12.8.5 FT authentication sequence: contents of fourth message |
| 2155 | 12.9 FT security architecture state machines 12.9.1 Introduction |
| 2156 | 12.9.2 R0KH state machine 12.9.2.1 General 12.9.2.2 R0KH state machine states |
| 2157 | 12.9.2.3 R0KH state machine variables |
| 2158 | 12.9.2.4 R0KH state machine procedures 12.9.3 R1KH state machine 12.9.3.1 General |
| 2160 | 12.9.3.2 R1KH state machine states |
| 2161 | 12.9.3.3 R1KH state machine variables |
| 2162 | 12.9.3.4 R1KH state machine procedures 12.9.4 S0KH state machine 12.9.4.1 General |
| 2163 | 12.9.4.2 S0KH state machine states 12.9.4.3 S0KH state machine variables 12.9.4.4 S0KH state machine procedures 12.9.5 S1KH state machine 12.9.5.1 General |
| 2166 | 12.9.5.2 S1KH state machine states |
| 2167 | 12.9.5.3 S1KH state machine variables 12.9.5.4 S1KH state machine procedures 12.10 Remote request broker (RRB) communication 12.10.1 Overview |
| 2168 | 12.10.2 Remote request broker (RRB) 12.10.3 Remote Request/Response frame definition |
| 2169 | 12.11 Resource request procedures 12.11.1 General |
| 2170 | 12.11.2 Resource information container (RIC) |
| 2172 | 12.11.3 Creation and handling of a resource request 12.11.3.1 FTO procedures |
| 2173 | 12.11.3.2 AP procedures |
| 2176 | 13. MLME mesh procedures 13.1 Mesh STA dependencies 13.2 Mesh discovery 13.2.1 General 13.2.2 Mesh identifier |
| 2177 | 13.2.3 Mesh profile 13.2.4 Mesh STA configuration 13.2.5 Supplemental information for the mesh discovery |
| 2178 | 13.2.6 Scanning mesh BSSs 13.2.7 Candidate peer mesh STA |
| 2179 | 13.2.8 Establishing or becoming a member of a mesh BSS 13.2.9 Establishing mesh peerings |
| 2180 | 13.3 Mesh peering management (MPM) 13.3.1 General 13.3.2 State variable management |
| 2182 | 13.3.3 Mesh authentication 13.3.4 Mesh peering instance controller 13.3.4.1 Overview |
| 2183 | 13.3.4.2 Creating a new mesh peering instance 13.3.4.3 Deleting mesh peering instances 13.3.5 Mesh peering instance selection |
| 2184 | 13.3.6 Mesh peering open 13.3.6.1 Generating Mesh Peering Open frames 13.3.6.2 Mesh Peering Open frame processing |
| 2185 | 13.3.7 Mesh peering confirm 13.3.7.1 Generating Mesh Peering Confirm frames 13.3.7.2 Mesh Peering Confirm frame processing |
| 2186 | 13.3.8 Mesh peering close 13.3.8.1 Generating Mesh Peering Close frames 13.3.8.2 Mesh Peering Close frame processing 13.4 Mesh peering management finite state machine (MPM FSM) 13.4.1 General 13.4.2 States |
| 2187 | 13.4.3 Events and actions |
| 2188 | 13.4.4 Timers 13.4.5 State transitions |
| 2190 | 13.4.6 IDLE state |
| 2191 | 13.4.7 OPN_SNT state 13.4.8 CNF_RCVD state |
| 2192 | 13.4.9 OPN_RCVD state |
| 2193 | 13.4.10 ESTAB state 13.4.11 HOLDING state 13.5 Authenticated mesh peering exchange (AMPE) 13.5.1 Overview |
| 2194 | 13.5.2 Security capabilities selection 13.5.2.1 Instance Pairwise Cipher Suite selection |
| 2195 | 13.5.2.2 Group cipher suite selection 13.5.3 Construction and processing AES-SIV-protected mesh peering Management frames |
| 2196 | 13.5.4 Distribution of group transient keys in an MBSS 13.5.5 Mesh peering Management frames for AMPE 13.5.5.1 General 13.5.5.2 Mesh peering open for AMPE |
| 2197 | 13.5.5.3 Mesh peering confirm for AMPE |
| 2198 | 13.5.5.4 Mesh peering close for AMPE 13.5.6 AMPE finite state machine 13.5.6.1 Overview |
| 2199 | 13.5.6.2 Additional events and actions to MPM FSM 13.5.6.3 State transitions |
| 2201 | 13.5.7 Keys and key derivation algorithm for the authenticated mesh peering exchange (AMPE) |
| 2202 | 13.6 Mesh group key handshake 13.6.1 General 13.6.2 Protection on mesh group key handshake frames |
| 2203 | 13.6.3 Mesh Group Key Inform frame construction and processing |
| 2204 | 13.6.4 Mesh Group Key Acknowledge frame construction and processing |
| 2205 | 13.6.5 Mesh group key implementation considerations 13.7 Mesh security 13.8 Mesh path selection and metric framework 13.8.1 General |
| 2206 | 13.8.2 Extensible path selection framework 13.8.3 Link metric reporting 13.9 Airtime link metric |
| 2208 | 13.10 Hybrid wireless mesh protocol (HWMP) 13.10.1 General 13.10.2 Terminology |
| 2210 | 13.10.3 On-demand path selection mode |
| 2211 | 13.10.4 Proactive tree building mode 13.10.4.1 General 13.10.4.2 Proactive PREQ mechanism |
| 2212 | 13.10.4.3 Proactive RANN mechanism 13.10.5 Collocated STAs |
| 2213 | 13.10.6 Parameters for extensible path selection framework 13.10.7 Addressing of HWMP Mesh Path Selection frame |
| 2215 | 13.10.8 General rules for processing HWMP elements 13.10.8.1 General 13.10.8.2 HWMP propagation 13.10.8.3 HWMP sequence numbering |
| 2216 | 13.10.8.4 Forwarding information |
| 2217 | 13.10.8.5 Repeated attempts at path discovery |
| 2218 | 13.10.8.6 Limiting the rate of HWMP SN increments 13.10.9 Path request (PREQ) mechanism 13.10.9.1 General 13.10.9.2 Function 13.10.9.3 Conditions for generating and sending a PREQ element |
| 2227 | 13.10.9.4 PREQ element processing |
| 2228 | 13.10.10 Path reply (PREP) mechanism 13.10.10.1 General 13.10.10.2 Function 13.10.10.3 Conditions for generating and sending a PREP element |
| 2232 | 13.10.10.4 PREP element processing |
| 2233 | 13.10.11 Path error (PERR) mechanism 13.10.11.1 General 13.10.11.2 Function 13.10.11.3 Conditions for generating and sending a PERR element |
| 2236 | 13.10.11.4 PERR element processing |
| 2237 | 13.10.12 Root announcement (RANN) mechanism 13.10.12.1 General 13.10.12.2 Function |
| 2238 | 13.10.12.3 Conditions for generating and sending a RANN element |
| 2239 | 13.10.12.4 RANN element reception |
| 2240 | 13.10.13 Considerations for support of STAs without mesh functionality 13.11 Interworking with the DS 13.11.1 Overview of interworking between a mesh BSS and a DS |
| 2241 | 13.11.2 Gate announcement (GANN) 13.11.2.1 General 13.11.2.2 Function 13.11.2.3 Conditions for generating and sending a GANN element |
| 2242 | 13.11.2.4 GANN element processing |
| 2243 | 13.11.3 Data forwarding at proxy mesh gates 13.11.3.1 General 13.11.3.2 Forwarding of MSDUs from the MBSS to the DS |
| 2244 | 13.11.3.3 Forwarding of MSDUs from the DS to the MBSS |
| 2245 | 13.11.4 Proxy information and proxy update 13.11.4.1 General 13.11.4.2 Proxy information |
| 2246 | 13.11.4.3 Proxy update (PXU) |
| 2248 | 13.11.4.4 Proxy update confirmation (PXUC) |
| 2249 | 13.11.5 Mesh STA collocation 13.12 Intra-mesh congestion control 13.12.1 General 13.12.2 Congestion control signaling protocol |
| 2250 | 13.13 Synchronization and beaconing in MBSSs 13.13.1 TSF for MBSSs 13.13.2 Extensible synchronization framework 13.13.2.1 General |
| 2251 | 13.13.2.2 Neighbor offset synchronization method |
| 2253 | 13.13.3 Beaconing 13.13.3.1 Beacon generation in MBSSs 13.13.3.2 Beacon reception for mesh STA |
| 2254 | 13.13.4 Mesh beacon collision avoidance (MBCA) 13.13.4.1 Overview 13.13.4.2 Beacon timing advertisement |
| 2258 | 13.13.4.3 TBTT selection 13.13.4.4 TBTT adjustment |
| 2259 | 13.13.4.5 Frame transmission across reported TBTT |
| 2260 | 13.13.4.6 Delayed beacon transmissions 13.14 Power save in a mesh BSS 13.14.1 General 13.14.2 Mesh power modes 13.14.2.1 General |
| 2261 | 13.14.2.2 Peer-specific mesh power modes |
| 2262 | 13.14.2.3 Nonpeer mesh power modes 13.14.3 Mesh power mode indications and transitions 13.14.3.1 General |
| 2263 | 13.14.3.2 Transition to a higher activity level 13.14.3.3 Transition to a lower activity level 13.14.4 TIM transmissions in an MBSS 13.14.5 TIM types |
| 2264 | 13.14.6 Mesh awake window 13.14.7 Power save support |
| 2265 | 13.14.8 Operation in peer-specific and nonpeer mesh power modes 13.14.8.1 General 13.14.8.2 Operation in active mode 13.14.8.3 Operation in deep sleep mode for nonpeer mesh STAs |
| 2266 | 13.14.8.4 Operation in light sleep mode for a mesh peering 13.14.8.5 Operation in deep sleep mode for a mesh peering 13.14.8.6 Conditions for Doze state |
| 2267 | 13.14.9 Mesh peer service periods 13.14.9.1 General 13.14.9.2 Initiation of a mesh peer service period |
| 2268 | 13.14.9.3 Operation during a mesh peer service period 13.14.9.4 Termination of a mesh peer service period |
| 2269 | 13.14.10 MCCA use by power saving mesh STA |
| 2270 | 14. Frequency-Hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) PHY specification for the 2.4 GHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band |
| 2271 | 15. Infrared (IR) PHY specification |
| 2272 | 16. DSSS PHY specification for the 2.4 GHz band designated for ISM applications 16.1 Overview 16.1.1 General 16.1.2 Scope 16.1.3 DSSS PHY functions 16.1.3.1 General 16.1.3.2 PLME 16.1.4 Service specification method and notation |
| 2273 | 16.2 DSSS PHY specific service parameter list 16.2.1 Introduction 16.2.2 TXVECTOR parameters 16.2.2.1 General 16.2.2.2 TXVECTOR LENGTH 16.2.2.3 TXVECTOR DATARATE 16.2.2.4 TXVECTOR SERVICE 16.2.2.5 TXVECTOR TXPWR_LEVEL 16.2.2.6 TXVECTOR TIME_OF_DEPARTURE_REQUESTED |
| 2274 | 16.2.2.7 TXVECTOR TX_ANTENNA 16.2.3 RXVECTOR parameters 16.2.3.1 General 16.2.3.2 RXVECTOR LENGTH 16.2.3.3 RXVECTOR RSSI 16.2.3.4 RXVECTOR SIGNAL 16.2.3.5 SERVICE 16.2.3.6 RXVECTOR RCPI |
| 2275 | 16.2.3.7 RXVECTOR SQ 16.2.3.8 RXVECTOR RX_ANTENNA |
| 2276 | 16.2.4 TXSTATUS parameters 16.2.4.1 General 16.2.4.2 TXSTATUS TIME_OF_DEPARTURE 16.2.4.3 TXSTATUS TIME_OF_DEPARTURE_ClockRate 16.3 DSSS PHY 16.3.1 Overview 16.3.2 PPDU format |
| 2277 | 16.3.3 PHY field definitions 16.3.3.1 General 16.3.3.2 PHY SYNC field 16.3.3.3 PHY SFD 16.3.3.4 PHY SIGNAL field 16.3.3.5 PHY SERVICE field |
| 2278 | 16.3.3.6 PHY LENGTH field 16.3.3.7 PHY CRC field |
| 2279 | 16.3.4 PHY/DSSS PHY data scrambler and descrambler 16.3.5 PHY data modulation and modulation rate change |
| 2280 | 16.3.6 Transmit PHY |
| 2282 | 16.3.7 Receive PHY |
| 2285 | 16.4 DSSS PLME 16.4.1 PLME_SAP sublayer management primitives 16.4.2 DSSS PHY MIB |
| 2286 | 16.4.3 DS PHY characteristics |
| 2287 | 16.4.4 PHY operating specifications, general 16.4.4.1 General 16.4.4.2 Operating frequency range 16.4.4.3 Channel Numbering of operating channels 16.4.4.4 Spreading sequence |
| 2288 | 16.4.4.5 Modulation and channel data rates 16.4.4.6 Transmit and receive in-band and out-of-band spurious emissions 16.4.4.7 TX-to-RX turnaround time |
| 2289 | 16.4.4.8 RX-to-TX turnaround time 16.4.4.9 Slot time 16.4.4.10 Transmit and receive antenna connector impedance 16.4.5 PHY transmit specifications 16.4.5.1 Introduction 16.4.5.2 Transmit power levels 16.4.5.3 Minimum transmitted power level 16.4.5.4 Transmit power level control |
| 2290 | 16.4.5.5 Transmit spectrum mask 16.4.5.6 Transmit center frequency tolerance 16.4.5.7 Chip clock frequency tolerance 16.4.5.8 Transmit power-on and power-down ramp 16.4.5.9 RF carrier suppression |
| 2291 | 16.4.5.10 Transmit modulation accuracy |
| 2293 | 16.4.5.11 Time of Departure accuracy |
| 2294 | 16.4.6 PHY receiver specificationsPHY 16.4.6.1 Introduction 16.4.6.2 Receiver minimum input level sensitivity 16.4.6.3 Receiver maximum input level 16.4.6.4 Receiver adjacent channel rejection 16.4.6.5 CCA |
| 2295 | 16.4.6.6 Received Channel Power Indicator Measurement |
| 2297 | 17. High rate direct sequence spread spectrum (HR/DSSS) PHY specification 17.1 Overview 17.1.1 General 17.1.2 Scope 17.1.3 High rate PHY functions 17.1.3.1 General |
| 2298 | 17.1.3.2 PLME 17.1.4 Service specification method and notation 17.2 High rate PHY 17.2.1 Overview 17.2.2 PPDU format 17.2.2.1 General 17.2.2.2 Long PPDU format |
| 2299 | 17.2.2.3 Short PPDU format |
| 2300 | 17.2.3 PPDU field definitions 17.2.3.1 General 17.2.3.2 Long PHY SYNC field 17.2.3.3 Long PHY SFD 17.2.3.4 Long PHY SIGNAL field 17.2.3.5 Long PHY SERVICE field |
| 2301 | 17.2.3.6 Long PHY LENGTH field |
| 2302 | 17.2.3.7 PHY CRC (CRC-16) field |
| 2305 | 17.2.3.8 Long PHY data modulation and modulation rate change 17.2.3.9 Short PHY synchronization (shortSYNC) 17.2.3.10 Short PHY SFD field (shortSFD) 17.2.3.11 Short PHY SIGNAL field (shortSIGNAL) 17.2.3.12 Short PHY SERVICE field (shortSERVICE) 17.2.3.13 Short PHY LENGTH field (shortLENGTH) 17.2.3.14 Short CRC-16 field (shortCRC) |
| 2306 | 17.2.3.15 Short PHY data modulation and modulation rate change 17.2.4 PHY/high rate PHY data scrambler and descrambler 17.2.5 Transmit PHY |
| 2308 | 17.2.6 Receive PHY |
| 2311 | 17.3 High rate PLME 17.3.1 PLME_SAP sublayer management primitives |
| 2312 | 17.3.2 High rate PHY MIB |
| 2313 | 17.3.3 DS PHY characteristics 17.3.4 High rate TXTIME calculation |
| 2314 | 17.3.5 Vector descriptions |
| 2315 | 17.3.6 PHY operating specifications, general 17.3.6.1 General 17.3.6.2 Operating frequency range 17.3.6.3 Channel Numbering of operating channels |
| 2316 | 17.3.6.4 Modulation and channel data rates 17.3.6.5 Spreading sequence and modulation for 1 Mb/s and 2 Mb/s |
| 2317 | 17.3.6.6 Spreading sequences and modulation for CCK modulation at 5.5 Mb/s and 11 Mb/s |
| 2319 | 17.3.6.7 Transmit and receive in-band and out-of-band spurious emissions 17.3.6.8 TX-to-RX turnaround time 17.3.6.9 RX-to-TX turnaround time 17.3.6.10 Slot time |
| 2320 | 17.3.6.11 Transmit and receive impedance at the antenna connector 17.3.7 PHY transmit specifications 17.3.7.1 Introduction 17.3.7.2 Transmit power levels 17.3.7.3 Transmit power level control 17.3.7.4 Transmit spectrum mask 17.3.7.5 Transmit center frequency tolerance 17.3.7.6 Chip clock frequency tolerance |
| 2321 | 17.3.7.7 Transmit power-on and power-down ramp |
| 2322 | 17.3.7.8 RF carrier suppression 17.3.7.9 Transmit modulation accuracy |
| 2324 | 17.3.7.10 Time of Departure accuracy |
| 2325 | 17.3.8 PHY receiver specifications 17.3.8.1 Introduction 17.3.8.2 Receiver minimum input level sensitivity 17.3.8.3 Receiver maximum input level 17.3.8.4 Receiver adjacent channel rejection |
| 2326 | 17.3.8.5 CCA 17.3.8.6 Received Channel Power Indicator Measurement |
| 2327 | 18. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) PHY specification 18.1 Introduction 18.1.1 General 18.1.2 Scope 18.1.3 OFDM PHY functions 18.1.3.1 General 18.1.3.2 PLME |
| 2328 | 18.1.3.3 Service specification method 18.2 OFDM PHY specific service parameter list 18.2.1 Introduction 18.2.2 TXVECTOR parameters 18.2.2.1 General |
| 2329 | 18.2.2.2 TXVECTOR LENGTH 18.2.2.3 TXVECTOR DATARATE 18.2.2.4 TXVECTOR SERVICE 18.2.2.5 TXVECTOR TXPWR_LEVEL 18.2.2.6 TIME_OF_DEPARTURE_REQUESTED |
| 2330 | 18.2.2.7 TXVECTOR CH_BANDWIDTH_IN_NON_HT 18.2.2.8 TXVECTOR DYN_BANDWIDTH_IN_NON_HT 18.2.3 RXVECTOR parameters 18.2.3.1 General |
| 2331 | 18.2.3.2 RXVECTOR LENGTH 18.2.3.3 RXVECTOR RSSI 18.2.3.4 DATARATE 18.2.3.5 SERVICE |
| 2332 | 18.2.3.6 RXVECTOR RCPI 18.2.3.7 RXVECTOR CH_BANDWIDTH_IN_NON_HT 18.2.3.8 RXVECTOR DYN_BANDWIDTH_IN_NON_HT 18.2.4 TXSTATUS parameters 18.2.4.1 General |
| 2333 | 18.2.4.2 TXSTATUS TIME_OF_DEPARTURE 18.2.4.3 TXSTATUS TIME_OF_DEPARTURE_ClockRate 18.3 OFDM PHY 18.3.1 Introduction 18.3.2 PPDU format 18.3.2.1 General |
| 2334 | 18.3.2.2 Overview of the PPDU encoding process |
| 2335 | 18.3.2.3 Modulation-dependent parameters |
| 2336 | 18.3.2.4 Timing related parameters |
| 2337 | 18.3.2.5 Mathematical conventions in the signal descriptions |
| 2338 | 18.3.2.6 Discrete time implementation considerations |
| 2339 | 18.3.3 PHY preamble (SYNC) |
| 2340 | 18.3.4 SIGNAL field 18.3.4.1 General |
| 2341 | 18.3.4.2 RATE field 18.3.4.3 PHY LENGTH field |
| 2342 | 18.3.4.4 Parity (P), Reserved (R), and SIGNAL TAIL fields 18.3.5 DATA field 18.3.5.1 General 18.3.5.2 SERVICE field 18.3.5.3 PPDU TAIL field 18.3.5.4 Pad bits (PAD) |
| 2343 | 18.3.5.5 PHY DATA scrambler and descrambler |
| 2344 | 18.3.5.6 Convolutional encoder 18.3.5.7 Data interleaving |
| 2347 | 18.3.5.8 Subcarrier modulation mapping |
| 2352 | 18.3.5.9 Pilot subcarriers 18.3.5.10 OFDM modulation |
| 2353 | 18.3.6 CCA 18.3.7 PHY data modulation and modulation rate change |
| 2354 | 18.3.8 PHY operating specifications (general) 18.3.8.1 General 18.3.8.2 Outline description |
| 2355 | 18.3.8.3 Regulatory requirements 18.3.8.4 Operating channel frequencies |
| 2356 | 18.3.8.5 Transmit and receive in-band and out-of-band spurious emissions 18.3.8.6 Slot time 18.3.8.7 Transmit and receive impedance at the antenna connector 18.3.9 PHY transmit specifications 18.3.9.1 General 18.3.9.2 Transmit power levels 18.3.9.3 Transmit spectrum mask |
| 2358 | 18.3.9.4 Transmission spurious 18.3.9.5 Transmit center frequency tolerance 18.3.9.6 Symbol clock frequency tolerance 18.3.9.7 Modulation accuracy |
| 2359 | 18.3.9.8 Transmit modulation accuracy test |
| 2361 | 18.3.9.9 Time of Departure accuracy 18.3.10 PHY receiver specifications 18.3.10.1 Introduction 18.3.10.2 Receiver minimum input sensitivity |
| 2362 | 18.3.10.3 Adjacent channel rejection |
| 2363 | 18.3.10.4 Nonadjacent channel rejection 18.3.10.5 Receiver maximum input level 18.3.10.6 CCA requirements |
| 2364 | 18.3.10.7 Received Channel Power Indicator Measurement 18.3.11 Transmit PHY |
| 2368 | 18.3.12 Receive PHY |
| 2369 | 18.4 OFDM PLME 18.4.1 PLME_SAP sublayer management primitives 18.4.2 OFDM PHY MIB |
| 2372 | 18.4.3 OFDM TXTIME calculation 18.4.4 OFDM PHY characteristics |
| 2374 | 19. Extended Rate PHY (ERP) specification 19.1 Overview 19.1.1 General 19.1.2 Introduction 19.1.3 Operational modes |
| 2375 | 19.1.4 Scope 19.1.5 ERP functions |
| 2376 | 19.2 PHY-specific service parameter list |
| 2378 | 19.3 Extended Rate PHY sublayer 19.3.1 Introduction 19.3.2 PPDU format 19.3.2.1 General 19.3.2.2 Long preamble PPDU format |
| 2379 | 19.3.2.3 Short preamble PPDU format 19.3.2.4 ERP-OFDM PPDU format 19.3.3 PHY data modulation and rate change 19.3.3.1 Long and short preamble formats |
| 2380 | 19.3.3.2 ERP-OFDM format 19.3.4 CCA 19.3.5 PHY receive procedure |
| 2381 | 19.4 ERP PHY operating specifications (general) 19.4.1 Introduction 19.4.2 Regulatory requirements 19.4.3 Operating channel frequencies 19.4.4 Transmit and receive in-band and out-of-band spurious emissions 19.4.5 SIFS 19.4.6 CCA performance 19.4.7 PHY transmit specifications 19.4.7.1 General |
| 2382 | 19.4.7.2 Transmit power levels 19.4.7.3 Transmit spectral mask 19.4.7.4 Transmit center frequency tolerance 19.4.7.5 Symbol clock frequency tolerance 19.4.7.6 Time of Departure accuracy 19.4.8 PHY receive specifications 19.4.8.1 General 19.4.8.2 Receiver minimum input level sensitivity 19.4.8.3 Adjacent channel rejection |
| 2383 | 19.4.8.4 Receive maximum input level capability 19.5 ERP PLME 19.5.1 PLME SAP 19.5.2 MIB |
| 2385 | 19.5.3 TXTIME 19.5.3.1 General 19.5.3.2 ERP-OFDM TXTIME calculations 19.5.4 ERP-OFDM PHY characteristics |
| 2387 | 20. High Throughput (HT) PHY specification 20.1 Introduction 20.1.1 Introduction to the HT PHY 20.1.2 Scope 20.1.3 HT PHY functions 20.1.3.1 General |
| 2388 | 20.1.3.2 PHY management entity (PLME) 20.1.3.3 Service specification method 20.1.4 PPDU formats 20.2 HT PHY service interface 20.2.1 Introduction |
| 2389 | 20.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters |
| 2396 | 20.2.3 Effect of CH_BANDWIDTH, CH_OFFSET, and MCS parameters on PPDU format |
| 2397 | 20.2.4 Support for NON_HT formats |
| 2399 | 20.2.5 TXSTATUS parameters 20.3 HT PHY 20.3.1 Introduction |
| 2400 | 20.3.2 PPDU format |
| 2402 | 20.3.3 Transmitter block diagram |
| 2403 | 20.3.4 Overview of the PPDU encoding process |
| 2407 | 20.3.5 Modulation and coding scheme (MCS) |
| 2408 | 20.3.6 Timing-related parameters |
| 2410 | 20.3.7 Mathematical description of signals |
| 2413 | 20.3.8 Transmission in the upper/lower 20 MHz of a 40 MHz channel 20.3.9 HT preamble 20.3.9.1 Introduction 20.3.9.2 HT-mixed format preamble |
| 2414 | 20.3.9.3 Non-HT portion of the HT-mixed format preamble |
| 2417 | 20.3.9.4 HT portion of HT-mixed format preamble |
| 2427 | 20.3.9.5 HT-greenfield format preamble |
| 2430 | 20.3.10 Transmission of NON_HT format PPDUs with more than one transmit chain 20.3.11 Data field 20.3.11.1 General 20.3.11.2 SERVICE field 20.3.11.3 Scrambler |
| 2431 | 20.3.11.4 Coding 20.3.11.5 Encoder parsing operation for two BCC FEC encoders 20.3.11.6 Binary convolutional coding and puncturing 20.3.11.7 LDPC codes |
| 2436 | 20.3.11.8 Data interleaver |
| 2439 | 20.3.11.9 Constellation mapping |
| 2440 | 20.3.11.10 Pilot subcarriers |
| 2442 | 20.3.11.11 OFDM modulation |
| 2447 | 20.3.11.12 Non-HT duplicate transmission 20.3.12 Beamforming 20.3.12.1 General |
| 2448 | 20.3.12.2 Implicit feedback beamforming |
| 2451 | 20.3.12.3 Explicit feedback beamforming |
| 2455 | 20.3.13 HT Preamble format for sounding PPDUs 20.3.13.1 General |
| 2456 | 20.3.13.2 Sounding with a NDP 20.3.13.3 Sounding PPDU for calibration |
| 2457 | 20.3.13.4 Sounding PPDU for channel quality assessment |
| 2458 | 20.3.14 Regulatory requirements 20.3.15 Channel numbering and channelization 20.3.15.1 General 20.3.15.2 Channel allocation in the 2.4 GHz Band 20.3.15.3 Channel allocation in the 5 GHz band |
| 2459 | 20.3.15.4 40 MHz channelization 20.3.16 Transmit and receive in-band and out-of-band spurious transmissions 20.3.17 Slot time 20.3.18 Transmit and receive impedance at the antenna connector 20.3.19 PHY transmit specification 20.3.19.1 Transmit spectrum mask |
| 2461 | 20.3.19.2 Spectral flatness |
| 2462 | 20.3.19.3 Transmit power 20.3.19.4 Transmit center frequency tolerance 20.3.19.5 Packet alignment |
| 2463 | 20.3.19.6 Symbol clock frequency tolerance 20.3.19.7 Modulation accuracy |
| 2465 | 20.3.19.8 Time of Departure accuracy 20.3.20 HT PHY receiver specification 20.3.20.1 Receiver minimum input sensitivity 20.3.20.2 Adjacent channel rejection |
| 2466 | 20.3.20.3 Nonadjacent channel rejection |
| 2467 | 20.3.20.4 Receiver maximum input level 20.3.20.5 CCA sensitivity |
| 2468 | 20.3.20.6 Received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement 20.3.20.7 Reduced interframe space (RIFS) 20.3.21 PHY transmit procedure |
| 2472 | 20.3.22 PHY receive procedure |
| 2476 | 20.4 HT PLME 20.4.1 PLME_SAP sublayer management primitives 20.4.2 PHY MIB |
| 2480 | 20.4.3 TXTIME calculation |
| 2481 | 20.4.4 PHY characteristics |
| 2482 | 20.5 Parameters for HT MCSs |
| 2493 | 21. Directional multi-gigabit (DMG) PHY specification 21.1 DMG PHY introduction 21.1.1 Scope 21.1.2 DMG PHY functions 21.1.2.1 PHY management entity (PLME) 21.1.2.2 Service specification method 21.2 DMG PHY service interface 21.2.1 Introduction |
| 2494 | 21.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters 21.2.3 TXSTATUS parameters 21.3 Common parameters 21.3.1 Channelization 21.3.2 Transmit mask |
| 2497 | 21.3.3 Common requirements 21.3.3.1 Introduction 21.3.3.2 Center frequency tolerance 21.3.3.3 Symbol clock tolerance 21.3.3.4 Transmit center frequency leakage |
| 2498 | 21.3.3.5 Transmit rampup and rampdown 21.3.3.6 Antenna setting 21.3.3.7 Maximum input requirement 21.3.3.8 Receive sensitivity 21.3.4 Timing-related parameters 21.3.5 Mathematical conventions in the signal description 21.3.5.1 General |
| 2501 | 21.3.5.2 Windowing function |
| 2502 | 21.3.6 Common preamble 21.3.6.1 General 21.3.6.2 Short Training field |
| 2503 | 21.3.6.3 Channel Estimation field |
| 2504 | 21.3.6.4 Transmission of the preamble and BRP fields in an OFDM packet |
| 2505 | 21.3.7 HCS calculation for headers of control PHY, OFDM PHY, and SC PHY 21.3.8 Common LDPC parity matrices 21.3.8.1 General |
| 2506 | 21.3.8.2 Rate-1/2 LDPC code matrix H = 336 rows x 672 columns, Z = 42 21.3.8.3 Rate-5/8 LDPC code matrix H = 252 rows x 672 columns, Z = 42 |
| 2507 | 21.3.8.4 Rate-3/4 LDPC code matrix H = 168 rows x 672 columns, Z = 42 21.3.8.5 Rate-13/16 LDPC code matrix H = 126 rows x 672 columns, Z = 42 21.3.9 Scrambler |
| 2508 | 21.3.10 Received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement 21.4 DMG control PHY 21.4.1 Introduction 21.4.2 PPDU format |
| 2509 | 21.4.3 Transmission 21.4.3.1 Preamble 21.4.3.2 Header |
| 2510 | 21.4.3.3 Data field |
| 2512 | 21.4.4 Performance requirements 21.4.4.1 Transmit requirements |
| 2513 | 21.4.4.2 Receive requirements 21.5 DMG OFDM PHY 21.5.1 Introduction 21.5.2 PPDU format 21.5.3 Transmission 21.5.3.1 Header |
| 2516 | 21.5.3.2 Data field |
| 2517 | 21.5.3.2.3.1 General 21.5.3.2.3.2 Parity check matrices 21.5.3.2.3.3 LDPC encoding process |
| 2518 | 21.5.3.2.4.1 General 21.5.3.2.4.2 SQPSK modulation 21.5.3.2.4.3 QPSK modulation |
| 2519 | 21.5.3.2.4.4 16-QAM modulation 21.5.3.2.4.5 64-QAM modulation |
| 2520 | 21.5.3.2.4.6 Tone pairing for SQPSK and QPSK 21.5.3.2.4.6.1 General |
| 2521 | 21.5.3.2.4.6.2 Static tone pairing (STP) 21.5.3.2.4.6.3 Dynamic tone pairing (DTP) |
| 2523 | 21.5.4 Performance requirements 21.5.4.1 Transmit requirements |
| 2525 | 21.5.4.2 Receive requirements 21.6 DMG SC PHY 21.6.1 Introduction 21.6.2 PPDU format 21.6.3 Transmission 21.6.3.1 Header |
| 2529 | 21.6.3.2 Data field 21.6.3.2.3.1 General 21.6.3.2.3.2 Parity check matrices |
| 2530 | 21.6.3.2.3.3 LDPC encoding process |
| 2531 | 21.6.3.2.4.1 General 21.6.3.2.4.2 π/2-BPSK modulation 21.6.3.2.4.3 π/2-QPSK modulation |
| 2532 | 21.6.3.2.4.4 π/2-16QAM modulation |
| 2533 | 21.6.4 Performance requirements 21.6.4.1 Transmit requirements |
| 2534 | 21.6.4.2 Receive requirements |
| 2535 | 21.7 DMG low-power SC PHY 21.7.1 Introduction 21.7.2 Transmission 21.7.2.1 Preamble 21.7.2.2 Header |
| 2536 | 21.7.2.3 Data field 21.7.2.3.3.1 General |
| 2537 | 21.7.2.3.3.2 RS encoding 21.7.2.3.3.3 (N,8) Block-coding |
| 2539 | 21.8 PHY transmit procedure |
| 2542 | 21.9 PHY receive procedure |
| 2543 | 21.10 Beamforming 21.10.1 Beamforming concept 21.10.2 Beamforming frame format 21.10.2.1 TX sector sweep 21.10.2.2 Beam refinement |
| 2547 | 21.11 Golay sequences |
| 2549 | 21.12 DMG PLME 21.12.1 PLME_SAP sublayer management primitives 21.12.2 DMG PHY MIB |
| 2550 | 21.12.3 TXTIME calculation 21.12.4 PHY characteristics |
| 2553 | 22. Very High Throughput (VHT) PHY specification 22.1 Introduction 22.1.1 Introduction to the VHT PHY |
| 2554 | 22.1.2 Scope 22.1.3 VHT PHY functions 22.1.3.1 General 22.1.3.2 PHY management entity (PLME) 22.1.3.3 Service specification method 22.1.4 PPDU formats |
| 2555 | 22.2 VHT PHY service interface 22.2.1 Introduction 22.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters |
| 2563 | 22.2.3 Effects of CH_BANDWIDTH parameter on PPDU format |
| 2565 | 22.2.4 Support for NON_HT and HT formats 22.2.4.1 General |
| 2567 | 22.2.4.2 Support for NON_HT format when NON_HT_MODULATION is OFDM |
| 2568 | 22.2.4.3 Support for HT formats |
| 2569 | 22.2.5 TXSTATUS parameters 22.3 VHT PHY 22.3.1 Introduction 22.3.2 VHT PPDU format |
| 2570 | 22.3.3 Transmitter block diagram |
| 2574 | 22.3.4 Overview of the PPDU encoding process 22.3.4.1 General 22.3.4.2 Construction of L-STF |
| 2575 | 22.3.4.3 Construction of the L-LTF |
| 2576 | 22.3.4.4 Construction of L-SIG |
| 2577 | 22.3.4.5 Construction of VHT-SIG-A |
| 2579 | 22.3.4.6 Construction of VHT-STF |
| 2580 | 22.3.4.7 Construction of VHT-LTF |
| 2581 | 22.3.4.8 Construction of VHT-SIG-B |
| 2582 | 22.3.4.9 Construction of the Data field in a VHT SU PPDU |
| 2583 | 22.3.4.10 Construction of the Data field in a VHT MU PPDU |
| 2584 | 22.3.5 VHT modulation and coding scheme (VHT-MCS) 22.3.6 Timing-related parameters |
| 2588 | 22.3.7 Mathematical description of signals 22.3.7.1 Notation 22.3.7.2 Subcarrier indices in use 22.3.7.3 Channel frequencies |
| 2590 | 22.3.7.4 Transmitted signal |
| 2594 | 22.3.7.5 Definition of tone rotation |
| 2595 | 22.3.8 VHT preamble 22.3.8.1 Introduction 22.3.8.2 Non-VHT portion of VHT format preamble |
| 2599 | 22.3.8.3 VHT portion of VHT format preamble |
| 2613 | 22.3.9 Transmission of NON_HT and HT PPDUs with multiple transmit chains 22.3.9.1 Transmission of 20 MHz NON_HT PPDUs with more than one transmit chain 22.3.9.2 Transmission of HT PPDUs with more than four transmit chains 22.3.10 Data field 22.3.10.1 General |
| 2615 | 22.3.10.2 SERVICE field 22.3.10.3 CRC calculation for VHT-SIG-B |
| 2616 | 22.3.10.4 Scrambler 22.3.10.5 Coding |
| 2619 | 22.3.10.6 Stream parser |
| 2620 | 22.3.10.7 Segment parser |
| 2621 | 22.3.10.8 BCC interleaver |
| 2624 | 22.3.10.9 Constellation mapping |
| 2631 | 22.3.10.10 Pilot subcarriers |
| 2633 | 22.3.10.11 OFDM modulation |
| 2634 | 22.3.10.12 Non-HT duplicate transmission |
| 2635 | 22.3.11 SU-MIMO and DL-MU-MIMO Beamforming 22.3.11.1 General |
| 2636 | 22.3.11.2 Beamforming Feedback Matrix V |
| 2637 | 22.3.11.3 Maximum Number of Total Spatial Streams in VHT MU PPDUs 22.3.11.4 Group ID 22.3.12 VHT preamble format for sounding PPDUs |
| 2638 | 22.3.13 Regulatory requirements 22.3.14 Channelization |
| 2639 | 22.3.15 Transmit RF delay |
| 2640 | 22.3.16 Slot time 22.3.17 Transmit and receive port impedance 22.3.18 VHT transmit specification 22.3.18.1 Transmit spectrum mask |
| 2643 | 22.3.18.2 Spectral flatness |
| 2645 | 22.3.18.3 Transmit center frequency and symbol clock frequency tolerance |
| 2646 | 22.3.18.4 Modulation accuracy |
| 2648 | 22.3.18.5 Time of Departure accuracy 22.3.19 VHT receiver specification |
| 2649 | 22.3.19.1 Receiver minimum input sensitivity 22.3.19.2 Adjacent channel rejection |
| 2650 | 22.3.19.3 Nonadjacent channel rejection |
| 2651 | 22.3.19.4 Receiver maximum input level 22.3.19.5 CCA sensitivity |
| 2653 | 22.3.19.6 RSSI 22.3.20 PHY transmit procedure |
| 2655 | 22.3.21 PHY receive procedure |
| 2659 | 22.4 VHT PLME 22.4.1 PLME_SAP sublayer management primitives |
| 2660 | 22.4.2 PHY MIB |
| 2665 | 22.4.3 TXTIME and PSDU_LENGTH calculation |
| 2666 | 22.4.4 PHY characteristics |
| 2667 | 22.5 Parameters for VHT-MCSs |
| 2685 | 23. Television Very High Throughput (TVHT) PHY specification 23.1 Introduction 23.1.1 Introduction to the TVHT PHY |
| 2686 | 23.1.2 Scope |
| 2687 | 23.1.3 TVHT PHY functions 23.1.3.1 General 23.1.3.2 PHY management entity (PLME) 23.1.3.3 Service specification method 23.1.4 PPDU formats 23.2 TVHT PHY service interface 23.2.1 Introduction 23.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters |
| 2695 | 23.2.3 Effects of CH_BANDWIDTH parameter on PPDU format 23.2.4 Support for NON_HT and HT formats |
| 2699 | 23.3 TVHT PHY sublayer 23.3.1 Introduction 23.3.2 VHT PPDU format in TVWS bands |
| 2700 | 23.3.3 Transmitter block diagram 23.3.4 Overview of the PPDU encoding process 23.3.4.1 General 23.3.4.2 Construction of L-STF |
| 2701 | 23.3.4.3 Construction of the L-LTF 23.3.4.4 Construction of L-SIG |
| 2702 | 23.3.4.5 Construction of TVHT-SIG-A 23.3.4.6 Construction of TVHT-STF |
| 2703 | 23.3.4.7 Construction of TVHT-LTF 23.3.4.8 Construction of TVHT-SIG-B 23.3.4.9 Construction of the Data field in an SU PPDU |
| 2704 | 23.3.4.10 Construction of the Data field in an MU PPDU |
| 2705 | 23.3.5 Modulation and coding scheme (MCS) 23.3.6 Timing-related parameters |
| 2706 | 23.3.7 Mathematical description of signals |
| 2710 | 23.3.8 TVHT preamble 23.3.8.1 Introduction 23.3.8.2 Non-TVHT portion of VHT format preamble |
| 2712 | 23.3.8.3 TVHT portion of VHT format preamble |
| 2714 | 23.3.9 Transmission of NON_HT and HT PPDUs with multiple antennas 23.3.9.1 Transmission of NON_HT PPDUs with more than one antenna 23.3.9.2 Transmission of HT format PPDUs with more than four antennas 23.3.10 Data field 23.3.10.1 General 23.3.10.2 SERVICE field 23.3.10.3 CRC calculation for TVHT-SIG-B 23.3.10.4 Scrambler 23.3.10.5 Coding 23.3.10.6 Stream parser 23.3.10.7 Segment parser |
| 2715 | 23.3.10.8 BCC interleaver 23.3.10.9 Constellation mapping |
| 2716 | 23.3.10.10 Pilot subcarriers 23.3.10.11 OFDM modulation transmission in VHT format |
| 2717 | 23.3.10.12 Non-HT duplicate transmission 23.3.11 SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO Beamforming 23.3.11.1 General |
| 2718 | 23.3.11.2 Beamforming Feedback Matrix V 23.3.11.3 Group ID 23.3.12 TVHT preamble format for sounding PPDUs 23.3.13 Regulatory requirements |
| 2719 | 23.3.14 Channelization |
| 2720 | 23.3.15 Transmit RF delay 23.3.16 Slot time |
| 2721 | 23.3.17 Transmit and receive port impedance 23.3.18 PMD transmit specification 23.3.18.1 Transmit spectrum mask |
| 2723 | 23.3.18.2 Spectral flatness 23.3.18.3 Transmit center frequency and symbol clock frequency tolerance |
| 2724 | 23.3.18.4 Modulation accuracy 23.3.18.5 Time of Departure accuracy |
| 2725 | 23.3.19 TVHT receiver specification 23.3.19.1 General 23.3.19.2 Receiver minimum input sensitivity 23.3.19.3 Adjacent channel rejection |
| 2726 | 23.3.19.4 Nonadjacent channel rejection |
| 2727 | 23.3.19.5 Receiver maximum input level 23.3.19.6 CCA sensitivity |
| 2729 | 23.3.19.7 RSSI 23.3.20 PLCP transmit procedure 23.3.21 PLCP receive procedure 23.4 TVHT PLME 23.4.1 PLME_SAP sublayer management primitives 23.4.2 PHY MIB 23.4.3 TXTIME and PSDU_LENGTH calculation 23.4.4 PHY characteristics 23.5 Parameters for TVHT MCSs |
| 2738 | Annex A |
| 2742 | Annex B 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 |
| 2743 | B.3 Instructions for completing the PICS proforma B.3.1 General structure of the PICS proforma |
| 2744 | B.3.2 Additional information B.3.3 Exception information B.3.4 Conditional status |
| 2746 | B.4 PICS proforma—IEEE Std 802.11- B.4.1 Implementation identification B.4.2 Protocol summary |
| 2747 | B.4.3 IUT configuration |
| 2751 | B.4.4 MAC protocol B.4.4.1 MAC protocol capabilities |
| 2767 | B.4.4.2 MAC frames |
| 2774 | B.4.4.3 Frame exchange sequences B.4.4.4 MAC addressing functions |
| 2776 | B.4.5 Direct sequence PHY functions |
| 2787 | B.4.6 OFDM PHY functions |
| 2807 | B.4.7 High rate, direct sequence PHY functions |
| 2816 | B.4.8 Regulatory Domain Extensions |
| 2818 | B.4.9 ERP functions |
| 2822 | B.4.10 Spectrum management extensions |
| 2827 | B.4.11 Operating Classes extensions |
| 2828 | B.4.12 QoS base functionality |
| 2831 | B.4.13 QoS enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) |
| 2832 | B.4.14 QoS hybrid coordination function (HCF) controlled channel access (HCCA) |
| 2833 | B.4.15 Radio Management extensions |
| 2843 | B.4.16 DSE functions |
| 2848 | B.4.17 High throughput (HT) features B.4.17.1 HT MAC features |
| 2855 | B.4.17.2 HT PHY features |
| 2867 | B.4.18 Tunneled direct-link setup extensions |
| 2871 | B.4.19 WNM extensions |
| 2883 | B.4.20 Interworking (IW) with external networks extensions |
| 2888 | B.4.21 Mesh protocol capabilities B.4.21.1 General mesh support |
| 2893 | B.4.21.2 HWMP path selection protocol capabilities B.4.22 QMF extensions |
| 2894 | B.4.23 RobustAVT extensions |
| 2896 | B.4.24 DMG features B.4.24.1 DMG MAC features |
| 2912 | B.4.24.2 DMG PHY features |
| 2913 | B.4.25 Very high throughput (VHT) features B.4.25.1 VHT MAC features |
| 2918 | B.4.25.2 VHT PHY features |
| 2924 | B.4.26 TVWS functions |
| 2925 | B.4.26.1 TVHT MAC features |
| 2928 | B.4.26.2 TVHT PHY features |
| 2934 | Annex C C.1 General C.2 Guidelines for 802.11 MIB Authors/Editors C.3 MIB Detail |
| 3420 | Annex D D.1 External regulatory references |
| 3423 | 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 |
| 3424 | D.2.3 Transmit spectrum mask |
| 3426 | D.2.4 Transmit Mask M |
| 3427 | D.2.5 CCA-ED threshold |
| 3428 | Annex E E.1 Country information and operating classes |
| 3441 | E.2 Band-specific operating requirements E.2.1 General E.2.2 3650–3700 MHz in the United States |
| 3442 | 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 MHz to 698 MHz) |
| 3445 | E.2.6 TVWS band in Europe |
| 3446 | Annex F |
| 3449 | Annex G G.1 General |
| 3451 | G.2 Basic sequences |
| 3452 | G.3 EDCA and HCCA sequences |
| 3454 | G.4 HT and VHT sequences |
| 3464 | Annex H |
| 3465 | Annex I |
| 3466 | Annex J |
| 3467 | Annex K |
| 3468 | Annex L L.1 Example 1 – BCC encoding L.1.1 Introduction |
| 3469 | L.1.2 The message for the BCC example |
| 3470 | L.1.3 Generation of the preamble L.1.3.1 Generation of the short sequences |
| 3473 | L.1.3.2 Generation of the long sequences |
| 3475 | L.1.4 Generation of the SIGNAL field L.1.4.1 SIGNAL field bit assignment L.1.4.2 Coding the SIGNAL field bits |
| 3476 | L.1.4.3 Interleaving the SIGNAL field bits L.1.4.4 SIGNAL field frequency domain |
| 3478 | L.1.4.5 SIGNAL field time domain |
| 3479 | L.1.5 Generating the DATA bits for the BCC example L.1.5.1 Delineating, SERVICE field prepending, and zero padding |
| 3480 | L.1.5.2 Scrambling the BCC example |
| 3483 | L.1.6 Generating the first DATA symbol for the BCC example L.1.6.1 Coding the DATA bits |
| 3484 | L.1.6.2 Interleaving the DATA bits |
| 3487 | L.1.6.3 Mapping into symbols |
| 3488 | L.1.7 Generating the additional DATA symbols L.1.8 The entire packet for the BCC example |
| 3497 | L.2 Generating encoded DATA bits—LDPC example 1 L.2.1 The message for LDPC example 1 |
| 3498 | L.2.2 Prepending the SERVICE field for LDPC example 1 |
| 3499 | L.2.3 Scrambling LDPC example 1 |
| 3501 | L.2.4 Inserting shortening bits for LDPC example 1 |
| 3503 | L.2.5 Encoding data for LDPC example 1 |
| 3506 | L.2.6 Removing shortening bits and puncturing for LDPC example 1 |
| 3508 | L.3 Generating encoded DATA bits—LDPC example 2 L.3.1 The message for LDPC example 2 |
| 3510 | L.3.2 Prepending the SERVICE field for LDPC example 2 |
| 3512 | L.3.3 Scrambling LDPC example 2 |
| 3513 | L.3.4 Inserting the shortening bits for LDPC example 2 |
| 3515 | L.3.5 Encoding the data for LDPC example 2 |
| 3519 | L.3.6 Removing shortening bits and repetition for LDPC example 2 |
| 3523 | L.4 DMG example data vectors |
| 3524 | L.5 DMG Example 1 – CPHY encoding L.5.1 CPHY preamble |
| 3525 | L.5.2 CPHY header L.5.2.1 CPHY header and payload bits |
| 3526 | L.5.2.2 CPHY scrambled header and payload bits L.5.2.3 CPHY LDPC encoded header bits L.5.2.4 CPHY differentially encoded header symbols L.5.2.5 CPHY header samples |
| 3527 | L.5.3 CPHY payload L.5.3.1 CPHY payload bits L.5.3.2 CPHY scrambled payload bits L.5.3.3 CPHY LDPC encoded payload bits L.5.3.4 CPHY differentially encoded payload symbols |
| 3528 | L.5.3.5 CPHY payload samples L.6 DMG Example 2 – SC PHY encoding L.6.1 sC PHY Preamble L.6.2 SC PHY header |
| 3529 | L.6.2.1 SC PHY header bits |
| 3530 | L.6.2.2 SC PHY scrambled header bits L.6.2.3 SC PHY LDPC encoded header bits L.6.2.4 SC PHY LDPC data shortened bits L.6.2.5 SC PHY CS1/CS2 sequence bits |
| 3531 | L.6.2.6 SC PHY header samples L.6.3 SC PHY payload |
| 3533 | L.6.3.1 SC PHY MCS1 payload |
| 3534 | L.6.3.2 SC PHY MCS5 payload |
| 3535 | L.6.3.3 SC PHY MCS7 payload |
| 3536 | L.6.3.4 SC PHY MCS12 payload |
| 3537 | L.7 DMG Example 3 – OFDM PHY encoding L.7.1 OFDM PHY preamble |
| 3538 | L.7.2 OFDM PHY header coding L.7.2.1 OFDM PHY header bits L.7.2.2 OFDM PHY scrambled header bits |
| 3539 | L.7.2.3 OFDM PHY LDPC encoded header bits L.7.2.4 OFDM PHY LDPC data shortened bits L.7.2.5 OFDM PHY CS1/CS2/CS3 sequence bits |
| 3540 | L.7.3 OFDM PHY header modulation L.7.3.1 Constellation mapped data points L.7.3.2 IFFT input samples including data, pilot, DC and null carriers L.7.3.3 Header samples |
| 3541 | L.7.4 OFDM PHY payload coding |
| 3542 | L.7.5 OFDM PHY MCS14 payload modulation L.7.5.1 Payload bits L.7.5.2 Scrambled payload bits L.7.5.3 LDPC encoded payload bits |
| 3543 | L.7.5.4 SQPSK constellation mapped data points L.7.5.5 Payload samples |
| 3544 | L.7.6 OFDM PHY MCS17 payload modulation L.7.6.1 Payload bits L.7.6.2 Scrambled payload bits L.7.6.3 LDPC encoded payload bits |
| 3545 | L.7.6.4 QPSK constellation mapped data points L.7.6.5 Payload samples |
| 3546 | L.7.7 OFDM PHY MCS19 payload modulation L.7.7.1 Payload bits L.7.7.2 Scrambled payload bits L.7.7.3 LDPC encoded payload bits |
| 3547 | L.7.7.4 16QAM constellation mapped data points L.7.7.5 Payload samples |
| 3548 | L.7.8 OFDM PHY MCS23 payload modulation L.7.8.1 Payload bits L.7.8.2 Scrambled payload bits L.7.8.3 LDPC encoded bits |
| 3549 | L.7.8.4 64QAM constellation mapped data points L.7.8.5 Payload samples L.8 DMG Example 4 – LP SC PHY encoding L.8.1 LP SC PHY preamble |
| 3550 | L.8.2 LP SC PHY header |
| 3551 | L.8.2.1 Header bits L.8.2.2 Scrambled header bits L.8.2.3 RS(24,8) encoded header bits L.8.2.4 (16,8) block coded header bits |
| 3552 | L.8.2.5 Header bit interleaver output L.8.2.6 Header samples |
| 3553 | L.8.3 LP SC PHY MCS26 payload L.8.3.1 Payload bits |
| 3554 | L.8.3.2 Scrambled payload bits L.8.3.3 RS(224,208) encoded payload bits L.8.3.4 (12,8) block coded payload bits L.8.3.5 Interleaved payload bits L.8.3.6 Payload samples L.8.4 LP SC PHY MCS30 payload L.8.4.1 Payload bits |
| 3555 | L.8.4.2 Scrambled payload bits L.8.4.3 RS(224,208) encoded payload bits L.8.4.4 Spc(9,8) block coded payload bits L.8.4.5 Interleaved payload bits L.8.4.6 Payload samples |
| 3556 | Annex M M.1 TKIP temporal key mixing function reference implementation and test vector M.1.1 TKIP temporal key mixing function reference implementation |
| 3566 | M.1.2 Test vectors |
| 3568 | M.2 Michael reference implementation and test vectors M.2.1 Michael test vectors M.2.1.1 Introduction M.2.1.2 Block function M.2.1.3 Michael |
| 3569 | M.2.2 Sample code for michael |
| 3576 | M.3 PRF reference implementation and test vectors M.3.1 PRF reference code |
| 3577 | M.3.2 PRF test vectors M.4 Suggested pass-phrase-to-PSK mapping M.4.1 Introduction |
| 3578 | M.4.2 Reference implementation |
| 3580 | M.4.3 Test vectors M.5 Suggestions for random number generation M.5.1 General M.5.2 Software sampling |
| 3581 | M.5.3 Hardware-assisted solution |
| 3582 | M.6 Additional test vectors M.6.1 Notation |
| 3583 | M.6.2 WEP cryptographic encapsulation |
| 3584 | M.6.3 TKIP test vector M.6.4 CCMP-128 test vector |
| 3586 | M.6.5 PRF test vectors |
| 3587 | M.7 Key hierarchy test vectors for pairwise keys M.7.1 General |
| 3588 | M.7.2 CCMP-128 pairwise key derivation M.7.3 TKIP pairwise key derivation M.8 Test vectors for AES-128-CMAC |
| 3589 | M.9 Management frame protection test vectors M.9.1 BIP-CMAC-128 with broadcast Deauthentication frame |
| 3591 | M.9.2 CCMP-128 with unicast Deauthentication frame |
| 3592 | M.10 SAE test vector |
| 3593 | M.11 GCMP M.11.1 Test vector |
| 3595 | M.11.2 Example of encryption C code |
| 3609 | Annex N N.1 Example use of TSPEC for admission control |
| 3610 | N.2 Recommendation for implementation of contention based admission control N.2.1 Use of ACM (admission control mandatory) subfield N.2.2 Deriving medium time |
| 3613 | N.3 Guidelines and reference design for sample scheduler and admission control unit N.3.1 Guidelines for deriving service schedule parameters N.3.2 Reference design for sample scheduler and admission control unit N.3.2.1 Sample scheduler |
| 3615 | N.3.2.2 Admission control unit |
| 3616 | N.4 TSPEC construction N.4.1 Surplus Bandwidth Allocation |
| 3620 | N.4.2 Minimum and Maximum Service Interval N.4.2.1 Scheduled traffic N.4.2.2 Use of Maximum Service Interval with Aggregation of Packets |
| 3621 | N.4.3 Minimum, Mean and Peak Data Rate |
| 3623 | Annex O O.1 Introduction O.2 Examples |
| 3626 | O.3 Sample C code |
| 3632 | Annex P P.1 Introduction P.2 Ethernet V2.0/IEEE Std 802.3 LAN integration function P.3 Example |
| 3634 | P.4 Integration service versus bridging |
| 3635 | Annex Q Q.1 Introduction Q.2 Terminology |
| 3639 | Q.3 Primary ACM_STA functions Q.4 Primary AP functions |
| 3641 | Q.5 Primary DS functions Q.6 Primary portal function Q.7 AU example |
| 3642 | Annex R R.1 Introduction |
| 3643 | R.2 SAP primitives R.2.1 General R.2.2 MSDU transfer R.2.2.1 General R.2.2.2 DS-UNITDATA.request |
| 3645 | R.2.2.3 DS-UNITDATA.indication R.2.3 Mapping updates R.2.3.1 General R.2.3.2 DS-STA-NOTIFY.request |
| 3647 | Annex S S.1 VHT and HT Waveform generator tool S.2 A-MPDU deaggregation |
| 3649 | S.3 Example of an RD exchange sequence |
| 3650 | S.4 Illustration of determination of NDP addresses |
| 3651 | S.5 20/40 MHz BSS establishment and maintenance S.5.1 Signaling 20/40 MHz BSS capability and operation S.5.2 Establishing a 20/40 MHz BSS |
| 3652 | S.5.3 Monitoring channels for other BSS operation |
| 3654 | Annex T T.1 Location via Time Difference of arrival T.2 Time Difference of departure accuracy test |
| 3656 | T.3 Differential Distance Computation using Fine Timing Measurement frames |
| 3658 | Annex U U.1 Destination URI payload U.2 Use of HTTP (or HTTPS) for Destination URI of Event and Diagnostic Reports |
| 3660 | Annex V V.1 General V.2 Network discovery and selection V.2.1 General V.2.2 Airport |
| 3661 | V.2.3 Shopping |
| 3662 | V.2.4 Sales meeting V.2.5 Museum |
| 3663 | V.2.6 Emergency call |
| 3664 | V.2.7 Emergency alert V.3 QoS mapping guidelines for interworking with external networks V.3.1 General |
| 3665 | V.3.2 Determination of the mapping for a STA V.3.3 Example of QoS mapping from different networks |
| 3667 | V.4 Interworking and SSPN interface support V.4.1 General |
| 3668 | V.4.2 SSPN interface parameters |
| 3669 | V.4.2.1 Non-AP STA MAC V.4.2.2 Non-AP STA user ID V.4.2.3 Non-AP STA interworking capability V.4.2.4 Link layer encryption method |
| 3670 | V.4.2.5 Authorized priority V.4.2.6 Authorized maximum rate V.4.2.7 Authorized service access type V.4.2.8 Authorized delay |
| 3671 | V.4.2.9 Authorized service access information V.4.2.10 Non-AP STA transmission count V.4.2.11 Non-AP STA location information V.4.2.12 Non-AP STA State Information V.5 Interworking with external networks and emergency call support V.5.1 General |
| 3672 | V.5.2 Background on emergency call support over IEEE Std 802.11 infrastructure |
| 3673 | V.5.3 System aspects for emergency call support |
| 3674 | V.5.4 Description of the Expedited Bandwidth Request element |
| 3675 | V.5.5 Access to emergency services in an RSN V.6 Peer information |
| 3677 | Annex W W.1 Clarification of mesh Data frame format W.2 Operational considerations for interworking W.2.1 Formation and maintenance of the IEEE Std 802.1D spanning tree |
| 3678 | W.3 Power save parameters selection W.3.1 General W.3.2 Selecting the mesh power mode based on traffic load W.3.3 Scanning of mesh BSSs |
| 3679 | W.3.4 Default parameters W.3.5 MSDU forwarding in an MBSS containing mesh STAs in light or deep sleep mode W.3.6 Synchronization maintenance of mesh STAs in deep sleep mode |
| 3680 | W.4 SIV key wrapping test vector |
| 3681 | W.5 Airtime link metric usage example W.6 Generation of proactive PREP elements in the proactive PREQ mechanism of HWMP W.6.1 General |
| 3682 | W.6.2 Additions to forwarding information W.6.3 Actions when sending Data frames as source mesh STA W.6.4 Actions on receipt of a proactive PREQ element W.6.5 Generation of proactive PREP elements |
| 3683 | W.7 Generation of PREQ elements in proactive RANN mechanism of HWMP W.7.1 General W.7.2 Additions to forwarding information W.7.3 Actions when sending Data frames as source mesh STA W.7.4 Actions on receipt of proactive RANN element |
| 3684 | W.7.5 Actions on receipt of a PREP element |
| 3685 | Annex X X.1 Introduction X.2 QLoad Report element X.2.1 General |
| 3686 | X.2.2 Calculating medium time X.2.3 Calculation of potential traffic self |
| 3688 | X.2.4 Calculation of allocated traffic self |
| 3689 | X.2.5 Calculation of allocated traffic shared X.2.6 Calculation of EDCA Access Factor |
| 3690 | X.2.7 EDCA Overhead Factor X.2.8 Calculation of HCCA Access Factor |
| 3691 | X.3 Channel selection using QLoad report X.3.1 General X.3.2 AP with admission control mandatory |
| 3692 | X.3.3 AP with an HC X.3.4 Channel selection procedures |
| 3693 | X.4 Sharing in an OBSS situation X.4.1 General |
| 3694 | X.4.2 Sharing schemes X.4.2.1 General X.4.2.2 Proportional sharing scheme |
| 3695 | X.4.2.3 On-demand sharing scheme |
| 3696 | X.5 Mitigating consequences of OBSS sharing in presence of noncollaborating devices |
| 3698 | Annex Y |
| 3700 | Annex Z |
