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Amendment Standard – Superseded. Amendment to IEEE Std 802.11(TM)-2012. This amendment specifies enhancements to the IEEE 802.11 medium access control (MAC) for robust audio video (AV) streaming, while maintaining coexistence with other types of traffic.<\/p>\n
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1<\/td>\n | IEEE Std 802.11aa-2012 Front Cover <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
3<\/td>\n | Title page \n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
6<\/td>\n | Notice to users Laws and regulations Copyrights Updating of IEEE documents Errata Patents <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
7<\/td>\n | Participants <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
11<\/td>\n | Introduction <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
12<\/td>\n | Contents <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
15<\/td>\n | Tables <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
16<\/td>\n | Figures <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
17<\/td>\n | Important notice \n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
18<\/td>\n | 1. Overview 1.3 Supplementary information on purpose 2. Normative references 3. Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations 3.1 Definitions 3.2 Definitions specific to IEEE 802.11 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
19<\/td>\n | 3.3 Abbreviations and acronyms <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
20<\/td>\n | 4. General description 4.3 Components of the IEEE 802.11 architecture 4.3.15 Mesh BSS: IEEE 802.11 wireless mesh network 4.3.15.3 Mesh STA 4.3.16 Robust audio video (AV) streaming 4.3.16.1 Groupcast with retries (GCR) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
21<\/td>\n | 4.3.16.2 Stream classification service (SCS) 4.3.16.3 Overlapping BSS (OBSS) management 4.3.16.4 Interworking with IEEE 802.1Q Stream Reservation Protocol (SRP) 4.3.16.5 Intra-access category prioritization <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
22<\/td>\n | 5. MAC service definition 5.1 Overview of MAC services 5.1.1 Data service 5.1.1.2 Determination of UP 5.1.1.5 Interpretation of service class parameter in MAC service primitives in a STA <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
23<\/td>\n | 6. Layer management 6.3 MLME SAP interface 6.3.3 Scan 6.3.3.3 MLME-SCAN.confirm 6.3.26 TS management interface 6.3.26.1 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
24<\/td>\n | 6.3.26.2 MLME-ADDTS.request 6.3.26.3 MLME-ADDTS.confirm <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
25<\/td>\n | 6.3.26.4 MLME-ADDTS.indication 6.3.26.5 MLME-ADDTS.response <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
26<\/td>\n | 6.3.26.8 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.request <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
27<\/td>\n | 6.3.26.9 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.confirm 6.3.26.10 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.indication <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
28<\/td>\n | 6.3.26.11 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.response <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
29<\/td>\n | 6.3.29 Block Ack 6.3.29.2 MLME-ADDBA.request <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
30<\/td>\n | 6.3.29.3 MLME-ADDBA.confirm 6.3.29.4 MLME-ADDBA.indication <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
31<\/td>\n | 6.3.29.5 MLME-ADDBA.response <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
32<\/td>\n | 6.3.67 DMS or GCR request and response procedure 6.3.67.1 General 6.3.67.2 MLME-DMSGATS.request <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
33<\/td>\n | 6.3.67.3 MLME-DMSGATS.confirm <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
34<\/td>\n | 6.3.67.4 MLME-DMSGATS.indication 6.3.67.5 MLME-DMSGATS.response <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
35<\/td>\n | 6.3.67.6 MLME-DMSGATS-TERM.request <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
36<\/td>\n | 6.3.67.7 MLME-DMSGATS-TERM.indication <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
37<\/td>\n | 6.3.72 QoS Map Set element management 6.3.72.2 MLME-QoSMap.request 6.3.72.3 MLME-QoSMap.indication <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
38<\/td>\n | 6.3.84 SCS request and response procedure 6.3.84.1 General 6.3.84.2 MLME-SCS.request <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
39<\/td>\n | 6.3.84.3 MLME-SCS.confirm <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
40<\/td>\n | 6.3.84.4 MLME-SCS.indication <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
41<\/td>\n | 6.3.84.5 MLME-SCS.response 6.3.84.6 MLME-SCS-TERM.request <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
42<\/td>\n | 6.3.84.7 MLME-SCS-TERM.indication <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
43<\/td>\n | 6.3.85 QLoad report management 6.3.85.1 General 6.3.85.2 MLME-QLOAD.request <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
44<\/td>\n | 6.3.85.3 MLME-QLOAD.confirm <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
45<\/td>\n | 6.3.85.4 MLME-QLOAD.indication <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
46<\/td>\n | 6.3.85.5 MLME-QLOAD.response <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
47<\/td>\n | 6.3.86 HCCA TXOP advertisement management 6.3.86.1 General 6.3.86.2 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.request <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
48<\/td>\n | 6.3.86.3 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.confirm <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
49<\/td>\n | 6.3.86.4 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.indication <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
50<\/td>\n | 6.3.86.5 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.response <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
51<\/td>\n | 6.3.87 Group membership management 6.3.87.1 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
52<\/td>\n | 6.3.87.2 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.request 6.3.87.3 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.confirm <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
53<\/td>\n | 6.3.87.4 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.indication <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
54<\/td>\n | 6.3.87.5 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.response <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
55<\/td>\n | 6.3.88 AP PeerKey management 6.3.88.1 General 6.3.88.2 MLME-APPEERKEY.request <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
56<\/td>\n | 6.3.88.3 MLME-APPEERKEY.indication <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
57<\/td>\n | 8. Frame formats 8.2 MAC frame formats 8.2.4 Frame fields 8.2.4.1 Frame Control field 8.2.4.4 Sequence Control field 8.2.4.5 QoS Control field 8.2.4.6 HT Control field <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
58<\/td>\n | 8.3 Format of individual frame types 8.3.1 Control frames 8.3.1.8 BlockAckReq frame format <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
60<\/td>\n | 8.3.1.9 Block Ack frame format <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
61<\/td>\n | 8.3.2 Data frames 8.3.2.1 Data frame format <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
62<\/td>\n | 8.3.3 Management frames 8.3.3.2 Beacon frame format 8.3.3.10 Probe Response frame format 8.4 Management frame body components 8.4.1 Fields that are not information elements 8.4.1.9 Status Code field <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
63<\/td>\n | 8.4.1.11 Action field 8.4.1.43 TXOP Reservation field <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
64<\/td>\n | 8.4.2 Information elements 8.4.2.1 General 8.4.2.27 RSNE <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
65<\/td>\n | 8.4.2.29 Extended Capabilities element 8.4.2.32 TSPEC element <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
66<\/td>\n | 8.4.2.36 Schedule element <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
67<\/td>\n | 8.4.2.90 DMS Request element <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
69<\/td>\n | 8.4.2.91 DMS Response element <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
71<\/td>\n | 8.4.2.123 Intra-Access Category Priority element <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
72<\/td>\n | 8.4.2.124 SCS Descriptor element <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
74<\/td>\n | 8.4.2.125 QLoad Report element <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
76<\/td>\n | 8.4.2.126 HCCA TXOP Update Count element 8.4.2.127 Higher Layer Stream ID element <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
77<\/td>\n | 8.4.2.128 GCR Group Address element <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
78<\/td>\n | 8.5 Action frame format details 8.5.3 QoS Action frame details 8.5.3.1 General 8.5.3.2 ADDTS Request frame format <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
79<\/td>\n | 8.5.3.3 ADDTS Response frame format 8.5.3.6 QoS Map Configure frame format <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
80<\/td>\n | 8.5.3.7 ADDTS Reserve Request frame format 8.5.3.8 ADDTS Reserve Response frame format <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
81<\/td>\n | 8.5.5 Block Ack Action frame details 8.5.5.1 General 8.5.5.2 ADDBA Request frame format 8.5.5.3 ADDBA Response frame format <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
82<\/td>\n | 8.5.5.4 DELBA frame format 8.5.8 Public Action details 8.5.8.1 Public Action frames 8.5.8.20 QLoad Request frame format <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
83<\/td>\n | 8.5.8.21 QLoad Report frame format <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
84<\/td>\n | 8.5.8.22 HCCA TXOP Advertisement frame 8.5.8.23 HCCA TXOP Response frame <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
85<\/td>\n | 8.5.8.24 Public Key frame <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
86<\/td>\n | 8.5.11 Protected Dual of Public Action frames 8.5.14 WNM Action details 8.5.14.26 DMS Response frame format <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
87<\/td>\n | 8.5.16 Self-protected Action frame details 8.5.16.2 Mesh Peering Open frame format 8.5.16.3 Mesh Peering Confirm frame format <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
88<\/td>\n | 8.5.16.4 Mesh Peering Close frame format 8.5.19 Robust AV Streaming Action frame details 8.5.19.1 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
89<\/td>\n | 8.5.19.2 SCS Request frame format 8.5.19.3 SCS Response frame format <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
90<\/td>\n | 8.5.19.4 Group Membership Request frame format 8.5.19.5 Group Membership Response frame format <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
91<\/td>\n | 9. MAC sublayer functional description 9.2 MAC architecture 9.2.4 Hybrid coordination function (HCF) 9.2.4.2 HCF contention-based channel access (EDCA) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
92<\/td>\n | 9.3 DCF 9.3.2 Procedures common to the DCF and EDCAF 9.3.2.3 IFS 9.3.2.8 ACK procedure 9.3.2.10 Duplicate detection and recovery <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
93<\/td>\n | 9.3.6 Group addressed MPDU transfer procedure <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
94<\/td>\n | 9.4 PCF 9.4.3 PCF access procedure 9.4.3.2 Fundamental access 9.4.4 PCF transfer procedure 9.4.4.2 PCF transfers when the PC STA is transmitter or recipient <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
95<\/td>\n | 9.7 Multirate support 9.7.5 Rate selection for data and management frames 9.7.5.3 Rate selection for other group addressed data and management frames 9.9 HT Control field operation 9.11 A-MSDU operation 9.19 HCF 9.19.2 HCF contention-based channel access (EDCA) 9.19.2.1 Reference implementation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
96<\/td>\n | 9.19.2.5 EDCA backoff procedure <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
97<\/td>\n | 9.19.2.6 Retransmit procedures <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
99<\/td>\n | 9.19.3 HCCA 9.19.3.1 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
100<\/td>\n | 9.21 Block Acknowledgment (Block Ack) 9.21.2 Setup and modification of the Block Ack parameters 9.21.3 Data and acknowledgment transfer using immediate Block Ack policy and delayed Block Ack policy <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
101<\/td>\n | 9.21.5 Teardown of the Block Ack mechanism 9.21.6 Selection of BlockAck and BlockAckReq variants 9.21.10 GCR Block Ack 9.21.10.1 Introduction 9.21.10.2 Scoreboard context control during GCR Block Ack <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
102<\/td>\n | 9.21.10.3 GCR Block Ack BlockAckReq and BlockAck frame exchanges <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
104<\/td>\n | 9.26 PSMP Operation 9.26.1 Frame transmission mechanism during PSMP 9.26.1.1 PSMP frame transmission (PSMP-DTT and PSMP-UTT) 10. MLME 10.2 Power management 10.2.1 Power management in an infrastructure network 10.2.1.1 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
105<\/td>\n | 10.2.1.2 STA Power Management modes 10.2.1.3 AP TIM transmissions 10.2.1.4 TIM types <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
106<\/td>\n | 10.2.1.5 Power management with APSD <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
107<\/td>\n | 10.2.1.6 AP operation during the CP <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
108<\/td>\n | 10.2.1.7 AP operation during the CFP <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
109<\/td>\n | 10.4 TS operation 10.4.1 Introduction 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 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
111<\/td>\n | 10.4.4.4 TS setup procedures for both AP and non-AP STA initiation 10.4.8 Data transfer 10.5 Block Ack operation 10.5.2 Setup and modification of the Block Ack parameters 10.5.2.2 Procedure at the originator <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
112<\/td>\n | 10.5.2.4 Procedure common to both originator and recipient 10.5.4 Error recovery upon a peer failure 10.18 RSNA A-MSDU procedures 10.23 Wireless network management procedures 10.23.15 Group addressed transmission service DMS procedures 10.23.15.1 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
113<\/td>\n | 10.23.15.2 DMS procedures 10.23.15.3 GCR procedures <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
123<\/td>\n | 10.25 Quality-of-service management frame (QMF) 10.25.2 QMF policy advertisement and configuration procedures 10.25.2.2 QMF policy change in an infrastructure BSS or in an MBSS <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
124<\/td>\n | 10.26 Robust AV streaming 10.26.1 Robust AV streaming dependencies 10.26.2 SCS procedures <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
125<\/td>\n | 10.27 Procedures to manage OBSS 10.27.1 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
126<\/td>\n | 10.27.2 QLoad Report element 10.27.2.1 Introduction 10.27.2.2 Calculating field values <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
128<\/td>\n | 10.27.2.3 Requesting QLoad Reports using radio measurement requests 10.27.3 HCCA TXOP negotiation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
132<\/td>\n | 10.27.4 HCCA AP timing synchronization for HCCA TXOP advertisement 10.27.4.1 General 10.27.4.2 Timing offset <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
133<\/td>\n | 10.27.4.3 Clock drift adjustment 11. Security 11.8 Per-frame pseudo-code 11.8.2 RSNA frame pseudo-code 11.8.2.8 Per-MSDU\/Per-A-MSDU Rx pseudo-code <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
134<\/td>\n | 11.10 AP PeerKey support 11.10.1 AP PeerKey overview <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
135<\/td>\n | 11.10.2 AP PeerKey protocol <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
137<\/td>\n | Annex B (normative) Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) proforma B.2 Abbreviations and special symbols B.2.2 General abbreviations for Item and Support columns B.4 PICS proforma\u2014IEEE Std 802.11-2012 B.4.3 IUT configuration B.4.25 RobustAVT extensions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
139<\/td>\n | Annex C (normative) ASN.1 encoding of the MAC and PHY MIB <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
151<\/td>\n | Annex X (informative) Overlapping BSS (OBSS) management X.1 Introduction X.2 QLoad Report element X.2.1 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
152<\/td>\n | X.2.2 Calculating medium time X.2.3 Calculation of potential traffic self <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
154<\/td>\n | X.2.4 Calculation of allocated traffic self <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
155<\/td>\n | X.2.5 Calculation of allocated traffic shared X.2.6 Calculation of EDCA Access Factor <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
156<\/td>\n | X.2.7 EDCA Overhead Factor <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
157<\/td>\n | X.2.8 Calculation of HCCA Access Factor X.3 Channel selection using QLoad report X.3.1 General X.3.2 AP with admission control mandatory <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
158<\/td>\n | X.3.3 AP with an HC X.3.4 Channel selection procedures <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
159<\/td>\n | X.4 Sharing in an OBSS situation X.4.1 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
160<\/td>\n | X.4.2 Sharing schemes X.4.2.1 General X.4.2.2 Proportional sharing scheme <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
161<\/td>\n | X.4.2.3 On-demand sharing scheme <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
162<\/td>\n | X.5 Mitigating consequences of OBSS sharing in presence of noncollaborating devices <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IEEE Standard for Information technology–Telecommunications and information exchange between systems Local and metropolitan area networks–Specific requirements Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications Amendment 2: MAC Enhancements for Robust Audio Video Streaming<\/b><\/p>\n |