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نویسندگان: 802.11 Working Group of the LAN/MAN Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society
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ISBN (شابک) : 9781504436465, 9781504436458
ناشر: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
سال نشر: 2016
تعداد صفحات: 3534
زبان: English
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IEEE 802.11 Front cover Title page Important Notices and Disclaimers Concerning IEEE Standards Documents Participants Introduction Incorporating published amendments Technical corrections, clarifications, and enhancements Renumbering of clauses and annexes Contents Tables Figures 1. Overview 1.1 Scope 1.2 Purpose 1.3 Supplementary information on purpose 1.4 Word usage 1.5 Terminology for mathematical, logical, and bit operations 2. Normative references 3. Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations 3.1 Definitions 3.2 Definitions specific to IEEE Std 802.11 3.3 Definitions specific to IEEE 802.11 operation in some regulatory domains 3.4 Abbreviations and acronyms 3.5 Abbreviations and acronyms in some regulatory domains 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 4.2.4 The impact of handling mobile STAs 4.2.5 Interaction with other IEEE 802® layers 4.2.6 Interaction with non-IEEE-802 protocols 4.3 Components of the IEEE 802.11 architecture 4.3.1 General 4.3.2 The independent BSS (IBSS) 4.3.3 The personal BSS (PBSS) 4.3.4 STA membership in a BSS is dynamic 4.3.5 Distribution system (DS) concepts 4.3.5.1 Overview 4.3.5.2 Extended service set (ESS): the large coverage network 4.3.6 Area concepts 4.3.7 Integration with non-IEEE-802.11 LANs 4.3.8 Robust security network association (RSNA) 4.3.9 Centralized coordination service set (CCSS) and extended centralized AP or PCP clustering (ECAPC) 4.3.10 QoS BSS 4.3.11 Wireless LAN radio measurements 4.3.11.1 General 4.3.11.2 Beacon 4.3.11.3 Measurement pilot 4.3.11.4 Frame 4.3.11.5 Channel load 4.3.11.6 Noise histogram 4.3.11.7 STA statistics 4.3.11.8 Location 4.3.11.9 Measurement pause 4.3.11.10 Neighbor report 4.3.11.11 Link measurement 4.3.11.12 Transmit stream/category measurement 4.3.12 Operation in licensed frequency bands 4.3.12.1 General 4.3.12.2 Dynamic STA enablement (DSE) in licensed bands 4.3.12.3 Contention based protocol (CBP) in nonexclusively licensed bands 4.3.12.4 Using DSE STA identification to resolve interference 4.3.12.5 Further coexistence enhancements in nonexclusively licensed bands 4.3.13 High-throughput (HT) STA 4.3.14 Very high throughput (VHT) STA 4.3.15 Television very high throughput (TVHT) STA 4.3.16 STA transmission of Data frames outside the context of a BSS 4.3.17 Tunneled direct-link setup 4.3.18 Wireless network management 4.3.18.1 Overview 4.3.18.2 BSS max idle period management 4.3.18.3 BSS transition management 4.3.18.4 Channel usage 4.3.18.5 Collocated interference reporting 4.3.18.6 Diagnostic reporting 4.3.18.7 Directed multicast service (DMS) 4.3.18.8 Event reporting 4.3.18.9 Flexible multicast service (FMS) 4.3.18.10 Location services 4.3.18.11 Multicast Diagnostic report 4.3.18.12 Multiple BSSID capability 4.3.18.13 Proxy ARP 4.3.18.14 QoS traffic capability 4.3.18.15 SSID list 4.3.18.16 Triggered STA statistics 4.3.18.17 TIM broadcast 4.3.18.18 Timing measurement 4.3.18.19 Fine timing measurement 4.3.18.20 Traffic filtering service 4.3.18.21 U-APSD coexistence 4.3.18.22 WNM notification 4.3.18.23 WNM sleep mode 4.3.19 Subscription service provider network (SSPN) interface 4.3.20 Mesh BSS 4.3.20.1 General 4.3.20.2 Overview of the mesh BSS 4.3.20.3 Mesh STA 4.3.20.4 IEEE 802.11 components and mesh BSS 4.3.20.5 Introduction to mesh functions 4.3.20.5.1 General 4.3.20.5.2 Mesh discovery 4.3.20.5.3 Mesh peering management (MPM) 4.3.20.5.4 Mesh security 4.3.20.5.5 Mesh beaconing and synchronization 4.3.20.5.6 Mesh coordination function (MCF) 4.3.20.5.7 Mesh power management 4.3.20.5.8 Mesh channel switching 4.3.20.5.9 Frame addressing in an MBSS 4.3.20.5.10 Mesh path selection and forwarding 4.3.20.5.11 Interworking with the DS 4.3.20.5.12 Intra-mesh congestion control 4.3.20.5.13 Emergency service support in mesh BSS 4.3.21 DMG STA 4.3.22 DMG relay 4.3.23 Robust audio video (AV) streaming 4.3.23.1 Groupcast with retries (GCR) 4.3.23.2 Stream classification service (SCS) 4.3.23.3 Overlapping BSS (OBSS) management 4.3.23.4 Interworking with IEEE 802.1Q™ Stream Reservation Protocol (SRP) 4.3.23.5 Intra-access category prioritization 4.3.24 Operation under geolocation database (GDB) control 4.4 Logical service interfaces 4.4.1 General 4.4.2 SS 4.4.3 PBSS control point service (PCPS) 4.4.4 DSS 4.5 Overview of the services 4.5.1 General 4.5.2 Distribution of MSDUs within a DS 4.5.2.1 Distribution 4.5.2.2 Integration 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 4.5.3.3 Association 4.5.3.4 Reassociation 4.5.3.5 Disassociation 4.5.4 Access control and data confidentiality services 4.5.4.1 General 4.5.4.2 Authentication 4.5.4.3 Deauthentication 4.5.4.4 Data confidentiality 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 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 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 4.5.10 Generic advertisement service (GAS) 4.6 Multiple logical address spaces 4.7 Differences among ESS, PBSS, and IBSS LANs 4.8 Differences between ESS and MBSS LANs 4.9 Reference model 4.9.1 General 4.9.2 Interworking reference model 4.9.3 Reference model for supporting multiple MAC sublayers 4.9.4 Reference model for multi-band operation 4.10 IEEE Std 802.11 and IEEE Std 802.1X-2010 4.10.1 General 4.10.2 IEEE 802.11 usage of IEEE Std 802.1X-2010 4.10.3 Infrastructure functional model overview 4.10.3.1 General 4.10.3.2 AKM operations with AS 4.10.3.3 AKM operations with a password or PSK 4.10.3.4 Alternate operations with PSK 4.10.3.5 Disassociation 4.10.4 IBSS functional model description 4.10.4.1 General 4.10.4.2 Key usage 4.10.4.3 Sample IBSS 4-way handshakes 4.10.4.4 IBSS IEEE 802.1X example 4.10.5 PBSS functional model description 4.10.6 Authenticator-to-AS protocol 4.10.7 PMKSA caching 4.10.8 Protection of group addressed robust Management frames 5. MAC service definition 5.1 Overview of MAC services 5.1.1 Data service 5.1.1.1 General 5.1.1.2 Determination of UP 5.1.1.3 Interpretation of priority parameter in MAC service primitives 5.1.1.4 Interpretation of service class parameter in MAC service primitives in a STA 5.1.2 Security services 5.1.3 MSDU ordering 5.1.4 MSDU format 5.1.5 MAC data service architecture 5.1.5.1 General 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 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 5.2.2.3 When generated 5.2.2.4 Effect of receipt 5.2.3 MA-UNITDATA.indication 5.2.3.1 Function 5.2.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 5.2.3.3 When generated 5.2.3.4 Effect of receipt 5.2.4 MA-UNITDATA-STATUS.indication 5.2.4.1 Function 5.2.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 5.2.4.3 When generated 5.2.4.4 Effect of receipt 6. Layer management 6.1 Overview of management model 6.2 Generic management primitives 6.3 MLME SAP interface 6.3.1 Introduction 6.3.2 Power management 6.3.2.1 Introduction 6.3.2.2 MLME-POWERMGT.request 6.3.2.2.1 Function 6.3.2.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.2.2.3 When generated 6.3.2.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.2.3 MLME-POWERMGT.confirm 6.3.2.3.1 Function 6.3.2.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.2.3.3 When generated 6.3.2.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.3 Scan 6.3.3.1 Introduction 6.3.3.2 MLME-SCAN.request 6.3.3.2.1 Function 6.3.3.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.3.2.3 When generated 6.3.3.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.3.3 MLME-SCAN.confirm 6.3.3.3.1 Function 6.3.3.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.3.3.3 When generated 6.3.3.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.4 Synchronization 6.3.4.1 Introduction 6.3.4.2 MLME-JOIN.request 6.3.4.2.1 Function 6.3.4.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.4.2.3 When generated 6.3.4.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.4.3 MLME-JOIN.confirm 6.3.4.3.1 Function 6.3.4.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.4.3.3 When generated 6.3.4.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.5 Authenticate 6.3.5.1 Introduction 6.3.5.2 MLME-AUTHENTICATE.request 6.3.5.2.1 Function 6.3.5.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.5.2.3 When generated 6.3.5.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.5.3 MLME-AUTHENTICATE.confirm 6.3.5.3.1 Function 6.3.5.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.5.3.3 When generated 6.3.5.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.5.4 MLME-AUTHENTICATE.indication 6.3.5.4.1 Function 6.3.5.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.5.4.3 When generated 6.3.5.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.5.5 MLME-AUTHENTICATE.response 6.3.5.5.1 Function 6.3.5.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.5.5.3 When generated 6.3.5.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.6 Deauthenticate 6.3.6.1 Introduction 6.3.6.2 MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.request 6.3.6.2.1 Function 6.3.6.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.6.2.3 When generated 6.3.6.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.6.3 MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.confirm 6.3.6.3.1 Function 6.3.6.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.6.3.3 When generated 6.3.6.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.6.4 MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.indication 6.3.6.4.1 Function 6.3.6.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.6.4.3 When generated 6.3.6.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.7 Associate 6.3.7.1 Introduction 6.3.7.2 MLME-ASSOCIATE.request 6.3.7.2.1 Function 6.3.7.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.7.2.3 When generated 6.3.7.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.7.3 MLME-ASSOCIATE.confirm 6.3.7.3.1 Function 6.3.7.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.7.3.3 When generated 6.3.7.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.7.4 MLME-ASSOCIATE.indication 6.3.7.4.1 Function 6.3.7.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.7.4.3 When generated 6.3.7.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.7.5 MLME-ASSOCIATE.response 6.3.7.5.1 Function 6.3.7.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.7.5.3 When generated 6.3.7.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.8 Reassociate 6.3.8.1 Introduction 6.3.8.2 MLME-REASSOCIATE.request 6.3.8.2.1 Function 6.3.8.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.8.2.3 When generated 6.3.8.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.8.3 MLME-REASSOCIATE.confirm 6.3.8.3.1 Function 6.3.8.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.8.3.3 When generated 6.3.8.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.8.4 MLME-REASSOCIATE.indication 6.3.8.4.1 Function 6.3.8.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.8.4.3 When generated 6.3.8.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.8.5 MLME-REASSOCIATE.response 6.3.8.5.1 Function 6.3.8.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.8.5.3 When generated 6.3.8.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.9 Disassociate 6.3.9.1 MLME-DISASSOCIATE.request 6.3.9.1.1 Function 6.3.9.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.9.1.3 When generated 6.3.9.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.9.2 MLME-DISASSOCIATE.confirm 6.3.9.2.1 Function 6.3.9.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.9.2.3 When generated 6.3.9.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.9.3 MLME-DISASSOCIATE.indication 6.3.9.3.1 Function 6.3.9.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.9.3.3 When generated 6.3.9.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.10 Reset 6.3.10.1 Introduction 6.3.10.2 MLME-RESET.request 6.3.10.2.1 Function 6.3.10.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.10.2.3 When generated 6.3.10.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.11 Start 6.3.11.1 Introduction 6.3.11.2 MLME-START.request 6.3.11.2.1 Function 6.3.11.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.11.2.3 When generated 6.3.11.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.11.3 MLME-START.confirm 6.3.11.3.1 Function 6.3.11.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.11.3.3 When generated 6.3.11.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.12 Stop 6.3.12.1 General 6.3.12.2 MLME-STOP.request 6.3.12.2.1 Function 6.3.12.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.12.2.3 When generated 6.3.12.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.13 Protocol layer model for spectrum management and radio measurement 6.3.14 Measurement request 6.3.14.1 Introduction 6.3.14.2 MLME-MREQUEST.request 6.3.14.2.1 Function 6.3.14.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.14.2.3 When generated 6.3.14.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.14.3 MLME-MREQUEST.indication 6.3.14.3.1 Function 6.3.14.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.14.3.3 When generated 6.3.14.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.15 Channel measurement 6.3.15.1 Introduction 6.3.15.2 MLME-MEASURE.request 6.3.15.2.1 Function 6.3.15.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.15.2.3 When generated 6.3.15.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.15.3 MLME-MEASURE.confirm 6.3.15.3.1 Function 6.3.15.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.15.3.3 When generated 6.3.15.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.16 Measurement report 6.3.16.1 Introduction 6.3.16.2 MLME-MREPORT.request 6.3.16.2.1 Function 6.3.16.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.16.2.3 When generated 6.3.16.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.16.3 MLME-MREPORT.indication 6.3.16.3.1 Function 6.3.16.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.16.3.3 When generated 6.3.16.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.17 Channel switch 6.3.17.1 MLME-CHANNELSWITCH.request 6.3.17.1.1 Function 6.3.17.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.17.1.3 When generated 6.3.17.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.17.2 MLME-CHANNELSWITCH.confirm 6.3.17.2.1 Function 6.3.17.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.17.2.3 When generated 6.3.17.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.17.3 MLME-CHANNELSWITCH.indication 6.3.17.3.1 Function 6.3.17.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.17.3.3 When generated 6.3.17.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.17.4 MLME-CHANNELSWITCH.response 6.3.17.4.1 Function 6.3.17.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.17.4.3 When generated 6.3.17.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.18 TPC request 6.3.18.1 Introduction 6.3.18.2 MLME-TPCADAPT.request 6.3.18.2.1 Function 6.3.18.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.18.2.3 When generated 6.3.18.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.18.3 MLME-TPCADAPT.confirm 6.3.18.3.1 Function 6.3.18.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.18.3.3 When generated 6.3.18.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.19 SetKeys 6.3.19.1 MLME-SETKEYS.request 6.3.19.1.1 Function 6.3.19.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.19.1.3 When generated 6.3.19.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.20 DeleteKeys 6.3.20.1 MLME-DELETEKEYS.request 6.3.20.1.1 Function 6.3.20.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.20.1.3 When generated 6.3.20.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.21 MIC (michael) failure event 6.3.21.1 MLME-MICHAELMICFAILURE.indication 6.3.21.1.1 Function 6.3.21.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.21.1.3 When generated 6.3.21.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.22 EAPOL 6.3.22.1 MLME-EAPOL.request 6.3.22.1.1 Function 6.3.22.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.22.1.3 When generated 6.3.22.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.22.2 MLME-EAPOL.confirm 6.3.22.2.1 Function 6.3.22.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.22.2.3 When generated 6.3.22.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.23 MLME-PEERKEY-START 6.3.23.1 MLME-PEERKEY-START.request 6.3.23.1.1 Function 6.3.23.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.23.1.3 When generated 6.3.23.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.24 SetProtection 6.3.24.1 MLME-SETPROTECTION.request 6.3.24.1.1 Function 6.3.24.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.24.1.3 When generated 6.3.24.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.25 MLME-PROTECTEDFRAMEDROPPED 6.3.25.1 MLME- PROTECTEDFRAMEDROPPED.indication 6.3.25.1.1 Function 6.3.25.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.25.1.3 When generated 6.3.25.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.26 TS management interface 6.3.26.1 General 6.3.26.2 MLME-ADDTS.request 6.3.26.2.1 Function 6.3.26.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.26.2.3 When generated 6.3.26.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.26.3 MLME-ADDTS.confirm 6.3.26.3.1 Function 6.3.26.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.26.3.3 When generated 6.3.26.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.26.4 MLME-ADDTS.indication 6.3.26.4.1 Function 6.3.26.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.26.4.3 When generated 6.3.26.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.26.5 MLME-ADDTS.response 6.3.26.5.1 Function 6.3.26.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.26.5.3 When generated 6.3.26.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.26.6 MLME-DELTS.request 6.3.26.6.1 Function 6.3.26.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.26.6.3 When generated 6.3.26.6.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.26.7 MLME-DELTS.indication 6.3.26.7.1 Function 6.3.26.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.26.7.3 When generated 6.3.26.7.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.26.8 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.request 6.3.26.8.1 Function 6.3.26.8.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.26.8.3 When generated 6.3.26.8.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.26.9 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.confirm 6.3.26.9.1 Function 6.3.26.9.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.26.9.3 When generated 6.3.26.9.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.26.10 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.indication 6.3.26.10.1 Function 6.3.26.10.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.26.10.3 When generated 6.3.26.10.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.26.11 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.response 6.3.26.11.1 Function 6.3.26.11.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.26.11.3 When generated 6.3.26.11.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.27 Management of direct links 6.3.27.1 Introduction 6.3.27.2 MLME-DLS.request 6.3.27.2.1 Function 6.3.27.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.27.2.3 When generated 6.3.27.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.27.3 MLME-DLS.confirm 6.3.27.3.1 Function 6.3.27.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.27.3.3 When generated 6.3.27.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.27.4 MLME-DLS.indication 6.3.27.4.1 Function 6.3.27.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.27.4.3 When generated 6.3.27.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.27.5 MLME-DLS.response 6.3.27.5.1 Function 6.3.27.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.27.5.3 When generated 6.3.27.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.27.6 MLME-DLS-TEARDOWN.request 6.3.27.6.1 Function 6.3.27.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.27.6.3 When generated 6.3.27.6.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.27.7 MLME-DLS-TEARDOWN.indication 6.3.27.7.1 Function 6.3.27.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.27.7.3 When generated 6.3.27.7.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.28 Higher layer synchronization support 6.3.28.1 Introduction 6.3.28.2 MLME-HL-SYNC.request 6.3.28.2.1 Function 6.3.28.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.28.2.3 When generated 6.3.28.2.4 Effect of Receipt 6.3.28.3 MLME-HL-SYNC.indication 6.3.28.3.1 Function 6.3.28.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.28.3.3 When generated 6.3.28.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.29 Block Ack 6.3.29.1 General 6.3.29.2 MLME-ADDBA.request 6.3.29.2.1 Function 6.3.29.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.29.2.3 When generated 6.3.29.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.29.3 MLME-ADDBA.confirm 6.3.29.3.1 Function 6.3.29.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.29.3.3 When generated 6.3.29.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.29.4 MLME-ADDBA.indication 6.3.29.4.1 Function 6.3.29.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.29.4.3 When generated 6.3.29.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.29.5 MLME-ADDBA.response 6.3.29.5.1 Function 6.3.29.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.29.5.3 When generated 6.3.29.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.29.6 MLME-DELBA.request 6.3.29.6.1 Function 6.3.29.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.29.6.3 When generated 6.3.29.6.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.29.7 MLME-DELBA.indication 6.3.29.7.1 Function 6.3.29.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.29.7.3 When generated 6.3.29.7.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.30 Schedule element management 6.3.30.1 Introduction 6.3.30.2 MLME-SCHEDULE.request 6.3.30.2.1 Function 6.3.30.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.30.2.3 When generated 6.3.30.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.30.3 MLME-SCHEDULE.indication 6.3.30.3.1 Function 6.3.30.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.30.3.3 When generated 6.3.30.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.31 Vendor-specific action 6.3.31.1 Introduction 6.3.31.2 MLME-VSPECIFIC.request 6.3.31.2.1 Function 6.3.31.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.31.2.3 When generated 6.3.31.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.31.3 MLME-VSPECIFIC.indication 6.3.31.3.1 Function 6.3.31.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.31.3.3 When generated 6.3.31.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.32 Neighbor report request 6.3.32.1 General 6.3.32.2 MLME-NEIGHBORREPREQ.request 6.3.32.2.1 Function 6.3.32.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.32.2.3 When generated 6.3.32.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.32.3 MLME-NEIGHBORREPREQ.indication 6.3.32.3.1 Function 6.3.32.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.32.3.3 When generated 6.3.32.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.33 Neighbor report response 6.3.33.1 General 6.3.33.2 MLME-NEIGHBORREPRESP.request 6.3.33.2.1 Function 6.3.33.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.33.2.3 When generated 6.3.33.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.33.3 MLME-NEIGHBORREPRESP.indication 6.3.33.3.1 Function 6.3.33.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.33.3.3 When generated 6.3.33.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.34 Link Measure Request 6.3.34.1 General 6.3.34.2 MLME-LINKMEASURE.request 6.3.34.2.1 Function 6.3.34.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.34.2.3 When generated 6.3.34.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.34.3 MLME-LINKMEASURE.confirm 6.3.34.3.1 Function 6.3.34.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.34.3.3 When generated 6.3.34.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.35 MLME SAP interface for resource request 6.3.35.1 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST.request 6.3.35.1.1 Function 6.3.35.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.35.1.3 When generated 6.3.35.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.35.2 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST.indication 6.3.35.2.1 Function 6.3.35.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.35.2.3 When generated 6.3.35.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.35.3 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST.response 6.3.35.3.1 Function 6.3.35.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.35.3.3 When generated 6.3.35.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.35.4 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST.confirm 6.3.35.4.1 Function 6.3.35.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.35.4.3 When generated 6.3.35.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.35.5 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST-LOCAL.request 6.3.35.5.1 Function 6.3.35.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.35.5.3 When generated 6.3.35.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.35.6 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST-LOCAL.confirm 6.3.35.6.1 Function 6.3.35.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.35.6.3 When generated 6.3.35.6.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.36 MLME SAP interface for remote requests 6.3.36.1 MLME-REMOTE-REQUEST.request 6.3.36.1.1 Function 6.3.36.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.36.1.3 When generated 6.3.36.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.36.2 MLME-REMOTE-REQUEST.indication 6.3.36.2.1 Function 6.3.36.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.36.2.3 When generated 6.3.36.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.37 Extended channel switch announcement 6.3.37.1 General 6.3.37.2 MLME-EXTCHANNELSWITCH.request 6.3.37.2.1 Function 6.3.37.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.37.2.3 When generated 6.3.37.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.37.3 MLME-EXTCHANNELSWITCH.confirm 6.3.37.3.1 Function 6.3.37.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.37.3.3 When generated 6.3.37.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.37.4 MLME-EXTCHANNELSWITCH.indication 6.3.37.4.1 Function 6.3.37.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.37.4.3 When generated 6.3.37.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.37.5 MLME-EXTCHANNELSWITCH.response 6.3.37.5.1 Function 6.3.37.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.37.5.3 When generated 6.3.37.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.38 DSE power constraint announcement 6.3.38.1 General 6.3.38.2 MLME-DSETPC.request 6.3.38.2.1 Function 6.3.38.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.38.2.3 When generated 6.3.38.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.38.3 MLME-DSETPC.confirm 6.3.38.3.1 Function 6.3.38.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.38.3.3 When generated 6.3.38.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.38.4 MLME-DSETPC.indication 6.3.38.4.1 Function 6.3.38.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.38.4.3 When generated 6.3.38.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.38.5 MLME-DSETPC.response 6.3.38.5.1 Function 6.3.38.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.38.5.3 When generated 6.3.38.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.39 Enablement 6.3.39.1 General 6.3.39.2 MLME-ENABLEMENT.request 6.3.39.2.1 Function 6.3.39.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.39.2.3 When generated 6.3.39.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.39.3 MLME-ENABLEMENT.confirm 6.3.39.3.1 Function 6.3.39.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.39.3.3 When generated 6.3.39.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.39.4 MLME-ENABLEMENT.indication 6.3.39.4.1 Function 6.3.39.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.39.4.3 When generated 6.3.39.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.39.5 MLME-ENABLEMENT.response 6.3.39.5.1 Function 6.3.39.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.39.5.3 When generated 6.3.39.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.40 Deenablement 6.3.40.1 MLME-DEENABLEMENT.request 6.3.40.1.1 Function 6.3.40.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.40.1.3 When generated 6.3.40.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.40.2 MLME-DEENABLEMENT.indication 6.3.40.2.1 Function 6.3.40.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.40.2.3 When generated 6.3.40.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.41 SA Query support 6.3.41.1 MLME-SA-QUERY.request 6.3.41.1.1 Function 6.3.41.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.41.1.3 When generated 6.3.41.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.41.2 MLME-SA-QUERY.confirm 6.3.41.2.1 Function 6.3.41.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.41.2.3 When generated 6.3.41.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.41.3 MLME-SA-QUERY.indication 6.3.41.3.1 Function 6.3.41.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.41.3.3 When generated 6.3.41.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.41.4 MLME-SA-QUERY.response 6.3.41.4.1 Function 6.3.41.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.41.4.3 When generated 6.3.41.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.42 Get TSF timer 6.3.42.1 General 6.3.42.2 MLME-GETTSFTIME.request 6.3.42.2.1 Function 6.3.42.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.42.2.3 When generated 6.3.42.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.42.3 MLME-GETTSFTIME.confirm 6.3.42.3.1 Function 6.3.42.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.42.3.3 When generated 6.3.42.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.43 Timing Advertisement 6.3.43.1 General 6.3.43.2 MLME-TIMING-ADVERTISEMENT.request 6.3.43.2.1 Function 6.3.43.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.43.2.3 When generated 6.3.43.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.43.3 MLME-TIMING-ADVERTISEMENT.indication 6.3.43.3.1 Function 6.3.43.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.43.3.3 When generated 6.3.43.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.44 TDLS Discovery 6.3.44.1 General 6.3.44.2 MLME-TDLSDISCOVERY.request 6.3.44.2.1 Function 6.3.44.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.44.2.3 When generated 6.3.44.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.44.3 MLME-TDLSDISCOVERY.confirm 6.3.44.3.1 Function 6.3.44.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.44.3.3 When generated 6.3.44.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.44.4 MLME-TDLSDISCOVERY.indication 6.3.44.4.1 Function 6.3.44.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.44.4.3 When generated 6.3.44.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.44.5 MLME-TDLSDISCOVERY.response 6.3.44.5.1 Function 6.3.44.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.44.5.3 When generated 6.3.44.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.45 TDLS direct-link establishment 6.3.45.1 General 6.3.45.2 MLME-TDLSSETUPREQUEST.request 6.3.45.2.1 Function 6.3.45.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.45.2.3 When generated 6.3.45.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.45.3 MLME-TDLSSETUPREQUEST.indication 6.3.45.3.1 Function 6.3.45.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.45.3.3 When generated 6.3.45.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.45.4 MLME-TDLSSETUPRESPONSE.request 6.3.45.4.1 Function 6.3.45.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.45.4.3 When generated 6.3.45.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.45.5 MLME-TDLSSETUPRESPONSE.indication 6.3.45.5.1 Function 6.3.45.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.45.5.3 When generated 6.3.45.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.45.6 MLME-TDLSSETUPCONFIRM.request 6.3.45.6.1 Function 6.3.45.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.45.6.3 When generated 6.3.45.6.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.45.7 MLME-TDLSSETUPCONFIRM.indication 6.3.45.7.1 Function 6.3.45.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.45.7.3 When generated 6.3.45.7.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.45.8 MLME-TDLSPOTENTIALPEERSTA.request 6.3.45.8.1 Function 6.3.45.8.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.45.8.3 When generated 6.3.45.8.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.45.9 MLME-TDLSPOTENTIALPEERSTA.confirm 6.3.45.9.1 Function 6.3.45.9.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.45.9.3 When generated 6.3.45.9.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.46 TDLS direct-link teardown 6.3.46.1 General 6.3.46.2 MLME-TDLSTEARDOWN.request 6.3.46.2.1 Function 6.3.46.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.46.2.3 When generated 6.3.46.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.46.3 MLME-TDLSTEARDOWN.indication 6.3.46.3.1 Function 6.3.46.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.46.3.3 When generated 6.3.46.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.47 TDLS peer U-APSD (TPU) 6.3.47.1 General 6.3.47.2 MLME-TDLSPTI.request 6.3.47.2.1 Function 6.3.47.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.47.2.3 When generated 6.3.47.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.47.3 MLME-TDLSPTI.confirm 6.3.47.3.1 Function 6.3.47.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.47.3.3 When generated 6.3.47.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.47.4 MLME-TDLSPTI.indication 6.3.47.4.1 Function 6.3.47.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.47.4.3 When generated 6.3.47.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.47.5 MLME-TDLSPTI.response 6.3.47.5.1 Function 6.3.47.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.47.5.3 When generated 6.3.47.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.48 TDLS channel switching 6.3.48.1 General 6.3.48.2 MLME-TDLSCHANNELSWITCH.request 6.3.48.2.1 Function 6.3.48.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.48.2.3 When generated 6.3.48.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.48.3 MLME-TDLSCHANNELSWITCH.confirm 6.3.48.3.1 Function 6.3.48.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.48.3.3 When generated 6.3.48.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.48.4 MLME-TDLSCHANNELSWITCH.indication 6.3.48.4.1 Function 6.3.48.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.48.4.3 When generated 6.3.48.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.48.5 MLME-TDLSCHANNELSWITCH.response 6.3.48.5.1 Function 6.3.48.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.48.5.3 When generated 6.3.48.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.49 TDLS peer PSM 6.3.49.1 General 6.3.49.2 MLME-TDLSPEERPSM.request 6.3.49.2.1 Function 6.3.49.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.49.2.3 When generated 6.3.49.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.49.3 MLME-TDLSPEERPSM.confirm 6.3.49.3.1 Function 6.3.49.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.49.3.3 When generated 6.3.49.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.49.4 MLME-TDLSPEERPSM.indication 6.3.49.4.1 Function 6.3.49.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.49.4.3 When generated 6.3.49.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.49.5 MLME-TDLSPEERPSM.response 6.3.49.5.1 Function 6.3.49.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.49.5.3 When generated 6.3.49.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.50 Event request 6.3.50.1 General 6.3.50.2 MLME-EVLREQUEST.request 6.3.50.2.1 Function 6.3.50.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.50.2.3 When generated 6.3.50.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.50.3 MLME-EVLREQUEST.indication 6.3.50.3.1 Function 6.3.50.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.50.3.3 When generated 6.3.50.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.51 Event report 6.3.51.1 General 6.3.51.2 MLME-EVLREPORT.request 6.3.51.2.1 Function 6.3.51.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.51.2.3 When generated 6.3.51.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.51.3 MLME-EVLREPORT.indication 6.3.51.3.1 Function 6.3.51.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.51.3.3 When generated 6.3.51.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.52 Event 6.3.52.1 General 6.3.52.2 MLME-EVLOG.request 6.3.52.2.1 Function 6.3.52.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.52.2.3 When generated 6.3.52.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.52.3 MLME-EVLOG.confirm 6.3.52.3.1 Function 6.3.52.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.52.3.3 When generated 6.3.52.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.53 Diagnostic request 6.3.53.1 General 6.3.53.2 MLME-DIAGREQUEST.request 6.3.53.2.1 Function 6.3.53.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.53.2.3 When generated 6.3.53.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.53.3 MLME-DIAGREQUEST.indication 6.3.53.3.1 Function 6.3.53.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.53.3.3 When generated 6.3.53.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.54 Diagnostic report 6.3.54.1 MLME-DIAGREPORT.request 6.3.54.1.1 Function 6.3.54.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.54.1.3 When generated 6.3.54.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.54.2 MLME-DIAGREPORT.indication 6.3.54.2.1 Function 6.3.54.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.54.2.3 When generated 6.3.54.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.55 Location configuration request 6.3.55.1 General 6.3.55.2 MLME-LOCATIONCFG.request 6.3.55.2.1 Function 6.3.55.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.55.2.3 When generated 6.3.55.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.55.3 MLME-LOCATIONCFG.confirm 6.3.55.3.1 Function 6.3.55.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.55.3.3 When generated 6.3.55.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.55.4 MLME-LOCATIONCFG.indication 6.3.55.4.1 Function 6.3.55.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.55.4.3 When generated 6.3.55.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.55.5 MLME-LOCATIONCFG.response 6.3.55.5.1 Function 6.3.55.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.55.5.3 When generated 6.3.55.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.56 Location track notification 6.3.56.1 General 6.3.56.2 MLME-LOCATIONTRACKNOTIF.request 6.3.56.2.1 Function 6.3.56.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.56.2.3 When generated 6.3.56.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.56.3 MLME-LOCATIONTRACKNOTIF.indication 6.3.56.3.1 Function 6.3.56.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.56.3.3 When generated 6.3.56.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.57 Timing measurement 6.3.57.1 General 6.3.57.2 MLME-TIMINGMSMT.request 6.3.57.2.1 Function 6.3.57.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.57.2.3 When generated 6.3.57.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.57.3 MLME-TIMINGMSMT.confirm 6.3.57.3.1 Function 6.3.57.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.57.3.3 When generated 6.3.57.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.57.4 MLME-TIMINGMSMT.indication 6.3.57.4.1 Function 6.3.57.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.57.4.3 When generated 6.3.57.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.58 Fine timing measurement (FTM) 6.3.58.1 General 6.3.58.2 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMT.request 6.3.58.2.1 Function 6.3.58.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.58.2.3 When generated 6.3.58.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.58.3 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMT.confirm 6.3.58.3.1 Function 6.3.58.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.58.3.3 When generated 6.3.58.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.58.4 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMT.indication 6.3.58.4.1 Function 6.3.58.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.58.4.3 When generated 6.3.58.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.59 BSS transition management 6.3.59.1 BSS transition management procedure 6.3.59.2 MLME-BTMQUERY.request 6.3.59.2.1 Function 6.3.59.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.59.2.3 When generated 6.3.59.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.59.3 MLME-BTMQUERY.indication 6.3.59.3.1 Function 6.3.59.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.59.3.3 When generated 6.3.59.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.59.4 MLME-BTM.request 6.3.59.4.1 Function 6.3.59.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.59.4.3 When generated 6.3.59.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.59.5 MLME-BTM.indication 6.3.59.5.1 Function 6.3.59.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.59.5.3 When generated 6.3.59.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.59.6 MLME-BTM.response 6.3.59.6.1 Function 6.3.59.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.59.6.3 When generated 6.3.59.6.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.59.7 MLME-BTM.confirm 6.3.59.7.1 Function 6.3.59.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.59.7.3 When generated 6.3.59.7.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.60 FMS setup 6.3.60.1 General 6.3.60.2 MLME-FMS.request 6.3.60.2.1 Function 6.3.60.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.60.2.3 When generated 6.3.60.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.60.3 MLME-FMS.confirm 6.3.60.3.1 Function 6.3.60.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.60.3.3 When generated 6.3.60.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.60.4 MLME-FMS.indication 6.3.60.4.1 Function 6.3.60.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.60.4.3 When generated 6.3.60.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.60.5 MLME-FMS.response 6.3.60.5.1 Function 6.3.60.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.60.5.3 When generated 6.3.60.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.61 Collocated Interference request 6.3.61.1 General 6.3.61.2 MLME-CLINTERFERENCEREQUEST.request 6.3.61.2.1 Function 6.3.61.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.61.2.3 When generated 6.3.61.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.61.3 MLME-CLINTERFERENCEREQUEST.indication 6.3.61.3.1 Function 6.3.61.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.61.3.3 When generated 6.3.61.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.62 Collocated Interference report 6.3.62.1 General 6.3.62.2 MLME-CLINTERFERENCEREPORT.request 6.3.62.2.1 Function 6.3.62.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.62.2.3 When generated 6.3.62.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.62.3 MLME-CLINTERFERENCEREPORT.indication 6.3.62.3.1 Function 6.3.62.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.62.3.3 When generated 6.3.63 TFS setup 6.3.63.1 General 6.3.63.2 MLME-TFS.request 6.3.63.2.1 Function 6.3.63.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.63.2.3 When generated 6.3.63.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.63.3 MLME-TFS.confirm 6.3.63.3.1 Function 6.3.63.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.63.3.3 When generated 6.3.63.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.63.4 MLME-TFS.indication 6.3.63.4.1 Function 6.3.63.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.63.4.3 When generated 6.3.63.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.63.5 MLME-TFS.response 6.3.63.5.1 Function 6.3.63.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.63.5.3 When generated 6.3.63.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.64 WNM sleep mode request 6.3.64.1 General 6.3.64.2 MLME-SLEEPMODE.request 6.3.64.2.1 Function 6.3.64.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.64.2.3 When generated 6.3.64.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.64.3 MLME-SLEEPMODE.indication 6.3.64.3.1 Function 6.3.64.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.64.3.3 When generated 6.3.64.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.64.4 MLME-SLEEPMODE.response 6.3.64.4.1 Function 6.3.64.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.64.4.3 When generated 6.3.64.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.64.5 MLME-SLEEPMODE.confirm 6.3.64.5.1 Function 6.3.64.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.64.5.3 When generated 6.3.64.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.65 TIM broadcast setup 6.3.65.1 General 6.3.65.2 MLME-TIMBROADCAST.request 6.3.65.2.1 Function 6.3.65.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.65.2.3 When generated 6.3.65.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.65.3 MLME-TIMBROADCAST.confirm 6.3.65.3.1 Function 6.3.65.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.65.3.3 When generated 6.3.65.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.65.4 MLME-TIMBROADCAST.indication 6.3.65.4.1 Function 6.3.65.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.65.4.3 When generated 6.3.65.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.65.5 MLME-TIMBROADCAST.response 6.3.65.5.1 Function 6.3.65.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.65.5.3 When generated 6.3.65.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.66 QoS traffic capability update 6.3.66.1 General 6.3.66.2 MLME-QOSTRAFFICCAPUPDATE.request 6.3.66.2.1 Function 6.3.66.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.66.2.3 When generated 6.3.66.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.66.3 MLME-QOSTRAFFICCAPUPDATE.indication 6.3.66.3.1 Function 6.3.66.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.66.3.3 When generated 6.3.66.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.67 Channel Usage request 6.3.67.1 General 6.3.67.2 MLME-CHANNELUSAGE.request 6.3.67.2.1 Function 6.3.67.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.67.2.3 When generated 6.3.67.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.67.3 MLME-CHANNELUSAGE.confirm 6.3.67.3.1 Function 6.3.67.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.67.3.3 When generated 6.3.67.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.67.4 MLME-CHANNELUSAGE.indication 6.3.67.4.1 Function 6.3.67.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.67.4.3 When generated 6.3.67.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.67.5 MLME-CHANNELUSAGE.response 6.3.67.5.1 Function 6.3.67.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.67.5.3 When generated 6.3.67.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.68 DMS or GCR request and response procedure 6.3.68.1 General 6.3.68.2 MLME-GATS.request 6.3.68.2.1 Function 6.3.68.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.68.2.3 When generated 6.3.68.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.68.3 MLME-GATS.confirm 6.3.68.3.1 Function 6.3.68.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.68.3.3 When generated 6.3.68.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.68.4 MLME-GATS.indication 6.3.68.4.1 Function 6.3.68.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.68.4.3 When generated 6.3.68.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.68.5 MLME-GATS.response 6.3.68.5.1 Function 6.3.68.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.68.5.3 When generated 6.3.68.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.68.6 MLME-GATS-TERM.request 6.3.68.6.1 Function 6.3.68.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.68.6.3 When generated 6.3.68.6.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.68.7 MLME-GATS-TERM.indication 6.3.68.7.1 Function 6.3.68.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.68.7.3 When generated 6.3.68.7.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.69 Timing measurement request 6.3.69.1 General 6.3.69.2 MLME-TIMINGMSMTRQ.request 6.3.69.2.1 Function 6.3.69.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.69.2.3 When generated 6.3.69.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.69.3 MLME-TIMINGMSMTRQ.indication 6.3.69.3.1 Function 6.3.69.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.69.3.3 When generated 6.3.69.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.70 Fine timing measurement request 6.3.70.1 General 6.3.70.2 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMTRQ.request 6.3.70.2.1 Function 6.3.70.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.70.2.3 When generated 6.3.70.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.70.3 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMTRQ.indication 6.3.70.3.1 Function 6.3.70.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.70.3.3 When generated 6.3.70.3.4 1 Effect of receipt 6.3.71 WNM notification request 6.3.71.1 General 6.3.71.2 MLME-WNMNOTIFICATIONREQUEST.request 6.3.71.2.1 Function 6.3.71.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.71.2.3 When generated 6.3.71.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.71.3 MLME-WNMNOTIFICATIONREQUEST indication 6.3.71.3.1 Function 6.3.71.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.71.3.3 When generated 6.3.71.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.72 WNM notification response 6.3.72.1 MLME-WNMNOTIFICATIONRESPONSE.request 6.3.72.1.1 Function 6.3.72.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.72.1.3 When generated 6.3.72.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.72.2 MLME-WNMNOTIFICATIONRESPONSE.indication 6.3.72.2.1 Function 6.3.72.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.72.2.3 When generated 6.3.72.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.73 Network discovery and selection support 6.3.73.1 General 6.3.73.2 MLME-GAS.request 6.3.73.2.1 Function 6.3.73.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.73.2.3 When generated 6.3.73.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.73.3 MLME-GAS.confirm 6.3.73.3.1 Function 6.3.73.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.73.3.3 When generated 6.3.73.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.73.4 MLME-GAS.indication 6.3.73.4.1 Function 6.3.73.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.73.4.3 When generated 6.3.73.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.73.5 MLME-GAS.response 6.3.73.5.1 Function 6.3.73.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.73.5.3 When generated 6.3.73.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.74 QoS Map element management 6.3.74.1 General 6.3.74.2 MLME-QOS-MAP.request 6.3.74.2.1 Function 6.3.74.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.74.2.3 When generated 6.3.74.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.74.3 MLME-QOS-MAP.indication 6.3.74.3.1 Function 6.3.74.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.74.3.3 When generated 6.3.74.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.75 Mesh peering management 6.3.75.1 Introduction 6.3.75.2 MLME-MESHPEERINGMANAGEMENT.request 6.3.75.2.1 Function 6.3.75.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.75.2.3 When generated 6.3.75.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.75.3 MLME-MESHPEERINGMANAGEMENT.confirm 6.3.75.3.1 Function 6.3.75.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.75.3.3 When generated 6.3.75.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.75.4 MLME-MESHPEERINGMANAGEMENT.indication 6.3.75.4.1 Function 6.3.75.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.75.4.3 When generated 6.3.75.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.75.5 MLME-MESHPEERINGMANAGEMENT.response 6.3.75.5.1 Function 6.3.75.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.75.5.3 When generated 6.3.75.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.76 Mesh power management 6.3.76.1 Introduction 6.3.76.2 MLME-MESHPOWERMGT.request 6.3.76.2.1 Function 6.3.76.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.76.2.3 When generated 6.3.76.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.76.3 MLME-MESHPOWERMGT.confirm 6.3.76.3.1 Function 6.3.76.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.76.3.3 When generated 6.3.76.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.77 Mesh neighbor offset synchronization 6.3.77.1 Introduction 6.3.77.2 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETSYNCSTART.request 6.3.77.2.1 Function 6.3.77.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.77.2.3 When generated 6.3.77.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.77.3 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETSYNCSTART.confirm 6.3.77.3.1 Function 6.3.77.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.77.3.3 When generated 6.3.77.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.77.4 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETCALCULATE.request 6.3.77.4.1 Function 6.3.77.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.77.4.3 When generated 6.3.77.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.77.5 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETCALCULATE.confirm 6.3.77.5.1 Function 6.3.77.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.77.5.3 When generated 6.3.77.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.77.6 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETSYNCSTOP.request 6.3.77.6.1 Function 6.3.77.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.77.6.3 When generated 6.3.77.6.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.77.7 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETSYNCSTOP.confirm 6.3.77.7.1 Function 6.3.77.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.77.7.3 When generated 6.3.77.7.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.78 Mesh TBTT adjustment 6.3.78.1 Introduction 6.3.78.2 MLME-MESHTBTTADJUSTMENT.request 6.3.78.2.1 Function 6.3.78.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.78.2.3 When generated 6.3.78.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.78.3 MLME-MESHTBTTADJUSTMENT.confirm 6.3.78.3.1 Function 6.3.78.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.78.3.3 When generated 6.3.78.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.78.4 MLME-MESHTBTTADJUSTMENT.indication 6.3.78.4.1 Function 6.3.78.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.78.4.3 When generated 6.3.78.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.78.5 MLME-MESHTBTTADJUSTMENT.response 6.3.78.5.1 Function 6.3.78.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.78.5.3 When generated 6.3.78.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.79 MCCA management interface 6.3.79.1 Introduction 6.3.79.2 MLME-ACTIVATEMCCA.request 6.3.79.2.1 Function 6.3.79.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.79.2.3 When generated 6.3.79.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.79.3 MLME-MCCASETUP.request 6.3.79.3.1 Function 6.3.79.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.79.3.3 When generated 6.3.79.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.79.4 MLME-MCCASETUP.confirm 6.3.79.4.1 Function 6.3.79.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.79.4.3 When generated 6.3.79.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.79.5 MLME-MCCASETUP.indication 6.3.79.5.1 Function 6.3.79.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.79.5.3 When generated 6.3.79.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.79.6 MLME-MCCASETUP.response 6.3.79.6.1 Function 6.3.79.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.79.6.3 When generated 6.3.79.6.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.79.7 MLME-MCCAADVERTISEMENT.request 6.3.79.7.1 Function 6.3.79.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.79.7.3 When generated 6.3.79.7.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.79.8 MLME-MCCAADVERTISEMENT.confirm 6.3.79.8.1 Function 6.3.79.8.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.79.8.3 When generated 6.3.79.8.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.79.9 MLME-MCCAADVERTISEMENT.indication 6.3.79.9.1 Function 6.3.79.9.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.79.9.3 When generated 6.3.79.9.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.79.10 MLME-MCCAADVERTISEMENT.response 6.3.79.10.1 Function 6.3.79.10.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.79.10.3 When generated 6.3.79.10.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.79.11 MLME-MCCATEARDOWN.request 6.3.79.11.1 Function 6.3.79.11.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.79.11.3 When generated 6.3.79.11.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.79.12 MLME-MCCATEARDOWN.indication 6.3.79.12.1 Function 6.3.79.12.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.79.12.3 When generated 6.3.79.12.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.80 MBSS congestion control 6.3.80.1 Introduction 6.3.80.2 MLME-MBSSCONGESTIONCONTROL.request 6.3.80.2.1 Function 6.3.80.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.80.2.3 When generated 6.3.80.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.80.3 MLME-MBSSCONGESTIONCONTROL.indication 6.3.80.3.1 Function 6.3.80.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.80.3.3 When generated 6.3.80.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.81 MBSS proxy update 6.3.81.1 Introduction 6.3.81.2 MLME-MBSSPROXYUPDATE.request 6.3.81.2.1 Function 6.3.81.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.81.2.3 When generated 6.3.81.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.81.3 MLME-MBSSPROXYUPDATE.confirm 6.3.81.3.1 Function 6.3.81.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.81.3.3 When generated 6.3.81.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.81.4 MLME-MBSSPROXYUPDATE.indication 6.3.81.4.1 Function 6.3.81.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.81.4.3 When generated 6.3.81.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.81.5 MLME-MBSSPROXYUPDATE.response 6.3.81.5.1 Function 6.3.81.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.81.5.3 When generated 6.3.81.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.82 MBSS mesh gate announcement 6.3.82.1 Introduction 6.3.82.2 MLME-MBSSGATEANNOUNCEMENT.request 6.3.82.2.1 Function 6.3.82.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.82.2.3 When generated 6.3.82.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.82.3 MLME-MBSSGATEANNOUNCEMENT.indication 6.3.82.3.1 Function 6.3.82.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.82.3.3 When generated 6.3.82.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.83 Mesh link metric 6.3.83.1 Introduction 6.3.83.2 MLME-MESHLINKMETRICREAD.request 6.3.83.2.1 Function 6.3.83.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.83.2.3 When generated 6.3.83.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.83.3 MLME-MESHLINKMETRICREAD.confirm 6.3.83.3.1 Function 6.3.83.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.83.3.3 When generated 6.3.83.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.83.4 MLME-MESHLINKMETRICREPORT.request 6.3.83.4.1 Function 6.3.83.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.83.4.3 When generated 6.3.83.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.83.5 MLME-MESHLINKMETRICREPORT.indication 6.3.83.5.1 Function 6.3.83.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.83.5.3 When generated 6.3.83.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.84 HWMP mesh path selection 6.3.84.1 Introduction 6.3.84.2 MLME-HWMPMESHPATHSELECTION.request 6.3.84.2.1 Function 6.3.84.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.84.2.3 When generated 6.3.84.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.84.3 MLME-HWMPMESHPATHSELECTION.indication 6.3.84.3.1 Function 6.3.84.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.84.3.3 When generated 6.3.84.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.85 QMF policy 6.3.85.1 Introduction 6.3.85.2 MLME-QMFPOLICY.request 6.3.85.2.1 Function 6.3.85.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.85.2.3 When generated 6.3.85.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.85.3 MLME-QMFPOLICY.indication 6.3.85.3.1 Function 6.3.85.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.85.3.3 When generated 6.3.85.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.85.4 MLME-QMFPOLICYCHANGE.request 6.3.85.4.1 Function 6.3.85.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.85.4.3 When generated 6.3.85.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.85.5 MLME-QMFPOLICYCHANGE.confirm 6.3.85.5.1 Function 6.3.85.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.85.5.3 When generated 6.3.85.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.85.6 MLME-QMFPOLICYCHANGE.indication 6.3.85.6.1 Function 6.3.85.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.85.6.3 When generated 6.3.85.6.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.85.7 MLME-QMFPOLICYCHANGE.response 6.3.85.7.1 Function 6.3.85.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.85.7.3 When generated 6.3.85.7.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.85.8 MLME-QMFPOLICYSET.request 6.3.85.8.1 Function 6.3.85.8.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.85.8.3 When generated 6.3.85.8.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.86 SCS request and response procedure 6.3.86.1 General 6.3.86.2 MLME-SCS.request 6.3.86.2.1 Function 6.3.86.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.86.2.3 When generated 6.3.86.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.86.3 MLME-SCS.confirm 6.3.86.3.1 Function 6.3.86.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.86.3.3 When generated 6.3.86.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.86.4 MLME-SCS.indication 6.3.86.4.1 Function 6.3.86.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.86.4.3 When generated 6.3.86.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.86.5 MLME-SCS.response 6.3.86.5.1 Function 6.3.86.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.86.5.3 When generated 6.3.86.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.86.6 MLME-SCS-TERM.request 6.3.86.6.1 Function 6.3.86.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.86.6.3 When generated 6.3.86.6.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.86.7 MLME-SCS-TERM.indication 6.3.86.7.1 Function 6.3.86.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.86.7.3 When generated 6.3.86.7.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.87 QLoad report management 6.3.87.1 General 6.3.87.2 MLME-QLOAD.request 6.3.87.2.1 Function 6.3.87.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.87.2.3 When generated 6.3.87.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.87.3 MLME-QLOAD.confirm 6.3.87.3.1 Function 6.3.87.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.87.3.3 When generated 6.3.87.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.87.4 MLME-QLOAD.indication 6.3.87.4.1 Function 6.3.87.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.87.4.3 When generated 6.3.87.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.87.5 MLME-QLOAD.response 6.3.87.5.1 Function 6.3.87.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.87.5.3 When generated 6.3.87.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.88 HCCA TXOP advertisement management 6.3.88.1 General 6.3.88.2 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.request 6.3.88.2.1 Function 6.3.88.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.88.2.3 When generated 6.3.88.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.88.3 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.confirm 6.3.88.3.1 Function 6.3.88.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.88.3.3 When generated 6.3.88.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.88.4 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.indication 6.3.88.4.1 Function 6.3.88.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.88.4.3 When generated 6.3.88.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.88.5 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.response 6.3.88.5.1 Function 6.3.88.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.88.5.3 When generated 6.3.88.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.89 GCR group membership management 6.3.89.1 General 6.3.89.2 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.request 6.3.89.2.1 Function 6.3.89.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.89.2.3 When generated 6.3.89.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.89.3 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.confirm 6.3.89.3.1 Function 6.3.89.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.89.3.3 When generated 6.3.89.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.89.4 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.indication 6.3.89.4.1 Function 6.3.89.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.89.4.3 When generated 6.3.89.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.89.5 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.response 6.3.89.5.1 Function 6.3.89.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.89.5.3 When generated 6.3.89.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.90 AP PeerKey management 6.3.90.1 General 6.3.90.2 MLME-APPEERKEY.request 6.3.90.2.1 Function 6.3.90.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.90.2.3 When generated 6.3.90.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.90.3 MLME-APPEERKEY.indication 6.3.90.3.1 Function 6.3.90.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.90.3.3 When generated 6.3.90.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.91 On-channel Tunneling operation 6.3.91.1 General 6.3.91.2 MLME-OCTunnel.request 6.3.91.2.1 Function 6.3.91.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.91.2.3 When generated 6.3.91.2.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.91.3 MLME-OCTunnel.indication 6.3.91.3.1 Function 6.3.91.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.91.3.3 When generated 6.3.91.3.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.92 Multi-band operation 6.3.92.1 General 6.3.92.2 MLME-FST-SETUP.request 6.3.92.2.1 Function 6.3.92.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.92.2.3 When generated 6.3.92.2.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.92.3 MLME-FST-SETUP.indication 6.3.92.3.1 Function 6.3.92.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.92.3.3 When generated 6.3.92.3.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.92.4 MLME-FST-SETUP.response 6.3.92.4.1 Function 6.3.92.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.92.4.3 When generated 6.3.92.4.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.92.5 MLME-FST-SETUP.confirm 6.3.92.5.1 Function 6.3.92.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.92.5.3 When generated 6.3.92.5.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.92.6 MLME-FST-ACK.request 6.3.92.6.1 Function 6.3.92.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.92.6.3 When generated 6.3.92.6.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.92.7 MLME-FST-ACK.indication 6.3.92.7.1 Function 6.3.92.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.92.7.3 When generated 6.3.92.7.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.92.8 MLME-FST-ACK.response 6.3.92.8.1 Function 6.3.92.8.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.92.8.3 When generated 6.3.92.8.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.92.9 MLME-FST-ACK.confirm 6.3.92.9.1 Function 6.3.92.9.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.92.9.3 When generated 6.3.92.9.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.92.10 MLME-FST-TEARDOWN.request 6.3.92.10.1 Function 6.3.92.10.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.92.10.3 When generated 6.3.92.10.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.92.11 MLME-FST-TEARDOWN.indication 6.3.92.11.1 Function 6.3.92.11.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.92.11.3 When generated 6.3.92.11.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.92.12 MLME-FST-INCOMING.request 6.3.92.12.1 Function 6.3.92.12.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.92.12.3 When generated 6.3.92.12.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.93 DMG relay operation 6.3.93.1 General 6.3.93.2 MLME-RELAY-SEARCH.request 6.3.93.2.1 Function 6.3.93.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.93.2.3 When generated 6.3.93.2.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.93.3 MLME-RELAY-SEARCH.confirm 6.3.93.3.1 Function 6.3.93.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.93.3.3 When generated 6.3.93.3.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.93.4 MLME-RELAY-SEARCH.indication 6.3.93.4.1 Function 6.3.93.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.93.4.3 When generated 6.3.93.4.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.93.5 MLME-RELAY-SEARCH.response 6.3.93.5.1 Function 6.3.93.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.93.5.3 When generated 6.3.93.5.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.93.6 MLME-RLS.request 6.3.93.6.1 Function 6.3.93.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.93.6.3 When generated 6.3.93.6.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.93.7 MLME-RLS.confirm 6.3.93.7.1 Function 6.3.93.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.93.7.3 When generated 6.3.93.7.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.93.8 MLME-RLS.indication 6.3.93.8.1 Function 6.3.93.8.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.93.8.3 When generated 6.3.93.8.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.93.9 MLME-RLS.response 6.3.93.9.1 Function 6.3.93.9.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.93.9.3 When generated 6.3.93.9.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.93.10 MLME-RLS-TEARDOWN.request 6.3.93.10.1 Function 6.3.93.10.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.93.10.3 When generated 6.3.93.10.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.93.11 MLME-RLS-TEARDOWN.indication 6.3.93.11.1 Function 6.3.93.11.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.93.11.3 When generated 6.3.93.11.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.94 Quieting adjacent BSS operation 6.3.94.1 General 6.3.94.2 MLME-QAB.request 6.3.94.2.1 Function 6.3.94.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.94.2.3 When generated 6.3.94.2.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.94.3 MLME-QAB.confirm 6.3.94.3.1 Function 6.3.94.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.94.3.3 When generated 6.3.94.3.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.94.4 MLME-QAB.indication 6.3.94.4.1 Function 6.3.94.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.94.4.3 When generated 6.3.94.4.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.94.5 MLME-QAB.response 6.3.94.5.1 Function 6.3.94.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.94.5.3 When generated 6.3.94.5.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.95 DMG beamforming 6.3.95.1 General 6.3.95.2 MLME-BF-TRAINING.request 6.3.95.2.1 Function 6.3.95.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.95.2.3 When generated 6.3.95.2.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.95.3 MLME-BF-TRAINING.confirm 6.3.95.3.1 Function 6.3.95.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.95.3.3 When generated 6.3.95.3.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.95.4 MLME-BF-TRAINING.indication 6.3.95.4.1 Function 6.3.95.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.95.4.3 When generated 6.3.95.4.4 Effect on receipt 6.3.96 PN event report 6.3.96.1 General 6.3.96.2 MLME-PN-EXHAUSTION.indication 6.3.96.2.1 Function 6.3.96.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.96.2.3 When generated 6.3.96.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.96.3 MLME-PN-WARNING.indication 6.3.96.3.1 Function 6.3.96.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.96.3.3 When generated 6.3.96.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.97 Channel Availability Query 6.3.97.1 Introduction 6.3.97.2 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.request 6.3.97.2.1 Function 6.3.97.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.97.2.3 When generated 6.3.97.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.97.3 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.confirm 6.3.97.3.1 Function 6.3.97.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.97.3.3 When generated 6.3.97.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.97.4 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.indication 6.3.97.4.1 Function 6.3.97.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.97.4.3 When generated 6.3.97.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.97.5 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.response 6.3.97.5.1 Function 6.3.97.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.97.5.3 When generated 6.3.97.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.98 Channel schedule management 6.3.98.1 Introduction 6.3.98.2 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.request 6.3.98.2.1 Function 6.3.98.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.98.2.3 When generated 6.3.98.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.98.3 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.confirm 6.3.98.3.1 Function 6.3.98.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.98.3.3 When generated 6.3.98.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.98.4 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.indication 6.3.98.4.1 Function 6.3.98.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.98.4.3 When generated 6.3.98.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.98.5 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.response 6.3.98.5.1 Function 6.3.98.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.98.5.3 When generated 6.3.98.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.99 Contact verification signal 6.3.99.1 Introduction 6.3.99.2 MLME-CVS.request 6.3.99.2.1 Function 6.3.99.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.99.2.3 When generated 6.3.99.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.99.3 MLME-CVS.indication 6.3.99.3.1 Function 6.3.99.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.99.3.3 When generated 6.3.99.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.100 GDD Enablement 6.3.100.1 Introduction 6.3.100.2 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.request 6.3.100.2.1 Function 6.3.100.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.100.2.3 When generated 6.3.100.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.100.3 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.confirm 6.3.100.3.1 Function 6.3.100.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.100.3.3 When generated 6.3.100.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.100.4 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.indication 6.3.100.4.1 Function 6.3.100.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.100.4.3 When generated 6.3.100.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.100.5 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.response 6.3.100.5.1 Function 6.3.100.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.100.5.3 When generated 6.3.100.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.101 Network channel control management 6.3.101.1 Introduction 6.3.101.2 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.request 6.3.101.2.1 Function 6.3.101.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.101.2.3 When generated 6.3.101.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.101.3 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.confirm 6.3.101.3.1 Function 6.3.101.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.101.3.3 When generated 6.3.101.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.101.4 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.indication 6.3.101.4.1 Function 6.3.101.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.101.4.3 When generated 6.3.101.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.101.5 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.response 6.3.101.5.1 Function 6.3.101.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.101.5.3 When generated 6.3.101.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.102 White space map (WSM) 6.3.102.1 Introduction 6.3.102.2 MLME-WSM.request 6.3.102.2.1 Function 6.3.102.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.102.2.3 When generated 6.3.102.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.102.3 MLME-WSM.indication 6.3.102.3.1 Function 6.3.102.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.102.3.3 When generated 6.3.102.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.103 Estimated Throughput (ESTT) 6.3.103.1 General 6.3.103.2 MLME-ESTIMATED-THROUGHPUT.request 6.3.103.2.1 Function 6.3.103.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.103.2.3 When generated 6.3.103.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.103.3 MLME-ESTIMATED-THROUGHPUT.confirm 6.3.103.3.1 Function 6.3.103.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.103.3.3 When generated 6.3.103.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.104 Get authentication/association state 6.3.104.1 General 6.3.104.2 MLME-GETAUTHASSOCSTATE.request 6.3.104.2.1 Function 6.3.104.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.104.2.3 When generated 6.3.104.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.3.104.3 MLME-GETAUTHASSOCSTATE.confirm 6.3.104.3.1 Function 6.3.104.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.3.104.3.3 When generated 6.3.104.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.4 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 6.4.3.2 ESS_DISCONNECTED 6.4.3.3 ESS_DISENGAGING 6.4.3.4 STANDBY 6.4.4 Convergence function state transitions 6.4.4.1 Transitions to ESS_CONNECTED 6.4.4.1.1 From ESS_DISCONNECTED 6.4.4.1.2 From ESS_DISENGAGING 6.4.4.2 Transitions to ESS_ DISCONNECTED 6.4.4.2.1 From ESS_CONNECTED 6.4.4.2.2 From ESS_DISENGAGING 6.4.4.2.3 From STANDBY 6.4.4.3 Transitions to ESS_DISENGAGING 6.4.4.3.1 From ESS_CONNECTED 6.4.4.4 Transitions to STANDBY 6.4.4.4.1 From ESS_DISCONNECTED 6.4.5 Convergence function informational events 6.4.6 MAC state generic convergence SAP 6.4.7 ESS status reporting 6.4.7.1 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-UP.indication 6.4.7.1.1 Function 6.4.7.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.4.7.1.3 When generated 6.4.7.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.4.7.2 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-DOWN.indication 6.4.7.2.1 Function 6.4.7.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.4.7.2.3 When generated 6.4.7.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.4.7.3 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-GOING-DOWN.indication 6.4.7.3.1 Function 6.4.7.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.4.7.3.3 When generated 6.4.7.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.4.7.4 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-EVENT-ROLLBACK.indication 6.4.7.4.1 Function 6.4.7.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.4.7.4.3 When generated 6.4.7.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.4.7.5 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-DETECTED.indication 6.4.7.5.1 Function 6.4.7.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.4.7.5.3 When generated 6.4.7.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.4.7.6 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-SCAN.request 6.4.7.6.1 Function 6.4.7.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.4.7.6.3 When generated 6.4.7.6.4 Effect of receipt 6.4.7.7 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-SCAN.confirm 6.4.7.7.1 Function 6.4.7.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.4.7.7.3 When generated 6.4.7.7.4 Effect of receipt 6.4.8 Network configuration 6.4.8.1 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-CAPABILITY.request 6.4.8.1.1 Function 6.4.8.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.4.8.1.3 When generated 6.4.8.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.4.8.2 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-CAPABILITY.confirm 6.4.8.2.1 Function 6.4.8.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.4.8.2.3 When generated 6.4.8.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.4.8.3 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-PARAMETERS.request 6.4.8.3.1 Function 6.4.8.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.4.8.3.3 When generated 6.4.8.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.4.8.4 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-PARAMETERS.confirm 6.4.8.4.1 Function 6.4.8.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.4.8.4.3 When generated 6.4.8.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.4.8.5 MSGCF-GET-ESS-LINK-PARAMETERS.request 6.4.8.5.1 Function 6.4.8.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.4.8.5.3 When generated 6.4.8.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.4.8.6 MSGCF-GET-ESS-LINK-PARAMETERS.confirm 6.4.8.6.1 Function 6.4.8.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.4.8.6.3 When generated 6.4.8.6.4 Effect of receipt 6.4.9 Network events 6.4.9.1 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-THRESHOLD-REPORT.indication 6.4.9.1.1 Function 6.4.9.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.4.9.1.3 When generated 6.4.9.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.4.10 Network command interface 6.4.10.1 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-COMMAND.request 6.4.10.1.1 Function 6.4.10.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.4.10.1.3 When generated 6.4.10.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.4.11 MAC state SME SAP—mobility management 6.4.11.1 MSSME-ESS-LINK-GOING-DOWN.indication 6.4.11.1.1 Function 6.4.11.1.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.4.11.1.3 When generated 6.4.11.1.4 Effect of receipt 6.5 PLME SAP interface 6.5.1 General 6.5.2 PLME-RESET.request 6.5.2.1 Function 6.5.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.5.2.3 When generated 6.5.2.4 Effect of receipt 6.5.3 PLME-CHARACTERISTICS.request 6.5.3.1 Function 6.5.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.5.3.3 When generated 6.5.3.4 Effect of receipt 6.5.4 PLME-CHARACTERISTICS.confirm 6.5.4.1 Function 6.5.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.5.4.3 When generated 6.5.4.4 Effect of receipt 6.5.5 PLME-TXTIME.request 6.5.5.1 Function 6.5.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.5.5.3 When generated 6.5.5.4 Effect of receipt 6.5.6 PLME-TXTIME.confirm 6.5.6.1 Function 6.5.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive 6.5.6.3 When generated 6.5.6.4 Effect of receipt 7. DS SAP specification 7.1 Introduction 7.2 SAP primitives 7.2.1 General 7.2.2 MSDU transfer 7.2.2.1 General 7.2.2.2 DS-UNITDATA.request 7.2.2.2.1 Function 7.2.2.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 7.2.2.2.3 When generated 7.2.2.2.4 Effect of receipt 7.2.2.3 DS-UNITDATA.indication 7.2.2.3.1 Function 7.2.2.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 7.2.2.3.3 When generated 7.2.2.3.4 Effect of receipt 7.2.3 Mapping updates 7.2.3.1 General 7.2.3.2 DS-STA-NOTIFY.request 7.2.3.2.1 Function 7.2.3.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 7.2.3.2.3 When generated 7.2.3.2.4 Effect of receipt 8. PHY service specification 8.1 Scope 8.2 PHY functions 8.3 Detailed PHY service specifications 8.3.1 Scope and field of application 8.3.2 Overview of the service 8.3.3 Overview of interactions 8.3.4 Basic service and options 8.3.4.1 PHY SAP peer-to-peer service primitives 8.3.4.2 PHY SAP inter-(sub)layer service primitives 8.3.4.3 PHY SAP service primitives parameters 8.3.4.4 Vector descriptions 8.3.5 PHY SAP detailed service specification 8.3.5.1 Introduction 8.3.5.2 PHY-DATA.request 8.3.5.2.1 Function 8.3.5.2.2 Semantics of the service primitive 8.3.5.2.3 When generated 8.3.5.2.4 Effect of receipt 8.3.5.3 PHY-DATA.indication 8.3.5.3.1 Function 8.3.5.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 8.3.5.3.3 When generated 8.3.5.3.4 Effect of receipt 8.3.5.4 PHY-DATA.confirm 8.3.5.4.1 Function 8.3.5.4.2 Semantics of the service primitive 8.3.5.4.3 When generated 8.3.5.4.4 Effect of receipt 8.3.5.5 PHY-TXSTART.request 8.3.5.5.1 Function 8.3.5.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 8.3.5.5.3 When generated 8.3.5.5.4 Effect of receipt 8.3.5.6 PHY-TXSTART.confirm 8.3.5.6.1 Function 8.3.5.6.2 Semantics of the service primitive 8.3.5.6.3 When generated 8.3.5.6.4 Effect of receipt 8.3.5.7 PHY-TXEND.request 8.3.5.7.1 Function 8.3.5.7.2 Semantics of the service primitive 8.3.5.7.3 When generated 8.3.5.7.4 Effect of receipt 8.3.5.8 PHY-TXEND.confirm 8.3.5.8.1 Function 8.3.5.8.2 Semantics of the service primitive 8.3.5.8.3 When generated 8.3.5.8.4 Effect of receipt 8.3.5.9 PHY-TXHEADEREND.indication 8.3.5.9.1 Function 8.3.5.9.2 Semantics of the service primitive 8.3.5.9.3 When generated 8.3.5.9.4 Effect of receipt 8.3.5.10 PHY-CCARESET.request 8.3.5.10.1 Function 8.3.5.10.2 Semantics of the service primitive 8.3.5.10.3 When generated 8.3.5.10.4 Effect of receipt 8.3.5.11 PHY-CCARESET.confirm 8.3.5.11.1 Function 8.3.5.11.2 Semantics of the service primitive 8.3.5.11.3 When generated 8.3.5.11.4 Effect of receipt 8.3.5.12 PHY-CCA.indication 8.3.5.12.1 Function 8.3.5.12.2 Semantics of the service primitive 8.3.5.12.3 When generated 8.3.5.12.4 Effect of receipt 8.3.5.13 PHY-RXSTART.indication 8.3.5.13.1 Function 8.3.5.13.2 Semantics of the service primitive 8.3.5.13.3 When generated 8.3.5.13.4 Effect of receipt 8.3.5.14 PHY-RXEND.indication 8.3.5.14.1 Function 8.3.5.14.2 Semantics of the service primitive 8.3.5.14.3 When generated 8.3.5.14.4 Effect of receipt 8.3.5.15 PHY-CONFIG.request 8.3.5.15.1 Function 8.3.5.15.2 Semantics of the service primitive 8.3.5.15.3 When generated 8.3.5.15.4 Effect of receipt 8.3.5.16 PHY-CONFIG.confirm 8.3.5.16.1 Function 8.3.5.16.2 Semantics of the service primitive 8.3.5.16.3 When generated 8.3.5.16.4 Effect of receipt 8.3.5.17 PHY-TXBUSY.indication 8.3.5.17.1 Function 8.3.5.17.2 Semantics of the service primitive 8.3.5.17.3 When generated 8.3.5.17.4 Effect of receipt 8.4 PHY management 9. Frame formats 9.1 General requirements 9.2 MAC frame formats 9.2.1 Basic components 9.2.2 Conventions 9.2.3 General frame format 9.2.4 Frame fields 9.2.4.1 Frame Control field 9.2.4.1.1 General 9.2.4.1.2 Protocol Version subfield 9.2.4.1.3 Type and Subtype subfields 9.2.4.1.4 To DS and From DS subfields 9.2.4.1.5 More Fragments subfield 9.2.4.1.6 Retry subfield 9.2.4.1.7 Power Management subfield 9.2.4.1.8 More Data subfield 9.2.4.1.9 Protected Frame subfield 9.2.4.1.10 +HTC/Order subfield 9.2.4.2 Duration/ID field 9.2.4.3 Address fields 9.2.4.3.1 General 9.2.4.3.2 Address representation 9.2.4.3.3 Address designation 9.2.4.3.4 BSSID field 9.2.4.3.5 DA field 9.2.4.3.6 SA field 9.2.4.3.7 RA field 9.2.4.3.8 TA field 9.2.4.4 Sequence Control field 9.2.4.4.1 Sequence Control field structure 9.2.4.4.2 Sequence Number field 9.2.4.4.3 Fragment Number field 9.2.4.5 QoS Control field 9.2.4.5.1 QoS Control field structure 9.2.4.5.2 TID subfield 9.2.4.5.3 EOSP (end of service period) subfield 9.2.4.5.4 Ack Policy subfield 9.2.4.5.5 TXOP Limit subfield 9.2.4.5.6 Queue Size subfield 9.2.4.5.7 TXOP Duration Requested subfield 9.2.4.5.8 AP PS Buffer State subfield 9.2.4.5.9 A-MSDU Present subfield 9.2.4.5.10 Mesh Control Present subfield 9.2.4.5.11 Mesh Power Save Level subfield 9.2.4.5.12 Receiver Service Period Initiated (RSPI) subfield 9.2.4.5.13 A-MSDU Type subfield 9.2.4.5.14 RDG/More PPDU subfield 9.2.4.5.15 AC Constraint subfield 9.2.4.5.16 Buffered AC subfield 9.2.4.6 HT Control field 9.2.4.6.1 General 9.2.4.6.2 HT variant 9.2.4.6.3 VHT variant 9.2.4.7 Frame Body field 9.2.4.7.1 General 9.2.4.7.2 Overhead for encryption 9.2.4.7.3 Mesh Control field 9.2.4.8 FCS field 9.2.5 Duration/ID field (QoS STA) 9.2.5.1 General 9.2.5.2 Setting for single and multiple protection under enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) 9.2.5.3 Setting for QoS CF-Poll frames 9.2.5.4 Setting for frames sent by a TXOP holder under HCCA 9.2.5.5 Settings within a PSMP sequence 9.2.5.6 Settings within a dual CTS sequence 9.2.5.7 Setting for control response frames 9.2.5.8 Setting for other response frames 9.3 Format of individual frame types 9.3.1 Control frames 9.3.1.1 Format of Control frames 9.3.1.2 RTS frame format 9.3.1.3 CTS frame format 9.3.1.4 Ack frame format 9.3.1.5 PS-Poll frame format 9.3.1.6 CF-End frame format 9.3.1.7 CF-End +CF-Ack frame format 9.3.1.8 BlockAckReq frame format 9.3.1.8.1 Overview 9.3.1.8.2 Basic BlockAckReq variant 9.3.1.8.3 Compressed BlockAckReq variant 9.3.1.8.4 Extended Compressed BlockAckReq variant 9.3.1.8.5 Multi-TID BlockAckReq variant 9.3.1.8.6 GCR BlockAckReq variant 9.3.1.9 BlockAck frame format 9.3.1.9.1 Overview 9.3.1.9.2 Basic BlockAck variant 9.3.1.9.3 Compressed BlockAck variant 9.3.1.9.4 Multi-TID BlockAck variant 9.3.1.9.5 Extended Compressed BlockAck variant 9.3.1.9.6 GCR Block Ack variant 9.3.1.10 Control Wrapper frame 9.3.1.11 Poll frame format 9.3.1.12 Service period request (SPR) frame format 9.3.1.13 Grant frame format 9.3.1.14 DMG CTS frame format 9.3.1.15 DMG DTS frame format 9.3.1.16 Sector sweep (SSW) frame format 9.3.1.17 Sector sweep feedback (SSW-Feedback) frame format 9.3.1.18 Sector sweep Ack (SSW-Ack) frame format 9.3.1.19 Grant Ack frame format 9.3.1.20 VHT NDP Announcement frame format 9.3.1.21 Beamforming Report Poll frame format 9.3.2 Data frames 9.3.2.1 Format of Data frames 9.3.2.2 Aggregate MSDU (A-MSDU) format 9.3.2.2.1 General 9.3.2.2.2 Basic A-MSDU subframe format 9.3.2.2.3 Short A-MSDU subframe format 9.3.3 Management frames 9.3.3.1 Terminology of Management frames and MMPDUs 9.3.3.2 Format of Management frames 9.3.3.3 Beacon frame format 9.3.3.4 ATIM frame format 9.3.3.5 Disassociation frame format 9.3.3.6 Association Request frame format 9.3.3.7 Association Response frame format 9.3.3.8 Reassociation Request frame format 9.3.3.9 Reassociation Response frame format 9.3.3.10 Probe Request frame format 9.3.3.11 Probe Response frame format 9.3.3.12 Authentication frame format 9.3.3.13 Deauthentication 9.3.3.14 Action frame format 9.3.3.15 Action No Ack frame format 9.3.3.16 Timing Advertisement frame format 9.3.4 Extension frames 9.3.4.1 Format of Extension frames 9.3.4.2 DMG Beacon 9.3.5 Frame addressing in an MBSS 9.4 Management and Extension frame body components 9.4.1 Fields that are not elements 9.4.1.1 Authentication Algorithm Number field 9.4.1.2 Authentication Transaction Sequence Number field 9.4.1.3 Beacon Interval field 9.4.1.4 Capability Information field 9.4.1.5 Current AP Address field 9.4.1.6 Listen Interval field 9.4.1.7 Reason Code field 9.4.1.8 AID field 9.4.1.9 Status Code field 9.4.1.10 Timestamp field 9.4.1.11 Action field 9.4.1.12 Dialog Token field 9.4.1.13 DLS Timeout Value field 9.4.1.14 Block Ack Parameter Set field 9.4.1.15 Block Ack Timeout Value field 9.4.1.16 DELBA Parameter Set field 9.4.1.17 QoS Info field 9.4.1.18 Measurement Pilot Interval field 9.4.1.19 Max Transmit Power field 9.4.1.20 Transmit Power Used field 9.4.1.21 Channel Width field 9.4.1.22 Operating Class and Channel field 9.4.1.23 SM Power Control field 9.4.1.24 PCO Phase Control field 9.4.1.25 PSMP Parameter Set field 9.4.1.26 PSMP STA Info field 9.4.1.27 MIMO Control field 9.4.1.28 CSI Report field 9.4.1.29 Noncompressed Beamforming Report field 9.4.1.30 Compressed Beamforming Report field 9.4.1.31 Antenna Selection Indices field 9.4.1.32 Organization Identifier field 9.4.1.33 Rate Identification field 9.4.1.34 GAS Query Response Fragment ID field 9.4.1.35 Venue Info field 9.4.1.36 Target Channel 9.4.1.37 Operating Class 9.4.1.38 Send-Confirm field 9.4.1.39 Anti-Clogging Token field 9.4.1.40 Scalar field 9.4.1.41 Finite field element (FFE) field 9.4.1.42 Confirm field 9.4.1.43 Finite Cyclic Group field 9.4.1.44 TXOP Reservation field 9.4.1.45 Relay Capable STA Info field 9.4.1.46 Band ID field 9.4.1.47 DMG Parameters field 9.4.1.48 VHT MIMO Control field 9.4.1.49 VHT Compressed Beamforming Report field 9.4.1.50 TVHT Compressed Beamforming Report field 9.4.1.51 MU Exclusive Beamforming Report field 9.4.1.52 TVHT MU Exclusive Beamforming Report field 9.4.1.53 Operating Mode field 9.4.1.54 Membership Status Array field 9.4.1.55 User Position Array field 9.4.1.56 Device Location Information Body field 9.4.1.57 WSM Type field and WSM Information field 9.4.2 Elements 9.4.2.1 General 9.4.2.2 SSID element 9.4.2.3 Supported Rates and BSS Membership Selectors element 9.4.2.4 DSSS Parameter Set element 9.4.2.5 CF Parameter Set element 9.4.2.6 TIM element 9.4.2.7 IBSS Parameter Set element 9.4.2.8 Challenge Text element 9.4.2.9 Country element 9.4.2.10 Request element 9.4.2.11 Extended Request element 9.4.2.12 ERP element 9.4.2.13 Extended Supported Rates and BSS Membership Selectors element 9.4.2.14 Power Constraint element 9.4.2.15 Power Capability element 9.4.2.16 TPC Request element 9.4.2.17 TPC Report element 9.4.2.18 Supported Channels element 9.4.2.19 Channel Switch Announcement element 9.4.2.20 Secondary Channel Offset element 9.4.2.21 Measurement Request element 9.4.2.21.1 General 9.4.2.21.2 Basic request 9.4.2.21.3 CCA request (Clear channel access request) 9.4.2.21.4 RPI histogram request (Received power indicator histogram request) 9.4.2.21.5 Channel Load request 9.4.2.21.6 Noise Histogram request 9.4.2.21.7 Beacon request 9.4.2.21.8 Frame request 9.4.2.21.9 STA Statistics request 9.4.2.21.10 LCI request (Location configuration information request) 9.4.2.21.11 Transmit Stream/Category Measurement request 9.4.2.21.12 Measurement Pause request 9.4.2.21.13 Multicast Diagnostics request 9.4.2.21.14 Location Civic request 9.4.2.21.15 Location Identifier request 9.4.2.21.16 Directional Channel Quality request 9.4.2.21.17 Directional Measurement request 9.4.2.21.18 Directional Statistics request 9.4.2.21.19 Fine Timing Measurement Range request 9.4.2.22 Measurement Report element 9.4.2.22.1 General 9.4.2.22.2 Basic report 9.4.2.22.3 CCA report 9.4.2.22.4 RPI histogram report 9.4.2.22.5 Channel Load report 9.4.2.22.6 Noise Histogram report 9.4.2.22.7 Beacon report 9.4.2.22.8 Frame report 9.4.2.22.9 STA Statistics report 9.4.2.22.10 LCI report (Location configuration information report) 9.4.2.22.11 Transmit Stream/Category Measurement report 9.4.2.22.12 Multicast Diagnostics report 9.4.2.22.13 Location Civic report 9.4.2.22.14 Location Identifier report 9.4.2.22.15 Directional Channel Quality report 9.4.2.22.16 Directional Measurement report 9.4.2.22.17 Directional Statistics report 9.4.2.22.18 Fine Timing Measurement Range report 9.4.2.23 Quiet element 9.4.2.24 IBSS DFS element 9.4.2.25 RSNE 9.4.2.25.1 General 9.4.2.25.2 Cipher suites 9.4.2.25.3 AKM suites 9.4.2.25.4 RSN capabilities 9.4.2.25.5 PMKID 9.4.2.26 Vendor Specific element 9.4.2.27 Extended Capabilities element 9.4.2.28 BSS Load element 9.4.2.29 EDCA Parameter Set element 9.4.2.30 TSPEC element 9.4.2.31 TCLAS element 9.4.2.32 TS Delay element 9.4.2.33 TCLAS Processing element 9.4.2.34 Schedule element 9.4.2.35 QoS Capability element 9.4.2.36 AP Channel Report element 9.4.2.37 Neighbor Report element 9.4.2.38 RCPI element 9.4.2.39 BSS Average Access Delay element 9.4.2.40 Antenna element 9.4.2.41 RSNI element 9.4.2.42 Measurement Pilot Transmission element 9.4.2.43 BSS Available Admission Capacity element 9.4.2.44 BSS AC Access Delay element 9.4.2.45 RM Enabled Capabilities element 9.4.2.46 Multiple BSSID element 9.4.2.47 Mobility Domain element (MDE) 9.4.2.48 Fast BSS Transition element (FTE) 9.4.2.49 Timeout Interval element (TIE) 9.4.2.50 RIC Data element (RDE) 9.4.2.51 RIC Descriptor element 9.4.2.52 DSE Registered Location element 9.4.2.53 Extended Channel Switch Announcement element 9.4.2.54 Supported Operating Classes element 9.4.2.55 Management MIC element 9.4.2.56 HT Capabilities element 9.4.2.56.1 HT Capabilities element structure 9.4.2.56.2 HT Capability Information field 9.4.2.56.3 A-MPDU Parameters field 9.4.2.56.4 Supported MCS Set field 9.4.2.56.5 HT Extended Capabilities field 9.4.2.56.6 Transmit Beamforming Capabilities 9.4.2.56.7 ASEL Capability field 9.4.2.57 HT Operation element 9.4.2.58 20/40 BSS Intolerant Channel Report element 9.4.2.59 Overlapping BSS Scan Parameters element 9.4.2.60 20/40 BSS Coexistence element 9.4.2.61 Time Advertisement element 9.4.2.62 Link Identifier element 9.4.2.63 Wakeup Schedule element 9.4.2.64 Channel Switch Timing element 9.4.2.65 PTI Control element 9.4.2.66 TPU Buffer Status element 9.4.2.67 Event Request element 9.4.2.67.1 Event Request definition 9.4.2.67.2 Transition event request 9.4.2.67.3 RSNA event request 9.4.2.67.4 Peer-to-peer link event request 9.4.2.67.5 Vendor Specific event request 9.4.2.68 Event Report element 9.4.2.68.1 Event Report Definition 9.4.2.68.2 Transition event report 9.4.2.68.3 RSNA event report 9.4.2.68.4 Peer-to-peer link event report 9.4.2.68.5 WNM log event report 9.4.2.68.6 Vendor Specific event report 9.4.2.69 Diagnostic Request element 9.4.2.69.1 Diagnostic Request definition 9.4.2.69.2 Association Diagnostic request 9.4.2.69.3 IEEE 802.1X Authentication Diagnostic request 9.4.2.69.4 Vendor Specific diagnostic request 9.4.2.69.5 Diagnostic subelement descriptions 9.4.2.70 Diagnostic Report element 9.4.2.70.1 Diagnostic report definition 9.4.2.70.2 Manufacturer Information STA Report 9.4.2.70.3 Configuration Profile report 9.4.2.70.4 Association Diagnostic report 9.4.2.70.5 IEEE 802.1X Authentication Diagnostic report 9.4.2.70.6 Vendor Specific diagnostic report 9.4.2.71 Location Parameters element 9.4.2.71.1 Location Parameters definition 9.4.2.71.2 Location Indication Parameters subelement 9.4.2.71.3 Location Indication Channels subelement 9.4.2.71.4 Location Status subelement 9.4.2.71.5 Radio subelement 9.4.2.71.6 Motion subelement 9.4.2.71.7 Location Indication Broadcast Data Rate subelement 9.4.2.71.8 Time of Departure subelement 9.4.2.71.9 Location Indication Options subelement 9.4.2.72 Nontransmitted BSSID Capability element 9.4.2.73 SSID List element 9.4.2.74 Multiple BSSID-Index element 9.4.2.75 FMS Descriptor element 9.4.2.76 FMS Request element 9.4.2.77 FMS Response element 9.4.2.78 QoS Traffic Capability element 9.4.2.79 BSS Max Idle Period element 9.4.2.80 TFS Request element 9.4.2.81 TFS Response element 9.4.2.82 WNM Sleep Mode element 9.4.2.83 TIM Broadcast Request element 9.4.2.84 TIM Broadcast Response element 9.4.2.85 Collocated Interference Report element 9.4.2.86 Channel Usage element 9.4.2.87 Time Zone element 9.4.2.88 DMS Request element 9.4.2.89 DMS Response element 9.4.2.90 Destination URI element 9.4.2.91 U-APSD Coexistence element 9.4.2.92 Interworking element 9.4.2.93 Advertisement Protocol element 9.4.2.94 Expedited Bandwidth Request element 9.4.2.95 QoS Map element 9.4.2.96 Roaming Consortium element 9.4.2.97 Emergency Alert Identifier element 9.4.2.98 Mesh Configuration element 9.4.2.98.1 General 9.4.2.98.2 Active Path Selection Protocol Identifier 9.4.2.98.3 Active Path Selection Metric Identifier 9.4.2.98.4 Congestion Control Mode Identifier 9.4.2.98.5 Synchronization Method Identifier 9.4.2.98.6 Authentication Protocol Identifier 9.4.2.98.7 Mesh Formation Info 9.4.2.98.8 Mesh Capability 9.4.2.99 Mesh ID element 9.4.2.100 Mesh Link Metric Report element 9.4.2.101 Congestion Notification element 9.4.2.102 Mesh Peering Management element 9.4.2.103 Mesh Channel Switch Parameters element 9.4.2.104 Mesh Awake Window element 9.4.2.105 Beacon Timing element 9.4.2.106 MCCAOP Setup Request element 9.4.2.106.1 General 9.4.2.106.2 MCCAOP Reservation field 9.4.2.107 MCCAOP Setup Reply element 9.4.2.108 MCCAOP Advertisement Overview element 9.4.2.109 MCCAOP Advertisement element 9.4.2.109.1 General 9.4.2.109.2 MCCAOP Advertisement Element Information field 9.4.2.109.3 MCCAOP Reservation Report field 9.4.2.110 MCCAOP Teardown element 9.4.2.111 GANN element 9.4.2.112 RANN element 9.4.2.113 PREQ element 9.4.2.114 PREP element 9.4.2.115 PERR element 9.4.2.116 PXU element 9.4.2.117 PXUC element 9.4.2.118 Authenticated Mesh Peering Exchange element 9.4.2.119 MIC element 9.4.2.120 Quality-of-Service Management Frame Policy element 9.4.2.121 Intra-Access Category Priority element 9.4.2.122 SCS Descriptor element 9.4.2.123 QLoad Report element 9.4.2.123.1 QLoad Report element format 9.4.2.123.2 QLoad field format 9.4.2.124 HCCA TXOP Update Count element 9.4.2.125 Higher Layer Stream ID element 9.4.2.126 GCR Group Address element 9.4.2.127 DMG BSS Parameter Change element 9.4.2.128 DMG Capabilities element 9.4.2.128.1 General 9.4.2.128.2 DMG STA Capability Information field 9.4.2.128.3 DMG AP Or PCP Capability Information field 9.4.2.128.4 DMG STA Beam Tracking Time Limit field 9.4.2.128.5 Extended SC MCS Capabilities field 9.4.2.128.6 Maximum number of A-MSDU subframes in an A-MSDU 9.4.2.129 DMG Operation element 9.4.2.130 DMG Beam Refinement element 9.4.2.131 DMG Wakeup Schedule element 9.4.2.132 Extended Schedule element 9.4.2.133 STA Availability element 9.4.2.134 DMG TSPEC element 9.4.2.135 Next DMG ATI element 9.4.2.136 Channel Measurement Feedback element 9.4.2.137 Awake Window element 9.4.2.138 Multi-band element 9.4.2.139 ADDBA Extension element 9.4.2.140 Next PCP List element 9.4.2.141 PCP Handover element 9.4.2.142 DMG Link Margin element 9.4.2.142.1 General 9.4.2.142.2 Activity field 9.4.2.143 DMG Link Adaptation Acknowledgment element 9.4.2.144 Switching Stream element 9.4.2.145 Session Transition element 9.4.2.146 Dynamic Tone Pairing (DTP) Report element 9.4.2.147 Cluster Report element 9.4.2.148 Relay Capabilities element 9.4.2.149 Relay Transfer Parameter Set element 9.4.2.150 Quiet Period Request element 9.4.2.151 Quiet Period Response element 9.4.2.152 BeamLink Maintenance element 9.4.2.153 Multiple MAC Sublayers (MMS) element 9.4.2.154 U-PID element 9.4.2.155 ECAPC Policy element 9.4.2.156 Cluster Time Offset element 9.4.2.157 Antenna Sector ID Pattern element 9.4.2.158 VHT Capabilities element 9.4.2.158.1 VHT Capabilities element structure 9.4.2.158.2 VHT Capabilities Information field 9.4.2.158.3 Supported VHT-MCS and NSS Set field 9.4.2.159 VHT Operation element 9.4.2.160 Extended BSS Load element 9.4.2.161 Wide Bandwidth Channel Switch element 9.4.2.162 Transmit Power Envelope element 9.4.2.163 Channel Switch Wrapper element 9.4.2.164 AID element 9.4.2.165 Quiet Channel element 9.4.2.166 Operating Mode Notification element 9.4.2.167 UPSIM element 9.4.2.168 Fine Timing Measurement Parameters element 9.4.2.169 Device Location element 9.4.2.170 White Space Map element 9.4.2.171 Reduced Neighbor Report element 9.4.2.171.1 Neighbor AP Information field 9.4.2.172 TVHT Operation element 9.4.2.173 FTM Synchronization Information element 9.4.2.174 Estimated service parameters element 9.4.2.175 Future Channel Guidance element 9.4.3 Subelements 9.4.4 TLV encodings 9.4.4.1 General 9.4.4.2 Common TLVs 9.4.4.2.1 Device Class 9.4.4.2.2 Device Identification Information 9.4.4.2.3 Device Location Information 9.4.4.2.4 Channel Schedule Descriptor 9.4.4.2.5 WSM information values 9.4.5 Access network query protocol (ANQP) elements 9.4.5.1 General 9.4.5.2 Query List ANQP-element 9.4.5.3 Capability List ANQP-element 9.4.5.4 Venue Name ANQP-element 9.4.5.5 Emergency Call Number ANQP-element 9.4.5.6 Network Authentication Type ANQP-element 9.4.5.7 Roaming Consortium ANQP-element 9.4.5.8 Vendor Specific ANQP-element 9.4.5.9 IP Address Type Availability ANQP-element 9.4.5.10 NAI Realm ANQP-element 9.4.5.11 3GPP Cellular Network ANQP-element 9.4.5.12 AP Geospatial Location ANQP-element 9.4.5.13 AP Civic Location ANQP-element 9.4.5.14 AP Location Public Identifier URI/FQDN ANQP-element 9.4.5.15 Domain Name ANQP-element 9.4.5.16 Emergency Alert URI ANQP-element 9.4.5.17 Emergency NAI ANQP-element 9.4.5.18 TDLS Capability ANQP-element 9.4.5.19 Neighbor Report ANQP-element 9.4.5.20 Venue URL ANQP-element 9.4.5.21 Advice of Charge ANQP-element 9.4.5.22 Local Content ANQP-element 9.4.5.23 Network Authentication Type with Timestamp ANQP-element 9.4.6 Registered location query protocol (RLQP) elements 9.4.6.1 General 9.4.6.2 Channel Availability Query RLQP-element 9.4.6.3 Channel Schedule Management RLQP-element 9.4.6.4 Network Channel Control RLQP-element 9.4.6.5 Vendor Specific RLQP-element 9.5 Fields used in Management and Extension frame bodies and Control frames 9.5.1 Sector Sweep field 9.5.2 Dynamic Allocation Info field 9.5.3 Sector Sweep Feedback field 9.5.4 BRP Request field 9.5.5 Beamforming Control field 9.5.6 Beamformed Link Maintenance field 9.6 Action frame format details 9.6.1 Introduction 9.6.2 Spectrum management Action frames 9.6.2.1 General 9.6.2.2 Measurement Request frame format 9.6.2.3 Measurement Report frame format 9.6.2.4 TPC Request frame format 9.6.2.5 TPC Report frame format 9.6.2.6 Channel Switch Announcement frame format 9.6.3 QoS Action frame details 9.6.3.1 General 9.6.3.2 Basic and DMG ADDTS Request frame format 9.6.3.2.1 Basic ADDTS Request frame variant 9.6.3.2.2 DMG ADDTS Request frame variant 9.6.3.3 Basic and DMG ADDTS Response frame format 9.6.3.3.1 Basic ADDTS Response frame variant 9.6.3.3.2 DMG ADDTS Response frame variant 9.6.3.4 DELTS frame format 9.6.3.5 Schedule frame format 9.6.3.6 QoS Map Configure frame format 9.6.3.7 ADDTS Reserve Request frame format 9.6.3.8 ADDTS Reserve Response frame format 9.6.4 DLS Action frame details 9.6.4.1 General 9.6.4.2 DLS Request frame format 9.6.4.3 DLS Response frame format 9.6.4.4 DLS Teardown frame format 9.6.5 Block Ack Action frame details 9.6.5.1 General 9.6.5.2 ADDBA Request frame format 9.6.5.3 ADDBA Response frame format 9.6.5.4 DELBA frame format 9.6.6 Vendor-specific action details 9.6.7 Radio Measurement action details 9.6.7.1 General 9.6.7.2 Radio Measurement Request frame format 9.6.7.3 Radio Measurement Report frame format 9.6.7.4 Link Measurement Request frame format 9.6.7.5 Link Measurement Report frame format 9.6.7.6 Neighbor Report Request frame format 9.6.7.7 Neighbor Report Response frame format 9.6.8 Public Action details 9.6.8.1 Public Action frames 9.6.8.2 20/40 BSS Coexistence Management frame format 9.6.8.3 Measurement Pilot frame format 9.6.8.4 DSE Enablement frame format 9.6.8.5 DSE Deenablement frame format 9.6.8.6 DSE Registered Location Announcement frame format 9.6.8.7 Extended Channel Switch Announcement frame format 9.6.8.8 DSE Measurement Request frame format 9.6.8.9 DSE Measurement Report frame format 9.6.8.10 DSE Power Constraint frame format 9.6.8.11 Vendor Specific Public Action frame format 9.6.8.12 GAS Initial Request frame format 9.6.8.13 GAS Initial Response frame format 9.6.8.14 GAS Comeback Request frame format 9.6.8.15 GAS Comeback Response frame format 9.6.8.16 TDLS Discovery Response frame format 9.6.8.17 Location Track Notification frame format 9.6.8.18 QMF Policy frame format 9.6.8.19 QMF Policy Change frame format 9.6.8.20 QLoad Request frame format 9.6.8.21 QLoad Report frame format 9.6.8.22 HCCA TXOP Advertisement frame 9.6.8.23 HCCA TXOP Response frame 9.6.8.24 Public Key frame 9.6.8.25 Channel Availability Query frame format 9.6.8.26 Channel Schedule Management frame format 9.6.8.27 Contact Verification Signal frame format 9.6.8.28 GDD Enablement Request frame format 9.6.8.29 GDD Enablement Response frame format 9.6.8.30 Network Channel Control frame format 9.6.8.31 White Space Map Announcement frame format 9.6.8.32 Fine Timing Measurement Request frame format 9.6.8.33 Fine Timing Measurement frame format 9.6.8.34 QAB Request frame format 9.6.8.35 QAB Response frame format 9.6.9 FT Action frame details 9.6.9.1 General 9.6.9.2 FT Request frame 9.6.9.3 FT Response frame 9.6.9.4 FT Confirm frame 9.6.9.5 FT Ack frame 9.6.10 SA Query Action frame details 9.6.10.1 General 9.6.10.2 SA Query Request frame 9.6.10.3 SA Query Response frame 9.6.11 Protected Dual of Public Action frames 9.6.12 HT Action frame details 9.6.12.1 HT Action field 9.6.12.2 Notify Channel Width frame format 9.6.12.3 SM Power Save frame format 9.6.12.4 PSMP frame format 9.6.12.5 Set PCO Phase frame format 9.6.12.6 CSI frame format 9.6.12.7 Noncompressed Beamforming frame format 9.6.12.8 Compressed Beamforming frame format 9.6.12.9 Antenna Selection Indices Feedback frame format 9.6.13 TDLS Action field formats 9.6.13.1 General 9.6.13.2 TDLS Setup Request Action field format 9.6.13.3 TDLS Setup Response Action field format 9.6.13.4 TDLS Setup Confirm Action field format 9.6.13.5 TDLS Teardown Action field format 9.6.13.6 TDLS Peer Traffic Indication Action field format 9.6.13.7 TDLS Channel Switch Request Action field format 9.6.13.8 TDLS Channel Switch Response Action field format 9.6.13.9 TDLS Peer PSM Request Action field format 9.6.13.10 TDLS Peer PSM Response Action field format 9.6.13.11 TDLS Peer Traffic Response Action field format 9.6.13.12 TDLS Discovery Request Action field format 9.6.14 WNM Action details 9.6.14.1 WNM Action fields 9.6.14.2 Event Request frame format 9.6.14.3 Event Report frame format 9.6.14.4 Diagnostic Request frame format 9.6.14.5 Diagnostic Report frame format 9.6.14.6 Location Configuration Request frame format 9.6.14.7 Location Configuration Response frame format 9.6.14.8 BSS Transition Management Query frame format 9.6.14.9 BSS Transition Management Request frame format 9.6.14.10 BSS Transition Management Response frame format 9.6.14.11 FMS Request frame format 9.6.14.12 FMS Response frame format 9.6.14.13 Collocated Interference Request frame format 9.6.14.14 Collocated Interference Report frame format 9.6.14.15 TFS Request frame format 9.6.14.16 TFS Response frame format 9.6.14.17 TFS Notify frame format 9.6.14.18 TFS Notify Response frame format 9.6.14.19 WNM Sleep Mode Request frame format 9.6.14.20 WNM Sleep Mode Response frame format 9.6.14.21 TIM Broadcast Request frame format 9.6.14.22 TIM Broadcast Response frame format 9.6.14.23 QoS Traffic Capability Update frame format 9.6.14.24 Channel Usage Request frame format 9.6.14.25 Channel Usage Response frame format 9.6.14.26 DMS Request frame format 9.6.14.27 DMS Response frame format 9.6.14.28 Timing Measurement Request frame format 9.6.14.29 WNM Notification Request frame format 9.6.14.30 WNM Notification Response frame format 9.6.15 Unprotected WNM Action details 9.6.15.1 Unprotected WNM Action fields 9.6.15.2 TIM frame format 9.6.15.3 Timing Measurement frame format 9.6.16 Self-protected Action frame details 9.6.16.1 Self-protected Action fields 9.6.16.2 Mesh Peering Open frame format 9.6.16.2.1 Mesh Peering Open frame self protection 9.6.16.2.2 Mesh Peering Open frame details 9.6.16.3 Mesh Peering Confirm frame format 9.6.16.3.1 Mesh Peering Confirm frame self protection 9.6.16.3.2 Mesh Peering Confirm frame details 9.6.16.4 Mesh Peering Close frame format 9.6.16.4.1 Mesh Peering Close frame self protection 9.6.16.4.2 Mesh Peering Close frame details 9.6.16.5 Mesh Group Key Inform frame format 9.6.16.5.1 Mesh Group Key Inform frame self protection 9.6.16.5.2 Mesh Group Key Inform frame details 9.6.16.6 Mesh Group Key Acknowledge frame format 9.6.16.6.1 Mesh Group Key Acknowledge frame self protection 9.6.16.6.2 Mesh Group Key Acknowledge frame details 9.6.17 Mesh Action frame details 9.6.17.1 Mesh Action fields 9.6.17.2 Mesh Link Metric Report frame format 9.6.17.3 HWMP Mesh Path Selection frame format 9.6.17.4 Gate Announcement frame format 9.6.17.5 Congestion Control Notification frame format 9.6.17.6 MCCA Setup Request frame format 9.6.17.7 MCCA Setup Reply frame format 9.6.17.8 MCCA Advertisement Request frame format 9.6.17.9 MCCA Advertisement frame format 9.6.17.10 MCCA Teardown frame format 9.6.17.11 TBTT Adjustment Request frame format 9.6.17.12 TBTT Adjustment Response frame format 9.6.18 Multihop Action frame details 9.6.18.1 Multihop Action fields 9.6.18.2 Proxy Update frame format 9.6.18.3 Proxy Update Confirmation frame format 9.6.19 Robust AV Streaming Action frame details 9.6.19.1 General 9.6.19.2 SCS Request frame format 9.6.19.3 SCS Response frame format 9.6.19.4 Group Membership Request frame format 9.6.19.5 Group Membership Response frame format 9.6.20 DMG Action frame details 9.6.20.1 DMG Action field 9.6.20.2 Power Save Configuration Request frame format 9.6.20.3 Power Save Configuration Response frame format 9.6.20.4 Information Request frame format 9.6.20.5 Information Response frame format 9.6.20.6 Handover Request frame format 9.6.20.7 Handover Response frame format 9.6.20.8 DTP Request frame format 9.6.20.9 DTP Report frame format 9.6.20.10 Relay Search Request frame format 9.6.20.11 Relay Search Response frame format 9.6.20.12 Multi-relay Channel Measurement Request frame format 9.6.20.13 Multi-relay Channel Measurement Report frame format 9.6.20.14 RLS Request frame format 9.6.20.15 RLS Response frame format 9.6.20.16 RLS Announcement frame format 9.6.20.17 RLS Teardown frame format 9.6.20.18 Relay Ack Request frame format 9.6.20.19 Relay Ack Response frame format 9.6.20.20 TPA Request frame format 9.6.20.21 TPA Response frame format 9.6.20.22 TPA Report frame format 9.6.20.23 ROC Request frame format 9.6.20.24 ROC Response frame format 9.6.21 FST Action frame details 9.6.21.1 FST Action field 9.6.21.2 FST Setup Request frame format 9.6.21.3 FST Setup Response frame format 9.6.21.4 FST Teardown frame format 9.6.21.5 FST Ack Request frame format 9.6.21.6 FST Ack Response frame format 9.6.21.7 On-channel Tunnel Request frame format 9.6.22 Unprotected DMG Action frame details 9.6.22.1 Unprotected DMG Action field 9.6.22.2 Announce frame format 9.6.22.3 BRP frame format 9.6.23 VHT Action frame details 9.6.23.1 VHT Action field 9.6.23.2 VHT Compressed Beamforming frame format 9.6.23.3 Group ID Management frame format 9.6.23.4 Operating Mode Notification frame format 9.7 Aggregate MPDU (A-MPDU) 9.7.1 A-MPDU format 9.7.2 MPDU delimiter CRC field 9.7.3 A-MPDU contents 10. MAC sublayer functional description 10.1 Introduction 10.2 MAC architecture 10.2.1 General 10.2.2 DCF 10.2.3 PCF 10.2.4 Hybrid coordination function (HCF) 10.2.4.1 General 10.2.4.2 HCF contention based channel access (EDCA) 10.2.4.3 HCF controlled channel access (HCCA) 10.2.5 Mesh coordination function (MCF) 10.2.6 Combined use of DCF, PCF, and HCF 10.2.7 Fragmentation/defragmentation overview 10.2.8 MAC data service 10.3 DCF 10.3.1 General 10.3.2 Procedures common to the DCF and EDCAF 10.3.2.1 CS mechanism 10.3.2.2 MAC-level acknowledgments 10.3.2.3 IFS 10.3.2.3.1 General 10.3.2.3.2 RIFS 10.3.2.3.3 SIFS 10.3.2.3.4 PIFS 10.3.2.3.5 DIFS 10.3.2.3.6 AIFS 10.3.2.3.7 EIFS 10.3.2.3.8 SBIFS 10.3.2.3.9 BRPIFS 10.3.2.3.10 MBIFS 10.3.2.3.11 LBIFS 10.3.2.4 Setting and resetting the NAV 10.3.2.5 RTS/CTS with fragmentation 10.3.2.6 VHT RTS procedure 10.3.2.7 CTS and DMG CTS procedure 10.3.2.8 Dual CTS protection 10.3.2.8.1 Dual CTS protection procedure 10.3.2.8.2 Dual CTS protection examples 10.3.2.9 Acknowledgment procedure 10.3.2.10 MU acknowledgment procedure 10.3.2.11 Duplicate detection and recovery 10.3.2.11.1 General 10.3.2.11.2 Transmitter requirements 10.3.2.11.3 Receiver requirements 10.3.2.12 NAV distribution 10.3.2.13 Operation of aSlotTime 10.3.3 Random backoff time 10.3.4 DCF access procedure 10.3.4.1 Introduction 10.3.4.2 Basic access 10.3.4.3 Backoff procedure for DCF 10.3.4.4 Recovery procedures and retransmit limits 10.3.4.5 Control of the channel 10.3.5 Individually addressed MPDU transfer procedure 10.3.6 Group addressed MPDU transfer procedure 10.3.7 DCF timing relations 10.3.8 Signal extension 10.3.9 Determination of PLME aCWmin characteristics 10.4 PCF 10.4.1 General 10.4.2 CFP structure and timing 10.4.3 PCF access procedure 10.4.3.1 General 10.4.3.2 Fundamental access 10.4.3.3 NAV operation during the CFP 10.4.4 PCF transfer procedure 10.4.4.1 General 10.4.4.2 PCF transfers when the PC STA is transmitter or recipient 10.4.4.3 Operation with overlapping point-coordinated BSSs 10.4.4.4 CFPMaxDuration limit 10.4.4.5 CF usage rules 10.4.5 CF polling list 10.4.5.1 General 10.4.5.2 Polling list processing 10.4.5.3 Polling list update procedure 10.5 Fragmentation 10.6 Defragmentation 10.7 Multirate support 10.7.1 Overview 10.7.2 Basic HT-MCS Set field 10.7.3 Basic STBC MCS 10.7.4 Basic rate set, basic HT-MCS set, and basic VHT-MCS and NSS set for mesh STA 10.7.5 Rate selection for Data and Management frames 10.7.5.1 Rate selection for non-STBC Beacon and non-STBC PSMP frames 10.7.5.2 Rate selection for STBC group addressed Data and Management frames 10.7.5.3 Rate selection for other group addressed Data and Management frames 10.7.5.4 Rate selection for polling frames 10.7.5.5 Rate selection for +CF-Ack frames 10.7.5.6 Rate selection for Data frames sent within an FMS stream 10.7.5.7 Rate selection for other individually addressed Data and Management frames 10.7.6 Rate selection for Control frames 10.7.6.1 General rules for rate selection for Control frames 10.7.6.2 Rate selection for Control frames that initiate a TXOP 10.7.6.3 Rate selection for CF-End frames 10.7.6.4 Rate selection for Control frames that are not control response frames 10.7.6.5 Rate selection for control response frames 10.7.6.5.1 Introduction 10.7.6.5.2 Selection of a rate or MCS 10.7.6.5.3 Control response frame MCS computation 10.7.6.5.4 Selection of an alternate rate or MCS for a control response frame 10.7.6.5.5 Control response frame TXVECTOR parameter restrictions 10.7.6.6 Channel Width selection for Control frames 10.7.6.7 Control frame TXVECTOR parameter restrictions 10.7.7 Multirate support for DMG STAs 10.7.7.1 Usage of DMG Control modulation class 10.7.7.2 Rate selection rules for Control frames transmitted by DMG STAs 10.7.7.3 Rate selection for group addressed Data and Management frames transmitted by DMG STAs 10.7.7.4 Rate selection for individually addressed Data and Management frames transmitted by DMG STAs 10.7.7.5 Rate selection for BRP packets 10.7.8 Multiple BSSID Rate Selection 10.7.9 Modulation classes 10.7.10 Non-HT basic rate calculation 10.7.11 Channel Width in non-HT and non-HT duplicate PPDUs 10.7.12 Rate selection constraints for VHT STAs 10.7.12.1 Rx Supported VHT-MCS and NSS Set 10.7.12.2 Tx Supported VHT-MCS and NSS Set 10.7.12.3 Additional rate selection constraints for VHT PPDUs 10.8 MSDU transmission restrictions 10.9 HT Control field operation 10.10 Control Wrapper operation 10.11 MSDU processing 10.12 A-MSDU operation 10.13 A-MPDU operation 10.13.1 A-MPDU contents 10.13.2 A-MPDU length limit rules 10.13.3 Minimum MPDU Start Spacing field 10.13.4 A-MPDU aggregation of group addressed Data frames 10.13.5 Transport of A-MPDU by the PHY data service 10.13.6 A-MPDU padding for VHT PPDU 10.13.7 Setting the EOF field of the MPDU delimiter 10.13.8 Transport of VHT single MPDUs 10.14 PPDU duration constraint 10.15 DMG A-PPDU operation 10.16 LDPC operation 10.17 STBC operation 10.18 Short GI operation 10.19 Greenfield operation 10.20 Group ID and partial AID in VHT PPDUs 10.21 Operation across regulatory domains 10.21.1 General 10.21.2 Operation upon entering a regulatory domain 10.21.3 Operation with operating classes 10.21.4 Operation with the Transmit Power Envelope element 10.21.5 Operation with coverage classes 10.22 HCF 10.22.1 General 10.22.2 HCF contention based channel access (EDCA) 10.22.2.1 Reference model 10.22.2.2 EDCA backoff procedure 10.22.2.3 EDCA TXOPs 10.22.2.4 Obtaining an EDCA TXOP 10.22.2.5 EDCA channel access in a VHT or TVHT BSS 10.22.2.6 Sharing an EDCA TXOP 10.22.2.7 Multiple frame transmission in an EDCA TXOP 10.22.2.8 TXOP limits 10.22.2.9 Truncation of TXOP 10.22.2.10 Termination of TXOP 10.22.2.11 Retransmit procedures 10.22.2.11.1 General 10.22.2.11.2 Unsolicited retry procedure 10.22.3 HCF controlled channel access (HCCA) 10.22.3.1 General 10.22.3.2 HCCA procedure 10.22.3.2.1 General 10.22.3.2.2 CFP generation 10.22.3.2.3 CAP generation 10.22.3.2.4 Recovery from the absence of an expected reception 10.22.3.3 HCCA TXOP structure and timing 10.22.3.4 NAV operation of a TXOP under HCCA 10.22.3.5 HCCA transfer rules 10.22.3.5.1 General 10.22.3.5.2 TXOP requests 10.22.3.5.3 Use of RTS/CTS 10.22.3.5.4 HCCA transfer rules for a VHT STA 10.22.4 Admission control at the HC 10.22.4.1 General 10.22.4.2 Contention based admission control procedures 10.22.4.2.1 General 10.22.4.2.2 Procedures at the AP 10.22.4.2.3 Procedure at non-AP STAs 10.22.4.3 Controlled-access admission control 10.23 Mesh coordination function (MCF) 10.23.1 General 10.23.2 MCF contention based channel access 10.23.3 MCF controlled channel access (MCCA) 10.23.3.1 General 10.23.3.2 MCCA activation 10.23.3.3 MCCAOP reservations 10.23.3.4 Neighborhood MCCAOP periods at a mesh STA 10.23.3.5 MCCA access fraction (MAF) 10.23.3.6 MCCAOP setup procedure 10.23.3.7 MCCAOP advertisement 10.23.3.7.1 General 10.23.3.7.2 Construction of an MCCAOP advertisement set 10.23.3.7.3 Setting the MCCAOP advertisement set sequence number 10.23.3.7.4 Advertisement procedure 10.23.3.7.5 Receipt of an MCCAOP advertisement 10.23.3.7.6 Complete update of the tracked MCCAOP reservations of a neighbor mesh STA 10.23.3.7.7 Partial update of the tracked MCCAOP reservations of a neighbor mesh STA 10.23.3.7.8 MCCAOP advertisement request procedure 10.23.3.8 MCCAOP teardown 10.23.3.8.1 Conditions that trigger an MCCAOP teardown 10.23.3.8.2 MCCAOP teardown procedure 10.23.3.9 Access during MCCAOPs 10.23.3.9.1 Access by MCCAOP owners 10.23.3.9.2 Access during an MCCAOP by mesh STAs that are not the MCCAOP owner 10.23.3.10 Interaction with time synchronization 10.24 Block acknowledgment (block ack) 10.24.1 Introduction 10.24.2 Setup and modification of the block ack parameters 10.24.3 Data and acknowledgment transfer using immediate block ack policy and delayed block ack policy 10.24.4 Receive buffer operation 10.24.5 Teardown of the block ack mechanism 10.24.6 Selection of BlockAck and BlockAckReq variants 10.24.7 HT-immediate block ack extensions 10.24.7.1 Introduction to HT-immediate block ack extensions 10.24.7.2 HT-immediate block ack architecture 10.24.7.3 Scoreboard context control during full-state operation 10.24.7.4 Scoreboard context control during partial-state operation 10.24.7.5 Generation and transmission of BlockAck frames by an HT STA or DMG STA 10.24.7.6 Receive reordering buffer control operation 10.24.7.6.1 General 10.24.7.6.2 Operation for each received Data frame 10.24.7.6.3 Operation for each received BlockAckReq 10.24.7.7 Originator’s behavior 10.24.7.8 Maintaining block ack state at the originator 10.24.7.9 Originator’s support of recipient’s partial state 10.24.8 HT-delayed block ack extensions 10.24.8.1 Introduction 10.24.8.2 HT-delayed block ack negotiation 10.24.8.3 Operation of HT-delayed block ack 10.24.9 Protected block ack agreement 10.24.10 GCR block ack 10.24.10.1 Introduction 10.24.10.2 Scoreboard context control during GCR block ack 10.24.10.3 GCR block ack BlockAckReq and BlockAck frame exchanges 10.24.11 DMG block ack with flow control 10.24.11.1 General 10.24.11.2 DMG block ack architecture with flow control 10.24.11.3 Scoreboard context control with flow control 10.24.11.4 Receive Reordering Buffer with flow control operation 10.24.11.4.1 General 10.24.11.4.2 Operation for DMG block ack agreement initialization 10.24.11.4.3 Operation for each received Data frame 10.24.11.4.4 Operation for ongoing release of received MPDUs 10.24.11.5 Generation and transmission of BlockAck frame by a STA with flow control 10.24.11.6 Originator’s behavior with flow control support 10.25 No Acknowledgment (No Ack) 10.26 Protection mechanisms 10.26.1 Introduction 10.26.2 Protection mechanism for non-ERP receivers 10.26.3 Protection mechanisms for transmissions of HT PPDUs 10.26.3.1 General 10.26.3.2 Protection rules for HT STA operating a direct link 10.26.3.3 RIFS protection 10.26.3.4 Use of OBSS Non-HT STAs Present field 10.26.3.5 Protection rules for an HT mesh STA 10.26.4 L_LENGTH and L_DATARATE parameter values for HT-mixed format PPDUs 10.26.5 L-SIG TXOP protection 10.26.5.1 General rules 10.26.5.2 L-SIG TXOP protection rules at the TXOP holder 10.26.5.3 L-SIG TXOP protection rules at the TXOP responder 10.26.5.4 L-SIG TXOP protection NAV update rule 10.26.6 Protection rules for VHT STAs 10.27 MAC frame processing 10.27.1 Introduction 10.27.2 Revision level field processing 10.27.3 Duration/ID field processing 10.27.4 Response to an invalid Action frame 10.27.5 Operation of the Dialog Token field 10.27.6 Element parsing 10.27.7 Vendor specific element parsing 10.27.8 Extensible element parsing 10.27.9 Extensible subelement parsing 10.27.10 Extensible TLV parsing 10.28 Reverse direction protocol 10.28.1 General 10.28.2 Reverse direction (RD) exchange sequence 10.28.3 Rules for RD initiator 10.28.4 Rules for RD responder 10.29 PSMP operation 10.29.1 General 10.29.2 Frame transmission mechanism during PSMP 10.29.2.1 PSMP frame transmission (PSMP-DTT and PSMP-UTT) 10.29.2.2 PSMP downlink transmission (PSMP-DTT) 10.29.2.3 PSMP uplink transmission (PSMP-UTT) 10.29.2.4 PSMP burst 10.29.2.5 Resource allocation within a PSMP burst 10.29.2.6 PSMP-UTT retransmission 10.29.2.7 PSMP acknowledgment rules 10.29.2.8 PSMP group addressed transmission rules 10.29.2.8.1 Rules at the AP 10.29.2.8.2 Rules at the STA 10.29.3 Scheduled PSMP 10.29.4 Unscheduled PSMP 10.30 Sounding PPDUs 10.31 Link adaptation 10.31.1 Introduction 10.31.2 Link adaptation using the HT variant HT Control field 10.31.3 Link adaptation using the VHT variant HT Control field 10.32 Transmit beamforming 10.32.1 HT steering matrix calculations 10.32.2 HT transmit beamforming with implicit feedback 10.32.2.1 General 10.32.2.2 Unidirectional implicit transmit beamforming 10.32.2.3 Bidirectional implicit transmit beamforming 10.32.2.4 Calibration 10.32.2.4.1 Introduction 10.32.2.4.2 Calibration capabilities 10.32.2.4.3 Sounding exchange for calibration 10.32.2.4.4 CSI reporting for calibration 10.32.3 Explicit feedback beamforming 10.32.4 VHT MU beamforming 10.33 Antenna selection (ASEL) 10.33.1 Introduction 10.33.2 Procedure 10.34 Null data packet (NDP) sounding 10.34.1 HT NDP sounding protocol 10.34.2 Transmission of an HT NDP 10.34.3 Determination of HT NDP destination 10.34.4 Determination of HT NDP source 10.34.5 VHT sounding protocol 10.34.5.1 General 10.34.5.2 Rules for VHT sounding protocol sequences 10.34.5.3 Rules for fragmented feedback in VHT sounding protocol sequences 10.34.6 Transmission of a VHT NDP 10.35 Mesh forwarding framework 10.35.1 General 10.35.2 Forwarding information 10.35.3 Addressing and forwarding of individually addressed mesh Data frames 10.35.3.1 At source mesh STAs (individually addressed) 10.35.3.2 At intermediate and destination mesh STAs (individually addressed) 10.35.4 Addressing and forwarding of group addressed mesh Data frames 10.35.4.1 At source mesh STAs (group addressed) 10.35.4.2 At recipient mesh STAs (group addressed) 10.35.5 Addressing of Management frames and MMPDU forwarding 10.35.5.1 General 10.35.5.2 MMPDU forwarding using individually addressed Multihop Action frames 10.35.5.3 MMPDU forwarding using group addressed Multihop Action frames 10.35.6 Detection of duplicate MSDUs/MMPDUs 10.35.7 Mesh STAs that do not forward 10.35.8 MSDU forwarding and unknown destination 10.36 DMG channel access 10.36.1 General 10.36.2 Access periods within a beacon interval 10.36.3 ATI transmission rules 10.36.4 DTI transmission rules 10.36.5 Contention based access period (CBAP) transmission rules 10.36.6 Channel access in scheduled DTI 10.36.6.1 General 10.36.6.2 Service period (SP) allocation 10.36.6.3 Contention based access period (CBAP) allocation 10.36.6.4 Pseudo-static allocations 10.36.6.5 Guard time 10.36.6.6 DMG protected period 10.36.6.6.1 Introduction 10.36.6.6.2 DMG protected period establishment and maintenance 10.36.6.6.3 NAV update in DMG protected period 10.36.6.6.4 Interference report 10.36.6.7 Service period recovery 10.36.7 Dynamic allocation of service period 10.36.7.1 General 10.36.7.2 Polling period (PP) 10.36.7.3 Grant period (GP) 10.36.8 Dynamic truncation of service period 10.36.9 Dynamic extension of service period 10.36.10 Updating multiple NAVs 10.37 DMG AP or PCP clustering 10.37.1 General 10.37.2 Cluster formation 10.37.2.1 Decentralized AP or PCP cluster formation 10.37.2.2 Centralized AP or PCP cluster formation 10.37.3 Cluster maintenance 10.37.3.1 General cluster maintenance 10.37.3.2 Decentralized AP or PCP cluster maintenance 10.37.3.3 Centralized AP or PCP cluster maintenance 10.37.3.4 Centralized AP or PCP cluster MAC requirements 10.37.4 Cluster report and re-scheduling 10.37.5 Decentralized AP or PCP cluster request 10.38 DMG beamforming 10.38.1 General 10.38.2 Sector-level sweep (SLS) phase 10.38.2.1 General 10.38.2.2 Initiator sector sweep (ISS) 10.38.2.2.1 General 10.38.2.2.2 Initiator TXSS 10.38.2.2.3 Initiator RXSS 10.38.2.3 Responder sector sweep (RSS) 10.38.2.3.1 General 10.38.2.3.2 Responder TXSS 10.38.2.3.3 Responder RXSS 10.38.2.4 Sector sweep (SSW) feedback 10.38.2.5 SSW ack 10.38.3 Beam Refinement Protocol (BRP) phase 10.38.3.1 General 10.38.3.2 BRP setup subphase 10.38.4 Beamforming in BTI 10.38.5 Beamforming in A-BFT 10.38.5.1 Allocation of A-BFT 10.38.5.2 Operation during the A-BFT 10.38.5.3 STA Beamforming after A-BFT 10.38.5.4 Beamforming in A-BFT with multiple DMG antennas 10.38.6 Beamforming in DTI 10.38.6.1 General 10.38.6.2 SLS phase execution 10.38.6.3 Multiple sector ID capture (MIDC) subphase 10.38.6.3.1 General 10.38.6.3.2 MIDC subphase with MID and BC subphases 10.38.6.3.3 MIDC subphase with MID subphase only 10.38.6.3.4 MIDC subphase with BC subphase only 10.38.6.4 BRP phase execution 10.38.6.4.1 General 10.38.6.4.2 Beam refinement transaction 10.38.6.4.3 Beam refinement transaction after SLS 10.38.6.4.4 Antenna configuration setting during a beam refinement transaction 10.38.7 Beam tracking 10.38.8 State machines 10.39 DMG link adaptation 10.39.1 General 10.39.2 DMG TPC 10.39.3 Fast link adaptation 10.40 DMG dynamic tone pairing (DTP) 10.41 DMG relay operation 10.41.1 General 10.41.2 Link switching 10.41.2.1 General 10.41.2.2 SP request and allocation 10.41.2.3 Usage of RDS 10.41.2.4 Relay frame exchange rules 10.41.2.4.1 General 10.41.2.4.2 Additional frame exchange rules for FD-AF RDS 10.41.2.4.3 Additional frame exchange rules for HD-DF RDS 10.41.2.4.4 Operation of FD-AF RDS 10.41.2.5 Link monitoring 10.41.3 Link cooperation 10.41.3.1 TPA procedure 10.41.3.2 Frame exchange operation 10.41.3.2.1 General 10.41.3.2.2 Cooperative transmission SP request and allocation 10.41.3.2.3 Data transmission rules 10.41.4 Relay link adaptation 11. MLME 11.1 Synchronization 11.1.1 General 11.1.2 Basic approach 11.1.2.1 TSF for an infrastructure BSS or a PBSS 11.1.2.2 TSF for an IBSS 11.1.2.3 TSF for an MBSS 11.1.3 Maintaining synchronization 11.1.3.1 General 11.1.3.2 Beacon generation in non-DMG infrastructure networks 11.1.3.3 Beacon generation in a DMG infrastructure BSS and in a PBSS 11.1.3.3.1 General 11.1.3.3.2 Beacon generation in a PBSS 11.1.3.3.3 Beacon generation in a DMG infrastructure BSS 11.1.3.4 DMG beacon generation before establishment of a BSS 11.1.3.5 Beacon generation in an IBSS 11.1.3.6 Beacon generation in an MBSS 11.1.3.7 Beacon reception 11.1.3.8 Multiple BSSID procedure 11.1.3.9 TSF timer accuracy 11.1.4 Acquiring synchronization, scanning 11.1.4.1 General 11.1.4.2 Passive scanning 11.1.4.2.1 Passive scanning for non-DMG STAs 11.1.4.2.2 Passive scanning for DMG STAs 11.1.4.3 Active scanning 11.1.4.3.1 Introduction 11.1.4.3.2 Active scanning procedure for a non-DMG STA 11.1.4.3.3 Active scanning procedure for a DMG STA 11.1.4.3.4 Criteria for sending a probe response 11.1.4.3.5 Contents of a probe response 11.1.4.3.6 PCP selection in a PBSS 11.1.4.4 Initializing a BSS 11.1.4.4.1 General 11.1.4.4.2 Initializing a DMG BSS 11.1.4.5 Synchronizing with a BSS 11.1.4.6 Operation of Supported Rates and BSS Membership Selectors element and Extended Supported Rates and BSS Membership Selectors element 11.1.5 Adjusting STA timers 11.1.6 Terminating a BSS 11.1.7 Supported rates and extended supported rates advertisement 11.2 Power management 11.2.1 General 11.2.2 Bufferable MMPDUs 11.2.3 Power management in a non-DMG infrastructure network 11.2.3.1 General 11.2.3.2 STA power management modes 11.2.3.3 AP TIM transmissions 11.2.3.4 TIM types 11.2.3.5 Power management with APSD 11.2.3.5.1 Power management with APSD procedures 11.2.3.5.2 U-APSD coexistence 11.2.3.6 AP operation during the CP 11.2.3.7 AP operation during the CFP 11.2.3.8 Receive operation for STAs in PS mode during the CP 11.2.3.9 Receive operation for STAs in PS mode during the CFP 11.2.3.10 Receive operation using APSD 11.2.3.11 STAs operating in the active mode 11.2.3.12 AP aging function 11.2.3.13 PSMP power management 11.2.3.14 TDLS peer power save mode 11.2.3.15 TDLS peer U-APSD (TPU) 11.2.3.15.1 General 11.2.3.15.2 TPU at the TPU buffer STA 11.2.3.15.3 TPU at the TPU sleep STA 11.2.3.16 FMS power management 11.2.3.16.1 General 11.2.3.16.2 FMS general procedures 11.2.3.16.3 FMS Request procedures 11.2.3.16.4 FMS Response procedures 11.2.3.17 TIM Broadcast 11.2.3.18 WNM sleep mode 11.2.3.18.1 WNM sleep mode capability 11.2.3.18.2 WNM sleep mode non-AP STA operation 11.2.3.18.3 WNM sleep mode AP operation 11.2.3.19 VHT TXOP power save 11.2.4 Power management in an IBSS 11.2.4.1 Introduction 11.2.4.2 Basic approach 11.2.4.3 Initialization of power management within an IBSS 11.2.4.4 STA power state transitions 11.2.5 Power management in an MBSS 11.2.6 SM power save 11.2.7 Power management in a PBSS and DMG infrastructure BSS 11.2.7.1 General 11.2.7.2 Non-AP and non-PCP STA power management mode 11.2.7.2.1 General 11.2.7.2.2 Non-AP and non-PCP STA operation without a wakeup schedule 11.2.7.2.3 Non-AP and non-PCP STA operation with a wakeup schedule 11.2.7.2.4 Non-AP and non-PCP STA operation with or without a wakeup schedule 11.2.7.3 PCP power management mode 11.2.7.3.1 General 11.2.7.3.2 PCP operation without a wakeup schedule 11.2.7.3.3 PCP operation with a wakeup schedule 11.2.7.4 ATIM frame usage for power management of non-AP STAs 11.2.8 ATIM frame and frame transmission in IBSS, DMG infrastructure BSS, and PBSS 11.3 STA authentication and association 11.3.1 State variables 11.3.2 State transition diagram for nonmesh STAs 11.3.3 Frame filtering based on STA state 11.3.4 Authentication and deauthentication 11.3.4.1 General 11.3.4.2 Authentication—originating STA 11.3.4.3 Authentication—destination STA 11.3.4.4 Deauthentication—originating STA 11.3.4.5 Deauthentication—destination STA 11.3.5 Association, reassociation, and disassociation 11.3.5.1 General 11.3.5.2 Non-AP and non-PCP STA association initiation procedures 11.3.5.3 AP or PCP association receipt procedures 11.3.5.4 Non-AP and non-PCP STA reassociation initiation procedures 11.3.5.5 AP or PCP reassociation receipt procedures 11.3.5.6 Non-AP and non-PCP STA disassociation initiation procedures 11.3.5.7 Non-AP and non-PCP STA disassociation receipt procedure 11.3.5.8 AP or PCP disassociation initiation procedure 11.3.5.9 AP or PCP disassociation receipt procedure 11.3.5.10 PBSS procedures for nonassociated STAs 11.3.6 Additional mechanisms for an AP collocated with a mesh STA 11.3.7 Communicating PBSS information 11.3.8 Neighbor report information upon rejection with suggested BSS transition 11.4 TS operation 11.4.1 Introduction 11.4.2 TSPEC construction 11.4.3 TS life cycle 11.4.4 TS setup 11.4.4.1 General 11.4.4.2 Non-AP-STA-initiated TS setup 11.4.4.3 AP-initiated TS setup 11.4.4.4 TS setup procedures for both AP and non-AP STA initiation 11.4.4.5 TS renegotiation 11.4.5 TS setup by resource request during a fast BSS transition 11.4.6 PSMP management 11.4.7 Failed TS setup 11.4.8 Data transfer 11.4.9 TS deletion 11.4.9.1 Deletion of a TS established between an HC, DMG AP, or PCP and a non-AP and non-PCP STA 11.4.9.2 Peer-to-peer TS deletion and deletion of an allocation 11.4.10 TS timeout 11.4.11 TS suspension 11.4.12 TS reinstatement 11.4.13 DMG allocation formats 11.4.13.1 General 11.4.13.2 Isochronous allocations 11.4.13.3 Asynchronous allocations 11.4.14 PTP TS operation 11.5 Block ack operation 11.5.1 Introduction 11.5.2 Setup and modification of the block ack parameters 11.5.2.1 General 11.5.2.2 Procedure at the originator 11.5.2.3 Procedure at the recipient 11.5.2.4 Procedure common to both originator and recipient 11.5.3 Teardown of the block ack mechanism 11.5.3.1 General 11.5.3.2 Procedure at the initiator of the block ack teardown 11.5.3.3 Procedure at the recipient of the DELBA frame 11.5.4 Error recovery upon a peer failure 11.6 Higher layer timer synchronization 11.6.1 Introduction 11.6.2 Procedure at the STA 11.7 DLS operation 11.7.1 General 11.7.2 DLS procedures 11.7.2.1 General 11.7.2.2 Setup procedure at the QoS STA 11.7.2.3 Setup procedure at the AP 11.7.2.4 Operation of the DLS Timeout Value field 11.7.3 Data transfer after setup 11.7.4 DLS teardown 11.7.4.1 General 11.7.4.2 STA-initiated DLS teardown procedure 11.7.4.3 Teardown procedure at the AP 11.7.4.4 AP-initiated DLS teardown procedure 11.7.5 Error recovery upon a peer failure 11.7.6 Secure DLS operation 11.8 TPC procedures 11.8.1 General 11.8.2 Association based on transmit power capability 11.8.3 Peering based on transmit power capability 11.8.4 Interpretation of transmit power capability 11.8.5 Specification of regulatory and local maximum transmit power levels 11.8.6 Transmit power selection 11.8.7 Transmit power adaptation 11.9 DFS procedures 11.9.1 General 11.9.2 Association based on supported channels 11.9.2.1 Association based on supported channels in a non-DMG BSS 11.9.2.2 Providing supported channels upon association in a DMG BSS 11.9.3 Quieting channels for testing 11.9.4 Testing channels for radar 11.9.5 Discontinuing operations after detecting radar 11.9.6 Detecting radar 11.9.7 Requesting and reporting of measurements 11.9.8 Selecting and advertising a new channel 11.9.8.1 General 11.9.8.2 Selecting and advertising a new channel in a non-DMG infrastructure BSS 11.9.8.3 Selecting and advertising a new channel in an IBSS 11.9.8.4 MBSS channel switching 11.9.8.4.1 General 11.9.8.4.2 Initiating MBSS channel switch 11.9.8.4.3 Processing channel switch announcement 11.9.8.4.4 Channel switch across an operating class 11.9.8.5 HT-greenfield transmissions in operating classes that include a behavior limit of DFS_50_100_Behavior 11.9.8.6 Selecting and advertising a new channel in a DMG BSS 11.9.9 Channel Switch Announcement element operation 11.9.10 Future Channel Guidance operation 11.10 Extended channel switching (ECS) 11.10.1 General 11.10.2 Advertising supported operating classes 11.10.3 Selecting and advertising a new channel and/or operating class 11.10.3.1 General 11.10.3.2 Selecting and advertising a new channel in an infrastructure BSS 11.10.3.3 Selecting and advertising a new channel in an IBSS 11.10.3.4 Selecting and advertising a new channel in an MBSS 11.11 Radio measurement procedures 11.11.1 General 11.11.2 Measurement on operating and nonoperating channels 11.11.3 Measurement start time 11.11.4 Measurement Duration 11.11.5 Station responsibility for conducting measurements 11.11.6 Requesting and reporting of measurements 11.11.7 Repeated Measurement Request frames 11.11.8 Triggered autonomous reporting 11.11.9 Specific measurement usage 11.11.9.1 Beacon report 11.11.9.2 Frame report 11.11.9.3 Channel load report 11.11.9.4 Noise Histogram report 11.11.9.5 STA Statistics report 11.11.9.6 LCI report (Location configuration information report) 11.11.9.7 Measurement Pause 11.11.9.8 Transmit Stream/Category Measurement report 11.11.9.9 Location Civic report 11.11.9.10 Location Identifier report 11.11.9.11 Fine Timing Measurement Range report 11.11.10 Usage of the neighbor report 11.11.10.1 General 11.11.10.2 Requesting a neighbor report 11.11.10.3 Responding to a neighbor report request 11.11.11 Link Measurement 11.11.12 Measurement of the RPI histogram 11.11.13 Operation of the Max Transmit Power field 11.11.14 Multiple BSSID set 11.11.15 Measurement Pilot frame generation and usage 11.11.15.1 General 11.11.15.2 Measurement Pilot frame generation by an AP 11.11.15.3 Measurement pilot usage by a STA 11.11.16 Access Delay Measurement 11.11.17 BSS Available Admission Capacity 11.11.18 AP Channel Report 11.11.19 Multicast diagnostic reporting 11.11.20 CCA request and report 11.11.21 RPI Histogram request and report 11.12 DSE procedures 11.12.1 General 11.12.2 Enablement and deenablement 11.12.2.1 General 11.12.2.2 Enablement requester STA 11.12.2.3 Enablement responder STA 11.12.2.4 Deenablement requester STA 11.12.2.5 Deenablement responder STA 11.12.3 Registered STA operation 11.12.4 Enabling STA operation with DSE 11.12.5 Dependent STA operation with DSE 11.13 Group addressed robust management frame procedures 11.14 SA Query procedures 11.15 HT BSS Operation 11.16 20/40 MHz BSS operation 11.16.1 Rules for operation in 20/40 MHz BSS 11.16.2 Basic 20/40 MHz BSS functionality 11.16.3 Channel scanning and selection methods for 20/40 MHz operation 11.16.3.1 General 11.16.3.2 Scanning requirements for a 20/40 MHz BSS 11.16.3.3 Channel management at the AP and in an IBSS 11.16.4 40 MHz PPDU transmission restrictions 11.16.4.1 Fields used to determine 40 MHz PPDU transmission restrictions 11.16.4.2 Infrastructure non-AP STA restrictions 11.16.4.3 AP restrictions 11.16.4.4 Restrictions on non-AP STAs that are not infrastructure BSS members 11.16.5 Scanning requirements for 40-MHz-capable STA 11.16.6 Exemption from OBSS scanning 11.16.7 Communicating 20/40 BSS coexistence information 11.16.8 Support of DSSS/CCK in 40 MHz 11.16.9 STA CCA sensing in a 20/40 MHz BSS 11.16.10 NAV assertion in 20/40 MHz BSS 11.16.11 Signaling 40 MHz intolerance 11.16.12 Switching between 40 MHz and 20 MHz 11.17 Phased coexistence operation (PCO) 11.17.1 General description of PCO 11.17.2 Operation at a PCO active AP 11.17.3 Operation at a PCO active non-AP STA 11.18 20/40 BSS Coexistence Management frame usage 11.19 RSNA A-MSDU procedures 11.20 Public Action frame addressing 11.21 STAs communicating Data frames outside the context of a BSS 11.22 Timing Advertisement 11.22.1 Introduction 11.22.2 Timing advertisement frame procedures 11.22.3 UTC TSF Offset procedures 11.23 Tunneled direct-link setup 11.23.1 General 11.23.2 TDLS payload 11.23.3 TDLS Discovery 11.23.4 TDLS direct-link establishment 11.23.5 TDLS direct-link teardown 11.23.6 TDLS channel switching 11.23.6.1 General 11.23.6.2 General behavior on the off-channel 11.23.6.3 Setting up a 40 MHz direct link 11.23.6.3.1 General 11.23.6.3.2 Basic 40 MHz functionality 11.23.6.3.3 Channel selection for a 40 MHz direct link 11.23.6.3.4 Switching from a 40 MHz to a 20 MHz direct link 11.23.6.3.5 CCA sensing and NAV assertion in a 40 MHz direct link 11.23.6.4 TDLS channel switching and power saving 11.23.6.5 Setting up a wide bandwidth off-channel direct link 11.23.6.5.1 General 11.23.6.5.2 Basic wideband functionality 11.23.6.5.3 Channel selection for a wideband off-channel direct link 11.23.6.5.4 Switching from a wideband to a 20 MHz direct link 11.23.6.5.5 CCA sensing and NAV assertion in a 20 MHz, 40 MHz, 80 MHz, 160 MHz, or 80+80 MHz direct link 11.24 Wireless network management procedures 11.24.1 Wireless network management dependencies 11.24.2 Event request and report procedures 11.24.2.1 Event request and event report 11.24.2.2 Transition event request and report 11.24.2.3 RSNA event request and report 11.24.2.4 Peer-to-peer link event request and report 11.24.2.5 WNM log event request and report 11.24.2.6 Vendor Specific event request and report 11.24.3 Diagnostic request and report procedures 11.24.3.1 Diagnostic request and diagnostic report 11.24.3.2 Configuration Profile report 11.24.3.3 Manufacturer information STA report 11.24.3.4 Association diagnostic 11.24.3.5 IEEE 802.1X authentication diagnostic 11.24.4 Location track procedures 11.24.4.1 Location track configuration procedures 11.24.4.2 Location track notification procedures 11.24.5 Timing measurement procedure 11.24.6 Fine timing measurement (FTM) procedure 11.24.6.1 Overview 11.24.6.2 FTM capabilities 11.24.6.3 Fine timing measurement procedure negotiation 11.24.6.4 Measurement exchange 11.24.6.5 Fine timing measurement parameter modification 11.24.6.6 Fine timing measurement termination 11.24.6.7 LCI and Location Civic retrieval using FTM procedure 11.24.7 BSS transition management for network load balancing 11.24.7.1 BSS transition capability 11.24.7.2 BSS transition management query 11.24.7.3 BSS transition management request 11.24.7.4 BSS transition management response 11.24.8 FMS multicast rate processing 11.24.9 Collocated interference reporting 11.24.10 QoS Traffic capability procedure 11.24.11 AC Station Count 11.24.12 TFS procedures 11.24.12.1 TFS capability 11.24.12.2 TFS non-AP STA operation 11.24.12.3 TFS AP operation 11.24.13 BSS max idle period management 11.24.14 Proxy ARP (including Proxy Neighbor Discovery) service 11.24.15 Channel usage procedures 11.24.16 Group addressed transmission service 11.24.16.1 General 11.24.16.2 DMS procedures 11.24.16.3 GCR procedures 11.24.16.3.1 Overview 11.24.16.3.2 GCR group membership procedures 11.24.16.3.3 GCR setup procedures 11.24.16.3.4 GCR frame exchange procedures 11.24.16.3.5 Concealment of GCR transmissions 11.24.16.3.6 GCR unsolicited retry 11.24.16.3.7 GCR block ack 11.24.16.3.8 GCR-SP 11.24.17 WNM notification 11.25 WLAN interworking with external networks procedures 11.25.1 General 11.25.2 Interworking capabilities and information 11.25.3 Interworking procedures: generic advertisement service (GAS) 11.25.3.1 Introduction 11.25.3.2 GAS Protocol 11.25.3.2.1 General 11.25.3.2.2 STA procedures to transmit a GAS Query 11.25.3.2.3 STA procedures to post a GAS Query to an Advertisement Server 11.25.3.2.4 STA procedures for transmitting the GAS Query Response 11.25.3.2.5 GAS procedures interaction with multiple BSSID set 11.25.3.3 ANQP procedures 11.25.3.3.1 General 11.25.3.3.2 Query list procedure 11.25.3.3.3 Roaming Consortium procedure 11.25.3.3.4 AP procedure for advertising EAP Method associated with an NAI Realm 11.25.3.3.5 3GPP Cellular Network procedure 11.25.3.3.6 AP Geospatial Location procedure 11.25.3.3.7 AP Civic Location procedure 11.25.3.3.8 AP Location Public Identifier URI/FQDN procedures 11.25.3.3.9 Emergency NAI procedure 11.25.3.3.10 TDLS Capability procedure 11.25.3.3.11 Venue URL procedure 11.25.3.3.12 Advice of Charge procedure 11.25.3.3.13 Local Content procedure 11.25.3.4 Registered location query protocol (RLQP) procedures 11.25.4 Interworking procedures: IEEE 802.21 MIH support 11.25.5 Interworking procedures: interactions with SSPN 11.25.5.1 General operation 11.25.5.2 Authentication and cipher suites selection with SSPN 11.25.5.3 Reporting and session control with SSPN 11.25.6 Interworking procedures: emergency services support 11.25.7 Interworking procedures: emergency alert system (EAS) support 11.25.8 Interworking procedures: support for the advertisement of roaming consortiums 11.25.9 Interworking procedures: support for QoS mapping from external networks 11.26 Quality-of-service management frame (QMF) 11.26.1 General 11.26.1.1 Overview 11.26.1.2 Default QMF policy 11.26.2 QMF policy advertisement and configuration procedures 11.26.2.1 Overview 11.26.2.2 QMF policy change in an infrastructure BSS or in an MBSS 11.26.2.3 QMF policy configuration in an infrastructure BSS 11.26.2.4 QMF policy configuration in an IBSS or OCB 11.26.2.5 QMF policy configuration in an MBSS 11.26.3 Interpreting QMF access categories 11.27 Robust AV streaming 11.27.1 Robust AV streaming dependencies 11.27.2 SCS procedures 11.28 Procedures to manage OBSS 11.28.1 General 11.28.2 QLoad Report element 11.28.2.1 Introduction 11.28.2.2 Calculating field values 11.28.2.3 Requesting QLoad Reports using radio measurement requests 11.28.3 HCCA TXOP negotiation 11.28.4 HCCA AP timing synchronization for HCCA TXOP advertisement 11.28.4.1 General 11.28.4.2 Timing offset 11.28.4.3 Clock drift adjustment 11.29 DMG beamformed link and BSS maintenance 11.29.1 Beamformed link maintenance 11.29.2 PCP Handover 11.29.2.1 General 11.29.2.2 Explicit handover procedure 11.29.2.3 Implicit handover procedure 11.30 DMG BSS peer and service discovery 11.30.1 Information Request and Response 11.30.2 Peer Service Discovery 11.31 Changing DMG BSS parameters 11.31.1 General 11.31.2 Moving the TBTT 11.31.3 Changing beacon interval duration 11.31.4 Maintaining synchronization in an AP or PCP cluster 11.31.5 Recommending DMG BSS parameters to the AP or PCP 11.32 Spatial sharing and interference mitigation for DMG STAs 11.32.1 General 11.32.2 Spatial sharing and interference assessment 11.32.3 Achieving spatial sharing and interference mitigation 11.32.4 PBSS and infrastructure BSS stability in OBSS scenarios 11.33 Multi-band operation 11.33.1 General 11.33.2 FST setup protocol 11.33.2.1 General 11.33.2.2 Transitioning between states 11.33.2.3 FST TS switching 11.33.3 FST teardown 11.33.4 On-channel Tunneling (OCT) operation 11.33.5 FST payload 11.34 MMSL cluster operation 11.34.1 Introduction 11.34.2 MMSL cluster setup 11.34.2.1 General 11.34.2.2 MMSL cluster setup of non-AP and non-PCP MM-SME coordinated STA with AP or PCP 11.34.2.3 MMSL cluster setup of non-AP and non-PCP STA with another non-AP and non- PCP STA 11.35 DMG coexistence with non-IEEE-802.11 systems 11.36 DMG relay procedures 11.36.1 General 11.36.2 Common relay setup procedures 11.36.2.1 Introduction 11.36.2.2 Relay capabilities and RDS discovery procedures 11.36.2.3 RDS selection procedure 11.36.2.4 RLS procedure 11.36.3 Relay operation-type change procedure 11.36.4 Relay teardown 11.37 Quieting adjacent DMG BSSs 11.37.1 General 11.37.2 Procedure at the requester AP 11.37.3 Procedure at the responder AP 11.38 DMG beamforming 11.39 DMG MAC sublayer attributes 11.40 VHT BSS operation 11.40.1 Basic VHT BSS functionality 11.40.2 Channel selection methods for a VHT BSS 11.40.3 Scanning requirements for VHT STA 11.40.4 Channel switching methods for a VHT BSS 11.40.5 NAV assertion in a VHT BSS 11.40.6 VHT STA antenna indication 11.40.7 Basic VHT-MCS and NSS set operation 11.40.8 Extended NSS BW Support Signaling 11.41 Group ID management operation 11.42 Notification of operating mode changes 11.43 Basic TVHT BSS functionality 11.44 Operation under the control of a GDB 11.44.1 General 11.44.2 GDD enabling STA operation 11.44.3 GDD dependent STA operation 11.44.4 Channel availability query (CAQ) procedure 11.44.4.1 Introduction 11.44.4.2 CAQ requesting STA 11.44.4.3 CAQ responding STA 11.44.5 Channel schedule management (CSM) procedures 11.44.5.1 Introduction 11.44.5.2 CSM requesting STA 11.44.5.3 CSM responding STA 11.44.6 Contact verification signal (CVS) 11.44.7 Network channel control (NCC) procedures 11.44.7.1 Introduction 11.44.7.2 NCC requesting STA 11.44.7.3 NCC responding STA 11.44.8 Reduced neighbor report 11.44.9 White space map (WSM) 11.45 Beacon RSSI 11.46 Estimated throughput 12. Security 12.1 Conventions 12.2 Framework 12.2.1 Classes of security algorithm 12.2.2 Security methods 12.2.3 RSNA STA capabilities 12.2.4 RSNA establishment 12.2.5 RSNA PeerKey Support 12.2.6 RSNA assumptions and constraints 12.2.7 Requirements for the Protected Frame field 12.2.8 Requirements for robust management frame protection 12.2.9 Emergency service establishment in an RSN 12.3 Pre-RSNA security methods 12.3.1 Status of Pre-RSNA security methods 12.3.2 Wired equivalent privacy (WEP) 12.3.2.1 WEP overview 12.3.2.2 WEP MPDU format 12.3.2.3 WEP state 12.3.2.4 WEP procedures 12.3.2.4.1 WEP ICV algorithm 12.3.2.4.2 WEP encryption algorithm 12.3.2.4.3 WEP seed construction 12.3.2.4.4 WEP MPDU cryptographic encapsulation 12.3.2.4.5 WEP MPDU decapsulation 12.3.3 Pre-RSNA authentication 12.3.3.1 Overview 12.3.3.2 Open System authentication 12.3.3.2.1 General 12.3.3.2.2 Open System authentication (first frame) 12.3.3.2.3 Open System authentication (final frame) 12.3.3.3 Shared Key authentication 12.3.3.3.1 General 12.3.3.3.2 Shared Key authentication (first frame) 12.3.3.3.3 Shared Key authentication (second frame) 12.3.3.3.4 Shared Key authentication (third frame) 12.3.3.3.5 Shared Key authentication (final frame) 12.3.3.3.6 Shared key MIB attributes 12.4 Authentication using a password 12.4.1 SAE overview 12.4.2 Assumptions on SAE 12.4.3 Representation of a password 12.4.4 Finite cyclic groups 12.4.4.1 General 12.4.4.2 Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) groups 12.4.4.2.1 ECC group definition 12.4.4.2.2 Generation of the password element with ECC groups 12.4.4.3 Finite field cryptography (FFC) groups 12.4.4.3.1 FFC group definition 12.4.4.3.2 Generation of the password element with FFC groups 12.4.5 SAE protocol 12.4.5.1 Message exchanges 12.4.5.2 PWE and secret generation 12.4.5.3 Construction of an SAE Commit message 12.4.5.4 Processing of a peer’s SAE Commit message 12.4.5.5 Construction of an SAE Confirm message 12.4.5.6 Processing of a peer’s SAE Confirm message 12.4.6 Anti-clogging tokens 12.4.7 Framing of SAE 12.4.7.1 General 12.4.7.2 Data type conversion 12.4.7.2.1 General 12.4.7.2.2 Integer to octet string conversion 12.4.7.2.3 Octet string to integer conversion 12.4.7.2.4 Element to octet string conversion 12.4.7.2.5 Octet string to element conversion 12.4.7.3 Authentication transaction sequence number for SAE 12.4.7.4 Encoding and decoding of SAE Commit messages 12.4.7.5 Encoding and decoding of SAE Confirm messages 12.4.7.6 Status codes 12.4.8 SAE finite state machine 12.4.8.1 General 12.4.8.2 States 12.4.8.2.1 Parent process states 12.4.8.2.2 Protocol instance states 12.4.8.3 Events and output 12.4.8.3.1 Parent process events and output 12.4.8.3.2 Protocol instance events and output 12.4.8.4 Timers 12.4.8.5 Variables 12.4.8.5.1 Parent process variables 12.4.8.5.2 Protocol instance variables 12.4.8.6 Behavior of state machine 12.4.8.6.1 Parent process behavior 12.4.8.6.2 Protocol instance behavior—General 12.4.8.6.3 Protocol instance behavior - Nothing state 12.4.8.6.4 Protocol instance behavior - Committed state 12.4.8.6.5 Protocol instance behavior - Confirmed state 12.4.8.6.6 Protocol instance behavior - Accepted state 12.5 RSNA confidentiality and integrity protocols 12.5.1 Overview 12.5.2 Temporal key integrity protocol (TKIP) 12.5.2.1 TKIP overview 12.5.2.1.1 General 12.5.2.1.2 TKIP cryptographic encapsulation 12.5.2.1.3 TKIP decapsulation 12.5.2.2 TKIP MPDU formats 12.5.2.3 TKIP MIC 12.5.2.3.1 General 12.5.2.3.2 Motivation for the TKIP MIC 12.5.2.3.3 Definition of the TKIP MIC 12.5.2.4 TKIP countermeasures procedures 12.5.2.4.1 General 12.5.2.4.2 TKIP countermeasures for an Authenticator 12.5.2.4.3 TKIP countermeasures for a Supplicant 12.5.2.5 TKIP mixing function 12.5.2.5.1 General 12.5.2.5.2 S-Box 12.5.2.5.3 Phase 1 Definition 12.5.2.5.4 Phase 2 definition 12.5.2.6 TKIP replay protection procedures 12.5.3 CTR with CBC-MAC protocol (CCMP) 12.5.3.1 General 12.5.3.2 CCMP MPDU format 12.5.3.3 CCMP cryptographic encapsulation 12.5.3.3.1 General 12.5.3.3.2 PN processing 12.5.3.3.3 Construct AAD 12.5.3.3.4 Construct CCM nonce 12.5.3.3.5 Construct CCMP header 12.5.3.3.6 CCM originator processing 12.5.3.4 CCMP decapsulation 12.5.3.4.1 General 12.5.3.4.2 CCM recipient processing 12.5.3.4.3 Decrypted CCMP MPDU 12.5.3.4.4 PN and replay detection 12.5.4 Broadcast/multicast integrity protocol (BIP) 12.5.4.1 BIP overview 12.5.4.2 BIP MMPDU format 12.5.4.3 BIP AAD construction 12.5.4.4 BIP replay protection 12.5.4.5 BIP transmission 12.5.4.6 BIP reception 12.5.5 GCM protocol (GCMP) 12.5.5.1 GCMP overview 12.5.5.2 GCMP MPDU format 12.5.5.3 GCMP cryptographic encapsulation 12.5.5.3.1 General 12.5.5.3.2 PN processing 12.5.5.3.3 Construct AAD 12.5.5.3.4 Construct GCM nonce 12.5.5.3.5 Construct GCMP header 12.5.5.3.6 GCM originator processing 12.5.5.4 GCMP decapsulation 12.5.5.4.1 General 12.5.5.4.2 GCM recipient processing 12.5.5.4.3 Decrypted GCMP MPDU 12.5.5.4.4 PN and replay detection 12.6 RSNA security association management 12.6.1 Security associations 12.6.1.1 Security association definitions 12.6.1.1.1 General 12.6.1.1.2 PMKSA 12.6.1.1.3 PMK-R0 security association 12.6.1.1.4 PMK-R1 security association 12.6.1.1.5 Mesh PMKSA 12.6.1.1.6 PTKSA 12.6.1.1.7 Mesh TKSA 12.6.1.1.8 GTKSA 12.6.1.1.9 IGTKSA 12.6.1.1.10 Mesh GTKSA 12.6.1.1.11 SMKSA 12.6.1.1.12 STKSA 12.6.1.2 TPKSA 12.6.1.3 Security association life cycle 12.6.1.3.1 General 12.6.1.3.2 Security association in an ESS 12.6.1.3.3 Security association in an IBSS 12.6.1.3.4 Security association in an MBSS 12.6.1.3.5 Security association in a PBSS 12.6.2 RSNA selection 12.6.3 RSNA policy selection in an infrastructure BSS 12.6.4 TSN policy selection in an infrastructure BSS 12.6.5 RSNA policy selection in an IBSS and for DLS 12.6.6 TSN policy selection in an IBSS 12.6.7 RSNA policy selection in an MBSS 12.6.8 RSNA policy selection in a PBSS 12.6.9 RSN management of the IEEE 802.1X Controlled Port 12.6.10 RSNA authentication in an infrastructure BSS 12.6.10.1 General 12.6.10.2 Preauthentication and RSNA key management 12.6.10.3 Cached PMKSAs and RSNA key management 12.6.11 RSNA authentication in an IBSS 12.6.12 RSNA authentication in an MBSS 12.6.13 RSNA authentication in a PBSS 12.6.14 RSNA key management in an infrastructure BSS 12.6.15 RSNA key management in an IBSS 12.6.16 RSNA key management in an MBSS 12.6.17 RSNA key management in a PBSS 12.6.18 RSNA security association termination 12.6.19 Protection of robust Management frames 12.6.20 Robust management frame selection procedure 12.6.21 RSNA rekeying 12.6.22 Multi-band RSNA 12.6.22.1 General 12.6.22.2 Nontransparent multi-band RSNA 12.6.22.3 Transparent multi-band RSNA 12.6.22.4 Multi-band RSNA with TDLS in a non-DMG BSS 12.7 Keys and key distribution 12.7.1 Key hierarchy 12.7.1.1 General 12.7.1.2 PRF 12.7.1.3 Pairwise key hierarchy 12.7.1.4 Group key hierarchy 12.7.1.5 Integrity group key hierarchy 12.7.1.6 PeerKey key hierarchy 12.7.1.7 FT key hierarchy 12.7.1.7.1 Overview 12.7.1.7.2 Key derivation function (KDF) 12.7.1.7.3 PMK-R0 12.7.1.7.4 PMK-R1 12.7.1.7.5 PTK 12.7.2 EAPOL-Key frames 12.7.3 EAPOL-Key frame construction and processing 12.7.4 EAPOL-Key frame notation 12.7.5 Nonce generation 12.7.6 4-way handshake 12.7.6.1 General 12.7.6.2 4-way handshake message 1 12.7.6.3 4-way handshake message 2 12.7.6.4 4-way handshake message 3 12.7.6.5 4-way handshake message 4 12.7.6.6 4-way handshake implementation considerations 12.7.6.7 Sample 4-way handshake 12.7.6.8 4-way handshake analysis 12.7.7 Group key handshake 12.7.7.1 General 12.7.7.2 Group key handshake message 1 12.7.7.3 Group key handshake message 2 12.7.7.4 Group key handshake implementation considerations 12.7.7.5 Sample group key handshake 12.7.8 PeerKey handshake 12.7.8.1 General 12.7.8.2 SMK handshake 12.7.8.2.1 General 12.7.8.2.2 SMK handshake message 1 12.7.8.2.3 SMK handshake message 2 12.7.8.2.4 SMK handshake message 3 12.7.8.2.5 SMK handshake message 4 12.7.8.2.6 SMK handshake message 5 12.7.8.3 PeerKey setup and handshake error conditions 12.7.8.4 STKSA rekeying 12.7.8.5 Error reporting 12.7.8.5.1 General 12.7.8.5.2 Error ERR_STA_NR 12.7.8.5.3 Error ERR_STA_NRSN 12.7.8.5.4 Error ERR_CPHR_NS 12.7.8.5.5 Error ERR_NO_STSL 12.7.9 TDLS PeerKey (TPK) security protocol 12.7.9.1 General 12.7.9.2 TPK handshake 12.7.9.3 TPK handshake security assumptions 12.7.9.4 TPK Security Protocol handshake messages 12.7.9.4.1 Overview 12.7.9.4.2 TPK handshake message 1 12.7.9.4.3 TPK handshake message 2 12.7.9.4.4 TPK handshake message 3 12.7.9.5 Supplicant state machine procedures 12.7.9.6 Supplicant PeerKey state machine states 12.7.9.7 Supplicant PeerKey state machine variables 12.7.10 RSNA Supplicant key management state machine 12.7.10.1 General 12.7.10.2 Supplicant state machine states 12.7.10.3 Supplicant state machine variables 12.7.11 RSNA Authenticator key management state machine 12.7.11.1 General 12.7.11.2 Authenticator state machine states 12.7.11.2.1 Authenticator state machine: 4-way handshake (per STA) 12.7.11.2.2 Authenticator state machine: group key handshake (per STA) 12.7.11.2.3 Authenticator state machine: group key handshake (global) 12.7.11.3 Authenticator state machine variables 12.7.11.4 Authenticator state machine procedures 12.8 Mapping EAPOL keys to IEEE 802.11 keys 12.8.1 Mapping PTK to TKIP keys 12.8.2 Mapping GTK to TKIP keys 12.8.3 Mapping PTK to CCMP keys 12.8.4 Mapping GTK to CCMP keys 12.8.5 Mapping GTK to WEP-40 keys 12.8.6 Mapping GTK to WEP-104 keys 12.8.7 Mapping IGTK to BIP keys 12.8.8 Mapping PTK to GCMP keys 12.8.9 Mapping GTK to GCMP keys 12.9 Per-frame pseudocode 12.9.1 WEP frame pseudocode 12.9.2 RSNA frame pseudocode 12.9.2.1 General 12.9.2.2 Per-MSDU/Per-A-MSDU Tx pseudocode 12.9.2.3 Per-MMPDU Tx pseudocode 12.9.2.4 Per-MPDU Tx pseudocode 12.9.2.5 Per-MPDU Tx pseudocode for MMPDU 12.9.2.6 Per-MPDU Rx pseudocode 12.9.2.7 Per-MPDU Rx pseudocode for an MMPDU 12.9.2.8 Per-MSDU/Per-A-MSDU Rx pseudocode 12.9.2.9 Per-MMPDU Rx pseudocode 12.10 Authenticated mesh peering exchange (AMPE) 12.11 AP PeerKey support 12.11.1 AP PeerKey overview 12.11.2 AP PeerKey protocol 13. Fast BSS transition 13.1 Overview 13.2 Key holders 13.2.1 Introduction 13.2.2 Authenticator key holders 13.2.3 Supplicant key holders 13.3 Capability and policy advertisement 13.4 FT initial mobility domain association 13.4.1 Overview 13.4.2 FT initial mobility domain association in an RSN 13.4.3 FT initial mobility domain association in a non-RSN 13.5 FT protocol 13.5.1 Overview 13.5.2 Over-the-air FT protocol authentication in an RSN 13.5.3 Over-the-DS FT protocol in an RSN 13.5.4 Over-the-air FT protocol in a non-RSN 13.5.5 Over-the-DS FT protocol in a non-RSN 13.6 FT resource request protocol 13.6.1 Overview 13.6.2 Over-the-air fast BSS transition with resource request 13.6.3 Over-the-DS fast BSS transition with resource request 13.7 FT reassociation 13.7.1 FT reassociation in an RSN 13.7.2 FT reassociation in a non-RSN 13.8 FT authentication sequence 13.8.1 Overview 13.8.2 FT authentication sequence: contents of first message 13.8.3 FT authentication sequence: contents of second message 13.8.4 FT authentication sequence: contents of third message 13.8.5 FT authentication sequence: contents of fourth message 13.9 FT security architecture state machines 13.9.1 Introduction 13.9.2 R0KH state machine 13.9.2.1 General 13.9.2.2 R0KH state machine states 13.9.2.3 R0KH state machine variables 13.9.2.4 R0KH state machine procedures 13.9.3 R1KH state machine 13.9.3.1 General 13.9.3.2 R1KH state machine states 13.9.3.3 R1KH state machine variables 13.9.3.4 R1KH state machine procedures 13.9.4 S0KH state machine 13.9.4.1 General 13.9.4.2 S0KH state machine states 13.9.4.3 S0KH state machine variables 13.9.4.4 S0KH state machine procedures 13.9.5 S1KH state machine 13.9.5.1 General 13.9.5.2 S1KH state machine states 13.9.5.3 S1KH state machine variables 13.9.5.4 S1KH state machine procedures 13.10 Remote request broker (RRB) communication 13.10.1 Overview 13.10.2 Remote request broker (RRB) 13.10.3 Remote Request/Response frame definition 13.11 Resource request procedures 13.11.1 General 13.11.2 Resource information container (RIC) 13.11.3 Creation and handling of a resource request 13.11.3.1 FTO procedures 13.11.3.2 AP procedures 14. MLME mesh procedures 14.1 Mesh STA dependencies 14.2 Mesh discovery 14.2.1 General 14.2.2 Mesh identifier 14.2.3 Mesh profile 14.2.4 Mesh STA configuration 14.2.5 Supplemental information for the mesh discovery 14.2.6 Scanning mesh BSSs 14.2.7 Candidate peer mesh STA 14.2.8 Establishing or becoming a member of a mesh BSS 14.2.9 Establishing mesh peerings 14.3 Mesh peering management (MPM) 14.3.1 General 14.3.2 State variable management 14.3.3 Mesh authentication 14.3.4 Mesh peering instance controller 14.3.4.1 Overview 14.3.4.2 Creating a new mesh peering instance 14.3.4.3 Deleting mesh peering instances 14.3.5 Mesh peering instance selection 14.3.6 Mesh peering open 14.3.6.1 Generating Mesh Peering Open frames 14.3.6.2 Mesh Peering Open frame processing 14.3.7 Mesh peering confirm 14.3.7.1 Generating Mesh Peering Confirm frames 14.3.7.2 Mesh Peering Confirm frame processing 14.3.8 Mesh peering close 14.3.8.1 Generating Mesh Peering Close frames 14.3.8.2 Mesh Peering Close frame processing 14.4 Mesh peering management finite state machine (MPM FSM) 14.4.1 General 14.4.2 States 14.4.3 Events and actions 14.4.4 Timers 14.4.5 State transitions 14.4.6 IDLE state 14.4.7 OPN_SNT state 14.4.8 CNF_RCVD state 14.4.9 OPN_RCVD state 14.4.10 ESTAB state 14.4.11 HOLDING state 14.5 Authenticated mesh peering exchange (AMPE) 14.5.1 Overview 14.5.2 Security capabilities selection 14.5.2.1 Instance Pairwise Cipher Suite selection 14.5.2.2 Group cipher suite selection 14.5.3 Construction and processing AES-SIV-protected mesh peering Management frames 14.5.4 Distribution of group transient keys in an MBSS 14.5.5 Mesh peering Management frames for AMPE 14.5.5.1 General 14.5.5.2 Mesh peering open for AMPE 14.5.5.2.1 Generating Mesh Peering Open frames for AMPE 14.5.5.2.2 Processing Mesh Peering Open frames for AMPE 14.5.5.3 Mesh peering confirm for AMPE 14.5.5.3.1 Generating Mesh Peering Confirm frames for AMPE 14.5.5.3.2 Processing Mesh Peering Confirm frames for AMPE 14.5.5.4 Mesh peering close for AMPE 14.5.5.4.1 Generating Mesh Peering Close frames for AMPE 14.5.5.4.2 Processing Mesh Peering Close frames for AMPE 14.5.6 AMPE finite state machine 14.5.6.1 Overview 14.5.6.2 Additional events and actions to MPM FSM 14.5.6.3 State transitions 14.5.7 Keys and key derivation algorithm for the authenticated mesh peering exchange (AMPE) 14.6 Mesh group key handshake 14.6.1 General 14.6.2 Protection on mesh group key handshake frames 14.6.3 Mesh Group Key Inform frame construction and processing 14.6.4 Mesh Group Key Acknowledge frame construction and processing 14.6.5 Mesh group key implementation considerations 14.7 Mesh security 14.8 Mesh path selection and metric framework 14.8.1 General 14.8.2 Extensible path selection framework 14.8.3 Link metric reporting 14.9 Airtime link metric 14.10 Hybrid wireless mesh protocol (HWMP) 14.10.1 General 14.10.2 Terminology 14.10.3 On-demand path selection mode 14.10.4 Proactive tree building mode 14.10.4.1 General 14.10.4.2 Proactive PREQ mechanism 14.10.4.3 Proactive RANN mechanism 14.10.5 Collocated STAs 14.10.6 Parameters for extensible path selection framework 14.10.7 Addressing of HWMP Mesh Path Selection frame 14.10.8 General rules for processing HWMP elements 14.10.8.1 General 14.10.8.2 HWMP propagation 14.10.8.3 HWMP sequence numbering 14.10.8.4 Forwarding information 14.10.8.5 Repeated attempts at path discovery 14.10.8.6 Limiting the rate of HWMP SN increments 14.10.9 Path request (PREQ) mechanism 14.10.9.1 General 14.10.9.2 Function 14.10.9.3 Conditions for generating and sending a PREQ element 14.10.9.4 PREQ element processing 14.10.9.4.1 General 14.10.9.4.2 Acceptance criteria 14.10.9.4.3 Effect of receipt 14.10.10 Path reply (PREP) mechanism 14.10.10.1 General 14.10.10.2 Function 14.10.10.3 Conditions for generating and sending a PREP element 14.10.10.4 PREP element processing 14.10.10.4.1 General 14.10.10.4.2 Acceptance criteria 14.10.10.4.3 Effect of receipt 14.10.11 Path error (PERR) mechanism 14.10.11.1 General 14.10.11.2 Function 14.10.11.3 Conditions for generating and sending a PERR element 14.10.11.4 PERR element processing 14.10.11.4.1 General 14.10.11.4.2 Acceptance criteria 14.10.11.4.3 Effect of receipt 14.10.12 Root announcement (RANN) mechanism 14.10.12.1 General 14.10.12.2 Function 14.10.12.3 Conditions for generating and sending a RANN element 14.10.12.4 RANN element reception 14.10.12.4.1 General 14.10.12.4.2 Acceptance criteria 14.10.12.4.3 Effect of receipt 14.10.13 Considerations for support of STAs without mesh functionality 14.11 Interworking with the DS 14.11.1 Overview of interworking between a mesh BSS and a DS 14.11.2 Gate announcement (GANN) 14.11.2.1 General 14.11.2.2 Function 14.11.2.3 Conditions for generating and sending a GANN element 14.11.2.4 GANN element processing 14.11.2.4.1 General 14.11.2.4.2 Acceptance criteria 14.11.2.4.3 Effect of receipt 14.11.3 Data forwarding at proxy mesh gates 14.11.3.1 General 14.11.3.2 Forwarding of MSDUs from the MBSS to the DS 14.11.3.3 Forwarding of MSDUs from the DS to the MBSS 14.11.4 Proxy information and proxy update 14.11.4.1 General 14.11.4.2 Proxy information 14.11.4.3 Proxy update (PXU) 14.11.4.3.1 General 14.11.4.3.2 Function 14.11.4.3.3 Conditions for generating and sending a PXU element 14.11.4.3.4 Effect of receipt of a PXU element 14.11.4.4 Proxy update confirmation (PXUC) 14.11.4.4.1 General 14.11.4.4.2 Function 14.11.4.4.3 Conditions for generating and sending a PXUC element 14.11.4.4.4 Effect of receipt of PXUC element 14.11.5 Mesh STA collocation 14.12 Intra-mesh congestion control 14.12.1 General 14.12.2 Congestion control signaling protocol 14.13 Synchronization and beaconing in MBSSs 14.13.1 TSF for MBSSs 14.13.2 Extensible synchronization framework 14.13.2.1 General 14.13.2.2 Neighbor offset synchronization method 14.13.2.2.1 General 14.13.2.2.2 Timing offset calculation 14.13.2.2.3 Clock drift adjustment 14.13.3 Beaconing 14.13.3.1 Beacon generation in MBSSs 14.13.3.2 Beacon reception for mesh STA 14.13.4 Mesh beacon collision avoidance (MBCA) 14.13.4.1 Overview 14.13.4.2 Beacon timing advertisement 14.13.4.2.1 General 14.13.4.2.2 Calculation of neighbor STA’s TBTT 14.13.4.2.3 Beacon timing information 14.13.4.2.4 Maintenance of the status number 14.13.4.2.5 Transmitter’s procedure 14.13.4.2.6 Receiver’s procedure 14.13.4.3 TBTT selection 14.13.4.4 TBTT adjustment 14.13.4.4.1 Self-determined TBTT adjustment 14.13.4.4.2 Requested TBTT adjustment 14.13.4.4.3 TBTT scanning and adjustment procedures 14.13.4.5 Frame transmission across reported TBTT 14.13.4.6 Delayed beacon transmissions 14.14 Power save in a mesh BSS 14.14.1 General 14.14.2 Mesh power management modes 14.14.2.1 General 14.14.2.2 Peer-specific mesh power management modes 14.14.2.3 Nonpeer mesh power management modes 14.14.3 Mesh power management mode indications and transitions 14.14.3.1 General 14.14.3.2 Transition to a higher activity level 14.14.3.3 Transition to a lower activity level 14.14.4 TIM transmissions in an MBSS 14.14.5 TIM types 14.14.6 Mesh awake window 14.14.7 Power save support 14.14.8 Operation in peer-specific and nonpeer mesh power management modes 14.14.8.1 General 14.14.8.2 Operation in active mode 14.14.8.3 Operation in deep sleep mode for nonpeer mesh STAs 14.14.8.4 Operation in light sleep mode for a mesh peering 14.14.8.5 Operation in deep sleep mode for a mesh peering 14.14.8.6 Conditions for doze state 14.14.9 Mesh peer service periods 14.14.9.1 General 14.14.9.2 Initiation of a mesh peer service period 14.14.9.3 Operation during a mesh peer service period 14.14.9.4 Termination of a mesh peer service period 14.14.10 MCCA use by power saving mesh STA 15. DSSS PHY specification for the 2.4 GHz band designated for ISM applications 15.1 Overview 15.1.1 General 15.1.2 Scope 15.1.3 DSSS PHY functions 15.1.3.1 General 15.1.3.2 PLME 15.1.4 Service specification method and notation 15.2 DSSS PHY specific service parameter list 15.2.1 Introduction 15.2.2 TXVECTOR parameters 15.2.2.1 General 15.2.2.2 TXVECTOR LENGTH 15.2.2.3 TXVECTOR DATARATE 15.2.2.4 TXVECTOR SERVICE 15.2.2.5 TXVECTOR TXPWR_LEVEL_INDEX 15.2.2.6 TXVECTOR TIME_OF_DEPARTURE_REQUESTED 15.2.2.7 TXVECTOR TX_ANTENNA 15.2.3 RXVECTOR parameters 15.2.3.1 General 15.2.3.2 RXVECTOR LENGTH 15.2.3.3 RXVECTOR RSSI 15.2.3.4 RXVECTOR SIGNAL 15.2.3.5 RXVECTOR SERVICE 15.2.3.6 RXVECTOR RCPI 15.2.3.7 RXVECTOR SQ 15.2.3.8 RXVECTOR RX_ANTENNA 15.2.4 TXSTATUS parameters 15.2.4.1 General 15.2.4.2 TXSTATUS TIME_OF_DEPARTURE 15.2.4.3 TXSTATUS TIME_OF_DEPARTURE_ClockRate 15.3 DSSS PHY 15.3.1 Overview 15.3.2 PPDU format 15.3.3 PHY field definitions 15.3.3.1 General 15.3.3.2 PHY SYNC field 15.3.3.3 PHY SFD 15.3.3.4 PHY SIGNAL field 15.3.3.5 PHY SERVICE field 15.3.3.6 PHY LENGTH field 15.3.3.7 PHY CRC field 15.3.4 PHY/DSSS PHY data scrambler and descrambler 15.3.5 PHY data modulation and modulation rate change 15.3.6 Transmit PHY 15.3.7 Receive PHY 15.4 DSSS PLME 15.4.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives 15.4.2 DSSS PHY MIB 15.4.3 DSSS PHY 15.4.4 PHY operating specifications, general 15.4.4.1 General 15.4.4.2 Operating frequency range 15.4.4.3 Channel Numbering of operating channels 15.4.4.4 Spreading sequence 15.4.4.5 Modulation and channel data rates 15.4.4.6 Transmit and receive in-band and out-of-band spurious emissions 15.4.4.7 TX-to-RX turnaround time 15.4.4.8 RX-to-TX turnaround time 15.4.4.9 Slot time 15.4.4.10 Transmit and receive antenna connector impedance 15.4.5 PHY transmit specifications 15.4.5.1 Introduction 15.4.5.2 Transmit power levels 15.4.5.3 Minimum transmitted power level 15.4.5.4 Transmit power level control 15.4.5.5 Transmit spectrum mask 15.4.5.6 Transmit center frequency tolerance 15.4.5.7 Chip clock frequency tolerance 15.4.5.8 Transmit power-on and power-down ramp 15.4.5.9 RF carrier suppression 15.4.5.10 Transmit modulation accuracy 15.4.5.11 Time of Departure accuracy 15.4.6 PHY receiver specifications 15.4.6.1 Introduction 15.4.6.2 Receiver minimum input level sensitivity 15.4.6.3 Receiver maximum input level 15.4.6.4 Receiver adjacent channel rejection 15.4.6.5 CCA 15.4.6.6 Received Channel Power Indicator Measurement 15.4.6.7 DSSS PHY TXTIME calculation 16. High rate direct sequence spread spectrum (HR/DSSS) PHY specification 16.1 Overview 16.1.1 General 16.1.2 Scope 16.1.3 HR/DSSS PHY functions 16.1.3.1 General 16.1.3.2 PLME 16.1.4 Service specification method and notation 16.2 HR/DSSS PHY 16.2.1 Overview 16.2.2 PPDU format 16.2.2.1 General 16.2.2.2 Long PPDU format 16.2.2.3 Short PPDU format 16.2.3 PPDU field definitions 16.2.3.1 General 16.2.3.2 Long PHY SYNC field 16.2.3.3 Long PHY SFD 16.2.3.4 Long PHY SIGNAL field 16.2.3.5 Long PHY SERVICE field 16.2.3.6 Long PHY LENGTH field 16.2.3.7 PHY CRC (CRC-16) field 16.2.3.8 Long PHY data modulation and modulation rate change 16.2.3.9 Short PHY synchronization (shortSYNC) 16.2.3.10 Short PHY SFD field (shortSFD) 16.2.3.11 Short PHY SIGNAL field (shortSIGNAL) 16.2.3.12 Short PHY SERVICE field (shortSERVICE) 16.2.3.13 Short PHY LENGTH field (shortLENGTH) 16.2.3.14 Short CRC-16 field (shortCRC) 16.2.3.15 Short PHY data modulation and modulation rate change 16.2.4 PHY/HR/DSSS PHY data scrambler and descrambler 16.2.5 Transmit PHY 16.2.6 Receive PHY 16.3 HR/DSSS PLME 16.3.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives 16.3.2 HR/DSSS PHY MIB 16.3.3 HR/DSSS PHY 16.3.4 HR/DSSS TXTIME calculation 16.3.5 Vector descriptions 16.3.6 PHY operating specifications, general 16.3.6.1 General 16.3.6.2 Operating frequency range 16.3.6.3 Channel Numbering of operating channels 16.3.6.4 Modulation and channel data rates 16.3.6.5 Spreading sequence and modulation for 1 Mb/s and 2 Mb/s 16.3.6.6 Spreading sequences and modulation for CCK modulation at 5.5 Mb/s and 11 Mb/s 16.3.6.6.1 General 16.3.6.6.2 Cover code for CCK 16.3.6.6.3 CCK 5.5 Mb/s modulation 16.3.6.6.4 CCK 11 Mb/s modulation 16.3.6.7 Transmit and receive in-band and out-of-band spurious emissions 16.3.6.8 TX-to-RX turnaround time 16.3.6.9 RX-to-TX turnaround time 16.3.6.10 Slot time 16.3.6.11 Transmit and receive impedance at the antenna connector 16.3.7 PHY transmit specifications 16.3.7.1 Introduction 16.3.7.2 Transmit power levels 16.3.7.3 Transmit power level control 16.3.7.4 Transmit spectrum mask 16.3.7.5 Transmit center frequency tolerance 16.3.7.6 Chip clock frequency tolerance 16.3.7.7 Transmit power-on and power-down ramp 16.3.7.8 RF carrier suppression 16.3.7.9 Transmit modulation accuracy 16.3.7.10 Time of Departure accuracy 16.3.8 PHY receiver specifications 16.3.8.1 Introduction 16.3.8.2 Receiver minimum input level sensitivity 16.3.8.3 Receiver maximum input level 16.3.8.4 Receiver adjacent channel rejection 16.3.8.5 CCA 16.3.8.6 Received Channel Power Indicator Measurement 17. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) PHY specification 17.1 Introduction 17.1.1 General 17.1.2 Scope 17.1.3 OFDM PHY functions 17.1.3.1 General 17.1.3.2 PLME 17.1.3.3 Service specification method 17.2 OFDM PHY specific service parameter list 17.2.1 Introduction 17.2.2 TXVECTOR parameters 17.2.2.1 General 17.2.2.2 TXVECTOR LENGTH 17.2.2.3 TXVECTOR DATARATE 17.2.2.4 TXVECTOR SERVICE 17.2.2.5 TXVECTOR TXPWR_LEVEL_INDEX 17.2.2.6 TXVECTOR TIME_OF_DEPARTURE_REQUESTED 17.2.2.7 TXVECTOR CH_BANDWIDTH_IN_NON_HT 17.2.2.8 TXVECTOR DYN_BANDWIDTH_IN_NON_HT 17.2.3 RXVECTOR parameters 17.2.3.1 General 17.2.3.2 RXVECTOR LENGTH 17.2.3.3 RXVECTOR RSSI 17.2.3.4 RXVECTOR DATARATE 17.2.3.5 RXVECTOR SERVICE 17.2.3.6 RXVECTOR RCPI 17.2.3.7 RXVECTOR CH_BANDWIDTH_IN_NON_HT 17.2.3.8 RXVECTOR DYN_BANDWIDTH_IN_NON_HT 17.2.4 TXSTATUS parameters 17.2.4.1 General 17.2.4.2 TXSTATUS TIME_OF_DEPARTURE 17.2.4.3 TXSTATUS TIME_OF_DEPARTURE_ClockRate 17.3 OFDM PHY 17.3.1 Introduction 17.3.2 PPDU format 17.3.2.1 General 17.3.2.2 Overview of the PPDU encoding process 17.3.2.3 Modulation-dependent parameters 17.3.2.4 Timing-related parameters 17.3.2.5 Mathematical conventions in the signal descriptions 17.3.2.6 Discrete time implementation considerations 17.3.3 PHY preamble (SYNC) 17.3.4 SIGNAL field 17.3.4.1 General 17.3.4.2 RATE field 17.3.4.3 PHY LENGTH field 17.3.4.4 Parity (P), Reserved (R), and SIGNAL TAIL fields 17.3.5 DATA field 17.3.5.1 General 17.3.5.2 SERVICE field 17.3.5.3 PPDU TAIL field 17.3.5.4 Pad bits (PAD) 17.3.5.5 PHY DATA scrambler and descrambler 17.3.5.6 Convolutional encoder 17.3.5.7 Data interleaving 17.3.5.8 Subcarrier modulation mapping 17.3.5.9 Pilot subcarriers 17.3.5.10 OFDM modulation 17.3.6 CCA 17.3.7 PHY data modulation and modulation rate change 17.3.8 PHY operating specifications (general) 17.3.8.1 General 17.3.8.2 Outline description 17.3.8.3 Regulatory requirements 17.3.8.4 Operating channel frequencies 17.3.8.4.1 Operating frequency range 17.3.8.4.2 Channel numbering 17.3.8.4.3 Channelization 17.3.8.5 Transmit and receive in-band and out-of-band spurious emissions 17.3.8.6 Slot time 17.3.8.7 Transmit and receive impedance at the antenna connector 17.3.9 PHY transmit specifications 17.3.9.1 General 17.3.9.2 Transmit power levels 17.3.9.3 Transmit spectrum mask 17.3.9.4 Transmission spurious 17.3.9.5 Transmit center frequency tolerance 17.3.9.6 Symbol clock frequency tolerance 17.3.9.7 Modulation accuracy 17.3.9.7.1 Introduction 17.3.9.7.2 Transmitter center frequency leakage 17.3.9.7.3 Transmitter spectral flatness 17.3.9.7.4 Transmitter constellation error 17.3.9.8 Transmit modulation accuracy test 17.3.9.9 Time of Departure accuracy 17.3.10 PHY receiver specifications 17.3.10.1 Introduction 17.3.10.2 Receiver minimum input sensitivity 17.3.10.3 Adjacent channel rejection 17.3.10.4 Nonadjacent channel rejection 17.3.10.5 Receiver maximum input level 17.3.10.6 CCA requirements 17.3.10.7 Received Channel Power Indicator Measurement 17.3.11 Transmit PHY 17.3.12 Receive PHY 17.4 OFDM PLME 17.4.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives 17.4.2 OFDM PHY MIB 17.4.3 OFDM TXTIME calculation 17.4.4 OFDM PHY characteristics 18. Extended Rate PHY (ERP) specification 18.1 Overview 18.1.1 General 18.1.2 Introduction 18.1.3 Operational modes 18.1.4 Scope 18.1.5 ERP functions 18.2 PHY-specific service parameter list 18.3 Extended Rate PHY sublayer 18.3.1 Introduction 18.3.2 PPDU format 18.3.2.1 General 18.3.2.2 Long preamble PPDU format 18.3.2.3 Short preamble PPDU format 18.3.2.4 ERP-OFDM PPDU format 18.3.3 PHY data modulation and rate change 18.3.3.1 Long and short preamble formats 18.3.3.2 ERP-OFDM format 18.3.4 CCA 18.3.5 PHY receive procedure 18.4 ERP operating specifications (general) 18.4.1 Introduction 18.4.2 Regulatory requirements 18.4.3 Operating channel frequencies 18.4.4 Transmit and receive in-band and out-of-band spurious emissions 18.4.5 SIFS 18.4.6 CCA performance 18.4.7 PHY transmit specifications 18.4.7.1 General 18.4.7.2 Transmit power levels 18.4.7.3 Transmit spectral mask 18.4.7.4 Transmit center frequency tolerance 18.4.7.5 Symbol clock frequency tolerance 18.4.7.6 Time of Departure accuracy 18.4.8 PHY receive specifications 18.4.8.1 General 18.4.8.2 Receiver minimum input level sensitivity 18.4.8.3 Adjacent channel rejection 18.4.8.4 Receive maximum input level capability 18.5 ERP PLME 18.5.1 PLME SAP 18.5.2 MIB 18.5.3 TXTIME 18.5.3.1 General 18.5.3.2 ERP-OFDM TXTIME calculations 18.5.4 ERP characteristics 19. High-throughput (HT) PHY specification 19.1 Introduction 19.1.1 Introduction to the HT PHY 19.1.2 Scope 19.1.3 HT PHY functions 19.1.3.1 General 19.1.3.2 PHY management entity (PLME) 19.1.3.3 Service specification method 19.1.4 PPDU formats 19.2 HT PHY service interface 19.2.1 Introduction 19.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters 19.2.3 PHYCONFIG_VECTOR parameters 19.2.4 Effect of CH_BANDWIDTH, CH_OFFSET, and MCS parameters on PPDU format 19.2.5 Support for NON_HT formats 19.2.6 TXSTATUS parameters 19.3 HT PHY 19.3.1 Introduction 19.3.2 PPDU format 19.3.3 Transmitter block diagram 19.3.4 Overview of the PPDU encoding process 19.3.5 Modulation and coding scheme (MCS) 19.3.6 Timing-related parameters 19.3.7 Mathematical description of signals 19.3.8 Transmission in the upper/lower 20 MHz of a 40 MHz channel 19.3.9 HT preamble 19.3.9.1 Introduction 19.3.9.2 HT-mixed format preamble 19.3.9.3 Non-HT portion of the HT-mixed format preamble 19.3.9.3.1 Introduction 19.3.9.3.2 Cyclic shift definition 19.3.9.3.3 L-STF definition 19.3.9.3.4 L-LTF definition 19.3.9.3.5 L-SIG definition 19.3.9.4 HT portion of HT-mixed format preamble 19.3.9.4.1 Introduction 19.3.9.4.2 Cyclic shift definition 19.3.9.4.3 HT-SIG definition 19.3.9.4.4 CRC calculation for HT-SIG 19.3.9.4.5 HT-STF definition 19.3.9.4.6 HT-LTF definition 19.3.9.5 HT-greenfield format preamble 19.3.9.5.1 General 19.3.9.5.2 Cyclic shift definition for HT-greenfield format preamble 19.3.9.5.3 HT-GF-STF definition 19.3.9.5.4 HT-greenfield format HT-SIG 19.3.9.5.5 HT-greenfield format LTF 19.3.10 Transmission of NON_HT format PPDUs with more than one transmit chain 19.3.11 Data field 19.3.11.1 General 19.3.11.2 SERVICE field 19.3.11.3 Scrambler 19.3.11.4 Coding 19.3.11.5 Encoder parsing operation for two BCC FEC encoders 19.3.11.6 Binary convolutional coding and puncturing 19.3.11.7 LDPC codes 19.3.11.7.1 Introduction 19.3.11.7.2 LDPC coding rates and codeword block lengths 19.3.11.7.3 LDPC encoder 19.3.11.7.4 Parity-check matrices 19.3.11.7.5 LDPC PPDU encoding process 19.3.11.7.6 LDPC parser 19.3.11.8 Data interleaver 19.3.11.8.1 Overview 19.3.11.8.2 Stream parser 19.3.11.8.3 Frequency interleaver 19.3.11.9 Constellation mapping 19.3.11.9.1 General 19.3.11.9.2 Space-time block coding (STBC) 19.3.11.10 Pilot subcarriers 19.3.11.11 OFDM modulation 19.3.11.11.1 General 19.3.11.11.2 Spatial mapping 19.3.11.11.3 Transmission in 20 MHz HT format 19.3.11.11.4 Transmission in 40 MHz HT format 19.3.11.11.5 Transmission in MCS 32 format 19.3.11.11.6 Transmission with a short GI 19.3.11.12 Non-HT duplicate transmission 19.3.12 Beamforming 19.3.12.1 General 19.3.12.2 Implicit feedback beamforming 19.3.12.3 Explicit feedback beamforming 19.3.12.3.1 General 19.3.12.3.2 CSI matrices feedback 19.3.12.3.3 CSI matrices feedback decoding procedure 19.3.12.3.4 Example of CSI matrices feedback encoding 19.3.12.3.5 Noncompressed beamforming feedback matrix 19.3.12.3.6 Compressed beamforming feedback matrix 19.3.13 HT Preamble format for sounding PPDUs 19.3.13.1 General 19.3.13.2 Sounding with a NDP 19.3.13.3 Sounding PPDU for calibration 19.3.13.4 Sounding PPDU for channel quality assessment 19.3.14 Regulatory requirements 19.3.15 Channel numbering and channelization 19.3.15.1 General 19.3.15.2 Channel allocation in the 2.4 GHz Band 19.3.15.3 Channel allocation in the 5 GHz band 19.3.15.4 40 MHz channelization 19.3.16 Slot time 19.3.17 Transmit and receive impedance at the antenna connector 19.3.18 PHY transmit specification 19.3.18.1 Transmit spectrum mask 19.3.18.2 Spectral flatness 19.3.18.3 Transmit power 19.3.18.4 Transmit center frequency tolerance 19.3.18.5 Packet alignment 19.3.18.6 Symbol clock frequency tolerance 19.3.18.7 Modulation accuracy 19.3.18.7.1 Introduction to modulation accuracy tests 19.3.18.7.2 Transmit center frequency leakage 19.3.18.7.3 Transmitter constellation error 19.3.18.7.4 Transmitter modulation accuracy (EVM) test 19.3.18.8 Time of Departure accuracy 19.3.19 HT PHY receiver specification 19.3.19.1 Receiver minimum input sensitivity 19.3.19.2 Adjacent channel rejection 19.3.19.3 Nonadjacent channel rejection 19.3.19.4 Receiver maximum input level 19.3.19.5 CCA sensitivity 19.3.19.5.1 CCA-Energy Detect (CCA-ED) 19.3.19.5.2 CCA sensitivity for non-HT PPDUs 19.3.19.5.3 CCA sensitivity in 20 MHz 19.3.19.5.4 CCA sensitivity in 40 MHz 19.3.19.6 Received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement 19.3.19.7 Reduced interframe space (RIFS) 19.3.20 PHY transmit procedure 19.3.21 PHY receive procedure 19.4 HT PLME 19.4.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives 19.4.2 PHY MIB 19.4.3 TXTIME calculation 19.4.4 HT PHY 19.5 Parameters for HT MCSs 20. Directional multi-gigabit (DMG) PHY specification 20.1 DMG PHY introduction 20.1.1 Scope 20.1.2 DMG PHY functions 20.1.2.1 PHY management entity (PLME) 20.1.2.2 Service specification method 20.2 DMG PHY service interface 20.2.1 Introduction 20.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters 20.2.3 TXSTATUS parameters 20.3 Common parameters 20.3.1 Channelization 20.3.2 Transmit mask 20.3.3 Common requirements 20.3.3.1 Introduction 20.3.3.2 Center frequency tolerance 20.3.3.2.1 General 20.3.3.2.2 Center frequency convergence 20.3.3.3 Symbol clock tolerance 20.3.3.4 Transmit center frequency leakage 20.3.3.5 Transmit rampup and rampdown 20.3.3.6 Antenna setting 20.3.3.7 Maximum input requirement 20.3.3.8 Receive sensitivity 20.3.4 Timing-related parameters 20.3.5 Mathematical conventions in the signal description 20.3.5.1 General 20.3.5.2 Windowing function 20.3.6 Common preamble 20.3.6.1 General 20.3.6.2 Short Training field 20.3.6.3 Channel Estimation field 20.3.6.4 Transmission of the preamble and BRP fields in an OFDM packet 20.3.6.4.1 General 20.3.6.4.2 hFilt definition 20.3.7 HCS calculation for headers of DMG control mode, DMG OFDM mode, and DMG SC mode 20.3.8 Common LDPC parity matrices 20.3.8.1 General 20.3.8.2 Rate 1/2 LDPC code matrix H = 336 rows x 672 columns, Z = 42 20.3.8.3 Rate 5/8 LDPC code matrix H = 252 rows x 672 columns, Z = 42 20.3.8.4 Rate 3/4 LDPC code matrix H = 168 rows x 672 columns, Z = 42 20.3.8.5 Rate 13/16 LDPC code matrix H = 126 rows x 672 columns, Z = 42 20.3.9 Scrambler 20.3.10 Received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement 20.4 DMG control mode 20.4.1 Introduction 20.4.2 PPDU format 20.4.3 Transmission 20.4.3.1 Preamble 20.4.3.1.1 General 20.4.3.1.2 Short Training field 20.4.3.1.3 Channel Estimation field 20.4.3.2 Header 20.4.3.2.1 General 20.4.3.2.2 Generation of HCS bits 20.4.3.2.3 Header encoding and modulation 20.4.3.3 Data field 20.4.3.3.1 General 20.4.3.3.2 Scrambler 20.4.3.3.3 Encoder 20.4.3.3.4 Modulation 20.4.3.3.5 Spreading 20.4.4 Performance requirements 20.4.4.1 Transmit requirements 20.4.4.1.1 Introduction 20.4.4.1.2 Transmit EVM 20.4.4.2 Receive requirements 20.4.4.2.1 Introduction 20.4.4.2.2 CCA 20.5 DMG OFDM mode 20.5.1 Introduction 20.5.2 PPDU format 20.5.3 Transmission 20.5.3.1 Header 20.5.3.1.1 General 20.5.3.1.2 Modulation and coding scheme 20.5.3.1.3 Generation of the HCS bits 20.5.3.1.4 Header encoding and modulation 20.5.3.2 Data field 20.5.3.2.1 General 20.5.3.2.2 Scrambler 20.5.3.2.3 Encoding 20.5.3.2.4 Modulation mapping 20.5.3.2.5 Pilot sequence 20.5.3.2.6 OFDM modulation 20.5.4 Performance requirements 20.5.4.1 Transmit requirements 20.5.4.1.1 Introduction 20.5.4.1.2 Transmit EVM 20.5.4.1.3 Tx flatness 20.5.4.1.4 Time of Departure accuracy 20.5.4.2 Receive requirements 20.5.4.2.1 Introduction 20.5.4.2.2 CCA 20.6 DMG SC mode 20.6.1 Introduction 20.6.2 PPDU format 20.6.3 Transmission 20.6.3.1 Header 20.6.3.1.1 General 20.6.3.1.2 Modulation and coding scheme 20.6.3.1.3 Generation of the HCS bits 20.6.3.1.4 Header encoding and modulation 20.6.3.2 Data field 20.6.3.2.1 General 20.6.3.2.2 Scrambler 20.6.3.2.3 Encoding 20.6.3.2.4 Modulation mapping 20.6.3.2.5 Symbol blocking and guard insertion 20.6.4 Performance requirements 20.6.4.1 Transmit requirements 20.6.4.1.1 Transmit EVM 20.6.4.1.2 Time of Departure accuracy 20.6.4.2 Receive requirements 20.6.4.2.1 Introduction 20.6.4.2.2 CCA 20.7 DMG low-power SC mode 20.7.1 Introduction 20.7.2 Transmission 20.7.2.1 Preamble 20.7.2.2 Header 20.7.2.2.1 General 20.7.2.2.2 Header encoding and modulation 20.7.2.3 Data field 20.7.2.3.1 General 20.7.2.3.2 Scrambler 20.7.2.3.3 Encoding 20.7.2.3.4 Modulation 20.7.2.3.5 Blocking 20.8 PHY transmit procedure 20.9 PHY receive procedure 20.10 Beamforming 20.10.1 Beamforming concept 20.10.2 Beamforming frame format 20.10.2.1 Sector-level sweep 20.10.2.2 Beam refinement 20.10.2.2.1 General 20.10.2.2.2 BRP packet structure 20.10.2.2.3 BRP packet header fields 20.10.2.2.4 BRP packet duration 20.10.2.2.5 AGC field 20.10.2.2.6 TRN field 20.10.2.2.7 Channel measurement 20.10.2.2.8 BRP resampling in an OFDM packet 20.11 Golay sequences 20.12 DMG PLME 20.12.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives 20.12.2 DMG PHY MIB 20.12.3 TXTIME calculation 20.12.4 DMG PHY 21. Very high throughput (VHT) PHY specification 21.1 Introduction 21.1.1 Introduction to the VHT PHY 21.1.2 Scope 21.1.3 VHT PHY functions 21.1.3.1 General 21.1.3.2 PHY management entity (PLME) 21.1.3.3 Service specification method 21.1.4 PPDU formats 21.2 VHT PHY service interface 21.2.1 Introduction 21.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters 21.2.3 PHYCONFIG_VECTOR parameters 21.2.4 Effects of CH_BANDWIDTH parameter on PPDU format 21.2.5 Support for NON_HT and HT formats 21.2.5.1 General 21.2.5.2 Support for NON_HT format when NON_HT_MODULATION is OFDM 21.2.5.3 Support for HT formats 21.2.6 TXSTATUS parameters 21.3 VHT PHY 21.3.1 Introduction 21.3.2 VHT PPDU format 21.3.3 Transmitter block diagram 21.3.4 Overview of the PPDU encoding process 21.3.4.1 General 21.3.4.2 Construction of L-STF 21.3.4.3 Construction of the L-LTF 21.3.4.4 Construction of L-SIG 21.3.4.5 Construction of VHT-SIG-A 21.3.4.6 Construction of VHT-STF 21.3.4.7 Construction of VHT-LTF 21.3.4.8 Construction of VHT-SIG-B 21.3.4.9 Construction of the Data field in a VHT SU PPDU 21.3.4.9.1 Using BCC 21.3.4.9.2 Using LDPC 21.3.4.10 Construction of the Data field in a VHT MU PPDU 21.3.4.10.1 General 21.3.4.10.2 Using BCC 21.3.4.10.3 Using LDPC 21.3.4.10.4 Combining to form a VHT MU PPDU 21.3.5 VHT modulation and coding scheme (VHT-MCS) 21.3.6 Timing-related parameters 21.3.7 Mathematical description of signals 21.3.7.1 Notation 21.3.7.2 Subcarrier indices in use 21.3.7.3 Channel frequencies 21.3.7.4 Transmitted signal 21.3.7.5 Definition of tone rotation 21.3.8 VHT preamble 21.3.8.1 Introduction 21.3.8.2 Non-VHT portion of VHT format preamble 21.3.8.2.1 Cyclic shift for pre-VHT modulated fields 21.3.8.2.2 L-STF definition 21.3.8.2.3 L-LTF definition 21.3.8.2.4 L-SIG definition 21.3.8.3 VHT portion of VHT format preamble 21.3.8.3.1 Introduction 21.3.8.3.2 Cyclic shift for VHT modulated fields 21.3.8.3.3 VHT-SIG-A definition 21.3.8.3.4 VHT-STF definition 21.3.8.3.5 VHT-LTF definition 21.3.8.3.6 VHT-SIG-B definition 21.3.9 Transmission of NON_HT and HT PPDUs with multiple transmit chains 21.3.9.1 Transmission of 20 MHz NON_HT PPDUs with more than one transmit chain 21.3.9.2 Transmission of HT PPDUs with more than four transmit chains 21.3.10 Data field 21.3.10.1 General 21.3.10.2 SERVICE field 21.3.10.3 CRC calculation for VHT-SIG-B 21.3.10.4 Scrambler 21.3.10.5 Coding 21.3.10.5.1 General 21.3.10.5.2 BCC encoder parsing operation 21.3.10.5.3 Binary convolutional coding and puncturing 21.3.10.5.4 LDPC coding 21.3.10.5.5 Encoding process for VHT MU PPDUs 21.3.10.6 Stream parser 21.3.10.7 Segment parser 21.3.10.8 BCC interleaver 21.3.10.9 Constellation mapping 21.3.10.9.1 General 21.3.10.9.2 LDPC tone mapping 21.3.10.9.3 Segment deparser 21.3.10.9.4 Space-time block coding 21.3.10.10 Pilot subcarriers 21.3.10.11 OFDM modulation 21.3.10.11.1 Transmission in VHT format 21.3.10.12 Non-HT duplicate transmission 21.3.11 SU-MIMO and DL-MU-MIMO Beamforming 21.3.11.1 General 21.3.11.2 Beamforming Feedback Matrix V 21.3.11.3 Maximum Number of Total Spatial Streams in VHT MU PPDUs 21.3.11.4 Group ID 21.3.12 VHT preamble format for sounding PPDUs 21.3.13 Regulatory requirements 21.3.14 Channelization 21.3.15 Slot time 21.3.16 Transmit and receive port impedance 21.3.17 VHT transmit specification 21.3.17.1 Transmit spectrum mask 21.3.17.2 Spectral flatness 21.3.17.3 Transmit center frequency and symbol clock frequency tolerance 21.3.17.4 Modulation accuracy 21.3.17.4.1 Introduction to modulation accuracy tests 21.3.17.4.2 Transmit center frequency leakage 21.3.17.4.3 Transmitter constellation error 21.3.17.4.4 Transmitter modulation accuracy (EVM) test 21.3.17.5 Time of Departure accuracy 21.3.18 VHT receiver specification 21.3.18.1 Receiver minimum input sensitivity 21.3.18.2 Adjacent channel rejection 21.3.18.3 Nonadjacent channel rejection 21.3.18.4 Receiver maximum input level 21.3.18.5 CCA sensitivity 21.3.18.5.1 General 21.3.18.5.2 CCA sensitivity for operating classes requiring CCA-ED 21.3.18.5.3 CCA sensitivity for signals occupying the primary 20 MHz channel 21.3.18.5.4 CCA sensitivity for signals not occupying the primary 20 MHz channel 21.3.18.6 RSSI 21.3.19 PHY transmit procedure 21.3.20 PHY receive procedure 21.4 VHT PLME 21.4.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives 21.4.2 PHY MIB 21.4.3 TXTIME and PSDU_LENGTH calculation 21.4.4 VHT PHY 21.5 Parameters for VHT-MCSs 22. Television very high throughput (TVHT) PHY specification 22.1 Introduction 22.1.1 Introduction to the TVHT PHY 22.1.2 Scope 22.1.3 TVHT PHY functions 22.1.3.1 General 22.1.3.2 PHY management entity (PLME) 22.1.3.3 Service specification method 22.1.4 PPDU formats 22.2 TVHT PHY service interface 22.2.1 Introduction 22.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters 22.2.3 Effects of CH_BANDWIDTH parameter on PPDU format 22.2.4 Support for NON_HT and HT formats 22.3 TVHT PHY sublayer 22.3.1 Introduction 22.3.2 VHT PPDU format in TVWS bands 22.3.3 Transmitter block diagram 22.3.4 Overview of the PPDU encoding process 22.3.4.1 General 22.3.4.2 Construction of L-STF 22.3.4.3 Construction of the L-LTF 22.3.4.4 Construction of L-SIG 22.3.4.5 Construction of TVHT-SIG-A 22.3.4.6 Construction of TVHT-STF 22.3.4.7 Construction of TVHT-LTF 22.3.4.8 Construction of TVHT-SIG-B 22.3.4.9 Construction of the Data field in an SU PPDU 22.3.4.9.1 Using BCC 22.3.4.9.2 Using LDPC 22.3.4.10 Construction of the Data field in an MU PPDU 22.3.4.10.1 General 22.3.4.10.2 Using BCC 22.3.4.10.3 Using LDPC 22.3.4.10.4 Combining to form an MU PPDU 22.3.5 Modulation and coding scheme (MCS) 22.3.6 Timing-related parameters 22.3.7 Mathematical description of signals 22.3.8 TVHT preamble 22.3.8.1 Introduction 22.3.8.2 Non-TVHT portion of TVHT format preamble 22.3.8.2.1 Cyclic shift definition for pre-TVHT modulated fields 22.3.8.2.2 L-STF definition 22.3.8.2.3 L-LTF definition 22.3.8.2.4 L-SIG definition 22.3.8.3 TVHT portion of TVHT format preamble 22.3.8.3.1 Introduction 22.3.8.3.2 Cyclic shift for TVHT modulated fields 22.3.8.3.3 TVHT-SIG-A definition 22.3.8.3.4 TVHT-STF definition 22.3.8.3.5 TVHT-LTF definition 22.3.8.3.6 TVHT-SIG-B definition 22.3.9 Transmission of NON_HT and HT PPDUs with multiple antennas 22.3.10 Data field 22.3.10.1 General 22.3.10.2 SERVICE field 22.3.10.3 CRC calculation for TVHT-SIG-B 22.3.10.4 Scrambler 22.3.10.5 Coding 22.3.10.6 Stream parser 22.3.10.7 Segment parser 22.3.10.8 BCC interleaver 22.3.10.9 Constellation mapping 22.3.10.9.1 General 22.3.10.9.2 LDPC tone mapping 22.3.10.9.3 Segment deparser 22.3.10.9.4 Space-time block coding 22.3.10.10 Pilot subcarriers 22.3.10.11 OFDM modulation transmission in VHT format 22.3.10.12 Non-HT duplicate transmission 22.3.11 SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO Beamforming 22.3.11.1 General 22.3.11.2 Beamforming Feedback Matrix V 22.3.11.3 Group ID 22.3.12 TVHT preamble format for sounding PPDUs 22.3.13 Regulatory requirements 22.3.14 Channelization 22.3.15 Slot time 22.3.16 Transmit and receive port impedance 22.3.17 TVHT transmit specification 22.3.17.1 Transmit spectrum mask 22.3.17.2 Spectral flatness 22.3.17.3 Transmit center frequency and symbol clock frequency tolerance 22.3.17.4 Modulation accuracy 22.3.17.4.1 Introduction to modulation accuracy tests 22.3.17.4.2 Transmit center frequency leakage 22.3.17.4.3 Transmitter constellation error 22.3.17.4.4 Transmitter modulation accuracy (EVM) test 22.3.17.5 Time of Departure accuracy 22.3.18 TVHT receiver specification 22.3.18.1 General 22.3.18.2 Receiver minimum input sensitivity 22.3.18.3 Adjacent channel rejection 22.3.18.4 Nonadjacent channel rejection 22.3.18.5 Receiver maximum input level 22.3.18.6 CCA sensitivity 22.3.18.6.1 General 22.3.18.6.2 CCA sensitivity for operating classes requiring CCA-ED 22.3.18.6.3 CCA sensitivity for signals occupying the primary channel 22.3.18.6.4 CCA sensitivity for signals not occupying the primary channel 22.3.18.7 RSSI 22.3.19 PHY transmit procedure 22.3.20 PHY receive procedure 22.4 TVHT PLME 22.4.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives 22.4.2 PHY MIB 22.4.3 TXTIME and PSDU_LENGTH calculation 22.4.4 TVHT PHY 22.5 Parameters for TVHT MCSs Annex A (informative) Bibliography Annex B (normative) Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) proforma Annex C (normative) ASN.1 encoding of the MAC and PHY MIB Annex D (normative) Regulatory references Annex E (normative) Country elements and operating classes Annex F (normative) HT LDPC matrix definitions Annex G (normative) Frame exchange sequences Annex H (normative) Usage of Ethertype 89-0d Annex I (informative) Examples of encoding a frame for OFDM PHYs and DMG PHYs Annex J (informative) RSNA reference implementations and test vectors Annex K (informative) TSPECs and Admission control Annex L (informative) Examples and sample code for encoding a TIM Partial Virtual Bitmap Annex M (informative) Integration function Annex N (informative) AP functional description Annex O (informative) Additional VHT and HT information Annex P (informative) Location and Time Difference accuracy test Annex Q (informative) Example use of the Destination URI for Event and Diagnostic Reports Annex R (informative) Interworking with external networks Annex S (informative) Mesh BSS operation Annex T (informative) Overlapping BSS (OBSS) management Annex U (informative) Functions of the centralized coordination service root (CCSR) Annex V (informative) TSPEC 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