IEEE 802.11  目次

IEEE 802.11を読む
https://qiita.com/kaizen_nagoya/items/5e193ed47a09182295e0

IEEE 802.11 単語帳
https://qiita.com/kaizen_nagoya/items/9e64966400a78394d21d

IEEE 802.3 & IEEE 802.11 単語比較
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# 目次 Contents
>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 Acronyms and abbreviations 
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ﾂｮ 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 Independent BSS (IBSS) 
4.3.3 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 . 232
4.3.12.4 Using DSE STA identification to resolve interference
4.3.12.5 Further coexistence enhancements in nonexclusively licensed bands 232
4.3.13 High-throughput (HT) STA 
4.3.14 Sub 1 GHz (S1G) STA 
4.3.14.1 Overview
4.3.14.2 S1G relay
4.3.15 Very high throughput (VHT) STA 
4.3.16 Television very high throughput (TVHT) STA
4.3.17 STA transmission of Data frames outside the context of a BSS 
4.3.18 Tunneled direct-link setup 
4.3.19 Wireless network management
4.3.19.1 Overview
4.3.19.2 BSS max idle period management
4.3.19.3 BSS transition management
4.3.19.4 Channel usage 
4.3.19.5 Collocated interference reporting
4.3.19.6 Diagnostic reporting
4.3.19.7 Directed multicast service (DMS)
4.3.19.8 Event reporting
4.3.19.9 Flexible multicast service (FMS)
4.3.19.10 Location services
4.3.19.11 Multicast Diagnostic report
4.3.19.12 Multiple BSSID capability
4.3.19.13 Proxy ARP 
4.3.19.14 QoS traffic capability 
4.3.19.15 SSID list 
4.3.19.16 Triggered STA statistics
4.3.19.17 TIM broadcast 
4.3.19.18 Timing measurement
4.3.19.19 Fine timing measurement
4.3.19.20 Traffic filtering service 
4.3.19.21 U-APSD coexistence
4.3.19.22 WNM notification 
4.3.19.23 WNM sleep mode 
4.3.20 Subscription service provider network (SSPN) interface 
4.3.21 Mesh BSS 
4.3.21.1 General
4.3.21.2 Overview of the mesh BSS 
4.3.21.3 Mesh STA 
4.3.21.4 IEEE 802.11 components and mesh BSS 
4.3.21.5 Introduction to mesh functions 
4.3.22 DMG STA
4.3.23 DMG relay 
4.3.24 Robust audio video (AV) streaming 
4.3.24.1 Introduction
4.3.24.2 Groupcast with retries (GCR) 
4.3.24.3 Stream classification service (SCS) 
4.3.24.4 Mirrored stream classification service (MSCS)
4.3.24.5 Overlapping BSS (OBSS) management 
4.3.24.6 Interworking with IEEE 802.1Q Stream Reservation Protocol (SRP) 250
4.3.24.7 Intra-access category prioritization
4.3.25 Operation under geolocation database (GDB) control 
4.3.26 CDMG STA
4.3.27 CMMG STA 
4.3.28 General link (GLK)
4.3.28.1 General
4.3.28.2 Selective reception of group addressed frames
4.3.28.3 GLK Service Sets
4.3.29 Ethertype protocol discrimination (EPD) 
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 Connectivity-related services
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 Management frame protection 
4.5.4.10 MAC privacy enhancements
4.5.5 Spectrum management services
4.5.5.1 General
4.5.5.2 TPC 
4.5.5.3 DFS 
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
4.5.9.1 General
4.5.9.2 Preassociation discovery (PAD) 
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 
4.10.3.6 AKM operations using FILS authentication 
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-GLK non-AP STA role 
5.1.5.3 Non-GLK AP role
5.1.5.4 Non-GLK mesh STA role
5.1.5.5 Mesh gate role
5.1.5.6 S1G relay
5.1.5.7 GLK STA role
5.1.5.8 GLK AP role 
5.1.5.9 GLK mesh STA role 
5.2 MAC data service specification 
5.2.1 General
5.2.2 GLK MAC data service specification
5.2.3 MA-UNITDATA.request 
5.2.3.1 Function 
5.2.3.2 Semantics of the service primitive 
5.2.3.3 When generated
5.2.3.4 Effect of receipt
5.2.4 MA-UNITDATA.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
5.2.5 MA-UNITDATA-STATUS.indication
5.2.5.1 Function 
5.2.5.2 Semantics of the service primitive 
5.2.5.3 When generated
5.2.5.4 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
6.3.2.3 MLME-POWERMGT.confirm
6.3.3 Scan
6.3.3.1 Introduction
6.3.3.2 MLME-SCAN.request 
6.3.3.3 MLME-SCAN.confirm 
6.3.3.4 MLME-SCAN-STOP.request 
6.3.4 Synchronization 
6.3.4.1 Introduction
6.3.4.2 MLME-JOIN.request 
6.3.4.3 MLME-JOIN.confirm 
6.3.5 Authenticate 
6.3.5.1 Introduction
6.3.5.2 MLME-AUTHENTICATE.request 
6.3.5.3 MLME-AUTHENTICATE.confirm 
6.3.5.4 MLME-AUTHENTICATE.indication
6.3.5.5 MLME-AUTHENTICATE.response
6.3.6 Deauthenticate 
6.3.6.1 Introduction
6.3.6.2 MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.request
6.3.6.3 MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.confirm
6.3.6.4 MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.indication 
6.3.7 Associate
6.3.7.1 Introduction
6.3.7.2 MLME-ASSOCIATE.request
6.3.7.3 MLME-ASSOCIATE.confirm
6.3.7.4 MLME-ASSOCIATE.indication 
6.3.7.5 MLME-ASSOCIATE.response 
6.3.8 Reassociate
6.3.8.1 Introduction
6.3.8.2 MLME-REASSOCIATE.request
6.3.8.3 MLME-REASSOCIATE.confirm
6.3.8.4 MLME-REASSOCIATE.indication 
6.3.8.5 MLME-REASSOCIATE.response 
6.3.9 Disassociate 
6.3.9.1 MLME-DISASSOCIATE.request 
6.3.9.2 MLME-DISASSOCIATE.confirm 
6.3.9.3 MLME-DISASSOCIATE.indication
6.3.10 Reset
6.3.10.1 Introduction
6.3.10.2 MLME-RESET.request
6.3.11 Start
6.3.11.1 Introduction
6.3.11.2 MLME-START.request 
6.3.11.3 MLME-START.confirm
6.3.12 Stop 
6.3.12.1 General
6.3.12.2 MLME-STOP.request 
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 
6.3.14.3 MLME-MREQUEST.indication
6.3.15 Channel measurement
6.3.15.1 Introduction
6.3.15.2 MLME-MEASURE.request
6.3.15.3 MLME-MEASURE.confirm
6.3.16 Measurement report 
6.3.16.1 Introduction
6.3.16.2 MLME-MREPORT.request
6.3.16.3 MLME-MREPORT.indication 
6.3.17 Channel switch
6.3.17.1 MLME-CHANNELSWITCH.request 
6.3.17.2 MLME-CHANNELSWITCH.confirm 
6.3.17.3 MLME-CHANNELSWITCH.indication
6.3.17.4 MLME-CHANNELSWITCH.response
6.3.18 TPC request
6.3.18.1 Introduction
6.3.18.2 MLME-TPCADAPT.request 
6.3.18.3 MLME-TPCADAPT.confirm 
6.3.19 SetKeys 
6.3.19.1 MLME-SETKEYS.request 
6.3.20 DeleteKeys
6.3.20.1 MLME-DELETEKEYS.request 
6.3.21 MIC (michael) failure event 
6.3.21.1 MLME-MICHAELMICFAILURE.indication
6.3.22 EAPOL
6.3.22.1 MLME-EAPOL.request
6.3.22.2 MLME-EAPOL.confirm
6.3.23 SetProtection 
6.3.23.1 MLME-SETPROTECTION.request
6.3.24 MLME-PROTECTEDFRAMEDROPPED 
6.3.24.1 MLME-PROTECTEDFRAMEDROPPED.indication 
6.3.25 TS management interface 
6.3.25.1 General
6.3.25.2 MLME-ADDTS.request 
6.3.25.3 MLME-ADDTS.confirm 
6.3.25.4 MLME-ADDTS.indication 
6.3.25.5 MLME-ADDTS.response
6.3.25.6 MLME-DELTS.request 
6.3.25.7 MLME-DELTS.indication
6.3.25.8 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.request
6.3.25.9 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.confirm
6.3.25.10 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.indication 
6.3.25.11 MLME-ADDTSRESERVE.response 
6.3.26 Higher layer synchronization support
6.3.26.1 Introduction
6.3.26.2 MLME-HL-SYNC.request 
6.3.26.3 MLME-HL-SYNC.indication
6.3.27 Block Ack 
6.3.27.1 General
6.3.27.2 MLME-ADDBA.request
6.3.27.3 MLME-ADDBA.confirm 
6.3.27.4 MLME-ADDBA.indication 
6.3.27.5 MLME-ADDBA.response 
6.3.27.6 MLME-DELBA.request 
6.3.27.7 MLME-DELBA.indication 
6.3.28 Schedule element management
6.3.28.1 Introduction
6.3.28.2 MLME-SCHEDULE.request
6.3.28.3 MLME-SCHEDULE.indication 
6.3.29 Vendor-specific action 
6.3.29.1 Introduction
6.3.29.2 MLME-VSPECIFIC.request
6.3.29.3 MLME-VSPECIFIC.indication 
6.3.30 Neighbor report request 
6.3.30.1 General
6.3.30.2 MLME-NEIGHBORREPREQ.request
6.3.30.3 MLME-NEIGHBORREPREQ.indication 
6.3.31 Neighbor report response
6.3.31.1 General
6.3.31.2 MLME-NEIGHBORREPRESP.request 
6.3.31.3 MLME-NEIGHBORREPRESP.indication
6.3.32 Link Measure Request 
6.3.32.1 General
6.3.32.2 MLME-LINKMEASURE.request 
6.3.32.3 MLME-LINKMEASURE.confirm
6.3.33 MLME SAP interface for resource request 
6.3.33.1 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST.request
6.3.33.2 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST.indication 
6.3.33.3 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST.response 
6.3.33.4 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST.confirm 
6.3.33.5 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST-LOCAL.request
6.3.33.6 MLME-RESOURCE-REQUEST-LOCAL.confirm
6.3.34 MLME SAP interface for remote requests 
6.3.34.1 MLME-REMOTE-REQUEST.request
6.3.34.2 MLME-REMOTE-REQUEST.indication
6.3.35 Extended channel switch announcement 
6.3.35.1 General
6.3.35.2 MLME-EXTCHANNELSWITCH.request
6.3.35.3 MLME-EXTCHANNELSWITCH.confirm 
6.3.35.4 MLME-EXTCHANNELSWITCH.indication 
6.3.35.5 MLME-EXTCHANNELSWITCH.response 
6.3.36 DSE power constraint announcement
6.3.36.1 General
6.3.36.2 MLME-DSETPC.request
6.3.36.3 MLME-DSETPC.confirm
6.3.36.4 MLME-DSETPC.indication 
6.3.36.5 MLME-DSETPC.response 
6.3.37 Enablement 
6.3.37.1 General
6.3.37.2 MLME-ENABLEMENT.request
6.3.37.3 MLME-ENABLEMENT.confirm
6.3.37.4 MLME-ENABLEMENT.indication 
6.3.37.5 MLME-ENABLEMENT.response 
6.3.38 Deenablement 
6.3.38.1 MLME-DEENABLEMENT.request 
6.3.38.2 MLME-DEENABLEMENT.indication
6.3.39 SA Query support 
6.3.39.1 MLME-SA-QUERY.request
6.3.39.2 MLME-SA-QUERY.confirm 
6.3.39.3 MLME-SA-QUERY.indication 
6.3.39.4 MLME-SA-QUERY.response 
6.3.40 Get TSF timer 
6.3.40.1 General
6.3.40.2 MLME-GETTSFTIME.request 
6.3.40.3 MLME-GETTSFTIME.confirm 
6.3.41 Timing Advertisement 
6.3.41.1 General
6.3.41.2 MLME-TIMING-ADVERTISEMENT.request 
6.3.41.3 MLME-TIMING-ADVERTISEMENT.indication
6.3.42 TDLS Discovery 
6.3.42.1 General
6.3.42.2 MLME-TDLSDISCOVERY.request
6.3.42.3 MLME-TDLSDISCOVERY.confirm
6.3.42.4 MLME-TDLSDISCOVERY.indication 
6.3.42.5 MLME-TDLSDISCOVERY.response 
6.3.43 TDLS direct-link establishment
6.3.43.1 General
6.3.43.2 MLME-TDLSSETUPREQUEST.request
6.3.43.3 MLME-TDLSSETUPREQUEST.indication 
6.3.43.4 MLME-TDLSSETUPRESPONSE.request
6.3.43.5 MLME-TDLSSETUPRESPONSE.indication 
6.3.43.6 MLME-TDLSSETUPCONFIRM.request 
6.3.43.7 MLME-TDLSSETUPCONFIRM.indication
6.3.43.8 MLME-TDLSPOTENTIALPEERSTA.request 
6.3.43.9 MLME-TDLSPOTENTIALPEERSTA.confirm 
6.3.44 TDLS direct-link teardown 
6.3.44.1 General
6.3.44.2 MLME-TDLSTEARDOWN.request
6.3.44.3 MLME-TDLSTEARDOWN.indication 
6.3.45 TDLS peer U-APSD (TPU)
6.3.45.1 General
6.3.45.2 MLME-TDLSPTI.request
6.3.45.3 MLME-TDLSPTI.confirm
6.3.45.4 MLME-TDLSPTI.indication 
6.3.45.5 MLME-TDLSPTI.response 
6.3.46 TDLS channel switching 
6.3.46.1 General
6.3.46.2 MLME-TDLSCHANNELSWITCH.request 
6.3.46.3 MLME-TDLSCHANNELSWITCH.confirm 
6.3.46.4 MLME-TDLSCHANNELSWITCH.indication
6.3.46.5 MLME-TDLSCHANNELSWITCH.response
6.3.47 TDLS peer PSM
6.3.47.1 General
6.3.47.2 MLME-TDLSPEERPSM.request 
6.3.47.3 MLME-TDLSPEERPSM.confirm
6.3.47.4 MLME-TDLSPEERPSM.indication
6.3.47.5 MLME-TDLSPEERPSM.response
6.3.48 Event request
6.3.48.1 General
6.3.48.2 MLME-EVLREQUEST.request
6.3.48.3 MLME-EVLREQUEST.indication
6.3.49 Event report
6.3.49.1 General
6.3.49.2 MLME-EVLREPORT.request
6.3.49.3 MLME-EVLREPORT.indication 
6.3.50 Event 
6.3.50.1 General
6.3.50.2 MLME-EVLOG.request 
6.3.50.3 MLME-EVLOG.confirm 
6.3.51 Diagnostic request
6.3.51.1 General
6.3.51.2 MLME-DIAGREQUEST.request
6.3.51.3 MLME-DIAGREQUEST.indication 
6.3.52 Diagnostic report
6.3.52.1 MLME-DIAGREPORT.request 
6.3.52.2 MLME-DIAGREPORT.indication 
6.3.53 Location configuration request 
6.3.53.1 General
6.3.53.2 MLME-LOCATIONCFG.request
6.3.53.3 MLME-LOCATIONCFG.confirm 
6.3.53.4 MLME-LOCATIONCFG.indication 
6.3.53.5 MLME-LOCATIONCFG.response 
6.3.54 Location track notification
6.3.54.1 General
6.3.54.2 MLME-LOCATIONTRACKNOTIF.request
6.3.54.3 MLME-LOCATIONTRACKNOTIF.indication
6.3.55 Timing measurement 
6.3.55.1 General
6.3.55.2 MLME-TIMINGMSMTRQ.request 
6.3.55.3 MLME-TIMINGMSMTRQ.indication
6.3.55.4 MLME-TIMINGMSMT.request
6.3.55.5 MLME-TIMINGMSMT.confirm 
6.3.55.6 MLME-TIMINGMSMT.indication 
6.3.56 Fine timing measurement (FTM)
6.3.56.1 General
6.3.56.2 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMTRQ.request 
6.3.56.3 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMTRQ.indication
6.3.56.4 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMT.request
6.3.56.5 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMT.confirm
6.3.56.6 MLME-FINETIMINGMSMT.indication 
6.3.57 BSS transition management
6.3.57.1 BSS transition management procedure
6.3.57.2 MLME-BTMQUERY.request 
6.3.57.3 MLME-BTMQUERY.indication
6.3.57.4 MLME-BTM.request 
6.3.57.5 MLME-BTM.indication
6.3.57.6 MLME-BTM.response
6.3.57.7 MLME-BTM.confirm 
6.3.58 FMS setup 
6.3.58.1 General
6.3.58.2 MLME-FMS.request
6.3.58.3 MLME-FMS.confirm
6.3.58.4 MLME-FMS.indication 
6.3.58.5 MLME-FMS.response 
6.3.59 Collocated Interference request 
6.3.59.1 General
6.3.59.2 MLME-CLINTERFERENCEREQUEST.request 
6.3.59.3 MLME-CLINTERFERENCEREQUEST.indication
6.3.60 Collocated Interference report 
6.3.60.1 General
6.3.60.2 MLME-CLINTERFERENCEREPORT.request
6.3.60.3 MLME-CLINTERFERENCEREPORT.indication 
6.3.61 TFS setup 
6.3.61.1 General
6.3.61.2 MLME-TFS.request
6.3.61.3 MLME-TFS.confirm
6.3.61.4 MLME-TFS.indication 
6.3.61.5 MLME-TFS.response 
6.3.62 WNM sleep mode request
6.3.62.1 General
6.3.62.2 MLME-SLEEPMODE.request 
6.3.62.3 MLME-SLEEPMODE.indication
6.3.62.4 MLME-SLEEPMODE.response
6.3.62.5 MLME-SLEEPMODE.confirm 
6.3.63 TIM broadcast setup 
6.3.63.1 General
6.3.63.2 MLME-TIMBROADCAST.request 
6.3.63.3 MLME-TIMBROADCAST.confirm 
6.3.63.4 MLME-TIMBROADCAST.indication
6.3.63.5 MLME-TIMBROADCAST.response
6.3.64 QoS traffic capability update 
6.3.64.1 General
6.3.64.2 MLME-QOSTRAFFICCAPUPDATE.request
6.3.64.3 MLME-QOSTRAFFICCAPUPDATE.indication 
6.3.65 Channel Usage request
6.3.65.1 General
6.3.65.2 MLME-CHANNELUSAGE.request 
6.3.65.3 MLME-CHANNELUSAGE.confirm 
6.3.65.4 MLME-CHANNELUSAGE.indication
6.3.65.5 MLME-CHANNELUSAGE.response
6.3.66 DMS or GCR request and response procedure
6.3.66.1 General
6.3.66.2 MLME-GATS.request 
6.3.66.3 MLME-GATS.confirm 
6.3.66.4 MLME-GATS.indication
6.3.66.5 MLME-GATS.response
6.3.66.6 MLME-GATS-TERM.request
6.3.66.7 MLME-GATS-TERM.indication 
6.3.67 WNM notification request 
6.3.67.1 General
6.3.67.2 MLME-WNMNOTIFICATIONREQUEST.request 
6.3.67.3 MLME-WNMNOTIFICATIONREQUEST.indication
6.3.68 WNM notification response
6.3.68.1 MLME-WNMNOTIFICATIONRESPONSE.request 
6.3.68.2 MLME-WNMNOTIFICATIONRESPONSE.indication
6.3.69 Network discovery and selection support 
6.3.69.1 General
6.3.69.2 MLME-GAS.request
6.3.69.3 MLME-GAS.confirm
6.3.69.4 MLME-GAS.indication 
6.3.69.5 MLME-GAS.response 
6.3.70 QoS Map element management 
6.3.70.1 General
6.3.70.2 MLME-QOS-MAP.request
6.3.70.3 MLME-QOS-MAP.indication 
6.3.71 Mesh peering management 
6.3.71.1 Introduction
6.3.71.2 MLME-MESHPEERINGMANAGEMENT.request
6.3.71.3 MLME-MESHPEERINGMANAGEMENT.confirm
6.3.71.4 MLME-MESHPEERINGMANAGEMENT.indication 
6.3.71.5 MLME-MESHPEERINGMANAGEMENT.response 
6.3.72 Mesh power management 
6.3.72.1 Introduction
6.3.72.2 MLME-MESHPOWERMGT.request
6.3.72.3 MLME-MESHPOWERMGT.confirm
6.3.73 Mesh neighbor offset synchronization
6.3.73.1 Introduction
6.3.73.2 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETSYNCSTART.request 
6.3.73.3 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETSYNCSTART.confirm 
6.3.73.4 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETCALCULATE.request
6.3.73.5 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETCALCULATE.confirm
6.3.73.6 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETSYNCSTOP.request 
6.3.73.7 MLME-MESHNEIGHBOROFFSETSYNCSTOP.confirm 
6.3.74 Mesh TBTT adjustment 
6.3.74.1 Introduction
6.3.74.2 MLME-MESHTBTTADJUSTMENT.request 
6.3.74.3 MLME-MESHTBTTADJUSTMENT.confirm 
6.3.74.4 MLME-MESHTBTTADJUSTMENT.indication 
6.3.74.5 MLME-MESHTBTTADJUSTMENT.response
6.3.75 MCCA management interface 
6.3.75.1 Introduction
6.3.75.2 MLME-ACTIVATEMCCA.request 
6.3.75.3 MLME-MCCASETUP.request
6.3.75.4 MLME-MCCASETUP.confirm
6.3.75.5 MLME-MCCASETUP.indication 
6.3.75.6 MLME-MCCASETUP.response 
6.3.75.7 MLME-MCCAADVERTISEMENT.request 
6.3.75.8 MLME-MCCAADVERTISEMENT.confirm 
6.3.75.9 MLME-MCCAADVERTISEMENT.indication 
6.3.75.10 MLME-MCCAADVERTISEMENT.response
6.3.75.11 MLME-MCCATEARDOWN.request 
6.3.75.12 MLME-MCCATEARDOWN.indication
6.3.76 MBSS congestion control 
6.3.76.1 Introduction
6.3.76.2 MLME-MBSSCONGESTIONCONTROL.request
6.3.76.3 MLME-MBSSCONGESTIONCONTROL.indication 
6.3.77 MBSS proxy update
6.3.77.1 Introduction
6.3.77.2 MLME-MBSSPROXYUPDATE.request
6.3.77.3 MLME-MBSSPROXYUPDATE.confirm
6.3.77.4 MLME-MBSSPROXYUPDATE.indication 
6.3.77.5 MLME-MBSSPROXYUPDATE.response 
6.3.78 MBSS mesh gate announcement 
6.3.78.1 Introduction
6.3.78.2 MLME-MBSSGATEANNOUNCEMENT.request
6.3.78.3 MLME-MBSSGATEANNOUNCEMENT.indication 
6.3.79 Mesh link metric 
6.3.79.1 Introduction
6.3.79.2 MLME-MESHLINKMETRICREAD.request 
6.3.79.3 MLME-MESHLINKMETRICREAD.confirm
6.3.79.4 MLME-MESHLINKMETRICREPORT.request
6.3.79.5 MLME-MESHLINKMETRICREPORT.indication 
6.3.80 HWMP mesh path selection 
6.3.80.1 Introduction
6.3.80.2 MLME-HWMPMESHPATHSELECTION.request 
6.3.80.3 MLME-HWMPMESHPATHSELECTION.indication
6.3.81 QMF policy
6.3.81.1 Introduction
6.3.81.2 MLME-QMFPOLICY.request
6.3.81.3 MLME-QMFPOLICY.indication 
6.3.81.4 MLME-QMFPOLICYCHANGE.request 
6.3.81.5 MLME-QMFPOLICYCHANGE.confirm
6.3.81.6 MLME-QMFPOLICYCHANGE.indication
6.3.81.7 MLME-QMFPOLICYCHANGE.response
6.3.81.8 MLME-QMFPOLICYSET.request
6.3.82 SCS request and response procedure 
6.3.82.1 General
6.3.82.2 MLME-SCS.request
6.3.82.3 MLME-SCS.confirm
6.3.82.4 MLME-SCS.indication 
6.3.82.5 MLME-SCS.response 
6.3.82.6 MLME-SCS-TERM.request 
6.3.82.7 MLME-SCS-TERM.indication
6.3.83 QLoad report management 
6.3.83.1 General
6.3.83.2 MLME-QLOAD.request
6.3.83.3 MLME-QLOAD.confirm
6.3.83.4 MLME-QLOAD.indication 
6.3.83.5 MLME-QLOAD.response 
6.3.84 HCCA TXOP advertisement management 
6.3.84.1 General
6.3.84.2 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.request
6.3.84.3 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.confirm
6.3.84.4 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.indication 
6.3.84.5 MLME-TXOPADVERTISEMENT.response 
6.3.85 GCR group membership management
6.3.85.1 General
6.3.85.2 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.request
6.3.85.3 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.confirm
6.3.85.4 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.indication 
6.3.85.5 MLME-GROUP-MEMBERSHIP.response 
6.3.86 AP PeerKey management 
6.3.86.1 General
6.3.86.2 MLME-APPEERKEY.request
6.3.86.3 MLME-APPEERKEY.indication 
6.3.87 On-channel Tunneling operation 
6.3.87.1 General
6.3.87.2 MLME-OCTunnel.request
6.3.87.3 MLME-OCTunnel.indication 
6.3.87.4 MLME-OCTunnel.confirm
6.3.88 Multi-band operation 
6.3.88.1 General
6.3.88.2 MLME-FST-SETUP.request 
6.3.88.3 MLME-FST-SETUP.indication
6.3.88.4 MLME-FST-SETUP.response
6.3.88.5 MLME-FST-SETUP.confirm 
6.3.88.6 MLME-FST-ACK.request 
6.3.88.7 MLME-FST-ACK.indication
6.3.88.8 MLME-FST-ACK.response
6.3.88.9 MLME-FST-ACK.confirm
6.3.88.10 MLME-FST-TEARDOWN.request
6.3.88.11 MLME-FST-TEARDOWN.indication 
6.3.88.12 MLME-FST-INCOMING.request 
6.3.89 DMG relay operation 
6.3.89.1 General
6.3.89.2 MLME-RELAY-SEARCH.request 
6.3.89.3 MLME-RELAY-SEARCH.confirm 
6.3.89.4 MLME-RELAY-SEARCH.indication
6.3.89.5 MLME-RELAY-SEARCH.response
6.3.89.6 MLME-RLS.request 
6.3.89.7 MLME-RLS.confirm 
6.3.89.8 MLME-RLS.indication
6.3.89.9 MLME-RLS.response 
6.3.89.10 MLME-RLS-TEARDOWN.request 
6.3.89.11 MLME-RLS-TEARDOWN.indication
6.3.90 Quieting adjacent BSS operation
6.3.90.1 General
6.3.90.2 MLME-QAB.request 
6.3.90.3 MLME-QAB.confirm 
6.3.90.4 MLME-QAB.indication
6.3.90.5 MLME-QAB.response
6.3.91 DMG beamforming
6.3.91.1 General
6.3.91.2 MLME-BF-TRAINING.request 
6.3.91.3 MLME-BF-TRAINING.confirm 
6.3.91.4 MLME-BF-TRAINING.indication
6.3.92 PN event report 
6.3.92.1 General
6.3.92.2 MLME-PN-EXHAUSTION.indication 
6.3.92.3 MLME-PN-WARNING.indication
6.3.93 Channel Availability Query 
6.3.93.1 Introduction
6.3.93.2 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.request 
6.3.93.3 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.confirm 
6.3.93.4 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.indication
6.3.93.5 MLME-CHANNELAVAILABILITYQUERY.response 
6.3.94 Channel schedule management
6.3.94.1 Introduction
6.3.94.2 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.request
6.3.94.3 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.confirm
6.3.94.4 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.indication 
6.3.94.5 MLME-CHANNELSCHEDULEMANAGEMENT.response 
6.3.95 Contact verification signal 
6.3.95.1 Introduction
6.3.95.2 MLME-CVS.request 
6.3.95.3 MLME-CVS.indication
6.3.96 GDD Enablement
6.3.96.1 Introduction
6.3.96.2 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.request
6.3.96.3 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.confirm
6.3.96.4 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.indication
6.3.96.5 MLME-GDDENABLEMENT.response
6.3.97 Network channel control management 
6.3.97.1 Introduction
6.3.97.2 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.request
6.3.97.3 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.confirm
6.3.97.4 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.indication 
6.3.97.5 MLME-NETWORKCHANNELCONTROL.response 
6.3.98 White space map (WSM)
6.3.98.1 Introduction
6.3.98.2 MLME-WSM.request 
6.3.98.3 MLME-WSM.indication
6.3.99 Estimated Throughput
6.3.99.1 General
6.3.99.2 MLME-ESTIMATED-THROUGHPUT.request
6.3.99.3 MLME-ESTIMATED-THROUGHPUT.confirm
6.3.100 Get authentication and association state 
6.3.100.1 General
6.3.100.2 MLME-GETAUTHASSOCSTATE.request
6.3.100.3 MLME-GETAUTHASSOCSTATE.confirm 
6.3.101 FILS Container 
6.3.101.1 General
6.3.101.2 MLME-FILSContainer.request
6.3.101.3 MLME-FILSContainer.confirm
6.3.101.4 MLME-FILSContainer.indication 
6.3.101.5 MLME-FILSContainer.response 
6.3.102 Dynamic AID assignment operation
6.3.102.1 General
6.3.102.2 MLME-AIDSWITCH.request 
6.3.102.3 MLME-AIDSWITCH.confirm 
6.3.102.4 MLME-AIDSWITCH.indication
6.3.102.5 MLME-AIDSWITCH.response
6.3.103 Sync Control 
6.3.103.1 General
6.3.103.2 MLME-SYNCCONTROL.request 
6.3.103.3 MLME-SYNCCONTROL.indication
6.3.104 STA Information Announcement 
6.3.104.1 General
6.3.104.2 MLME-STAINFORMATION.request 
6.3.104.3 MLME-STAINFORMATION.indication
6.3.105 EDCA Parameter Set update
6.3.105.1 General
6.3.105.2 MLME-EDCAPARAMETERSET.request
6.3.105.3 MLME-EDCAPARAMETERSET.indication 
6.3.106 EL Operation
6.3.106.1 General
6.3.106.2 MLME-ELOPERATION.request 
6.3.106.3 MLME-ELOPERATION.indication
6.3.107 TWT Setup
6.3.107.1 General
6.3.107.2 MLME-TWTSETUP.request
6.3.107.3 MLME-TWTSETUP.confirm
6.3.107.4 MLME-TWTSETUP.indication 
6.3.107.5 MLME-TWTSETUP.response 
6.3.108 TWT Teardown
6.3.108.1 General
6.3.108.2 MLME-TWTTEARDOWN.request 
6.3.108.3 MLME-TWTTEARDOWN.indication
6.3.109 Sectorized Group ID List management 
6.3.109.1 General
6.3.109.2 MLME-SECTORIZEDGROUPID.request
6.3.109.3 LME-SECTORIZEDGROUPID.indication
6.3.110 Header Compression procedure
6.3.110.1 General
6.3.110.2 MLME-HEADERCOMPRESSION.request
6.3.110.3 MLME-HEADERCOMPRESSION.confirm 
6.3.110.4 MLME-HEADERCOMPRESSION.indication 
6.3.110.5 MLME-HEADERCOMPRESSION.response 
6.3.111 Reachable Address Update 
6.3.111.1 General
6.3.111.2 MLME-REACHABLEADDRESSUPDATE.request
6.3.111.3 MLME-REACHABLEADDRESSUPDATE.indication 
6.3.112 Control response MCS negotiation operation
6.3.112.1 General
6.3.112.2 MLME-CONTROLRESPONSEMCS.request 
6.3.112.3 MLME-CONTROLRESPONSEMCS.confirm 
6.3.112.4 MLME-CONTROLRESPONSEMCS.indication 
6.3.112.5 MLME-CONTROLRESPONSEMCS.response
6.3.113 S1G relay (de)activation 
6.3.113.1 General
6.3.113.2 MLME-S1GRELAYACTIVATE.request 
6.3.113.3 MLME-S1GRELAYACTIVATE.confirm 
6.3.113.4 MLME-S1GRELAYACTIVATE.indication
6.3.113.5 MLME-S1GRELAYACTIVATE.response
6.3.114 DCS procedure
6.3.114.1 General
6.3.114.2 MLME-DCSMEASUREMENT.request
6.3.114.3 MLME-DCSMEASUREMENT.indication 
6.3.114.4 MLME-DCSMEASUREMENT.response 
6.3.114.5 MLME-DCSMEASUREMENT.confirm 
6.3.114.6 MLME-DCS.request 
6.3.114.7 MLME-DCS.indication
6.3.114.8 MLME-DCS.response
6.3.114.9 MLME-DCS.confirm
6.3.115 Update 
6.3.115.1 Introduction
6.3.115.2 MLME-UPDATE.request
6.3.115.3 MLME-UPDATE.confirm
6.3.116 MSCS request and response procedure 
6.3.116.1 General
6.3.116.2 MLME-MSCS.request 
6.3.116.3 MLME-MSCS.confirm 
6.3.116.4 MLME-MSCS.indication
6.3.116.5 MLME-MSCS.response
6.3.116.6 MLME-MSCS-TERM.request
6.3.116.7 MLME-MSCS-TERM.indication 
6.3.117 MAC Address Update
6.3.117.1 MLME-UPDATEMACADDRESS.request
6.3.117.2 MLME-UPDATEMACADDRESS.confirm
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 
6.4.4.2 Transitions to ESS_ DISCONNECTED 
6.4.4.3 Transitions to ESS_DISENGAGING 
6.4.4.4 Transitions to STANDBY
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
6.4.7.2 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-DOWN.indication 
6.4.7.3 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-GOING-DOWN.indication 
6.4.7.4 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-EVENT-ROLLBACK.indication
6.4.7.5 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-DETECTED.indication
6.4.7.6 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-SCAN.request 
6.4.7.7 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-SCAN.confirm 
6.4.8 Network configuration 
6.4.8.1 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-CAPABILITY.request 
6.4.8.2 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-CAPABILITY.confirm 
6.4.8.3 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-PARAMETERS.request
6.4.8.4 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-PARAMETERS.confirm
6.4.8.5 MSGCF-GET-ESS-LINK-PARAMETERS.request
6.4.8.6 MSGCF-GET-ESS-LINK-PARAMETERS.confirm 
6.4.9 Network events 
6.4.9.1 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-THRESHOLD-REPORT.indication 
6.4.10 Network command interface
6.4.10.1 MSGCF-ESS-LINK-COMMAND.request
6.4.11 MAC state SME SAP�\�mobility management 
6.4.11.1 MSSME-ESS-LINK-GOING-DOWN.indication
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 
7.2.2.3 DS-UNITDATA.indication
7.2.3 Mapping updates
7.2.3.1 General
7.2.3.2 DS-STA-NOTIFY.request 
8. PHY service specification
8.1 Scope of PHY services 
8.2 PHY functions
8.3 Detailed PHY service specifications
8.3.1 Scope and field of application 
8.3.2 Overview of the service 
8.3.3 Overview of interactions
8.3.4 Basic service and options
8.3.4.1 PHY SAP peer-to-peer service primitives 
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
8.3.5.3 PHY-DATA.indication 
8.3.5.4 PHY-DATA.confirm
8.3.5.5 PHY-TXSTART.request
8.3.5.6 PHY-TXSTART.confirm
8.3.5.7 PHY-TXEND.request 
8.3.5.8 PHY-TXEND.confirm 
8.3.5.9 PHY-TXHEADEREND.indication
8.3.5.10 PHY-CCARESET.request 
8.3.5.11 PHY-CCARESET.confirm 
8.3.5.12 PHY-CCA.indication 
8.3.5.13 PHY-RXSTART.indication 
8.3.5.14 PHY-RXEND.indication
8.3.5.15 PHY-CONFIG.request
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
9.2.4.2 Duration/ID field
9.2.4.3 Address fields
9.2.4.4 Sequence Control field
9.2.4.5 QoS Control field
9.2.4.6 HT Control field
9.2.4.7 Frame Body 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 BlockAckReq frame format
9.3.1.8 BlockAck frame format 
9.3.1.9 Control Wrapper frame format 
9.3.1.10 Poll frame format 
9.3.1.11 Service period request (SPR) frame format 
9.3.1.12 Grant frame format
9.3.1.13 DMG CTS frame format
9.3.1.14 DMG DTS frame format
9.3.1.15 Sector sweep (SSW) frame format
9.3.1.16 Sector sweep feedback (SSW-Feedback) frame format 
9.3.1.17 Sector sweep Ack (SSW-Ack) frame format
9.3.1.18 Grant Ack frame format
9.3.1.19 VHT NDP Announcement frame format 
9.3.1.20 Beamforming Report Poll frame format 
9.3.1.21 TACK frame format
9.3.2 Data frames 
9.3.2.1 Format of Data frames 
9.3.2.2 Aggregate MSDU (A-MSDU) format 
9.3.3 (PV0) Management frames
9.3.3.1 Format of (PV0) Management frames 
9.3.3.2 Beacon frame format
9.3.3.3 ATIM frame format 
9.3.3.4 Disassociation frame format 
9.3.3.5 Association Request frame format
9.3.3.6 Association Response frame format 
9.3.3.7 Reassociation Request frame format
9.3.3.8 Reassociation Response frame format 
9.3.3.9 Probe Request frame format 
9.3.3.10 Probe Response frame format 
9.3.3.11 Authentication frame format
9.3.3.12 Deauthentication 
9.3.3.13 Action frame format
9.3.3.14 Action No Ack frame format 
9.3.3.15 Timing Advertisement frame format 
9.3.4 Extension frames
9.3.4.1 Format of Extension frames
9.3.4.2 DMG Beacon 
9.3.4.3 S1G Beacon frame format
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 Block Ack Parameter Set field
9.4.1.14 Block Ack Timeout Value field 
9.4.1.15 Originator Preferred MCS 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 PSMP Parameter Set field
9.4.1.25 PSMP STA Info field
9.4.1.26 MIMO Control field
9.4.1.27 CSI Report field 
9.4.1.28 Noncompressed Beamforming Report field 
9.4.1.29 Compressed Beamforming Report field 
9.4.1.30 Antenna Selection Indices field 
9.4.1.31 Organization Identifier field
9.4.1.32 Rate Identification field 
9.4.1.33 GAS Query Response Fragment ID field 
9.4.1.34 Venue Info field 
9.4.1.35 Target Channel
9.4.1.36 Operating Class 
9.4.1.37 Send-Confirm field 
9.4.1.38 Anti-Clogging Token field
9.4.1.39 Scalar field 
9.4.1.40 FFE field 
9.4.1.41 Confirm field
9.4.1.42 Finite Cyclic Group field 
9.4.1.43 TXOP Reservation field
9.4.1.44 Relay Capable STA Info field
9.4.1.45 Band ID field
9.4.1.46 DMG Parameters field 
9.4.1.47 CMMG 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
9.4.1.58 Sync Control field 
9.4.1.59 Suspend Duration field
9.4.1.60 TWT Information field
9.4.1.61 CMMG MIMO Control field 
9.4.1.62 CMMG Compressed Beamforming Report field
9.4.1.63 CMMG Operating Mode 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 TIM element
9.4.2.6 IBSS Parameter Set element 
9.4.2.7 Challenge Text element 
9.4.2.8 Country element
9.4.2.9 Request element 
9.4.2.10 Extended Request element
9.4.2.11 ERP element
9.4.2.12 Extended Supported Rates and BSS Membership Selectors element. 964
9.4.2.13 Power Constraint element 
9.4.2.14 Power Capability element 
9.4.2.15 TPC Request element
9.4.2.16 TPC Report element
9.4.2.17 Supported Channels element
9.4.2.18 Channel Switch Announcement element 
9.4.2.19 Secondary Channel Offset element
9.4.2.20 Measurement Request element 
9.4.2.21 Measurement Report element 
9.4.2.22 Quiet element 
9.4.2.23 IBSS DFS element 
9.4.2.24 RSNE 
9.4.2.25 Vendor Specific element
9.4.2.26 Extended Capabilities element
9.4.2.27 BSS Load element
9.4.2.28 EDCA Parameter Set element
9.4.2.29 TSPEC element 
9.4.2.30 TCLAS element 
9.4.2.31 TS Delay element
9.4.2.32 TCLAS Processing element
9.4.2.33 Schedule element 
9.4.2.34 QoS Capability element 
9.4.2.35 AP Channel Report element
9.4.2.36 Neighbor Report element 
9.4.2.37 RCPI element 
9.4.2.38 BSS Average Access Delay element 
9.4.2.39 Antenna element 
9.4.2.40 RSNI element
9.4.2.41 Measurement Pilot Transmission element 
9.4.2.42 BSS Available Admission Capacity element
9.4.2.43 BSS AC Access Delay element 
9.4.2.44 RM Enabled Capabilities element
9.4.2.45 Multiple BSSID element
9.4.2.46 Mobility Domain element (MDE)
9.4.2.47 Fast BSS Transition element (FTE)
9.4.2.48 Timeout Interval element (TIE) 
9.4.2.49 RIC Data element (RDE) 
9.4.2.50 RIC Descriptor element 
9.4.2.51 DSE Registered Location element 
9.4.2.52 Extended Channel Switch Announcement element
9.4.2.53 Supported Operating Classes element
9.4.2.54 Management MIC element
9.4.2.55 HT Capabilities element
9.4.2.56 HT Operation element
9.4.2.57 20/40 BSS Intolerant Channel Report element
9.4.2.58 Overlapping BSS Scan Parameters element 
9.4.2.59 20/40 BSS Coexistence element 
9.4.2.60 Time Advertisement element
9.4.2.61 Link Identifier element
9.4.2.62 Wakeup Schedule element
9.4.2.63 Channel Switch Timing element
9.4.2.64 PTI Control element
9.4.2.65 TPU Buffer Status element 
9.4.2.66 Event Request element
9.4.2.67 Event Report element
9.4.2.68 Diagnostic Request element
9.4.2.69 Diagnostic Report element
9.4.2.70 Location Parameters element
9.4.2.71 Nontransmitted BSSID Capability element 
9.4.2.72 SSID List element 
9.4.2.73 Multiple BSSID-Index element 
9.4.2.74 FMS Descriptor element 
9.4.2.75 FMS Request element 
9.4.2.76 FMS Response element
9.4.2.77 QoS Traffic Capability element 
9.4.2.78 BSS Max Idle Period element
9.4.2.79 TFS Request element 
9.4.2.80 TFS Response element
9.4.2.81 WNM Sleep Mode element
9.4.2.82 TIM Broadcast Request element
9.4.2.83 TIM Broadcast Response element 
9.4.2.84 Collocated Interference Report element 
9.4.2.85 Channel Usage element
9.4.2.86 Time Zone element 
9.4.2.87 DMS Request element 
9.4.2.88 DMS Response element 
9.4.2.89 Destination URI element
9.4.2.90 U-APSD Coexistence element 
9.4.2.91 Interworking element 
9.4.2.92 Advertisement Protocol element
9.4.2.93 Expedited Bandwidth Request element 
9.4.2.94 QoS Map element
9.4.2.95 Roaming Consortium element 
9.4.2.96 Emergency Alert Identifier element
9.4.2.97 Mesh Configuration element
9.4.2.98 Mesh ID element
9.4.2.99 Mesh Link Metric Report element
9.4.2.100 Congestion Notification element 
9.4.2.101 Mesh Peering Management element 
9.4.2.102 Mesh Channel Switch Parameters element
9.4.2.103 Mesh Awake Window element
9.4.2.104 Beacon Timing element 
9.4.2.105 MCCAOP Setup Request element 
9.4.2.106 MCCAOP Setup Reply element 
9.4.2.107 MCCAOP Advertisement Overview element
9.4.2.108 MCCAOP Advertisement element
9.4.2.109 MCCAOP Teardown element
9.4.2.110 GANN element 
9.4.2.111 RANN element
9.4.2.112 PREQ element
9.4.2.113 PREP element 
9.4.2.114 PERR element 
9.4.2.115 PXU element 
9.4.2.116 PXUC element 
9.4.2.117 Authenticated Mesh Peering Exchange element
9.4.2.118 MIC element 
9.4.2.119 Quality-of-Service Management Frame Policy element
9.4.2.120 Intra-Access Category Priority element
9.4.2.121 SCS Descriptor element 
9.4.2.122 QLoad Report element
9.4.2.123 HCCA TXOP Update Count element 
9.4.2.124 Higher Layer Stream ID element 
9.4.2.125 GCR Group Address element 
9.4.2.126 DMG BSS Parameter Change element 
9.4.2.127 DMG Capabilities element
9.4.2.128 DMG Operation element
9.4.2.129 DMG Beam Refinement element
9.4.2.130 DMG Wakeup Schedule element
9.4.2.131 Extended Schedule element 
9.4.2.132 STA Availability element 
9.4.2.133 DMG TSPEC element
9.4.2.134 CMMG 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 
9.4.2.143 DMG Link Adaptation Acknowledgment element
9.4.2.144 Switching Stream element 
9.4.2.145 Session Transition element 
9.4.2.146 Cluster Report element
9.4.2.147 Relay Capabilities element
9.4.2.148 Relay Transfer Parameter Set element
9.4.2.149 Quiet Period Request element
9.4.2.150 Quiet Period Response element 
9.4.2.151 BeamLink Maintenance element 
9.4.2.152 Multiple MAC Sublayers (MMS) element 
9.4.2.153 U-PID element 
9.4.2.154 ECAPC Policy element
9.4.2.155 Cluster Time Offset element 
9.4.2.156 Antenna Sector ID Pattern element
9.4.2.157 VHT Capabilities element
9.4.2.158 VHT Operation element
9.4.2.159 Extended BSS Load element
9.4.2.160 Wide Bandwidth Channel Switch element 
9.4.2.161 Transmit Power Envelope element 
9.4.2.162 Channel Switch Wrapper element
9.4.2.163 AID element
9.4.2.164 Quiet Channel element
9.4.2.165 Operating Mode Notification element 
9.4.2.166 UPSIM element
9.4.2.167 Fine Timing Measurement Parameters element
9.4.2.168 Device Location element 
9.4.2.169 White Space Map element 
9.4.2.170 Reduced Neighbor Report element 
9.4.2.171 TVHT Operation element 
9.4.2.172 FTM Synchronization Information element 
9.4.2.173 Estimated Service Parameters Inbound element
9.4.2.174 Future Channel Guidance element
9.4.2.175 Association Delay Info element
9.4.2.176 CAG Number element 
9.4.2.177 FILS Request Parameters element(
9.4.2.178 FILS Key Confirmation element
9.4.2.179 FILS Session element
9.4.2.180 FILS Public Key element
9.4.2.181 AP Configuration Sequence Number (AP-CSN) element 
9.4.2.182 FILS Indication element
9.4.2.183 FILS HLP Container element 
9.4.2.184 FILS IP Address Assignment element 
9.4.2.185 Key Delivery element 
9.4.2.186 DILS element 
9.4.2.187 FILS Wrapped Data element
9.4.2.188 Fragment element
9.4.2.189 FILS Nonce element 
9.4.2.190 S1G Open-Loop Link Margin Index element
9.4.2.191 RPS element
9.4.2.192 Page Slice element 
9.4.2.193 AID Request element
9.4.2.194 AID Response element
9.4.2.195 S1G Sector Operation element
9.4.2.196 S1G Beacon Compatibility element
9.4.2.197 Short Beacon Interval element(
9.4.2.198 Change Sequence element 
9.4.2.199 TWT element 
9.4.2.200 S1G Capabilities element
9.4.2.201 Subchannel Selective Transmission (SST) element
9.4.2.202 Authentication Control element 
9.4.2.203 TSF Timer Accuracy element 
9.4.2.204 S1G Relay element
9.4.2.205 Reachable Address element 
9.4.2.206 S1G Relay Activation element
9.4.2.207 S1G Relay Discovery element 
9.4.2.208 AID Announcement element 
9.4.2.209 PV1 Probe Response Option element 
9.4.2.210 EL Operation element 
9.4.2.211 Sectorized Group ID List element 
9.4.2.212 S1G Operation element
9.4.2.213 Header Compression element 
9.4.2.214 SST Operation element 
9.4.2.215 MAD element
9.4.2.216 Password Identifier element
9.4.2.217 Max Channel Switch Time element
9.4.2.218 Vendor Specific Request element
9.4.2.219 CDMG Capabilities element
9.4.2.220 Dynamic Bandwidth Control element
9.4.2.221 CDMG Extended Schedule element 
9.4.2.222 SSW Report element
9.4.2.223 Cluster Probe element 
9.4.2.224 Extended Cluster Report element 
9.4.2.225 Cluster Switch Announcement element
9.4.2.226 Enhanced Beam Tracking element 
9.4.2.227 SPSH Report element
9.4.2.228 Clustering Interference Assessment element 
9.4.2.229 CMMG Capabilities element 
9.4.2.230 CMMG Operation element 
9.4.2.231 CMMG Operating Mode Notification element
9.4.2.232 CMMG Link Margin element 
9.4.2.233 CMMG Link Adaptation Acknowledgment element
9.4.2.234 GLK-GCR Parameter Set element
9.4.2.235 Estimated Service Parameters Outbound element 
9.4.2.236 OCI element 
9.4.2.237 Service Hint element
9.4.2.238 Service Hash element
9.4.2.239 GAS Extension element 
9.4.2.240 Non-Inheritance element
9.4.2.241 RSN Extension element (RSNXE) 
9.4.2.242 TCLAS Mask element 
9.4.2.243 MSCS Descriptor element 
9.4.2.244 Supplemental Class 2 Capabilities element 
9.4.2.245 OCT Source element
9.4.2.246 Rejected Groups element 
9.4.2.247 Anti-Clogging Token Container element
9.4.3 Subelements 
9.4.4 TLV encodings 
9.4.4.1 General
9.4.4.2 Common TLVs 
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
9.4.5.24 Query AP List ANQP-element 
9.4.5.25 AP List Response ANQP-element 
9.4.5.26 CAG ANQP-element 
9.4.5.27 Service Information Request ANQP-element
9.4.5.28 Service Information Response ANQP-element 
9.4.5.29 Local MAC Address Policy 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 Spectrum Measurement Request frame format
9.6.2.3 Spectrum 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 
9.6.3.3 Basic and DMG ADDTS Response frame format
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 Block Ack Action frame details
9.6.4.1 General
9.6.4.2 ADDBA Request frame format
9.6.4.3 ADDBA Response frame format 
9.6.4.4 DELBA frame format 
9.6.5 Vendor-specific action details 
9.6.6 Radio Measurement action details 
9.6.6.1 General
9.6.6.2 Radio Measurement Request frame format 
9.6.6.3 Radio Measurement Report frame format 
9.6.6.4 Link Measurement Request frame format 
9.6.6.5 Link Measurement Report frame format 
9.6.6.6 Neighbor Report Request frame format
9.6.6.7 Neighbor Report Response frame format 
9.6.7 Public Action details
9.6.7.1 Public Action frames
9.6.7.2 20/40 BSS Coexistence Management frame format 
9.6.7.3 Measurement Pilot frame format 
9.6.7.4 DSE Enablement frame format
9.6.7.5 DSE Deenablement frame format 
9.6.7.6 DSE Registered Location Announcement frame format 
9.6.7.7 Extended Channel Switch Announcement frame format
9.6.7.8 DSE Measurement Request frame format 
9.6.7.9 DSE Measurement Report frame format 
9.6.7.10 DSE Power Constraint frame format 
9.6.7.11 Vendor Specific Public Action frame format 
9.6.7.12 GAS Initial Request frame format 
9.6.7.13 GAS Initial Response frame format
9.6.7.14 GAS Comeback Request frame format
9.6.7.15 GAS Comeback Response frame format 
9.6.7.16 TDLS Discovery Response frame format
9.6.7.17 Location Track Notification frame format
9.6.7.18 QMF Policy frame format
9.6.7.19 QMF Policy Change frame format
9.6.7.20 QLoad Request frame format
9.6.7.21 QLoad Report frame format
9.6.7.22 HCCA TXOP Advertisement frame 
9.6.7.23 HCCA TXOP Response frame 
9.6.7.24 Public Key frame 
9.6.7.25 Channel Availability Query frame format 
9.6.7.26 Channel Schedule Management frame format
9.6.7.27 Contact Verification Signal frame format
9.6.7.28 GDD Enablement Request frame format 
9.6.7.29 GDD Enablement Response frame format
9.6.7.30 Network Channel Control frame format 
9.6.7.31 White Space Map Announcement frame format
9.6.7.32 Fine Timing Measurement Request frame format 
9.6.7.33 Fine Timing Measurement frame format 
9.6.7.34 QAB Request frame format 
9.6.7.35 QAB Response frame format
9.6.7.36 FILS Discovery frame format 
9.6.7.37 DCS Measurement Request frame format 
9.6.7.38 DCS Measurement Response frame format
9.6.7.39 DCS Request frame format 
9.6.7.40 DCS Response frame format
9.6.7.41 Extended Notification Period Request frame format
9.6.7.42 Extended Notification Period Response frame format 
9.6.7.43 Extended Channel Splitting Request frame format
9.6.7.44 Extended Channel Splitting Response frame format 
9.6.7.45 Group Addressed GAS Request frame format
9.6.7.46 Group Addressed GAS Response frame format 
9.6.7.47 On-channel Tunnel Request frame format
9.6.8 FT Action frame details 
9.6.8.1 General
9.6.8.2 FT Request frame
9.6.8.3 FT Response frame 
9.6.8.4 FT Confirm frame 
9.6.8.5 FT Ack frame
9.6.9 SA Query Action frame details
9.6.9.1 General
9.6.9.2 SA Query Request frame 
9.6.9.3 SA Query Response frame
9.6.10 Protected Dual of Public Action frames 
9.6.11 HT Action frame details 
9.6.11.1 HT Action field 
9.6.11.2 Notify Channel Width frame format
9.6.11.3 SM Power Save frame format
9.6.11.4 PSMP frame format 
9.6.11.5 CSI frame format 
9.6.11.6 Noncompressed Beamforming frame format
9.6.11.7 Compressed Beamforming frame format
9.6.11.8 Antenna Selection Indices Feedback frame format 
9.6.12 TDLS Action field formats 
9.6.12.1 General
9.6.12.2 TDLS Setup Request Action field format
9.6.12.3 TDLS Setup Response Action field format 
9.6.12.4 TDLS Setup Confirm Action field format 
9.6.12.5 TDLS Teardown Action field format
9.6.12.6 TDLS Peer Traffic Indication Action field format 
9.6.12.7 TDLS Channel Switch Request Action field format 
9.6.12.8 TDLS Channel Switch Response Action field format 
9.6.12.9 TDLS Peer PSM Request Action field format
9.6.12.10 TDLS Peer PSM Response Action field format 
9.6.12.11 TDLS Peer Traffic Response Action field format 
9.6.12.12 TDLS Discovery Request Action field format 
9.6.13 WNM Action details
9.6.13.1 WNM Action fields
9.6.13.2 Event Request frame format 
9.6.13.3 Event Report frame format 
9.6.13.4 Diagnostic Request frame format 
9.6.13.5 Diagnostic Report frame format 
9.6.13.6 Location Configuration Request frame format 
9.6.13.7 Location Configuration Response frame format
9.6.13.8 BSS Transition Management Query frame format 
9.6.13.9 BSS Transition Management Request frame format 
9.6.13.10 BSS Transition Management Response frame format
9.6.13.11 FMS Request frame format
9.6.13.12 FMS Response frame format 
9.6.13.13 Collocated Interference Request frame format 
9.6.13.14 Collocated Interference Report frame format 
9.6.13.15 TFS Request frame format
9.6.13.16 TFS Response frame format 
9.6.13.17 TFS Notify frame format 
9.6.13.18 TFS Notify Response frame format
9.6.13.19 WNM Sleep Mode Request frame format 
9.6.13.20 WNM Sleep Mode Response frame format
9.6.13.21 TIM Broadcast Request frame format 
9.6.13.22 TIM Broadcast Response frame format 
9.6.13.23 QoS Traffic Capability Update frame format 
9.6.13.24 Channel Usage Request frame format 
9.6.13.25 Channel Usage Response frame format 
9.6.13.26 DMS Request frame format 
9.6.13.27 DMS Response frame format
9.6.13.28 Timing Measurement Request frame format 
9.6.13.29 WNM Notification Request frame format 
9.6.13.30 WNM Notification Response frame format
9.6.14 Unprotected WNM Action details 
9.6.14.1 Unprotected WNM Action fields
9.6.14.2 TIM frame format 
9.6.14.3 Timing Measurement frame format 
9.6.15 Self-protected Action frame details 
9.6.15.1 Self-protected Action fields 
9.6.15.2 Mesh Peering Open frame format
9.6.15.3 Mesh Peering Confirm frame format
9.6.15.4 Mesh Peering Close frame format 
9.6.15.5 Mesh Group Key Inform frame format
9.6.15.6 Mesh Group Key Acknowledge frame format
9.6.16 Mesh Action frame details 
9.6.16.1 Mesh Action fields
9.6.16.2 Mesh Link Metric Report frame format
9.6.16.3 HWMP Mesh Path Selection frame format 
9.6.16.4 Gate Announcement frame format
9.6.16.5 Congestion Control Notification frame format
9.6.16.6 MCCA Setup Request frame format
9.6.16.7 MCCA Setup Reply frame format 
9.6.16.8 MCCA Advertisement Request frame format 
9.6.16.9 MCCA Advertisement frame format 
9.6.16.10 MCCA Teardown frame format
9.6.16.11 TBTT Adjustment Request frame format 
9.6.16.12 TBTT Adjustment Response frame format
9.6.17 Multihop Action frame details
9.6.17.1 Multihop Action fields
9.6.17.2 Proxy Update frame format
9.6.17.3 Proxy Update Confirmation frame format
9.6.18 Robust AV Streaming Action frame details 
9.6.18.1 General
9.6.18.2 SCS Request frame format
9.6.18.3 SCS Response frame format 
9.6.18.4 Group Membership Request frame format 
9.6.18.5 Group Membership Response frame format
9.6.18.6 MSCS Request frame format 
9.6.18.7 MSCS Response frame format
9.6.19 DMG Action frame details 
9.6.19.1 DMG Action field 
9.6.19.2 Power Save Configuration Request frame format 
9.6.19.3 Power Save Configuration Response frame format
9.6.19.4 Information Request frame format
9.6.19.5 Information Response frame format 
9.6.19.6 Handover Request frame format
9.6.19.7 Handover Response frame format
9.6.19.8 Relay Search Request frame format
9.6.19.9 Relay Search Response frame format 
9.6.19.10 Multi-relay Channel Measurement Request frame format 
9.6.19.11 Multi-relay Channel Measurement Report frame format 
9.6.19.12 RLS Request frame format 
9.6.19.13 RLS Response frame format 
9.6.19.14 RLS Announcement frame format
9.6.19.15 RLS Teardown frame format 
9.6.19.16 Relay Ack Request frame format
9.6.19.17 Relay Ack Response frame format 
9.6.19.18 TPA Request frame format 
9.6.19.19 TPA Response frame format
9.6.19.20 TPA Report frame format 
9.6.19.21 ROC Request frame format
9.6.19.22 ROC Response frame format 
9.6.20 FST Action frame details
9.6.20.1 FST Action field
9.6.20.2 FST Setup Request frame format
9.6.20.3 FST Setup Response frame format 
9.6.20.4 FST Teardown frame format
9.6.20.5 FST Ack Request frame format 
9.6.20.6 FST Ack Response frame format
9.6.20.7 On-channel Tunnel Request frame format
9.6.21 Unprotected DMG Action frame details
9.6.21.1 Unprotected DMG Action field 
9.6.21.2 Announce frame format 
9.6.21.3 BRP frame format 
9.6.22 VHT Action frame details
9.6.22.1 VHT Action field 
9.6.22.2 VHT Compressed Beamforming frame format 
9.6.22.3 Group ID Management frame format 
9.6.22.4 Operating Mode Notification frame format
9.6.23 FILS Action frame details
9.6.23.1 General
9.6.23.2 FILS Container frame 
9.6.24 Unprotected S1G Action frame details 
9.6.24.1 Unprotected S1G Action field
9.6.24.2 AID Switch Request frame format
9.6.24.3 AID Switch Response frame format 
9.6.24.4 Sync Control frame format 
9.6.24.5 STA Information Announcement frame format
9.6.24.6 EDCA Parameter Set frame format 
9.6.24.7 EL Operation frame format
9.6.24.8 TWT Setup frame format
9.6.24.9 TWT Teardown frame format
9.6.24.10 Sectorized Group ID List frame format 
9.6.24.11 Sector ID Feedback frame format
9.6.24.12 TWT Information frame format
9.6.25 S1G Action frame details
9.6.25.1 S1G Action field 
9.6.25.2 Reachable Address Update frame format 
9.6.25.3 Relay Activation Request frame format
9.6.25.4 Relay Activation Response frame format 
9.6.25.5 Header Compression frame format 
9.6.25.6 Protected TWT Setup frame format
9.6.25.7 Protected TWT Teardown frame format
9.6.25.8 Protected TWT Information frame format
9.6.26 Flow Control Action frame details 
9.6.26.1 Flow Control Action field 
9.6.26.2 Flow Suspension frame format 
9.6.26.3 Flow Resumption frame format 
9.6.27 Control Response MCS Negotiation frame details
9.6.27.1 Control Response MCS Negotiation Action field
9.6.27.2 Control Response MCS Negotiation Request frame format
9.6.27.3 Control Response MCS Negotiation Response frame format 
9.6.28 CDMG Action frame details
9.6.28.1 CDMG Action field 
9.6.28.2 Notification Period Request frame format
9.6.28.3 Notification Period Response frame format
9.6.28.4 Channel Splitting Request frame format
9.6.28.5 Channel Splitting Response frame format 
9.6.28.6 CDMG Allocation Request frame format
9.6.28.7 CDMG Allocation Response frame format 
9.6.29 CMMG Action frame details 
9.6.29.1 CMMG Action field
9.6.29.2 CMMG Compressed Beamforming frame format
9.6.29.3 CMMG Operating Mode Notification frame format 
9.6.30 GLK Action frame details
9.6.30.1 GLK Action field 
9.6.30.2 GLK Groupcast Mode Change Notification 
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 
9.8 MAC frame format for PV1 frames
9.8.1 Basic components 
9.8.2 General PV1 frame format
9.8.3 PV1 frame fields 
9.8.3.1 Frame Control field
9.8.3.2 Address fields
9.8.3.3 Sequence Control field
9.8.3.4 Frame Body field 
9.8.3.5 Overhead for encryption 
9.8.3.6 FCS field 
9.8.4 PV1 Control frames 
9.8.4.1 General
9.8.4.2 STACK frame format
9.8.4.3 BAT frame format
9.8.5 PV1 Management frames
9.8.5.1 Format of PV1 Management frames
9.8.5.2 Action and Action No Ack frames
9.8.5.3 PV1 Probe Response frame format
9.8.5.4 Resource Allocation frame format
10. MAC sublayer functional description
10.1 Introduction
10.2 MAC architecture 
10.2.1 General
10.2.2 DCF
10.2.3 Hybrid coordination function (HCF) 
10.2.3.1 General
10.2.3.2 HCF contention based channel access (EDCA)
10.2.3.3 HCF controlled channel access (HCCA) 
10.2.4 Mesh coordination function (MCF)
10.2.5 Combined use of DCF and HCF
10.2.6 Fragmentation/defragmentation overview 
10.2.7 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
10.3.2.4 Setting and resetting the NAV 
10.3.2.5 Setting and resetting the RID 
10.3.2.6 RTS/CTS with fragmentation 
10.3.2.7 VHT and S1G RTS procedure 
10.3.2.8 CMMG RTS procedure
10.3.2.9 CTS and DMG CTS procedure
10.3.2.10 Dual CTS protection 
10.3.2.11 Acknowledgment procedure 
10.3.2.12 Fragment BA procedure
10.3.2.13 MU acknowledgment procedure
10.3.2.14 Duplicate detection and recovery
10.3.2.15 NAV distribution
10.3.2.16 Operation of aSlotTime
10.3.2.17 Response Indication procedure 
10.3.3 Random backoff procedure
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 MSDU and MMPDU fragmentation
10.5 MSDU and MMPDU defragmentation
10.6 Multirate support
10.6.1 Overview
10.6.2 Basic HT-MCS Set field 
10.6.3 Basic STBC MCS 
10.6.4 Basic rate set, basic HT-MCS set, and basic VHT-MCS and NSS set for mesh STA 
10.6.5 Rate selection for Data and Management frames 
10.6.5.1 Rate selection for non-STBC Beacon and non-STBC PSMP frames1688
10.6.5.2 Rate selection for STBC group addressed Data and Management frames
10.6.5.3 Rate selection for other group addressed Data and Management frames
10.6.5.4 Rate selection for polling frames 
10.6.5.5 Rate selection for +CF-Ack frames 
10.6.5.6 Rate selection for Data frames sent within an FMS stream
10.6.5.7 Rate selection for other individually addressed Data and Management frames
10.6.6 Rate selection for Control frames 
10.6.6.1 General rules for rate selection for Control frames
10.6.6.2 Rate selection for Control frames that initiate a TXOP
10.6.6.3 Rate selection for CF-End frames
10.6.6.4 Rate selection for Control frames that are not control response frames
10.6.6.5 Rate selection for control response frames 
10.6.6.6 Channel Width selection for Control frames 
10.6.6.7 Control frame TXVECTOR parameter restrictions
10.6.7 Multirate support for DMG STAs 
10.6.7.1 Usage of DMG Control modulation class
10.6.7.2 Rate selection rules for Control frames transmitted by DMG STAs 1702
10.6.7.3 Rate selection for group addressed Data and Management frames transmitted by DMG STAs 
10.6.7.4 Rate selection for individually addressed Data and Management frames transmitted by DMG STAs 
10.6.7.5 Rate selection for BRP PPDUs 
10.6.8 Multirate support for CMMG STAs 
10.6.8.1 Usage of CMMG Control modulation class 
10.6.8.2 Rate selection rules for Control frames transmitted by CMMG STAs
10.6.8.3 Rate selection for group addressed Data and Management frames transmitted by CMMG STAs
10.6.8.4 Rate selection for individually addressed Data and Management frames transmitted by CMMG STAs
10.6.8.5 Rate selection for BRP PPDUs for CMMG STAs
10.6.9 Multiple BSSID Rate Selection 
10.6.10 Modulation classes
10.6.11 Non-HT basic rate calculation 
10.6.12 Channel Width in non-HT and non-HT duplicate PPDUs 
10.6.13 Rate selection constraints for VHT STAs
10.6.13.1 Rx Supported VHT-MCS and NSS Set 
10.6.13.2 Tx Supported VHT-MCS and NSS Set
10.6.13.3 Additional rate selection constraints for VHT PPDUs 
10.6.14 Rate selection constraints for S1G STAs
10.6.14.1 RX Supported S1G-MCS and NSS Set
10.6.14.2 TX Supported S1G-MCS and NSS Set
10.6.14.3 Additional rate selection constraints for S1G PPDUs 
10.6.15 Rate selection constraints for CMMG STAs 
10.6.15.1 Rx supported CMMG-MCS and NSS set 
10.6.15.2 Tx supported CMMG-MCS and NSS set 
10.7 MSDU transmission restrictions
10.8 HT Control field operation 
10.9 Control Wrapper operation 
10.10 MSDU processing
10.11 A-MSDU operation
10.12 A-MPDU operation
10.12.1 A-MPDU contents 
10.12.2 A-MPDU length limit rules 
10.12.3 Minimum MPDU Start Spacing field 
10.12.4 A-MPDU aggregation of group addressed Data frames
10.12.5 Transport of A-MPDU by the PHY data service 
10.12.6 A-MPDU padding for VHT PPDU or S1G PPDU 
10.12.7 Setting the EOF field of the MPDU delimiter 
10.12.8 Transport of S-MPDUs 
10.13 PPDU duration constraint 
10.14 DMG A-PPDU operation
10.15 Low-density parity check code (LDPC) operation 
10.16 STBC operation 
10.17 Short GI operation 
10.18 Greenfield operation 
10.19 Group ID and partial AID in VHT and CMMG PPDUs 
10.20 S1G dynamic AID assignment operation 
10.21 Group ID, partial AID, Uplink Indication, and COLOR in S1G PPDUs 
10.22 Operation across regulatory domains 
10.22.1 General
10.22.2 Operation upon entering a regulatory domain 
10.22.3 Operation with operating classes 
10.22.4 Operation with the Transmit Power Envelope element 
10.22.5 Operation with coverage classes
10.23 HCF
10.23.1 General
10.23.2 HCF contention based channel access (EDCA) 
10.23.2.1 Reference model 
10.23.2.2 EDCA backoff procedure
10.23.2.3 EDCA TXOPs
10.23.2.4 Obtaining an EDCA TXOP
10.23.2.5 EDCA channel access in a VHT or TVHT BSS
10.23.2.6 EDCA channel access in an S1G BSS
10.23.2.7 Sharing an EDCA TXOP 
10.23.2.8 Multiple frame transmission in an EDCA TXOP 
10.23.2.9 TXOP limits 
10.23.2.10 Truncation of TXOP 
10.23.2.11 Termination of TXOP 
10.23.2.12 Retransmit procedures
10.23.2.13 EDCA channel access in a CMMG BSS 
10.23.3 HCF controlled channel access (HCCA) 
10.23.3.1 General
10.23.3.2 HCCA procedure
10.23.3.3 HCCA TXOP structure and timing
10.23.3.4 NAV operation of a TXOP under HCCA 
10.23.3.5 HCCA transfer rules
10.23.4 Admission control at the HC 
10.23.4.1 General
10.23.4.2 Contention based admission control procedures
10.23.4.3 Controlled-access admission control 
10.23.5 Restricted access window (RAW) operation 
10.23.5.1 General
10.23.5.2 RAW structure and timing 
10.23.5.3 Slot assignment procedure in RAW
10.23.5.4 Slotted channel access procedure in RAW 
10.23.5.5 EDCA backoff procedure in generic RAW or triggering frame RAW 
10.23.5.6 EDCA backoff procedure in RAWs other than generic or triggering frame RAW
10.23.5.7 RAW Operation with Resource Allocation frame 
10.23.5.8 Periodic RAW (PRAW) operation
10.24 Mesh coordination function (MCF)
10.24.1 General
10.24.2 MCF contention based channel access 
10.24.3 MCF controlled channel access (MCCA)
10.24.3.1 General
10.24.3.2 MCCA activation 
10.24.3.3 MCCAOP reservations 
10.24.3.4 Neighborhood MCCAOP periods at a mesh STA 
10.24.3.5 MCCA access fraction (MAF)
10.24.3.6 MCCAOP setup procedure 
10.24.3.7 MCCAOP advertisement 
10.24.3.8 MCCAOP teardown
10.24.3.9 Access during MCCAOPs 
10.24.3.10 Interaction with time synchronization
10.25 Block acknowledgment (block ack) 
10.25.1 Introduction
10.25.2 Setup and modification of the block ack parameters
10.25.3 Data and acknowledgment transfer using immediate block ack policy
10.25.4 Teardown of the block ack mechanism 
10.25.5 Selection of BlockAck and BlockAckReq variants 
10.25.6 HT-immediate block ack extensions
10.25.6.1 Introduction to HT-immediate block ack extensions
10.25.6.2 HT-immediate block ack architecture
10.25.6.3 Scoreboard context control during full-state operation
10.25.6.4 Scoreboard context control during partial-state operation
10.25.6.5 Generation and transmission of BlockAck frames by an HT STA, DMG STA, or S1G STA
10.25.6.6 Receive reordering buffer control operation
10.25.6.7 Originator�\�s behavior 
10.25.6.8 Maintaining block ack state at the originator
10.25.6.9 Originator�\�s support of recipient�\�s partial state 
10.25.7 Protected block ack agreement 
10.25.8 GCR and GLK-GCR block ack 
10.25.8.1 Introduction
10.25.8.2 Scoreboard context control during GCR block ack 
10.25.8.3 Scoreboard context control during GLK-GCR block ack
10.25.8.4 GCR block ack BlockAckReq and BlockAck frame exchanges 
10.25.9 DMG block ack with flow control
10.25.9.1 General
10.25.9.2 DMG block ack architecture with flow control 
10.25.9.3 Scoreboard context control with flow control
10.25.9.4 Receive Reordering Buffer with flow control operation 
10.25.9.5 Generation and transmission of BlockAck frame by a STA with flow control
10.25.9.6 Originator�\�s behavior with flow control support 
10.26 No Acknowledgment (No Ack) 
10.27 Protection mechanisms 
10.27.1 Introduction
10.27.2 Protection mechanism for non-ERP receivers 
10.27.3 Protection mechanisms for transmissions of HT PPDUs 
10.27.3.1 General
10.27.3.2 Protection rules for HT STA operating a direct link
10.27.3.3 RIFS protection
10.27.3.4 Use of OBSS Non-HT STAs Present field 
10.27.3.5 Protection rules for an HT mesh STA
10.27.4 L_LENGTH and L_DATARATE parameter values for HT-mixed format PPDUs
10.27.5 Protection rules for VHT STAs 
10.28 MAC frame processing
10.28.1 Introduction
10.28.2 Revision level field processing 
10.28.3 Duration/ID field processing 
10.28.4 Response to an invalid Action and Action No Ack frame
10.28.5 Operation of the Dialog Token field
10.28.6 Element parsing 
10.28.7 Vendor specific element parsing
10.28.8 Extensible element parsing 
10.28.9 Extensible subelement parsing
10.28.10 Extensible TLV parsing 
10.28.11 Element fragmentation
10.28.12 Element defragmentation
10.29 Reverse direction protocol 
10.29.1 General
10.29.2 Reverse direction (RD) exchange sequence 
10.29.3 Rules for RD initiator 
10.29.4 Rules for RD responder 
10.30 PSMP operation 
10.30.1 General
10.30.2 Frame transmission mechanism during PSMP 
10.30.2.1 PSMP frame transmission (PSMP-DTT and PSMP-UTT)
10.30.2.2 PSMP downlink transmission (PSMP-DTT) 
10.30.2.3 PSMP uplink transmission (PSMP-UTT) 
10.30.2.4 PSMP burst 
10.30.2.5 Resource allocation within a PSMP burst
10.30.2.6 PSMP-UTT retransmission 
10.30.2.7 PSMP acknowledgment rules 
10.30.2.8 PSMP group addressed transmission rules 
10.30.3 Scheduled PSMP
10.30.4 Unscheduled PSMP 
10.31 Sounding PPDUs 
10.32 Link adaptation 
10.32.1 Introduction
10.32.2 Link adaptation using the HT variant HT Control field 
10.32.3 Link adaptation using the VHT variant HT Control field 
10.32.4 Link adaptation using the CMMG variant HT Control field 
10.33 CMMG beamforming 
10.34 Transmit beamforming 
10.34.1 HT steering matrix calculations
10.34.2 HT transmit beamforming with implicit feedback 
10.34.2.1 General
10.34.2.2 Unidirectional implicit transmit beamforming 
10.34.2.3 Bidirectional implicit transmit beamforming
10.34.2.4 Calibration
10.34.3 Explicit feedback beamforming
10.34.4 VHT MU beamforming 
10.34.5 Explicit feedback beamforming for CMMG STAs 
10.35 Antenna selection (ASEL) 
10.35.1 Introduction
10.35.2 ASEL frame exchange procedure 
10.36 Null data PPDU (NDP) sounding 
10.36.1 HT NDP sounding protocol 
10.36.2 Transmission of an HT NDP 
10.36.3 Determination of HT NDP destination 
10.36.4 Determination of HT NDP source 
10.36.5 VHT sounding protocol 
10.36.5.1 General
10.36.5.2 Rules for VHT sounding protocol sequences 
10.36.5.3 Rules for fragmented feedback in VHT sounding protocol sequences 
10.36.6 Transmission of a VHT NDP
10.36.7 Transmission of an S1G NDP
10.37 Null data PPDU (NDP) sounding for CMMG STAs
10.37.1 NDP rules
10.37.2 Transmission of a CMMG NDP 
10.37.3 Determination of CMMG NDP destination
10.37.4 Determination of CMMG NDP source
10.38 Mesh forwarding framework 
10.38.1 General
10.38.2 Forwarding information 
10.38.3 Addressing and forwarding of individually addressed mesh Data frames 
10.38.3.1 At source mesh STAs (individually addressed)
10.38.3.2 At intermediate and destination mesh STAs (individually addressed)
10.38.4 Addressing and forwarding of group addressed mesh Data frames 
10.38.4.1 At source mesh STAs (group addressed)
10.38.4.2 At recipient mesh STAs (group addressed) 
10.38.5 Addressing of Management frames and MMPDU forwarding 
10.38.5.1 General
10.38.5.2 MMPDU forwarding using individually addressed Multihop Action frames
10.38.5.3 MMPDU forwarding using group addressed Multihop Action frames
10.38.6 Detection of duplicate MSDUs/MMPDUs 
10.38.7 Mesh STAs that do not forward
10.38.8 MSDU forwarding and unknown destination
10.39 DMG and CMMG channel access 
10.39.1 General
10.39.2 Access periods within a beacon interval
10.39.3 ATI transmission rules
10.39.4 DTI transmission rules
10.39.5 Contention based access period (CBAP) transmission rules 
10.39.6 Channel access in scheduled DTI 
10.39.6.1 General
10.39.6.2 Service period (SP) allocation
10.39.6.3 Contention based access period (CBAP) allocation 
10.39.6.4 Pseudo-static allocations 
10.39.6.5 Guard time
10.39.6.6 DMG and CMMG protected period
10.39.6.7 Service period recovery 
10.39.7 Dynamic allocation of service period 
10.39.7.1 General
10.39.7.2 Polling period (PP)
10.39.7.3 Grant period (GP)
10.39.8 Dynamic truncation of service period
10.39.8.1 DMG dynamic truncation of service period 
10.39.8.2 CDMG dynamic truncation of service period
10.39.9 Dynamic extension of service period
10.39.10 Updating multiple NAVs 
10.39.11 Opportunistic transmission in alternative channel for CDMG STAs 
10.40 DMG and CMMG AP or PCP clustering 
10.40.1 General
10.40.2 Cluster formation 
10.40.2.1 Decentralized AP or PCP cluster formation 
10.40.2.2 Centralized AP or PCP cluster formation 
10.40.3 Cluster maintenance
10.40.3.1 General cluster maintenance 
10.40.3.2 Decentralized AP or PCP cluster maintenance
10.40.3.3 Centralized AP or PCP cluster maintenance
10.40.3.4 Centralized AP or PCP cluster MAC requirements
10.40.4 Cluster report and rescheduling 
10.40.5 Decentralized AP or PCP cluster request 
10.41 CDMG AP or PCP clustering 
10.41.1 General
10.41.2 Cluster formation 
10.41.2.1 Decentralized CDMG AP or PCP cluster formation 
10.41.2.2 Centralized CDMG AP or PCP cluster formation 
10.41.3 Cluster maintenance
10.41.3.1 General cluster maintenance 
10.41.3.2 Decentralized CDMG AP or PCP cluster maintenance 
10.41.3.3 Cluster coordination
10.41.3.4 Centralized CDMG AP or PCP cluster maintenance
10.41.3.5 Centralized CDMG AP or PCP cluster MAC requirements 
10.41.4 Cluster report and rescheduling 
10.41.5 Decentralized AP or PCP cluster request 
10.41.6 Spatial sharing in a CDMG AP or PCP cluster 
10.42 DMG beamforming
10.42.1 General
10.42.2 Sector-level sweep (SLS) phase 
10.42.2.1 General
10.42.2.2 Initiator sector sweep (ISS)
10.42.2.3 Responder sector sweep (RSS) 
10.42.2.4 Sector sweep (SSW) feedback 
10.42.2.5 SSW ack
10.42.3 Beam Refinement Protocol (BRP) phase
10.42.3.1 General
10.42.3.2 BRP setup subphase
10.42.4 Beamforming in BTI
10.42.5 Beamforming in A-BFT
10.42.5.1 Allocation of A-BFT
10.42.5.2 Operation during the A-BFT
10.42.5.3 STA Beamforming after A-BFT
10.42.5.4 Beamforming in A-BFT with multiple DMG antennas
10.42.6 Beamforming in DTI 
10.42.6.1 General
10.42.6.2 SLS phase execution 
10.42.6.3 Multiple sector ID capture (MIDC) subphase
10.42.6.4 BRP phase execution 
10.42.7 Beam tracking 
10.42.8 State machines 
10.42.9 CDMG enhanced beam tracking
10.43 DMG link adaptation 
10.43.1 General
10.43.2 DMG TPC
10.43.3 Fast link adaptation 
10.44 Link adaptation using the CMMG link measurement 
10.44.1 General
10.44.2 CMMG TPC 
10.44.3 CMMG fast link adaptation 
10.45 DMG relay operation 
10.45.1 General
10.45.2 Link switching 
10.45.2.1 General
10.45.2.2 SP request and allocation 
10.45.2.3 Usage of RDS
10.45.2.4 Relay frame exchange rules 
10.45.2.5 Link monitoring 
10.45.3 Link cooperation 
10.45.3.1 TPA procedure 
10.45.3.2 Link cooperation data transmission procedure 
10.45.4 Relay link adaptation 
10.46 S1G BSS operation 
10.46.1 Basic S1G BSS functionality
10.46.2 System information update procedure 
10.46.3 S1G BSS channel selection methods 
10.46.4 S1G BSS channel switching methods
10.46.5 Scanning requirements for S1G STA 
10.46.6 NAV and RID assertion in an S1G BSS
10.46.7 BSS Basic S1G-MCS and NSS set operation
10.46.8 S1G coexistence with non-IEEE-802.11 systems
10.47 Target wake time (TWT) 
10.47.1 TWT overview 
10.47.2 TWT acknowledgment procedure 
10.47.3 Explicit TWT operation 
10.47.4 Implicit TWT operation 
10.47.5 TWT grouping 
10.47.6 NDP Paging setup
10.47.7 TWT Sleep setup 
10.47.8 TWT teardown 
10.48 Non-TIM operation
10.48.1 Resource protection for S1G STAs in non-TIM mode
10.48.1.1 General
10.48.1.2 Resource protection for S1G STAs in non-TIM mode using
periodic RAW (PRAW) operation
10.48.2 Rescheduling of awake/doze cycle 
10.49 Sync frame operation 
10.50 Bidirectional TXOP 
10.50.1 Overview
10.50.2 Rules for BDT
10.51 Page slicing 
10.52 Subchannel selective transmission (SST) 
10.52.1 SST overview
10.52.2 Aperiodic SST operation 
10.52.3 Periodic SST operation 
10.53 Sectorized beam operation
10.53.1 Introduction
10.53.2 Sector Capabilities Exchange 
10.53.3 Group sectorization operation
10.53.4 TXOP-based sectorization operation 
10.53.5 Sector training operation
10.53.5.1 Introduction
10.53.5.2 Procedure 
10.53.5.3 Sector ID feedback
10.53.5.4 Fast Sector Discovery 
10.54 S1G relay operation 
10.54.1 General
10.54.2 S1G relay operation 
10.54.3 Addressing and forwarding of individually addressed relay frames 
10.54.4 Addressing and forwarding of group addressed relay frames 
10.54.5 Procedures of TXOP sharing for S1G relay operation 
10.54.5.1 General
10.54.5.2 Explicit Ack procedure 
10.54.5.3 Implicit Ack procedure 
10.54.5.4 Relay-shared TXOP protection mechanisms 
10.54.6 S1G relay discovery procedure
10.55 Group AID 
10.56 Traveling pilot operation 
10.57 Bitmap protection for NDP BlockAck frames
10.58 Generation of PV1 MPDUs and header compression procedure 
10.59 Transmission of an NDP CMAC PPDU
10.60 S1G_Long operation
10.61 S1G flow control
10.62 Energy limited STAs operation 
10.63 S1G BSS type and STA type 
10.64 DBC mechanism for CDMG STAs 
10.64.1 General
10.64.2 CDMG channel access
10.64.2.1 CDMG BSS operating on a 2.16 GHz channel
10.64.2.2 CDMG BSS operating on a 1.08 GHz channel
10.64.2.3 Synchronization of CDMG infrastructure BSS or PBSSs on the adjacent 1.08 GHz channels within a 2.16 GHz channel
10.64.3 Channel splitting of a 2.16 GHz channel 
10.64.4 Channel expansion of a 1.08 GHz channel
10.64.5 Backward compatibility and interoperation
10.65 Addressing of GLK Data frame transmission
10.66 SYNRA filtering operation
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
11.1.3.4 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 
11.1.3.10 Maintaining synchronization using S1G Beacon frames
11.1.4 Acquiring synchronization, scanning 
11.1.4.1 General
11.1.4.2 Passive scanning 
11.1.4.3 Active scanning and probing procedures 
11.1.4.4 Initializing a 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
11.2 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 Non-AP 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
11.2.3.6 AP operation 
11.2.3.7 Receive operation for STAs in PS mode 
11.2.3.8 Receive operation using APSD
11.2.3.9 STAs operating in the active mode 
11.2.3.10 AP aging function 
11.2.3.11 PSMP power management
11.2.3.12 TDLS peer power save mode
11.2.3.13 TDLS peer U-APSD (TPU) 
11.2.3.14 FMS power management 
11.2.3.15 TIM Broadcast 
11.2.3.16 WNM sleep mode 
11.2.3.17 VHT TXOP power save
11.2.3.18 AP power management 
11.2.3.19 CMMG 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 
11.2.7.3 PCP power management mode 
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 
11.2.9 Power management with general links 
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
11.3.5.11 Service characteristic indication during association 
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
11.3.9 Authentication control 
11.3.9.1 General
11.3.9.2 Centralized authentication control 
11.3.9.3 Distributed authentication control
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 TPC procedures
11.7.1 General
11.7.2 Association based on transmit power capability
11.7.3 Peering based on transmit power capability 
11.7.4 Interpretation of transmit power capability 
11.7.5 Specification of regulatory and local maximum transmit power levels 
11.7.6 Transmit power selection
11.7.7 Transmit power adaptation 
11.8 DFS procedures
11.8.1 General
11.8.2 Association based on supported channels
11.8.2.1 Association based on supported channels in a non-DMG BSS 
11.8.2.2 Providing supported channels upon association in a DMG BSS 
11.8.3 Quieting channels for testing 
11.8.4 Testing channels for radar
11.8.5 Discontinuing operations after detecting radar 
11.8.6 Detecting radar
11.8.7 Requesting and reporting of measurements
11.8.8 Selecting and advertising a new channel 
11.8.8.1 General
11.8.8.2 Selecting and advertising a new channel in a non-DMG infrastructure BSS 
11.8.8.3 Selecting and advertising a new channel in an IBSS
11.8.8.4 MBSS channel switching
11.8.8.5 HT-greenfield transmissions in operating classes that include a behavior limit of DFS_50_100_Behavior
11.8.8.6 Selecting and advertising a new channel in a DMG BSS
11.8.9 Channel Switch Announcement element operation
11.8.10 Future Channel Guidance operation 
11.9 Extended channel switching (ECS) 
11.9.1 General
11.9.2 Advertising supported operating classes
11.9.3 Selecting and advertising a new channel and/or operating class 
11.9.3.1 General
11.9.3.2 Selecting and advertising a new channel in an infrastructure BSS
11.9.3.3 Selecting and advertising a new channel in an IBSS
11.9.3.4 Selecting and advertising a new channel in an MBSS
11.10 Radio measurement procedures 
11.10.1 General
11.10.2 Measurement on operating and nonoperating channels
11.10.3 Measurement start time
11.10.4 Measurement duration 
11.10.5 Station responsibility for conducting measurements 
11.10.6 Requesting and reporting of measurements
11.10.7 Repeated Measurement Request frames 
11.10.8 Triggered autonomous reporting 
11.10.9 Specific measurement usage 
11.10.9.1 Beacon report 
11.10.9.2 Frame report
11.10.9.3 Channel load report
11.10.9.4 Noise Histogram report
11.10.9.5 STA Statistics report 
11.10.9.6 LCI report (Location configuration information report)
11.10.9.7 Measurement pause
11.10.9.8 Transmit Stream/Category Measurement report
11.10.9.9 Location Civic report 
11.10.9.10 Location Identifier report 
11.10.9.11 Fine Timing Measurement Range report 
11.10.10 Usage of the neighbor report 
11.10.10.1 General
11.10.10.2 Requesting a neighbor report 
11.10.10.3 Responding to a neighbor report request 
11.10.11 Link measurement
11.10.12 Measurement of the RPI histogram 
11.10.13 Operation of the Max Transmit Power field
11.10.14 Multiple BSSID set
11.10.15 Measurement Pilot frame generation and usage 
11.10.15.1 General
11.10.15.2 Measurement Pilot frame generation by an AP 
11.10.15.3 Measurement pilot usage by a STA 
11.10.16 Access delay measurement 
11.10.17 BSS Available Admission Capacity 
11.10.18 AP Channel Report 
11.10.19 Multicast diagnostic reporting 
11.10.20 CCA request and report 
11.10.21 RPI Histogram request and report 
11.11 DSE procedures 
11.11.1 General
11.11.2 Enablement and deenablement 
11.11.2.1 General
11.11.2.2 Enablement requester STA 
11.11.2.3 Enablement responder STA 
11.11.2.4 Deenablement requester STA 
11.11.2.5 Deenablement responder STA 
11.11.3 Registered STA operation
11.11.4 Enabling STA operation with DSE
11.11.5 Dependent STA operation with DSE
11.12 Group addressed management frame protection procedures
11.13 SA Query procedures
11.14 HT BSS Operation 
11.15 20/40 MHz BSS operation
11.15.1 Rules for operation in 20/40 MHz BSS 
11.15.2 Basic 20/40 MHz BSS functionality
11.15.3 Channel scanning and selection methods for 20/40 MHz operation 
11.15.3.1 General
11.15.3.2 Scanning requirements for a 20/40 MHz BSS
11.15.3.3 Channel management at the AP and in an IBSS
11.15.4 40 MHz PPDU transmission restrictions 
11.15.4.1 Fields used to determine 40 MHz PPDU transmission restrictions
11.15.4.2 Infrastructure non-AP STA restrictions 
11.15.4.3 AP restrictions
11.15.4.4 Restrictions on non-AP STAs that are not infrastructure BSS members
11.15.5 Scanning requirements for 40MC HT STA 2G4 
11.15.6 Exemption from OBSS scanning
11.15.7 Communicating 20/40 BSS coexistence information
11.15.8 Support of DSSS/CCK in 40 MHz 
11.15.9 STA CCA sensing in a 20/40 MHz BSS 
11.15.10 NAV assertion in 20/40 MHz BSS 
11.15.11 Signaling 40 MHz intolerance 
11.15.12 Switching between 40 MHz and 20 MHz
11.16 20/40 BSS Coexistence Management frame usage 
11.17 Public Action frame addressing 
11.18 STAs communicating Data frames outside the context of a BSS
11.19 Timing advertisement 
11.19.1 Introduction
11.19.2 Timing advertisement frame procedures 
11.19.3 UTC TSF Offset procedures 
11.20 Tunneled direct-link setup 
11.20.1 General
11.20.2 TDLS payload
11.20.3 TDLS Discovery 
11.20.4 TDLS direct-link establishment
11.20.5 TDLS direct-link teardown 
11.20.6 TDLS channel switching 
11.20.6.1 General
11.20.6.2 General behavior on the off-channel
11.20.6.3 Setting up a 40 MHz direct link 
11.20.6.4 TDLS channel switching and power saving 
11.20.6.5 Setting up a wide bandwidth off-channel direct link 
11.21 Wireless network management procedures 
11.21.1 Wireless network management dependencies 
11.21.2 Event request and report procedures
11.21.2.1 Event request and event report
11.21.2.2 Transition event request and report
11.21.2.3 RSNA event request and report 
11.21.2.4 Peer-to-peer link event request and report 
11.21.2.5 WNM log event request and report
11.21.2.6 Vendor Specific event request and report 
11.21.3 Diagnostic request and report procedures
11.21.3.1 Diagnostic request and diagnostic report 
11.21.3.2 Configuration Profile report
11.21.3.3 Manufacturer information STA report
11.21.3.4 Association diagnostic 
11.21.3.5 IEEE 802.1X authentication diagnostic 
11.21.4 Location track procedures
11.21.4.1 Location track configuration procedures 
11.21.4.2 Location track notification procedures 
11.21.5 Timing measurement procedure 
11.21.6 Fine timing measurement (FTM) procedure
11.21.6.1 Overview
11.21.6.2 FTM capabilities 
11.21.6.3 Fine timing measurement procedure negotiation
11.21.6.4 Measurement exchange
11.21.6.5 Fine timing measurement parameter modification 
11.21.6.6 Fine timing measurement termination 
11.21.6.7 LCI and Location Civic retrieval using FTM procedure 
11.21.7 BSS transition management for network load balancing
11.21.7.1 BSS transition capability
11.21.7.2 BSS transition management query
11.21.7.3 BSS transition management request 
11.21.7.4 BSS transition management response 
11.21.8 FMS multicast rate processing
11.21.9 Collocated interference reporting 
11.21.10 QoS Traffic capability procedure 
11.21.11 AC Station Count
11.21.12 TFS procedures 
11.21.12.1 TFS capability
11.21.12.2 TFS non-AP STA operation
11.21.12.3 TFS AP operation
11.21.13 BSS max idle period management
11.21.14 Proxy ARP service
11.21.15 Channel usage procedures 
11.21.16 Group addressed transmission service 
11.21.16.1 General
11.21.16.2 DMS procedures 
11.21.16.3 GCR procedures
11.21.16.4 GLK-GCR
11.21.17 WNM notification
11.22 WLAN interworking with external networks procedures
11.22.1 General
11.22.2 Interworking capabilities and information
11.22.3 Interworking procedures: generic advertisement service (GAS)
11.22.3.1 Introduction
11.22.3.2 GAS Protocol 
11.22.3.3 ANQP procedures 
11.22.3.4 Registered location query protocol (RLQP) procedures
11.22.4 Interworking procedures: IEEE 802.21 MIS support 
11.22.5 Interworking procedures: interactions with SSPN
11.22.5.1 General operation
11.22.5.2 Authentication and cipher suites selection with SSPN 
11.22.5.3 Reporting and session control with SSPN 
11.22.6 Interworking procedures: emergency services support 
11.22.7 Interworking procedures: emergency alert system (EAS) support 
11.22.8 Interworking procedures: support for the advertisement of roaming
consortiums
11.22.9 Interworking procedures: support for QoS mapping from external networks
11.23 Preassociation discovery (PAD) procedures
11.23.1 General
11.23.2 Unsolicited PAD procedure 
11.23.3 Solicited PAD procedure 
11.23.4 Service hash procedure 
11.23.5 Bloom filter hash function operation 
11.24 Quality-of-service Management frame (QMF)
11.24.1 General
11.24.1.1 Overview
11.24.1.2 Default QMF policy
11.24.2 QMF policy advertisement and configuration procedures 
11.24.2.1 Overview
11.24.2.2 QMF policy change in an infrastructure BSS or in an MBSS 
11.24.2.3 QMF policy configuration in an infrastructure BSS
11.24.2.4 QMF policy configuration in an IBSS or OCB
11.24.2.5 QMF policy configuration in an MBSS
11.24.3 Interpreting QMF access categories 
11.25 Robust AV streaming
11.25.1 Robust AV streaming dependencies 
11.25.2 SCS procedures
11.25.3 MSCS procedures 
11.26 Procedures to manage OBSS 
11.26.1 General
11.26.2 QLoad Report element
11.26.2.1 Introduction
11.26.2.2 Calculating field values
11.26.2.3 Requesting QLoad Reports using radio measurement requests
11.26.3 HCCA TXOP negotiation 
11.26.4 HCCA AP timing synchronization for HCCA TXOP advertisement
11.26.4.1 General
11.26.4.2 Timing offset
11.26.4.3 Clock drift adjustment
11.27 DMG beamformed link and BSS maintenance
11.27.1 Beamformed link maintenance 
11.27.2 PCP Handover
11.27.2.1 General
11.27.2.2 Explicit handover procedure 
11.27.2.3 Implicit handover procedure 
11.28 DMG BSS peer and service discovery 
11.28.1 Information Request and Response 
11.28.2 Peer Service Discovery
11.29 Changing DMG BSS parameters 
11.29.1 General
11.29.2 Moving the TBTT
11.29.3 Changing beacon interval duration 
11.29.4 Maintaining synchronization in an AP or PCP cluster 
11.29.5 Recommending DMG BSS parameters to the AP or PCP
11.30 Spatial sharing and interference mitigation for DMG STAs 
11.30.1 General
11.30.2 Spatial sharing and interference assessment 
11.30.3 Achieving spatial sharing and interference mitigation 
11.30.4 PBSS and infrastructure BSS stability in OBSS scenarios
11.31 Multi-band operation 
11.31.1 General
11.31.2 General FST rules 
11.31.3 FST setup protocol
11.31.3.1 General
11.31.3.2 Transitioning between states
11.31.3.3 FST TS switching
11.31.4 FST teardown
11.31.5 On-channel Tunneling (OCT) operation
11.31.6 FST payload
11.32 MMSL cluster operation 
11.32.1 Introduction
11.32.2 MMSL cluster setup
11.32.2.1 General
11.32.2.2 MMSL cluster setup of non-AP and non-PCP MM-SME coordinated STA with AP or PCP
11.32.2.3 MMSL cluster setup of non-AP and non-PCP STA with another non-AP and non-PCP STA 
11.33 DMG coexistence with non-IEEE-802.11 systems 
11.34 DMG relay procedures
11.34.1 General
11.34.2 Common relay setup procedures
11.34.2.1 Introduction
11.34.2.2 Relay capabilities and RDS discovery procedures 
11.34.2.3 RDS selection procedure
11.34.2.4 RLS procedure 
11.34.3 Relay operation-type change procedure 
11.34.4 Relay teardown 
11.35 Quieting adjacent DMG BSSs 
11.35.1 General
11.35.2 Procedure at the requester AP
11.35.3 Procedure at the responder AP
11.36 DMG beamforming
11.37 DMG MAC sublayer attributes
11.38 VHT BSS operation 
11.38.1 Basic VHT BSS functionality
11.38.2 Channel selection methods for a VHT BSS
11.38.3 Scanning requirements for VHT STA 
11.38.4 Channel switching methods for a VHT BSS 
11.38.5 NAV assertion in a VHT BSS 
11.38.6 VHT STA antenna indication 
11.38.7 Basic VHT-MCS and NSS set operation
11.38.8 Extended NSS BW Support Signaling
11.39 Group ID management operation 
11.40 Notification of operating mode changes 
11.41 Basic TVHT BSS functionality 
11.42 Operation under the control of a GDB
11.42.1 General
11.42.2 GDD enabling STA operation 
11.42.3 GDD dependent STA operation
11.42.4 Channel availability query (CAQ) procedure 
11.42.4.1 Introduction
11.42.4.2 CAQ requesting STA 
11.42.4.3 CAQ responding STA
11.42.5 Channel schedule management (CSM) procedures 
11.42.5.1 Introduction
11.42.5.2 CSM requesting STA 
11.42.5.3 CSM responding STA
11.42.6 Contact verification signal (CVS)
11.42.7 Network channel control (NCC) procedures 
11.42.7.1 Introduction
11.42.7.2 NCC requesting STA 
11.42.7.3 NCC responding STA 
11.42.8 White space map (WSM)
11.43 Beacon RSSI 
11.44 Estimated throughput
11.45 Fast Initial Link Setup (FILS) procedures 
11.45.1 General
11.45.2 FILS Discovery frame generation and usage
11.45.2.1 FILS Discovery frame transmission 
11.45.2.2 FILS Discovery frame reception
11.45.3 Higher layer setup during (re)association procedure 
11.45.3.1 General
11.45.3.2 Higher layer protocol encapsulation 
11.45.3.3 FILS IP address configuration 
11.45.4 FILS authentication and higher layer setup capability indications
11.45.5 DILS
11.45.5.1 General
11.45.5.2 AP procedures for DILS 
11.45.5.3 Non-AP STA procedures for DILS
11.46 Support for energy limited STAs
11.47 DCS procedure for CDMG BSS
11.47.1 General
11.47.2 Assessing current channel condition
11.47.3 Requesting measurements for new operating channel
11.47.4 Reporting measurements
11.47.5 Requesting existing BSS to migrate to a new channel 
11.47.6 Networking on the target channel
11.48 CMMG BSS operation
11.48.1 Basic CMMG BSS functionality 
11.48.2 Channel selection methods for a CMMG BSS 
11.48.3 Scanning requirements for CMMG STAs 
11.48.4 Channel switching methods for a CMMG BSS
11.48.5 NAV assertion in a CMMG BSS
11.48.6 CMMG STAs antenna indication 
11.48.7 BSS basic CMMG-MCS and NSS set operation 
11.49 Reduced neighbor report
11.50 GLK operation 
11.50.1 General
11.50.2 Reported general link metrics 
11.51 EPD operation
11.52 Beacon frame protection procedures 
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 assumptions and constraints 
12.2.6 Requirements for the Protected Frame field 
12.2.7 Requirements for management frame protection
12.2.8 Emergency service establishment in an RSN 
12.2.9 Requirements for Operating Channel Validation 
12.2.10 Requirements for support of MAC privacy enhancements 
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
12.3.3 Pre-RSNA authentication 
12.3.3.1 Overview
12.3.3.2 Open System authentication
12.3.3.3 Shared Key authentication 
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 
12.4.4.3 Finite field cryptography (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
12.4.7.3 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 
12.4.8.3 Events and output
12.4.8.4 Timers 
12.4.8.5 Variables 
12.4.8.6 Behavior of state machine
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
12.5.2.2 TKIP MPDU formats 
12.5.2.3 TKIP MIC 
12.5.2.4 TKIP countermeasures procedures 
12.5.2.5 TKIP mixing function 
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 
12.5.3.4 CCMP decapsulation
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 
12.5.5.4 GCMP decapsulation 
12.6 RSNA security association management 
12.6.1 Security associations
12.6.1.1 Security association definitions 
12.6.1.2 TPKSA 
12.6.1.3 Security association life cycle
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 
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 
12.6.23 Protection of Beacon frames
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 FT key hierarchy 
12.7.1.7 Beacon protection key hierarchy
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 TDLS PeerKey (TPK) security protocol 
12.7.8.1 General
12.7.8.2 TPK handshake 
12.7.8.3 TPK handshake security assumptions
12.7.8.4 TPK Security Protocol handshake messages 
12.7.9 RSNA Supplicant key management state machine
12.7.9.1 General
12.7.9.2 Supplicant state machine states
12.7.9.3 Supplicant state machine variables 
12.7.9.4 Supplicant state machine procedures 
12.7.10 RSNA Authenticator key management state machine
12.7.10.1 General
12.7.10.2 Authenticator state machine states
12.7.10.3 Authenticator state machine variables 
12.7.10.4 Authenticator state machine procedures 
12.8 Mapping EAPOL keys to IEEE 802.11 keys
12.8.1 Mapping PTK to TKIP keys 
12.8.2 Mapping GTK to TKIP keys 
12.8.3 Mapping PTK to CCMP keys
12.8.4 Mapping GTK to CCMP keys 
12.8.5 Mapping GTK to WEP-40 keys
12.8.6 Mapping GTK to WEP-104 keys
12.8.7 Mapping IGTK to BIP keys
12.8.8 Mapping PTK to GCMP keys
12.8.9 Mapping GTK to GCMP keys 
12.8.10 Mapping BIGTK to BIP keys 
12.9 Authenticated mesh peering exchange (AMPE)
12.10 AP PeerKey support
12.10.1 AP PeerKey overview
12.10.2 AP PeerKey protocol 
12.11 Authentication for FILS
12.11.1 General
12.11.2 FILS authentication protocol 
12.11.2.1 General
12.11.2.2 Discovery of a FILS AP
12.11.2.3 Key establishment with FILS Shared Key authentication 
12.11.2.4 Key establishment with FILS Public Key authentication 
12.11.2.5 Key establishment with FILS authentication 
12.11.2.6 Key confirmation with FILS authentication 
12.11.2.7 AEAD cipher mode for FILS
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 
13.4.4 FT initial mobility domain association over FILS in an 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 
14.5.5.3 Mesh peering confirm for AMPE 
14.5.5.4 Mesh peering close 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 Path selection link metric
14.9.1 General
14.9.2 Airtime link metric and high PHY rate 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
14.10.10 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 
14.10.11 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
14.10.12 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
14.10.13 Considerations for support of STAs without mesh functionality 
14.11 Interworking with the DS or an attached bridge
14.11.1 Overview of interworking between a mesh BSS and a DS or an attached bridge 
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 
14.11.3 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)
14.11.4.4 Proxy update confirmation (PXUC) 
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
14.13.3 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
14.13.4.3 TBTT selection 
14.13.4.4 TBTT adjustment 
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 of DSSS PHY services 
15.1.3 DSSS PHY functions 
15.1.3.1 General
15.1.3.2 PLME
15.1.4 Service specification method and notation 
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 PHY-RXEND.indication parameter RCPI
15.2.3.7 RXVECTOR SQ 
15.2.3.8 RXVECTOR RX_ANTENNA 
15.2.4 TXSTATUS parameters 
15.2.4.1 General
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 (RCPI) 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 of HR/DSSS PHY services 
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
16.3.6.7 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 (RCPI) measurement 
17. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) PHY specification 
17.1 Introduction
17.1.1 General
17.1.2 Scope of OFDM services
17.1.3 OFDM PHY functions 
17.1.3.1 General
17.1.3.2 PLME
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 PHY-RXEND.indication parameter 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
17.3.8.5 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
17.3.9.8 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 (RCPI) 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
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 of ERP PHY services 
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 
19. High-throughput (HT) PHY specification 
19.1 Introduction
19.1.1 Introduction to the HT PHY 
19.1.2 Scope of HT PHY services 
19.1.3 HT PHY functions 
19.1.3.1 General
19.1.3.2 PHY management entity (PLME)
19.1.3.3 Service specification method 
19.1.4 PPDU formats 
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 
19.3.9.4 HT portion of HT-mixed format preamble 
19.3.9.5 HT-greenfield format preamble 
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 BCC coding and puncturing
19.3.11.7 LDPC codes 
19.3.11.8 Data interleaver
19.3.11.9 Constellation mapping 
19.3.11.10 Pilot subcarriers
19.3.11.11 OFDM modulation
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 
19.3.13 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
19.3.18.8 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
19.3.19.6 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 of DMG PHY services 
20.1.2 DMG PHY functions 
20.1.2.1 PHY management entity (PLME)
20.1.2.2 Service specification method 
20.2 DMG PHY service interface
20.2.1 Introduction
20.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters 
20.2.3 PHYCONFIG_VECTOR parameters 
20.2.4 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 
20.3.3.3 Symbol clock tolerance
20.3.3.4 Transmit center frequency leakage 
20.3.3.5 Transmit rampup and rampdown 
20.3.3.6 Antenna setting 
20.3.3.7 Maximum input requirement 
20.3.3.8 Receive minimum input sensitivity
20.3.4 Timing-related parameters 
20.3.5 Mathematical conventions in the signal description
20.3.5.1 General
20.3.6 Common preamble
20.3.6.1 General
20.3.6.2 Short Training field
20.3.6.3 Channel Estimation field
20.3.7 HCS calculation for headers of DMG control mode and DMG SC mode 
20.3.8 Common LDPC parity matrices 
20.3.8.1 General
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
20.4.3.2 Header 
20.4.3.3 Data field
20.4.4 Performance requirements 
20.4.4.1 Transmit requirements 
20.4.4.2 Receive requirements
20.5 DMG SC mode 
20.5.1 Introduction
20.5.2 PPDU format
20.5.3 Transmission 
20.5.3.1 Header 
20.5.3.2 Data field
20.5.4 Performance requirements 
20.5.4.1 Transmit requirements 
20.5.4.2 Receive requirements
20.6 DMG low-power SC mode 
20.6.1 Introduction
20.6.2 Transmission 
20.6.2.1 Preamble
20.6.2.2 Header 
20.6.2.3 Data field
20.7 PHY transmit procedure 
20.8 PHY receive procedure 
20.9 Beamforming 
20.9.1 Beamforming concept
20.9.2 Beamforming frame format 
20.9.2.1 Sector-level sweep 
20.9.2.2 Beam refinement
20.10 Golay sequences 
20.11 DMG PLME 
20.11.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives 
20.11.2 DMG PHY MIB
20.11.3 TXTIME calculation
20.11.4 DMG PHY 
21. Very high throughput (VHT) PHY specification 
21.1 Introduction
21.1.1 Introduction to the VHT PHY 
21.1.2 Scope of VHT PHY services 
21.1.3 VHT PHY functions 
21.1.3.1 General
21.1.3.2 PHY management entity (PLME)
21.1.3.3 Service specification method 
21.1.4 PPDU formats 
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 
21.3.4.10 Construction of the Data field in 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
21.3.8.3 VHT portion of VHT format preamble
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
21.3.10.6 Stream parser
21.3.10.7 Segment parser
21.3.10.8 BCC interleaver
21.3.10.9 Constellation mapping 
21.3.10.10 Pilot subcarriers
21.3.10.11 OFDM modulation
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
21.3.17.5 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
21.3.18.6 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 of TVHT PHY services
22.1.3 TVHT PHY functions
22.1.3.1 General
22.1.3.2 PHY management entity (PLME)
22.1.3.3 Service specification method 
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
22.3.4.10 Construction of the Data field in 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
22.3.8.3 TVHT portion of TVHT format preamble
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 
22.3.10.10 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
22.3.17.5 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
22.3.18.7 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 
23. Sub 1 GHz (S1G) PHY specification 
23.1 Introduction
23.1.1 Introduction to the S1G PHY
23.1.2 Scope of S1G PHY services 
23.1.3 S1G PHY features
23.1.3.1 General
23.1.3.2 PHY management entity (PLME)
23.1.3.3 Service specification method 
23.1.4 PPDU formats 
23.2 S1G PHY service interface 
23.2.1 Introduction
23.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters 
23.2.3 Effect of CH_BANDWIDTH parameter on PPDU format 
23.3 S1G PHY sublayer
23.3.1 Introduction
23.3.2 S1G PPDU format 
23.3.3 Transmitter block diagram
23.3.4 Overview of the PPDU encoding process
23.3.4.1 General
23.3.4.2 Construction of the Preamble part in an S1G_LONG PPDU 
23.3.4.3 Construction of the Preamble part in an S1G_SHORT PPDU 
23.3.4.4 Construction of the Preamble part in an S1G_1M PPDU
23.3.4.5 Construction of Preambles for S1G_DUP_2M and S1G_DUP_1M 
23.3.4.6 Construction of Data field in S1G SU PPDUs for all cases except 1 MHz MCS 10
23.3.4.7 Construction of the Data field in an S1G SU PPDU (1 MHz MCS 10 mode) 
23.3.4.8 Construction of the Data field in an S1G MU PPDU 
23.3.5 Modulation and coding scheme 
23.3.6 Timing-related parameters 
23.3.7 Mathematical description of signals 
23.3.8 S1G preamble 
23.3.8.1 Introduction
23.3.8.2 Formats for greater than or equal to 2 MHz
23.3.8.3 Format for 1 MHz 
23.3.9 Data field
23.3.9.1 General
23.3.9.2 SERVICE field
23.3.9.3 Scrambler 
23.3.9.4 Coding
23.3.9.5 Repetition for 1 MHz MCS 10
23.3.9.6 Stream parser
23.3.9.7 Segment parser
23.3.9.8 BCC interleaver
23.3.9.9 Constellation mapping 
23.3.9.10 Pilot subcarriers
23.3.9.11 OFDM modulation
23.3.9.12 S1G 1 MHz and 2 MHz duplicate transmission 
23.3.10 SU-MIMO and DL-MU-MIMO Beamforming
23.3.10.1 General
23.3.10.2 Beamforming Feedback Matrix V 
23.3.10.3 Maximum Number of Total Spatial Streams in S1G MU PPDUs
23.3.10.4 Group ID 
23.3.11 S1G preamble format for NDPs
23.3.12 NDP CMAC PPDUs
23.3.12.1 General
23.3.12.2 NDP CMAC PPDU details 
23.3.13 Regulatory requirements
23.3.14 Channelization 
23.3.15 Slot time
23.3.16 Transmit and receive port impedance 
23.3.17 S1G transmit specification
23.3.17.1 Transmit spectrum mask 
23.3.17.2 Spectral flatness 
23.3.17.3 Transmit center frequency and symbol clock frequency tolerance
23.3.17.4 Modulation accuracy
23.3.17.5 Time of Departure accuracy
23.3.18 S1G receiver specification 
23.3.18.1 Receiver minimum input sensitivity 
23.3.18.2 Adjacent channel rejection
23.3.18.3 Nonadjacent channel rejection 
23.3.18.4 Receiver maximum input level 
23.3.18.5 CCA sensitivity
23.3.18.6 RSSI 
23.3.19 PHY transmit procedure 
23.3.20 PHY receive procedure 
23.4 S1G PMLE
23.4.1 PLME_SAP sublayer management primitives 
23.4.2 PHY MIB 
23.4.3 TXTIME and PSDU_LENGTH calculation
23.4.4 PHY characteristics
23.5 Parameters for S1G-MCSs
24. China directional multi-gigabit (CDMG) PHY specification
24.1 CDMG PHY introduction
24.1.1 Scope
24.1.2 CDMG PHY functions
24.1.2.1 General
24.1.2.2 PHY management entity 
24.1.2.3 Service specification method 
24.2 CDMG PHY service interface 
24.2.1 Introduction
24.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters 
24.2.3 TXSTATUS parameters 
24.3 Common parameters 
24.3.1 Channelization 
24.3.2 Transmit mask
24.3.3 Common requirements
24.3.3.1 Introduction
24.3.3.2 Center frequency tolerance 
24.3.3.3 Symbol clock tolerance
24.3.3.4 Transmit center frequency leakage 
24.3.3.5 Transmit rampup and rampdown 
24.3.3.6 Antenna setting 
24.3.3.7 Maximum input requirement 
24.3.3.8 Receiver minimum input sensitivity 
24.3.4 Timing-related parameters 
24.3.5 Mathematical conventions in the signal description
24.3.6 Common preamble
24.3.6.1 General
24.3.6.2 Short training field 
24.3.6.3 Channel estimation field 
24.3.7 HCS calculation for headers of CDMG control mode and CDMG SC mode 
24.3.8 Common LDPC parity matrices 
24.3.9 Scrambler 
24.3.10 Received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement 
24.4 CDMG control mode 
24.4.1 Introduction
24.4.2 PPDU format
24.4.3 Transmission 
24.4.3.1 Preamble
24.4.3.2 Header 
24.4.3.3 Data field
24.4.4 Performance requirements 
24.4.4.1 Transmit requirements 
24.4.4.2 Receive requirements
24.5 CDMG SC mode
24.5.1 Introduction
24.5.2 PPDU format
24.5.3 Transmission 
24.5.3.1 Header 
24.5.3.2 The Data field
24.5.4 Performance requirements 
24.5.4.1 Transmit requirements 
24.5.4.2 Receive requirements
24.6 CDMG low-power SC mode 
24.6.1 Introduction
24.6.2 Transmission 
24.6.2.1 Preamble
24.6.2.2 Header 
24.6.2.3 Data field
24.7 PHY transmit procedure 
24.8 PHY receive procedure 
24.9 Beamforming 
24.9.1 Beamforming concept
24.9.2 Beamforming frame format 
24.9.2.1 Sector-level sweep 
24.9.2.2 Beam refinement
24.10 CDMG PLME
24.10.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitives 
24.10.2 CDMG PHY MIB
24.10.3 TXTIME calculation
24.10.4 PHY characteristics
25. China millimeter-wave multi-gigabit (CMMG) PHY specification
25.1 Introduction
25.1.1 Introduction to CMMG PHY 
25.1.2 Scope of CMMG PHY services
25.1.3 CMMG PHY functions 
25.1.3.1 General
25.1.3.2 PHY management entity (PLME)
25.1.3.3 Service specification method 
25.1.3.4 PPDU formats 
25.2 CMMG PHY service interface 
25.2.1 Introduction
25.2.2 TXVECTOR and RXVECTOR parameters 
25.3 Common parameters 
25.3.1 Introduction
25.3.2 Common requirements
25.3.2.1 Introduction
25.3.2.2 Transmit RF delay
25.3.2.3 Center frequency tolerance 
25.3.3 Time-related parameters 
25.3.4 Mathematical conventions in the signal description
25.3.4.1 Notation
25.3.4.2 Subcarrier indices in use 
25.3.4.3 Transmitted signal
25.3.4.4 Definition of tone rotation for OFDM mode transmission 
25.3.4.5 The windowing function 
25.3.5 CMMG PHY preamble 
25.3.5.1 General
25.3.5.2 CMMG Short Training field 
25.3.5.3 CMMG Channel Estimation field 
25.3.6 CRC calculation 
25.3.7 Scrambler 
25.3.8 Common LDPC parity matrices 
25.3.8.1 Introduction
25.3.8.2 General
25.3.9 CMMG SIG 
25.3.9.1 General
25.3.9.2 Encoding of SIG
25.3.10 CMMG duplication transmission on a 1080 MHz channel 
25.3.11 hFilt definition 
25.3.12 Encoding of Data field 
25.3.13 Received channel power indicator (RCPI) measurement 
25.4 CMMG control mode
25.4.1 Introduction
25.4.2 PPDU format
25.4.3 CMMG preamble transmission
25.4.4 CMMG control mode SIG transmission 
25.4.4.1 General
25.4.4.2 Generation of CRC bits
25.4.4.3 Scrambler 
25.4.4.4 Encoding 
25.4.4.5 Modulation
25.4.4.6 Spreading 
25.4.5 CMMG control mode Data field
25.4.5.1 General
25.4.5.2 Scrambler 
25.4.5.3 Encoding 
25.4.5.4 Modulation
25.4.5.5 Spreading 
25.4.6 CMMG control mode performance requirements 
25.4.6.1 Transmit requirements 
25.4.6.2 Receive requirements
25.5 CMMG SC mode 
25.5.1 Introduction
25.5.2 Transmitter block diagram
25.5.3 Overview of the PPDU encoding process
25.5.3.1 General
25.5.3.2 Construction of CMMG SC mode SIG
25.5.3.3 Construction of CMMG SC mode PPDUs 
25.5.4 CMMG SC mode PPDU format 
25.5.5 CMMG SC mode SIG transmission 
25.5.5.1 SIG field
25.5.5.2 Generation of the CRC bits of SIG 
25.5.5.3 Scrambler 
25.5.5.4 Encoding and modulations
25.5.6 Data field transmission 
25.5.6.1 General
25.5.6.2 Scrambler 
25.5.6.3 Encoding 
25.5.6.4 Symbol block padding zeros
25.5.6.5 Stream parser
25.5.6.6 Constellation mapping 
25.5.6.7 Spatial expansion 
25.5.6.8 Duplication transmission
25.5.7 Performance requirements 
25.5.7.1 Transmit requirements 
25.5.7.2 Receive requirements
25.6 CMMG OFDM mode 
25.6.1 Introduction
25.6.2 CMMG OFDM mode PPDU format 
25.6.3 Transmission block diagram 
25.6.4 Overview of CMMG OFDM mode PPDU encoding process 
25.6.4.1 General
25.6.4.2 Construction of CMMG OFDM mode SIG 
25.6.4.3 Construction of CMMG OFDM mode PPDU 
25.6.4.4 Construction of OSTF
25.6.4.5 Construction of OCEF 
25.6.5 CMMG OFDM mode SIG fields 
25.6.5.1 SIG fields 
25.6.5.2 Modulation
25.6.5.3 Duplication
25.6.5.4 Symbol blocking, CSD, and GI insertion 
25.6.5.5 Symbol rate change
25.6.6 OSTF definition 
25.6.7 OCEF definition
25.6.8 Data fields 
25.6.8.1 General
25.6.8.2 Scrambler 
25.6.8.3 Encoding 
25.6.8.4 OFDM symbol padding zeros
25.6.8.5 Stream parser
25.6.8.6 Subcarrier modulation mapping
25.6.8.7 Tone mapping 
25.6.8.8 Space-time block coding
25.6.8.9 Pilot subcarriers
25.6.8.10 Cyclic shift diversity (CSD) for OFDM mode data fields transmission 
25.6.8.11 OFDM modulation
25.6.8.12 Duplication transmission
25.6.8.13 Beamforming 
25.6.8.14 CMMG preamble format for sounding PPDU
25.6.9 Performance requirements 
25.6.9.1 Transmit requirements 
25.6.9.2 TX flatness 
25.6.9.3 Receive requirements
25.7 Analog beamforming PHY frame format 
25.7.1 TX sector sweep
25.7.2 Beam refinement
25.7.2.1 General
25.7.2.2 BRP PPDU structure
25.7.2.3 BRP PPDU SIG fields
25.7.2.4 Beam refinement AGC field 
25.7.2.5 Beam refinement TRN-R subfield 
25.7.2.6 Beam refinement TRN-T subfield 
25.7.2.7 Channel measurement 
25.7.2.8 BRP resampling in an OFDM mode packet
25.8 ZCZ sequence 
25.9 Regulatory requirements
25.10 Channelization 
25.11 Transmit spectrum mask
25.12 PHY transmit procedure 
25.12.1 PHY transmit procedure for a CMMG SC mode transmission 
25.12.2 PHY transmit procedure for a CMMG OFDM mode transmission
25.13 Receive procedure
25.14 CMMG PLME 
25.14.1 PLME SAP sublayer management primitive
25.14.2 PHY MIB 
25.14.3 TXTIME calculation
25.14.4 PHY characteristics
25.15 Parameters for CMMG-MCSs 
25.15.1 General
25.15.2 Parameters for CMMG-MCSs with SC mode transmission
25.15.3 Parameters for CMMG-MCSs with OFDM mode transmission 
Annex A (informative) Bibliography 
Annex B (normative) Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) proforma
B.1 Introduction
B.2 Abbreviations and special symbols
B.2.1 Symbols for Status column 
B.2.2 General abbreviations for Item and Support columns
B.3 Instructions for completing the PICS proforma
B.3.1 General structure of the PICS proforma
B.3.2 Additional information
B.3.3 Exception information
B.3.4 Conditional status
B.4 PICS proforma�\�IEEE Std 802.11-2020
B.4.1 Implementation identification 
B.4.2 Protocol summary 
B.4.3 IUT configuration
B.4.4 MAC protocol 
B.4.5 Direct sequence PHY functions 
B.4.6 OFDM PHY functions 
B.4.7 High rate, direct sequence PHY functions 
B.4.8 Regulatory domain extensions 
B.4.9 ERP functions
B.4.10 Spectrum management extensions 
B.4.11 Operating classes extensions
B.4.12 QoS base functionality 
B.4.13 QoS enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) 
B.4.14 QoS hybrid coordination function (HCF) controlled channel access (HCCA) 3486
B.4.15 Radio management extensions 
B.4.16 DSE functions 
B.4.17 High-throughput (HT) features 
B.4.18 Tunneled direct-link setup extensions
B.4.19 WNM extensions
B.4.20 Interworking (IW) with external networks extensions
B.4.21 Mesh protocol capabilities 
B.4.22 QMF extensions 
B.4.23 RobustAVT extensions 
B.4.24 DMG features 
B.4.25 Very high throughput (VHT) features
B.4.26 TVWS functions
B.4.27 FILS features 
B.4.28 Sub 1 GHz (S1G) features
B.4.30 CDMG features 
B.4.29 S1G relay features 
B.4.31 CMMG features 
B.4.32 Preassociation discovery extensions 
Annex C (normative) ASN.1 encoding of the MAC and PHY MIB
C.1 General
C.2 Guidelines for IEEE 802.11 MIB authors/editors 
C.3 MIB detail 
Annex D (normative) Regulatory references
D.1 External regulatory references 
D.2 Radio performance specifications
D.2.1 Transmit and receive in-band and out-of-band spurious emissions
D.2.2 Transmit power levels 
D.2.3 Transmit spectrum mask 
D.2.4 Transmit Mask M 
D.2.5 CCA-ED threshold 
Annex E (normative) Country elements and operating classes 
E.1 Country information and operating classes 
E.2 Band-specific operating requirements 
E.2.1 General 
E.2.2 3650�\�3700 MHz band in the United States 
E.2.3 5.9 GHz band in the United States (5.850�\�5.925 GHz)
E.2.4 5.9 GHz band in Europe (5.855�\�5.925 GHz)
E.2.5 TVWS band in the United States and Canada (54�\�698 MHz)
E.2.6 TVWS band in Europe 
Annex F (normative) HT LDPC matrix definitions
Annex G (normative) Frame exchange sequences
G.1 General
G.2 Basic sequences 
G.3 EDCA and HCCA sequences 
G.4 HT, VHT, and S1G sequences
Annex H (normative) Usage of Ethertype 89-0d
Annex I (informative) Examples of encoding a frame for OFDM PHYs and DMG PHYs
I.1 Example 1�\�BCC encoding
I.1.1 Introduction 
I.1.2 The message for the BCC example 
I.1.3 Generation of the preamble 
I.1.4 Generation of the SIGNAL field
I.1.5 Generating the DATA bits for the BCC example 
I.1.6 Generating the first DATA symbol for the BCC example
I.1.7 Generating the additional DATA symbols
I.1.8 The entire packet for the BCC example 
I.2 Generating encoded DATA bits�\�LDPC example 1
I.2.1 General 
I.2.2 The message for LDPC example 1
I.2.3 Prepending the SERVICE field for LDPC example 1 
I.2.4 Scrambling LDPC example 1
I.2.5 Inserting shortening bits for LDPC example 1
I.2.6 Encoding data for LDPC example 1 
I.2.7 Removing shortening bits and puncturing for LDPC example 1 
I.3 Generating encoded DATA bits�\�LDPC example 2
I.3.1 General 
I.3.2 The message for LDPC example 2
I.3.3 Prepending the SERVICE field for LDPC example 2 
I.3.4 Scrambling LDPC example 2
I.3.5 Inserting the shortening bits for LDPC example 2
I.3.6 Encoding the data for LDPC example 2
I.3.7 Removing shortening bits and repetition for LDPC example 2 
I.4 DMG example data vectors 
I.5 DMG Example 1�\�DMG control mode encoding
I.5.1 DMG control mode preamble 
I.5.2 Control mode header 
I.5.3 DMG control mode payload
I.6 DMG Example 2�\�DMG SC mode encoding 
I.6.1 DMG SC mode preamble
I.6.2 DMG SC mode header 
I.6.3 DMG SC mode payload 
I.7 DMG Example 3�\�DMG low-power SC mode encoding
I.7.1 DMG low-power SC mode preamble
I.7.2 DMG low-power SC mode header
I.7.3 DMG low-power SC mode MCS 26 payload 
I.7.4 DMG low-power SC mode MCS 30 payload 
Annex J (informative) RSNA reference implementations and test vectors
J.1 TKIP temporal key mixing function reference implementation and test vector
J.1.1 TKIP temporal key mixing function reference implementation 
J.1.2 Test vectors 
J.2 Michael reference implementation and test vectors 
J.2.1 Michael test vectors
J.2.2 Sample code for michael 
J.3 PRF reference implementation and test vectors 
J.3.1 PRF reference code 
J.3.2 PRF test vectors
J.4 Suggested pass-phrase-to-PSK mapping 
J.4.1 Introduction 
J.4.2 Test vectors 
J.5 Suggestions for random number generation 
J.5.1 General 
J.5.2 Software sampling
J.5.3 Hardware-assisted solution 
J.6 Additional test vectors 
J.6.1 Notation
J.6.2 WEP cryptographic encapsulation 
J.6.3 TKIP test vector 
J.6.4 CCMP test vectors
J.6.5 PRF test vectors
J.7 Key hierarchy test vectors for pairwise keys 
J.7.1 General 
J.7.2 CCMP-128 pairwise key derivation
J.7.3 TKIP pairwise key derivation 
J.8 Test vectors for AES-128-CMAC 
J.9 Management frame protection test vectors
J.9.1 BIP with broadcast Deauthentication frame
J.9.2 CCMP-128 with individually addressed Deauthentication frame
J.10 SAE test vector 
J.11 GCMP 
J.11.1 GCMP test vectors 
J.11.2 Example of encryption C code 
Annex K (informative) TSPECs and Admission control
K.1 Example use of TSPEC for admission control 
K.2 Recommendation for implementation of contention based admission control
K.2.1 Use of ACM (admission control mandatory) subfield 
K.2.2 Deriving medium time 
K.3 Guidelines and reference design for sample scheduler and admission control unit 
K.3.1 Guidelines for deriving service schedule parameters
K.3.2 Reference design for sample scheduler and admission control unit 
K.4 TSPEC construction
K.4.1 General 
K.4.2 Surplus Bandwidth Allocation 
K.4.3 Minimum and Maximum Service Interval 
K.4.4 Minimum, Mean, and Peak Data Rate 
Annex L (informative) Examples and sample code for encoding a TIM Partial Virtual Bitmap
L.1 Introduction
L.2 Examples
L.3 Sample C code 
Annex M (informative) EPD and LPD headers and the integration function
M.1 Introduction
M.2 Integration function header conversions
M.3 A-MSDU subframes 
M.4 Integration service versus bridging
Annex N (informative) AP functional description 
N.1 Introduction
N.2 Terminology
N.3 Primary ACM_STA functions
N.4 Primary AP functions
N.5 Primary DS functions
N.6 Primary portal function
Annex O (informative) Additional HT, VHT, and S1G information 
O.1 HT, VHT, and S1G waveform generator tool 
O.2 A-MPDU deaggregation 
O.3 Example of an RD exchange sequence
O.4 Illustration of determination of NDP addresses
O.5 20/40 MHz BSS establishment and maintenance 
O.5.1 Signaling 20/40 MHz BSS capability and operation 
O.5.2 Establishing a 20/40 MHz BSS
O.5.3 Monitoring channels for other BSS operation
Annex P (informative) Location and Time Difference accuracy test
P.1 Location via Time Difference of arrival 
P.2 Time Difference of departure accuracy test
P.3 Differential Distance Computation using Fine Timing Measurement frames
Annex Q (informative) Example use of the Destination URI for Event and Diagnostic Reports
Q.1 Destination URI payload 
Q.2 Use of HTTP (or HTTPS) for Destination URI of Event and Diagnostic Reports 
Annex R (informative) Interworking with external networks 
R.1 General
R.2 Network discovery and selection
R.2.1 General 
R.2.2 Airport 
R.2.3 Shopping
R.2.4 Sales meeting
R.2.5 Museum
R.2.6 Emergency call
R.2.7 Emergency alert
R.3 QoS mapping guidelines for interworking with external networks
R.3.1 General 
R.3.2 Determination of the mapping for a STA
R.3.3 QoS mapping and GLK
R.4 Interworking and SSPN interface support 
R.4.1 General 
R.4.2 SSPN interface parameters
R.5 Interworking with external networks and emergency call support
R.5.1 General 
R.5.2 Background on emergency call support over IEEE 802.11 infrastructure
R.5.3 System aspects for emergency call support
R.5.4 Description of the Expedited Bandwidth Request element
R.5.5 Access to emergency services in an RSN 
R.6 Peer information 
R.7 Calculating Estimated Throughput 
Annex S (informative) Mesh BSS operation 
S.1 Clarification of mesh Data frame format
S.2 Operational considerations for interworking 
S.3 Power save parameters selection 
S.3.1 General 
S.3.2 Selecting the mesh power management mode based on traffic load
S.3.3 Scanning of mesh BSSs
S.3.4 Default parameters 
S.3.5 MSDU forwarding in an MBSS containing mesh STAs in light or deep sleep mode
S.3.6 Synchronization maintenance of mesh STAs in deep sleep mode
S.4 SIV key wrapping test vector
S.5 Airtime link metric usage example
S.6 Link metric report example
S.7 Generation of proactive PREP elements in the proactive PREQ mechanism of HWMP 
S.7.1 General 
S.7.2 Additions to forwarding information 
S.7.3 Actions when sending Data frames as source mesh STA 
S.7.4 Actions on receipt of a proactive PREQ element
S.7.5 Generation of proactive PREP elements 
S.8 Generation of PREQ elements in proactive RANN mechanism of HWMP
S.8.1 General 
S.8.2 Additions to forwarding information 
S.8.3 Actions when sending Data frames as source mesh STA 
S.8.4 Actions on receipt of proactive RANN element 
S.8.5 Actions on receipt of a PREP element 
Annex T (informative) Overlapping BSS (OBSS) management
T.1 Introduction
T.2 QLoad Report element
T.2.1 General 
T.2.2 Calculating medium time 
T.2.3 Calculation of potential traffic self
T.2.4 Calculation of allocated traffic self 
T.2.5 Calculation of allocated traffic shared
T.2.6 Calculation of EDCA Access Factor
T.2.7 EDCA Overhead Factor 
T.2.8 Calculation of HCCA Access Factor 
T.3 Channel selection using QLoad report
T.3.1 General 
T.3.2 AP with admission control mandatory 
T.3.3 AP with an HC 
T.3.4 Channel selection procedures
T.4 Sharing in an OBSS situation 
T.4.1 General 
T.4.2 Sharing schemes
T.5 Mitigating consequences of OBSS sharing in presence of noncollaborating devices
Annex U (informative) Functions of the centralized coordination service root (CCSR) 
Annex V (informative) TSPEC aggregation for DMG BSSs 
Annex W (informative) Informative procedures for CDMG STAs
W.1 Selection of candidate SPs for spatial sharing 
W.2 N-phase beamforming codebook for CDMG STAs 
W.2.1 General 
W.2.2 1-D (one-dimensional) antenna array
W.2.3 2-D (two-dimensional) antenna array
W.3 Beam tracking and switching for enhanced beam tracking mechanism
Annex X (informative) Link rate considerations 
Annex Y (informative) Preassociation discovery (PAD) additional information 
Y.1 Preassociation discovery usage models 
Y.2 Background search
Y.3 Immediate search 
# 参考資料
IEEE802.11sについて
https://qiita.com/miminashi/items/f65d9b4b4aa8eef0f891

IEEE 802.11無線LAN規格の備忘録
https://qiita.com/sengoku/items/a3f5ffd6514d00662c75

【無線LAN】無線LAN規格一覧
https://qiita.com/chiban/items/caabe5ea404d01f48e10

無線LAN
https://qiita.com/Keiji_otsubo/items/ef4239048acd71d980d5

IEEE 802.11acフレームキャプチャ with Raspberry Pi
https://qiita.com/24601_cold/items/7b2538f1d4f09f6a5f89

「Wi-Fi 6」ってなに？
https://qiita.com/hinora/items/c8df6d76e6f0c5ca54b3

IEEE 802.11とWi-Fi。無線網（Wi-Fi）空中線(antenna)(58)
https://qiita.com/kaizen_nagoya/items/ab36dff0047902713fff