PC7 Defragmentation 10.3 (DCF), 10.6 M Yes  No  MAC frames FT40(11ac) VHT NDP Announcement 9 (Frame formats) (Ed) VHTM4.1:M Yes  No  N/A  FT41(11ac) Beamforming Report Poll 9 (Frame formats) (Ed) VHTM4.1:O VHTM4.3:M Yes  No  N/A  FT42(11ac) Transmission of Operating Mode Notification frame and Operating Mode Notification element 9.6.23.4 (Operating Mode Notification frame 9.4.2.166 (Operating Mode Notification 11.42 (Notification of operating mode O Yes  No  N/A  T
FR41(11ac) VHT NDP Announcement 9 (Frame formats) (Ed) VHTM4.2:M Yes  No  N/A  FR42(11ac) Beamforming Report Poll 9 (Frame formats) (Ed) VHTM4.2:O VHTM4.4:M Yes  No  N/A  FR43(11ac) Reception of Operating Mode Notification frame and Operating Mode Notification element 9.6.23.4 (Operating Mode Notification frame 9.4.2.166 (Operating Mode Notification 11.42 (Notification of operating mode CFVHT:M (11af)(#5955) Yes  No  N/A  . QoS base functionality QB4 Block acknowledgments (block ack)(#2069)
QB4.1 Immediate block ack(#2069) Non-HT block ack is obsolete. Support for this mechanism might be removed in a later revision of the standard.(#6488) 9.3.1.8.1 (Overview), 9.3.1.8.2 (Basic BlockAckReq variant), 9.3.1.9.1 (Overview), 9.3.1.9.2 (Basic BlockAck variant), 9.6.5 (Block Ack Action frame details), 10.24 (Block acknowledgment (block ack)(#2069)) (except 10.24.7 (HT-immediate block ack(#2069) extensions) and 10.24.8 block ack(#2069) extensions)), 11.5 (Block ack(#2069) operation)(Ed) CFQoS:O CFHT OR CFDMG(11ad) OR Yes  No  N/A  Delayed block ack(#2069) Non-HT block ack is obsolete. Support for this mechanism might be removed in a later revision of the standard.(#6488) 9.3.1.8.1 (Overview), 9.3.1.8.2 (Basic BlockAckReq variant), 9.3.1.9.1 (Overview), 9.3.1.9.2 (Basic BlockAck variant), 9.6.5 (Block Ack Action frame details), 10.24 (Block acknowledgment (block ack)(#2069)) (except 10.24.7 (HT-immediate block ack(#2069) extensions) and 10.24.8 block ack(#2069) extensions)), 11.5 (Block ack(#2069) operation)(Ed) Yes  No  N/A  QB4.3 Compressed Ack Compressed Block Ack 9.3.1.8.3 (Compressed BlockAckReq variant)(Ed) CFQoS:O CFHT OR OR Yes  No  N/A 
Extended Compressed Ack 9.3.1.8.4 (Extended Compressed BlockAckReq variant(11ad))(Ed) CFDMG(#6573):O Yes  No  N/A  QB4.4 Multi-TID(#6748) Block Ack 9.3.1.9.4 BlockAck variant)(Ed) CFQoS:O CFHT OR Yes  No  N/A  Very high throughput (VHT) features (11ac) VHT PHY features Item Protocol capability References Status Support Are the following PHY protocol features supported? VHTP1 PHY operating modes VHTP1.1 Operation according to Clause 18 (Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) PHY specification) (Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) PHY specification) and/or Clause 20 (High Throughput (HT) PHY specification) (High Throughput) 21.1.4 (PPDU formats)(Ed) Yes  No  N/A  VHTP2 VHT format 21.3.2 (VHT PPDU format)(Ed) Yes  No  N/A  VHTP3 BSS bandwidth VHTP3.1 20 MHz operation 11.40.1 (Basic VHT BSS Yes  No  N/A 
VHTP3.2 40 MHz operation 11.40.1 (Basic VHT BSS Yes  No  N/A  80 MHz operation 11.40.1 (Basic VHT BSS Yes  No  N/A  VHTP3.4 160 MHz operation 11.40.1 (Basic VHT BSS VHTP3.5:M Yes  No  N/A  VHTP3.5 80+80 MHz operation 11.40.1 (Basic VHT BSS Yes  No  N/A  VHTP4 Bandwidth indication 17.3.5.5 (PHY(#61) DATA scrambler and Yes  No  N/A  VHTP5 PHY timing parameters VHTP5.1 Values in 20 MHz channel 21.3.6 (Timing-related Yes  No  N/A  VHTP5.2 Values in 40 MHz channel 21.3.6 (Timing-related Yes  No  N/A  VHTP5.3 Values in 80 MHz channel 21.3.6 (Timing-related Yes  No  N/A  VHTP5.4 Values in 160 MHz channel 21.3.6 (Timing-related VHTP3.4:M Yes  No  N/A  Values in 80+80 MHz channel 21.3.6 (Timing-related VHTP3.5:M Yes  No  N/A  VHTP6 VHT preamble 21.3.8 (VHT preamble)(Ed) Yes  No  N/A  VHTP7 Use of LDPC Code 21.3.10.5.4 (LDPC coding)(Ed) Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8 Modulation and coding schemes (MCS)
VHTP8.1 CBW40 and CBW80 21.5 (Parameters for VHT-MCSs) (Ed) VHTP8.1.1 VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 1 21.5 (Parameters for VHT-MCSs) Yes  No  N/A  VHT-MCS with Index 0-8 and NSS = 1 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.1.1:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.1.3 VHT-MCS with Index 0-9 and NSS = 1 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.1.2:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.1.4 VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 2 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHT-MCS with 0-8 and NSS = 2 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.1.4:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.1.6 VHT-MCS with Index 0-9 and NSS = 2 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.1.5:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.1.7 VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 3 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.1.8 VHT-MCS with 0-8 and NSS = 3 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.1.7:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.1.9 VHT-MCS with Index 0-9 and NSS = 3 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.1.7:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.1.10 VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 4 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.1.11 VHT-MCS with Index 0-8 and NSS = 4 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.1.10:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.1.12 VHT-MCS with 0-9 and NSS = 4 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.1.11:O Yes  No  N/A 
VHTP8.1.13 VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 5 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.1.14 VHT-MCS with 0-8 and NSS = 5 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.1.13:O Yes  No  N/A  VHT-MCS with Index 0-9 and NSS = 5 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.1.14:O Yes  No  N/A  VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 6 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.1.17 VHT-MCS with Index 0-8 and NSS = 6 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.1.16:O Yes  No  N/A  VHT-MCS with Index 0-9 and NSS = 6 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.1.17:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.1.19 VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 7 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.1.20 VHT-MCS with 0-8 and NSS = 7 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.1.19:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.1.21 VHT-MCS with Index 0-9 and NSS = 7 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.1.20:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.1.22 VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 8 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHT-MCS with Index 0-8 and NSS = 8 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.1.22:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.1.24 VHT-MCS with Index 0-9 and NSS = 8 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.1.23:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2 CBW160 21.5 (Parameters for
VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 1 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP3.4:M Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.2 VHT-MCS with Index 0-8 and NSS = 1 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.2.1:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.3 VHT-MCS with Index 0-9 and NSS = 1 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.4 VHT-MCS with 0-7 and NSS = 2 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.5 VHT-MCS with Index 0-8 and NSS = 2 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHT-MCS with Index 0-9 and NSS = 2 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.2.5:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.7 VHT-MCS with 0-7 and NSS = 3 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.8 VHT-MCS with Index 0-8 and NSS = 3 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.2.7:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.9 VHT-MCS with 0-9 and NSS = 3 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.10 VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 4 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.11 VHT-MCS with Index 0-8 and NSS = 4 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.12 VHT-MCS with 0-9 and NSS = 4 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.2.11:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.13 VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 5 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A 
VHTP8.2.14 VHT-MCS with Index 0-8 and NSS = 5 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.2.13:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.15 VHT-MCS with Index 0-9 and NSS = 5 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.16 VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 6 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHT-MCS with Index 0-8 and NSS = 6 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.18 VHT-MCS with Index 0-9 and NSS = 6 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.2.17:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.19 VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 7 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.20 VHT-MCS with Index 0-8 and NSS = 7 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.2.19:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.21 VHT-MCS with 0-9 and NSS = 7 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.2.20:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.22 VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 8 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.23 VHT-MCS with Index 0-8 and NSS = 8 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.2.22:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.2.24 VHT-MCS with Index 0-9 and NSS = 8 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.3 CBW80+80 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.3.1 VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 1 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP3.5:M Yes  No  N/A 
VHT-MCS with Index 0-8 and NSS = 1 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.3.1:O Yes  No  N/A  VHT-MCS with Index 0-9 and NSS = 1 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.3.2:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.3.4 VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 2 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.3.5 VHT-MCS with Index 0-8 and NSS = 2 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.3.6 VHT-MCS with Index 0-9 and NSS = 2 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.3.5:O Yes  No  N/A  VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 3 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.3.8 VHT-MCS with Index 0-8 and NSS = 3 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.3.7:O Yes  No  N/A  VHT-MCS with 0-9 and NSS = 3 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.3.8:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.3.10 VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 4 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.3.11 VHT-MCS with Index 0-8 and NSS = 4 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.3.10:O Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.3.12 VHT-MCS with Index 0-9 and NSS = 4 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.3.13 VHT-MCS with Index 0-7 and NSS = 5 21.5 (Parameters for Yes  No  N/A  VHTP8.3.14 VHT-MCS with Index 0-8 and NSS = 5 21.5 (Parameters for VHTP8.3.13:O Yes  No  N/A 