ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802-11:2018/Amd 2:2019

Information technology — Telecommunications and information exchange between systems — Local and metropolitan area networks — Specific requirements — Part 11: Wireless LAN medium access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) specifications — Amendment 2: Sub 1 GHz license exempt operation

Technologies de l'information — Télécommunications et échange d'information entre systèmes — Réseaux locaux et métropolitains — Exigences spécifiques — Partie 11: Spécifications du contrôle d'accès du milieu sans fil (MAC) et de la couche physique (PHY) — Amendement 2: Fonctionnement sans licence dans les bandes de fréquences inférieures à 1 GHz

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 27-Mar-2019
• ICS: 35.110 - Networking
• Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 - Telecommunications and information exchange between systems
• Drafting Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 - Telecommunications and information exchange between systems
• Current Stage: 9599 - Withdrawal of International Standard
• Completion Date: 27-Jul-2022

Relations

• Revised: ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802-11:2022 - Telecommunications and information exchange between systems — Specific requirements for local and metropolitan area networks — Part 11: Wireless LAN medium access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) specifications
• Effective Date: 06-Jun-2022
• Consolidated By: ISO 4628-5:2022 - Paints and varnishes — Evaluation of quantity and size of defects, and of intensity of uniform changes in appearance — Part 5: Assessment of degree of flaking
• Effective Date: 06-Jun-2022
• Amends: ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802-11:2018 - Telecommunications and exchange between information technology systems — Requirements for local and metropolitan area networks — Part 11: Wireless LAN medium access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) specifications
• Effective Date: 31-Jul-2021

Standards Content (Sample)

INTERNATIONAL
ISO/IEC/
STANDARD
IEEE
8802-11
Second edition
2018-05-01
AMENDMENT 2
2019-03
Information technology —
Telecommunications and information
exchange between systems — Local
and metropolitan area networks —
Specific requirements —
Part 11:
Wireless LAN medium access control
(MAC) and physical layer (PHY)
specifications
AMENDMENT 2: Sub 1 GHz license
exempt operation
Technologies de l'information — Télécommunications et échange
d'information entre systèmes — Réseaux locaux et métropolitains —
Exigences spécifiques —
Partie 11: Spécifications du contrôle d'accès du milieu sans fil (MAC)
et de la couche physique (PHY)
AMENDEMENT 2: Fonctionnement sans licence dans les bandes de
fréquences inférieures à 1 GHz
Reference number
ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802-11:2018/Amd.2:2019(E)
©
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Abstract: Modifications to both the IEEE 802.11™ physical layer (PHY) and the medium access
control (MAC) sublayer to enable operation of license-exempt IEEE 802.11 wireless networks in
frequency bands below 1 GHz, excluding the television (TV) White Space bands, with a
transmission range up to 1 km and a minimum data rate of at least 100 Kb/s are defined in this
amendment.
Keywords: IEEE 802.11ah™, long transmission range, low power consumption, MAC, medium
access control, narrower bandwidth, OFDM, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, PHY,
physical layer, sub 1 GHz, wireless local area network, WLAN
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Participants
At the time this amendment was sent to sponsor ballot, the IEEE 802.11 Working Group had the following
officers:
Adrian P. Stephens, Chair
Jon W. Rosdahl, 1st Vice Chair
Dorothy Stanley, 2nd Vice Chair
Stephen McCann, Secretary
The officers and members of the Task Group ah Working Group ballot pool are as follows:
Yongho Seok, Chair and Co-Technical Editor
(David Halasz, Former Chair)
Alfred Asterjadhi, 1st Vice Chair and Technical Editor
Zander (Zhongding) Lei, 2nd Vice Chair and Secretary
(Minyoung Park, Former Technical Editor)
Osama S. Aboulmagd Li Chia Chia Choo Ahmadreza Hedayat
Santosh P. Abraham Sayantan Choudhury Carolyn Heide
Liwen Chu
Carlos H. Aldana Robert F. Heile
Thomas Alexander Jinyoung Chun Jerome Henry
Yaron Alpert John Coffey Guido R. Hiertz
Tsuguhide Aoki Kenneth Coop Wei Hong
Carlos Cordeiro
Sirikiat Lek Ariyavisitakul Jing‐Rong Hsieh
Lee R. Armstrong Neiyer Correal Chunyu Hu
Yusuke Asai Subir Das David Hunter
Rolf J. de Vegt
Alfred Asterjadhi Yasuhiko Inoue
Michael Denson
Arthur W. Astrin Koichi Ishihara
Kwok Shum Au Thomas Derham Mitsuru Iwaoka
Vijay Auluck Xiandong Dong Amin Jafarian
Klaus Doppler
Stefan Aust Chanyong Jeong
Shahrnaz Azizi Roger P. Durand Yangseok Jeong
Eugene Baik Donald E. Eastlake Nihar Jindal
Phillip Barber Peter Ecclesine Allan Jones
Richard Edgar
Gwendolyn Barriac V. K. Jones
Alan Berkema Marc Emmelmann Seong‐soon Joo
Nehru Bhandaru Iksoo Eo Kaushik Josiam
Andre Bourdoux Vinko Erceg Carl W. Kain
John Buffington Ping Fang
Naveen K. Kakani
Lin Cai Yonggang Fang Hyunduk Kang
George Calcev Stanislav Filin Hyunjeong Kang
Norman Finn
Chris Calvert Richard H. Kennedy
Radhakrishna Canchi Matthew J. Fischer John Kenney
Laurent Cariou P. Flynn Stuart J. Kerry
William Carney Dan Gal Eunkyung Kim
Chittabrata Ghosh
Kim Chang Hongsoog Kim
Kuor‐Hsin Chang James P. K. Gilb Jaehwan Kim
Sanghyun Chang Matthew Gillmore Jeongki Kim
Xin Chang David Goodall Joonsuk Kim
Stephen Grau
Clint F. Chaplin Sang Gook Kim
Jiamin Chen Michael Grigat Sangkyun Kim
Qian Chen Russell Haines Suhwook Kim
David Halasz
Minho Cheong Youhan Kim
George Cherian Mark Hamilton Youngsoo Kim
Zhipei Chi Christopher J. Hansen Akira Kishida
Francois Chin Peng Hao Shoichi Kitazawa
Daniel N. Harkins
Rojan Chitrakar Jarkko Kneckt
Hangyu Cho Brian D. Hart Gwangzeen Ko
Jee‐Yon Choi Chris Hartman Fumihide Kojima
Jinsoo Choi Victor Hayes Tom Kolze
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Sai Shankar Nandagopalan
Timo Koskela Myung Sun Sun Song
Igal Kotzer Chiu Ngo Sudhir Srinivasa
Bruce P. Kraemer Paul Nikolich Robert Stacey
Hiroyo Ogawa
Maciej Krasicki Dorothy Stanley
Jong‐Ee Oh Adrian P. Stephens
G. Rajendra Kumar
Jin‐Sam Kwak Min‐Seok Oh Rene Struik
Joseph Kwak Santosh Pandey Jung Hoon Suh
Thomas Pare
Hyoungjin Kwon Bo Sun
Young Hoon Kwon Giwon Park Sheng Sun
Paul Lambert Jaewoo Park Yakun Sun
Minyoung Park
Zhou Lan Kazuaki Takahashi
Glenn Parsons
James Lansford Mineo Takai
Jean‐Pierre Le Rouzic Xiaoming Peng Yasushi Takatori
Ilgu Lee Eldad Perahia Sagar Tamhane
Xavier Perez Costa
Jae Seung Lee Rakesh Taori
James E. Petranovich
Jehun Lee Thomas Tetzlaff
Wookbong Lee Albert Petrick Bin Tian
Yuro Lee John Petro Tong Tian
Walter Pienciak
Zhongding Lei Jens Tingleff
James Lepp Xu Ping Fei Tong
Wai Kong Leung Juho Pirskanen Ha Nguyen Tran
Khiam Boon Png
Joseph Levy Kazuyoshi Tsukada
Steve Pope
Dejian Li Masahiro Umehira
Feng Li Ron Porat Allert Van Zelst
Guoqing Li Rethnakaran Pulikkoonattu Lorenzo Vangelista
Chang‐Woo Chang Pyo
Honggang LI Prabodh Varshney
Huan‐Bang Li Emily H. Qi Ganesh Venkatesan
Jing Li Fei Qin Sameer Vermani
Liang Li Verotiana Rabarijaona Dalton T. Victor
Demir Rakanovic
Yunbo Li George A. Vlantis
Zhiqiang Li Harish Ramamurthy Chao Chun Wang
Dong Guk Lim Stephen G. Rayment Haiguang Wang
Ivan Reede
Chih‐Che Lin Haiming Wang
Edward Reuss
Lu Liru James June Wang
Dapeng Liu Maximilian Riegel Lei Wang
Jianhan Liu Mark Rison Qi Wang
Zhigang Rong
Pei Liu Xuehuan Wang
Yong Liu Jon W. Rosdahl Lisa Ward
Peter Loc Richard Roy Fujio Watanabe
Hui‐Ling Lou Cheol Ryu Menzo M. Wentink
Kiseon Ryu
Su Lu Leif Wilhelmsson
Yi Luo Bahareh Sadeghi Christopher Williams
Zhendong Luo Kazuyuki Sakoda Eun Tae Won
Hemanth Sampath
Kaiying Lv Eric Wong
Sigurd Schelstraete
Michael Lynch Tianyu Wu
Jouni K. Malinen Jean Schwoerer Mingguang Xu
Hiroshi Mano Jonathan Segev Akira Yamada
Cristina Seibert
James Marin Guang‐Qi Yang
Yongho Seok Lin Yang
Roger Marks
Stephen McCann Kunal Shah Meng Yang
Simone Merlin Huairong Shao Rongzhen Yang
Stephen J. Shellhammer
Filip Mestanov Xun Yang
James Miller Ian Sherlock Xun Yang
Yasunao Misawa Qicai Shi Yunsong Yang
Nobuhiko Shibagaki
Apurva Mody James Yee
Shusaku Shimada
Michael Montemurro Peter Yee
Kenichi Mori Tsuyoshi Shimomura Hujun Yin
Hitoshi Morioka Wooram Shin S. K. Yong
Michael Sim
Ronald Murias Christopher Young
Rick Murphy Robert Slater Chang Wahn Yu
Andrew Myles Graham Kenneth Smith Tevfik Yucek
Ju‐Hy
Hiroki Nakano ung Son Guangrong Yue
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Katsuo D. A. Yunoki Jun Zheng Hufei Zhu
Hongyuan Zhang Shoukang Zheng Yan Zhuang
Jiayin Zhang Mingtuo Zhou Lan Zhuo
Yan Zhang Yuan Zhou Wei‐Xia Zou
Mu Zhao Chunhui Zhu Juan Carlos Zuniga
Major contributions were received from the following individuals:
Alfred Asterjadhi Amin Jafarian Joseph Teo
Stefan Aust Jeongki Kim Bin Tian
Shahrnaz Azizi Young Hoon Kwon Fei Tong
Eugene Baik James Lansford Masahiro Umehira
Raja Banerjea Jae Seung Lee Sameer Vermani
George Calcev Zhongding Lei Chao Chun Wang
Jianhan Liu
Minho Cheong Haiguang Wang
Rojan Chitrakar Yong Liu James June Wang
Jinsoo Choi Kaiying Lv Lin Wang
Li-Chia Choo Simone Merlin Xiaofei Wang
Liwen Chu Kenichi Mori Menzo M. Wentink
Rolf J. de Vegt Ronald Murias Eric Wong
Klaus Doppler Anna Pantelidou Mingguang Xu
Minyoung Park
Matthew J. Fischer Xun Yang
Chittabrata Ghosh Jaya Shankar Pathmasuntharam Wai‐Leong Yeow
Daning Gong Ron Porat Heejung Yu
David Halasz Yongho Seok Hongyuan Zhang
Huairong Shao
Mark A. Hamilton Wu Zhanji
Anh Tuan Hoang Shusaku Shimada Mu Zhao
Po‐Kai Huang Jae‐Hyung Song Shoukang Zheng
Mitsuru Iwaoka Bo Sun Yuan Zhou
The following members of the individual balloting committee voted on this amendment. Balloters may have
voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention.
Osama S. Aboulmagd Sourav Dutta Naveen K. Kakani
Tomoko Adachi Richard Edgar Shinkyo Kaku
Thomas Alexander Marc Emmelmann Hyunjeong Kang
Richard Alfvin David Evans Piotr Karocki
Nobumitsu Amachi Matthew J. Fischer Ruediger Kays
Carol Ansley Michael Fischer Jeritt Kent
Avraham Freedman
Butch Anton Stuart J. Kerry
Yusuke Asai Devon Gayle Youhan Kim
Alfred Asterjadhi Tim Godfrey Patrick Kinney
Stefan Aust Joel Goergen Bruce P. Kraemer
Randall Groves Yasushi Kudoh
Gabor Bajko
Tuncer Baykas Michael Gundlach Paul Lambert
Harry Bims Russell Haines Jeremy Landt
David Halasz
Gennaro Boggia Hyeong Ho Lee
Nancy Bravin Mark Hamilton Zhongding Lei
Jairo Bustos Heredia Jerome Henry James Lepp
William Byrd Marco Hernandez Joseph Levy
Guido R. Hiertz
Cagatay Capar Arthur H. Light
William Carney Werner Hoelzl Ru Lin
Juan Carreon David Hunter William Lumpkins
Minho Cheong Tetsushi Ikegami Michael Lynch
Noriyuki Ikeuchi Chris Lyttle
Paul Chiuchiolo
Hangyu Cho Yasuhiko Inoue Elvis Maculuba
Sayantan Choudhury Sergiu Iordanescu Jouni K. Malinen
Keith Chow Akio Iso Hiroshi Mano
Charles Cook Atsushi Ito James Marin
Todor Cooklev Raj Jain Stephen McCann
Yezid Donoso V. K. Jones Michael McInnis
Adri Jovin
Malcolm Dowse Filip Mestanov
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Benjamin Rolfe
Michael Montemurro Rakesh Taori
Jose Morales Jon W. Rosdahl Payam Torab
Ronald Murias Osman Sakr Ha Nguyen Tran
Rick Murphy Shigenobu Sasaki Kazuyoshi Tsukada
Andrew Myles Naotaka Sato Mark-Rene Uchida
Juichi Nakada Bartien Sayogo Lorenzo Vangelista
Michael Newman Andy Scott Allert Van Zelst
Yongho Seok
Chiu Ngo Dmitri Varsanofiev
Nick S. A. Nikjoo Kunal Shah Prabodh Varshney
Paul Nikolich Ian Sherlock George A. Vlantis
John Notor Shusaku Shimada Khurram Waheed
Graham Kenneth Smith Haiming Wang
Satoshi Obara
Robert O’Hara Daniel Smolinski James June Wang
Yoshihiro Ohba Ju-Hyung Son Lei Wang
Satoshi Oyama Kapil Sood Xiaofei Wang
Stephen Palm Dorothy Stanley Hung-Yu Wei
Arumugam Paventhan Thomas Starai Menzo Wentink
Clinton Powell Adrian P. Stephens Chun Yu Charles Wong
Rene Struik
Venkatesha Prasad Oren Yuen
Verotiana Rabarijaona Walter Struppler Hongyuan Zhang
Maximilian Riegel Mark Sturza Shoukang Zheng
Robert Robinson Michael Swearingen Zhen Zhou
Jun Ichi Takada
When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved this amendment on 7 December 2016, it had the following
membership:
Jean-Philippe Faure, Chair
Ted Burse, Vice Chair
John D. Kulick, Past Chair
Konstantinos Karachalios, Secretary
Chuck Adams
Ronald W. Hotchkiss Mehmet Ulema
Masayuki Ariyoshi Michael Janezic Yingli Wen
Stephen Dukes Joseph L. Koepfinger* Howard Wolfman
Jianbin Fan Hung Ling Don Wright
Yu Yuan
J. Travis Griffith Kevin Lu
Daidi Zhong
Gary Hoffman Annette D. Reilly
Gary Robinson
*Member Emeritus
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Introduction
This introduction is not part of IEEE Std 802.11ah-2016, IEEE Standard for Information technology—
Telecommunications and information exchange between systems—Local and metropolitan area network—
Specific requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY)
Specifications—Amendment 2: Sub 1 GHz License-Exempt Operation.
This amendment defines modifications to both the IEEE 802.11™ physical layer (PHY) and the medium
access control (MAC) sublayer to enable operation of license-exempt IEEE 802.11 wireless networks in
frequency bands below 1 GHz, excluding the television (TV) White Space bands, with a transmission range
up to 1 km and a minimum data rate of at least 100 Kb/s.
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Contents
3. Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations. 33
3.2 Definitions specific to IEEE 802.11 . 33
3.4 Abbreviations and acronyms . 37
4. General description . 38
4.3 Components of the IEEE 802.11 architecture . 38
4.3.13a Sub 1 GHz (S1G) STA . 38
4.3.13a.1 Overview. 38
4.3.13a.2 S1G Relay. 39
5. MAC service definition . 40
5.1 Overview of MAC services . 40
5.1.2 Security services . 40
5.1.5 MAC data service architecture . 40
5.1.5.6 S1G Relay .
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