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(Main)Information technology — Telecommunications and information exchange between systems — Local and metropolitan area networks — Part 1AC: Media access control (MAC) service definition
Information technology — Telecommunications and information exchange between systems — Local and metropolitan area networks — Part 1AC: Media access control (MAC) service definition
Abstract: The MAC Service and the Internal Sublayer Service (ISS) are defined in this standard. This standard specifies media-dependent convergence functions that map IEEE 802® MAC interfaces to the ISS. The MAC Service is derived from the ISS.
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INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC/
STANDARD IEEE
8802-1AC
First edition
2018-04
Information technology —
Telecommunications and information
exchange between systems — Local
and metropolitan area networks —
Part 1AC:
Media access control (MAC) service
definition
Technologies de l'information — Télécommunications et échange
d'information entre systèmes — Réseaux locaux et métropolitains —
Partie 1AC: Définition du service de contrôle d'accès au support (MAC)
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IEEE Std 802.1AC™-2016
(Revision of
IEEE Std 802.1AC-2012)
IEEE Standard for
Local and metropolitan area networks—
Media Access Control (MAC) Service
Definition
Sponsor
LAN/MAN Standards Committee
of the
IEEE Computer Society
Approved 7 December 2016
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Abstract: The MAC Service and the Internal Sublayer Service (ISS) are defined in this standard.
®
This standard specifies media-dependent convergence functions that map IEEE 802 MAC
interfaces to the ISS. The MAC Service is derived from the ISS.
Keywords: IEEE 802, IEEE 802.1AC, Internal Sublayer Service, ISS, LAN, local area network,
MAC Service, MAN, metropolitan area network
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At the time this standard was completed, the IEEE 802.1 working group had the following membership:
Glenn Parsons, Chair
John Messenger, Vice Chair, Maintenance Task Group Chair, Editor
SeoYoung Baek Marc Holness Maximilian Riegel
Lu Huang
Shenghua Bao Dan Romascanu
Jens Bierschenk Tony Jeffree Jessy V. Rouyer
Steinar Bjornstad Michael Johas Teener Eero Ryytty
Christian Boiger Hal Keen Soheil Samii
Paul Bottorff Stephan Kehrer Behcet Sarikaya
David Chen Philippe Klein Frank Schewe
Feng Chen Jouni Korhonen Michael Seaman
Yizhou Li
Weiying Cheng Johannes Specht
Rodney Cummings Christophe Mangin Wilfried Steiner
János Farkas Tom McBeath Patricia Thaler
Norman Finn James McIntosh Paul Unbehagen
Geoffrey Garner Tero Mustala Hao Wang
Eric W. Gray Hiroki Nakano Karl Weber
Craig Gunther Bob Noseworthy Brian Weis
Marina Gutierrez Donald R. Pannell Jordon Woods
Stephen Haddock Walter Pienciak Nader Zein
Mark Hantel Michael Potts Helge Zinner
Patrick Heffernan Karen Randall Juan Carlos Zuniga
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Noriyuki Ikeuchi Satoshi Oyama
Carlos Aldana
Thomas Alexander Sergiu Iordanescu Alon Regev
Butch Anton Atsushi Ito Robert Robinson
Lee Armstrong Tony Jeffree Jessy V. Rouyer
Stefan Aust Michael Johas Teener Richard Roy
Christian Boiger Peter Jones Bartien Sayogo
Nancy Bravin Shinkyo Kaku Michael Seaman
William Byrd Piotr Karocki Shusaku Shimada
Juan Carreon Stuart Kerry Ju-Hyung Son
Minho Cheong Yongbum Kim Kapil Sood
Keith Chow Tero Kivinen Thomas Starai
Yezid Donoso Bruce Kraemer Adrian Stephens
Janos Farkas Paul Lambert Walter Struppler
Michael Fischer James Lepp Pedro Tonhozi de
Yukihiro Fujimoto Joseph Levy Oliveira
Gregory Gillooly Arthur H. Light Mark-Rene Uchida
Eric W. Gray William Lumpkins John Vergis
Randall Groves Elvis Maculuba George Vlantis
Syam Madanapalli Khurram Waheed
Craig Gunther
Stephen Haddock Roger Marks Karl Weber
Marek Hajduczenia Arthur Marris Hung-Yu Wei
Mark Hamilton Richard Mellitz Natalie Wienckowski
Jerome Henry Jose Morales Chun Yu Charles Wong
Marco Hernandez Michael Newman Tan Pek Yew
Werner Hoelzl Nick S. A. Nikjoo Oren Yuen
Tetsushi Ikegami Satoshi Obara Zhen Zhou
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When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved this standard 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
Don Wright
Jianbin Fan Hung Ling
J. Travis Griffith Kevin Lu Yu Yuan
Annette D. Reilly Daidi Zhong
Gary Hoffman
Gary Robinson
*Member Emeritus
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Introduction
This introduction is not part of IEEE Std 802.1AC-2016, IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks—
Media Access Control (MAC) Service Definition.
During the history of IEEE 802, several different MAC types have been developed, all of which have a core
of functionality that is common to IEEE 802 MACs in general, but all of which also provide functionality
that extends beyond that common core. An example can be found in the way priority information is
conveyed in different MACs; some have no means of conveying priority, some can convey two different
priority code points, some can convey eight priority code points.
While such differences are not an issue in a Local Area Network (LAN) that employs a single MAC
technology, they can become an issue in LANs where more than one MAC technology is employed, for
example in Bridged LANs. It was therefore important at an early stage of MAC Bridge development to
develop a clear definition of the MAC Service that would facilitate the definition of a common Bridging
technology that could apply to all MAC types.
The MAC Service definition was first standardized as ISO/IEC 15802-1:1995 [B3]. When the ISO/IEC
standard reached its 5-year revision point, IEEE 802 was asked to take over the document and revise it to
reflect changes since publication. This revision emphasizes the fundamental relayable nature of the MAC
Service provided to end stations by defining it in terms of the service, common to bridges and end stations,
previously documented as the Internal Sublayer Service (ISS) in IEEE Std 802.1D™. In addition to the
material that was contained in ISO/IEC 15802-1, this standard documents the ISS that was originally
defined in IEEE Std 802.1D. This standard contains state-of-the-art material. The area covered by this
standard is undergoing evolution. Revisions are anticipated within the next few years to clarify existing
material, to correct possible errors, and to incorporate new related material. Information on the current
revision state of this and other IEEE 802 standards may be obtained from
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Contents
1.Scope. 13
2.Normative references. 14
3.Definitions . 15
3.1 Basic reference model definitions. 15
3.2 Service conventions definitions . 15
4.Acronyms and abbreviations . 16
5.Conformance. 17
5.1 Translation between media using different protocol discrimination methods. 17
5.2 Support of the ISS by different MAC procedures . 17
6.Conventions . 18
6.1 General considerations. 18
6.2 Parameters. 18
7.Basic architectural concepts and terms. 19
7.1 Protocol entities, peers, layers, services, and clients . 19
7.2 Service interface primitives, parameters, and frames . 19
7.3 Layer management interfaces . 20
7.4 Service access points, interface stacks, and ports. 20
7.5 MAC method independent protocols and shims. 21
7.6 MAC Service clients. 21
7.7 Stations and systems . 21
7.8 Connectionless connectivity . 22
8.Overview of the MAC Service . 23
9.Model of the MAC Service. 24
9.1 Model of a MAC connectionless-mode transmission. 24
9.2 Service provided by the connectionless-mode MAC Service . 24
10.Quality of connectionless-mode service . 25
10.1 Determination of QoS for connectionless-mode service . 25
10.2 Definition of connectionless-mode QoS parameters . 25
11.Internal Sublayer Service. 26
11.1 Service primitives and parameters. 26
11.2 Status parameters . 28
11.3 Point-to-point parameters . 28
11.4 Control primitives and parameters. 29
12.Protocol discrimination and media . 30
12.1 M_UNITDATA.request data transformation for LPD media . 30
12.2 M_UNITDATA.indication data transformation for LPD media . 30
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12.3 Tags in end stations. 31
13.Support of the Internal Sublayer Service by specific MAC procedures. 32
13.1 Ethernet convergence function . 32
13.2 Wireless LAN convergence function. 33
13.3 WirelessMAN convergence function. 36
13.4 Resilient Packet Ring convergence function . 37
13.5 Mobile Broadband Wireless Access Method convergence function . 39
13.6 Point-to-Multipoint Network convergence function. 40
14.MAC Service . 42
14.1 Function . 42
14.2 Service primitives and parameters. 42
14.3 Status parameters . 43
14.4 Sequence of primitives. 43
Annex A (informative) Bibliography . 44
Annex B (informative) Support of the Internal Sublayer Service by specific MAC procedure. 45
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