ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802-11:2018/Amd 4:2020

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 4: Enhancements for transit links within bridged network

Télécommunications et échange entre systèmes informatiques — Exigences pour les réseaux locaux et métropolitains — Partie 11: Spécifications du contrôle d'accès du milieu sans fil (MAC) et de la couche physique (PHY) — Amendement 4: Améliorations pour les liaisons de transit dans un réseau ponté

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 20-Aug-2020
• 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

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• 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: 13-Oct-2020
• 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

Standards Content (Sample)

INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC/
STANDARD IEEE
8802-11
Second edition
2018-05
AMENDMENT 4
2020-08
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
AMENDMENT 4: Enhancements for
transit links within bridged network
Télécommunications et échange entre systèmes informatiques —
Exigences pour les réseaux locaux et métropolitains —
Partie 11: Spécifications du contrôle d'accès du milieu sans fil (MAC)
et de la couche physique (PHY)
AMENDEMENT 4: Améliorations pour les liaisons de transit dans un
réseau ponté
Reference number
ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802-11:2018/Amd.4:2020(E)
©
IEEE 2018

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IEEE Std 802.11ak™-2018
(Amendment to IEEE Std 802.11™-2016
as amended by IEEE Std 802.11ai™-2016,
IEEE Std 802.11ah™-2016,
and IEEE Std 802.11aj™-2018)
IEEE Standard for 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 4: Enhancements for Transit Links
Within Bridged Networks
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LAN/MAN Standards Committee
of the
IEEE Computer Society
Approved 8 March 2018
IEEE-SA Standards Board

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Abstract: Protocols, procedures, and managed objects to enhance the ability of IEEE 802.11™
media to provide transit links internal to IEEE 802.1Q™ bridged networks are specified in this
amendment to IEEE Std 802.11™-2016.
Keywords: bridged, bridging, EPD, GCR, GLK, GLK-GCR, IEEE 802.11™, IEEE 802.11ak™,
IEEE 802.1Q™, LPD, priority code point, SYNRA, transit link
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Participants
At the time this amendment was submitted to the IEEE-SA Standards Board for approval, the IEEE 802.11
Working Group had the following officers:
Adrian P. Stephens, Chair
Jon W. Rosdahl and Dorothy V. Stanley, Vice-chairs
Stephen McCann, Secretary
Robert Stacey and Peter Ecclesine, Technical Editors
At the time this amendment was submitted for balloting, the Enhancements for Transit Links in Bridged
Networks Task Group had the following membership:
Donald E. Eastlake, III, Chair and Editor
Mark A. Hamilton, Vice Chair
Norman Finn, Vice Editor
(Filip Mestanov, Yan Zhuang, Former Secretaries)
Osama S. Aboulmagd Xiaogang Chen Daniel N. Harkins
Santosh P. Abraham Minho Cheong Brian D. Hart
George Cherian
Tomoko Adachi Chris Hartman
Kare Agardh Dmitry Cherniavsky Victor Hayes
Jaehyun Ahn Zhipei Chi Shiwen He
Hangyu Cho
Jinsoo Ahn Allen Heberling
Joongwon Cho Ahmadreza Hedayat
Woojin Ahn
Roberto Aiello In-Kyeong Choi Carolyn Heide
Carlos H. Aldana Jinsoo Choi Robert F. Heile
Sangsung Choi
Yaron Alpert Jerome Henry
Carol Ansley Sayantan Choudhury Guido R. Hiertz
Tsuguhide Aoki Liwen Chu Koji Horisaki
Lee R. Armstrong Jinyoung Chun Jing-Rong Hsieh
John Coffey
Yusuke Asai Lei Huang
Alfred Asterjadhi Kenneth Coop Po-Kai Huang
Kwok Shum S. Au Carlos Cordeiro Rongsheng Huang
Vijay Auluck Subir Das John Humbert
Rolf J. de Vegt David Hunter
Stefan Aust
Shahrnaz Azizi Der-Jiunn Deng Jeorge Hurtarte
Alireza Babaei Thomas Derham Yasuhiko Inoue
Klaus Doppler
Eugene Baik Koichi Ishihara
Gabor Bajko Malcolm Dowse Mitsuru Iwaoka
Phillip Barber JiaDong Du Amin Jafarian
Stephane Baron Richard Edgar Alan Jauh
Marc Emmelmann
Gwendolyn Barriac Chanyong Jeong
Nehru Bhandaru Iksoo Eo Jinjing Jiang
Andre Bourdoux Vinko Erceg Robert Jiang
Zhong Fan
John Buffington Liang Jin
Ping Fang Nihar Jindal
Ann Bynum
Lin Cai Yonggang Fang Allan Jones
Yu Cai Matthew J. Fischer Vincent Knowles Jones
Dan Gal
George Calcev Kaushik Josiam
Chris Calvert Chittabrata Ghosh Carl W. Kain
Radhakrishna Canchi Monisha Ghosh Naveen K. Kakani
Fengming Cao James P. Gilb Hyunduk Kang
Tim Godfrey
Rui Cao Hyunjeong Kang
Cagatay Capar Michael Grigat Masami Katagiri
Laurent Cariou Russell Haines Richard H. Kennedy
David Halls
William Carney John Kenney
Christopher J. Hansen Stuart J. Kerry
Soo-Young Chang
Clint F. Chaplin Peng Hao Evgeny Khorov
Jiamin Chen Nathaniel Hardison Sangwon Ki
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Jaehwan Kim Kaiying Lv Cheol Ryu
Michael Lynch
Jeehoon Kim Kiseon Ryu
Jouni K. Malinen
Jeongki Kim Bahareh Sadeghi
Joonsuk Kim Alexander Maltsev Takenori Sakamoto
Kyeongpyo Kim Hiroshi Mano Kazuyuki Sakoda
James Marin
Sang Gook Kim Hemanth Sampath
Roger Marks Behcet Sarikaya
Suhwook Kim
Yongho Kim Simone Merlin Ioannis Sarris
Youhan Kim James Miller Sigurd Schelstraete
Apurva Mody
Youngsoo Kim Daniel Schneider
Akira Kishida Pooya Monajemi Andy Scott
Shoichi Kitazawa Michael Montemurro Jonathan Segev
Hiroki Mori
Jarkko Kneckt Yongho Seok
Kenichi Mori Kunal Shah
Gwangzeen Ko
Fumihide Kojima Masahito Mori Stephen J. Shellhammer
Tom Kolze Hitoshi Morioka Ian Sherlock
Yuichi Morioka
Igal Kotzer Jung-Chul Shin
Ronald Murias Robert Slater
Bruce P. Kraemer
Maciej Krasicki Andrew Myles Graham K. Smith
Toshihisa Nabetani
Byung-Jae Kwak Ju-Hyung Son
Yukimasa Nagai
Jin-Sam Kwak JungBo B. Son
Joseph Kwak Hiroki Nakano Hayeong Song
Hyoungjin Kwon Sai Shankar S. Nandagopalan Sudhir Srinivasa
Chiu Ngo
Yong-Jin Kwon Jung Hoon H. Suh
Paul Nikolich
Young Hoon H. Kwon Bo Sun
Massinissa Lalam Eric Nordstrom Li-Hsiang Sun
Paul Lambert John Notor Sheng Sun
Jinhyung Oh
Zhou Lan Yakun Sun
Jong-Ee Oh Kazuaki Takahashi
James Lansford
Daewon Lee Minseok Oh Mineo Takai
Hongsup Lee Min-Seok Oh Yasushi Takatori
Robert Olesen
Jae Seung S. Lee Sagar Tamhane
Jehun Lee Oghenekome Oteri Tomoya Tandai
Joonsoo Lee Kazuyuki Ozaki Rakesh Taori
Santosh Ghanshyam G. Pandey
Wookbong Lee Alireza Tarighat
Jiyong Pang
Young Ha Lee Bin Tian
Yuro Lee Babis Papadopoulos Jens Tingleff
Zhongding Lei Thomas Pare Fei Tong
Eunsung Park
James Lepp Payam Torab
Giwon Park
Joseph Levy Filippo Tosato
Bo Li Hyungu Park Toshimitsu Tsubaki
Jaewoo Park
Dejian Li Kazuyoshi Tsukada
Glenn Parsons
Feng Li Esa Tuomaala
Guoqing Li Xiaoming Peng Richard D. Van Nee
Huan-Bang Li Eldad Perahia Allert Van Zelst
Stephanie Pereira
Jing Li Lorenzo Vangelista
Hakan Persson
Qinghua Li Prabodh Varshney
Yunbo Li James E. Petranovich Ganesh Venkatesan
Zhiqiang Li Albert Petrick Sriram Venkateswaran
Walter Pienciak
Dong Guk Lim Sameer Vermani
Yingpei Lin Steve Pope
Gabriel Villardi
Der-Zheng Liu Ron Porat George A. Vlantis
Rethnakaran Pulikkoonattu
Jianhan Liu Chao Chun Wang
Emily H. Qi
Le Liu Haiguang Wang
Pei Liu Verotiana Rabarijaona Haiming Wang
Yong Liu Demir Rakanovic James June J. Wang
Stephen G. Rayment
Peter Loc Lei Wang
Edward Reuss
Hui-Ling Lou Qi Wang
Su Lu Maximilian Riegel Xiaofei Wang
Chuck Lukaszewski Mark Rison Xuehuan Wang
Zhigang Rong
Jun Luo Lisa Ward
Richard Roy
Yi Luo Fujio Watanabe
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Zou Wei-Xia Xun Yang Tevfik Yucek
Yunsong Yang
Menzo M. Wentink Ji-Hoon Yun
Leif Wilhelmsson Ke Yao Katsuo D. Yunoki
Eric Wong James Yee Hongyuan Zhang
Harry R. Worstell Peter Yee Jiayin Zhang
Tianyu Wu Su Khiong K. Yong Yan Zhang
Pengfei Xia Larry Yonge Mu Zhao
Yan Xin Christopher Young Jingyi Zhou
Mingguang Xu Chinghwa Yu Chunhui Zhu
Akira Yamada Heejung Yu Hufei Zhu
Rongzhen Yang Mao Yu Lan Zhuo
Xun Yang Juan Carlos Zuniga
The following members of the individual balloting committee voted on this amendment. Balloters may have
voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention.
Osama Aboulmagd Shiwen He Satoshi Oyama
Tomoko Adachi Marco Hernandez Clinton Powell
Thomas Alexander Werner Hoelzl Venkatesha Prasad
Noriyuki Ikeuchi
Nobumitsu Amachi Maximilian Riegel
Carol Ansley Yasuhiko Inoue Robert Robinson
Butch Anton Sergiu Iordanescu Benjamin Rolfe
Alfred Asterjadhi Akio Iso Richard Roy
Atsushi Ito Shigenobu Sasaki
Kwok Shum S. Au
Stefan Aust Raj Jain Naotaka Sato
Michael Bahr SangKwon Jeong Andy Scott
Piotr Karocki
Harry Bims Ian Sherlock
Demetrio Bucaneg Stuart J. Kerry Graham K. Smith
William Byrd Evgeny Khorov Robert Stacey
William Carney Yongbum Kim Dorothy V. Stanley
Yasushi Kudoh
Juan Carreon Thomas Starai
Jiamin Chen Thomas Kurihara Walter Struppler
Keith Chow James Lepp Mark Sturza
Charles Cook Dejian Li Pedro Tonhozi de Oliveira
Sourav Dutta Elvis Maculuba Mark-Rene Uchida
Donald E. Eastlake, III Jouni K. Malinen Lorenzo Vangelista
Richard Edgar Roger Marks Dmitri Varsanofiev
Jeffery Masters
Michael Fischer Ganesh Venkatesan
Avraham Freedman Stephen McCann George A. Vlantis
Tim Godfrey Michael McInnis Khurram Waheed
David Goodall Michael Montemurro Haiming Wang
Ronald Murias
Eric W Gray Lei Wang
Randall Groves Andrew Myles Xiaofei Wang
Michael Gundlach Michael Newman Karl Weber
Nicks A. Nikjoo
Stephen Haddock Yunsong Yang
Mark A. Hamilton Paul Nikolich Oren Yuen
Robert O’Hara
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When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved this amendment on 8 March 2018, it had the following
membership:
Jean-Philippe Faure, Chair
Gary Hoffman, Vice Chair
John D. Kulick, Past Chair
Konstantinos Karachalios, Secretary
Ted Burse
Xiaohui Liu Robby Robson
Guido R. Hiertz
Kevin Lu Dorothy Stanley
Christel Hunter Daleep Mohla Mehmet Ulema
Joseph L. Koepfinger* Andrew Myles Phil Wennblom
Philip Winston
Thomas Koshy Paul Nikolich
Ronald C. Petersen Howard Wolfman
Hung Ling
Jingyi Zhou
Annette D. Reilly
Dong Liu
*Member Emeritus
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Introduction
This introduction is not part of IEEE Std 802.11ak-2018, IEEE Standard for Information technology—Local and
metropolitan area networks—Specific requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN MAC and PHY Specifications—
Amendment 3: Enhancements for Transit Links Within Bridged Networks.
IEEE Std 802.11™ was originally designed with the assumption that non-access point (non-AP) non-mesh
stations (STAs) would be leaf nodes of the network. This amendment extends IEEE Std 802.11 so that
communication links can be established between general link (GLK) STAs that are usable as transit link s
inside an IEEE 802.1Q™ network.
Areas of extension and related improvements include the following:
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a) Optional support of IEEE 802 length/type (EPD) frame encoding, as opposed to ISO/IEC 8802-2 :
1998 logical link control (LLC) encoding (LPD).
b) Facilities for GLK APs to send group addressed Data GLK frames to a subset of receiving GLK
STAs.
c) Priority code points in IEEE Std 802.1Q™ have a different default meaning than they do i n
IEEE Std 802.1D™. For example, in IEEE Std 802.1Q, priority 2 is, by default, higher priority than
priority 1, while in IEEE Std 802.1D, it is lower. Thus it is suggested in Annex V that GLK
associations use a Priority code point to user priority mapping in their corresponding IEEE 802.1Q
bridge port.
d) Accessibility to the wireless medium via one or more Internal Sublayer Service service access points
(SAPs) that map to attached bridge ports.
e) Improvement of groupcast with retries (GCR) setup to extend GCR to GLK STAs.
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Contents
1. Overview. 18
1.3 Supplementary information on purpose. 18
2. Normative references. 19
3. Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations. 19
3.1 Definitions . 19
3.2 Definitions specific to IEEE Std 802.11. 19
3.4 Abbreviations and acronyms . 20
4. General description . 20
4.2 How wireless local area networks (WLANs) are different. 20
4.2.5 Interaction with other IEEE 802® layers. 20
4.3 Components of the IEEE 802.11 architecture . 20
4.3.5 Distribution system (DS) concepts . 20
4.3.5.1 Overview. 20
4.3.7 Integration with non-IEEE 802.11 LANs .
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FINAL
ISO/IEC/IEEE
AMENDMENT
DRAFT
8802-11:2018
FDAM 4
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6
Telecommunications and exchange
Secretariat: KATS
between information technology
Voting begins on:
2020-02-07 systems — Requirements for local and
metropolitan area networks —
Voting terminates on:
2020-06-26
Part 11:
Wireless LAN medium access control
(MAC) and physical layer (PHY)
specifications
AMENDMENT 4: Enhancements for
transit links within bridged network
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IEEE Std 802.11ak™-2018
(Amendment to IEEE Std 802.11™-2016
as amended by IEEE Std 802.11ai™-2016,
IEEE Std 802.11ah™-2016,
and IEEE Std 802.11aj™-2018)
IEEE Standard for 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 4: Enhancements for Transit Links
Within Bridged Networks
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Abstract: Protocols, procedures, and managed objects to enhance the ability of IEEE 802.11™
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amendment to IEEE Std 802.11™-2016.
Keywords: bridged, bridging, EPD, GCR, GLK, GLK-GCR, IEEE 802.11™, IEEE 802.11ak™,
IEEE 802.1Q™, LPD, priority code point, SYNRA, transit link
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Participants
At the time this amendment was submitted to the IEEE-SA Standards Board for approval, the IEEE 802.11
Working Group had the following officers:
Adrian P. Stephens, Chair
Jon W. Rosdahl and Dorothy V. Stanley, Vice-chairs
Stephen McCann, Secretary
Robert Stacey and Peter Ecclesine, Technical Editors
At the time this amendment was submitted for balloting, the Enhancements for Transit Links in Bridged
Networks Task Group had the following membership:
Donald E. Eastlake, III, Chair and Editor
Mark A. Hamilton, Vice Chair
Norman Finn, Vice Editor
(Filip Mestanov, Yan Zhuang, Former Secretaries)
Osama S. Aboulmagd Xiaogang Chen Daniel N. Harkins
Santosh P. Abraham Minho Cheong Brian D. Hart
George Cherian
Tomoko Adachi Chris Hartman
Kare Agardh Dmitry Cherniavsky Victor Hayes
Jaehyun Ahn Zhipei Chi Shiwen He
Hangyu Cho
Jinsoo Ahn Allen Heberling
Joongwon Cho Ahmadreza Hedayat
Woojin Ahn
Roberto Aiello In-Kyeong Choi Carolyn Heide
Carlos H. Aldana Jinsoo Choi Robert F. Heile
Sangsung Choi
Yaron Alpert Jerome Henry
Carol Ansley Sayantan Choudhury Guido R. Hiertz
Tsuguhide Aoki Liwen Chu Koji Horisaki
Lee R. Armstrong Jinyoung Chun Jing-Rong Hsieh
John Coffey
Yusuke Asai Lei Huang
Alfred Asterjadhi Kenneth Coop Po-Kai Huang
Kwok Shum S. Au Carlos Cordeiro Rongsheng Huang
Vijay Auluck Subir Das John Humbert
Rolf J. de Vegt David Hunter
Stefan Aust
Shahrnaz Azizi Der-Jiunn Deng Jeorge Hurtarte
Alireza Babaei Thomas Derham Yasuhiko Inoue
Klaus Doppler
Eugene Baik Koichi Ishihara
Gabor Bajko Malcolm Dowse Mitsuru Iwaoka
Phillip Barber JiaDong Du Amin Jafarian
Stephane Baron Richard Edgar Alan Jauh
Marc Emmelmann
Gwendolyn Barriac Chanyong Jeong
Nehru Bhandaru Iksoo Eo Jinjing Jiang
Andre Bourdoux Vinko Erceg Robert Jiang
Zhong Fan
John Buffington Liang Jin
Ping Fang Nihar Jindal
Ann Bynum
Lin Cai Yonggang Fang Allan Jones
Yu Cai Matthew J. Fischer Vincent Knowles Jones
Dan Gal
George Calcev Kaushik Josiam
Chris Calvert Chittabrata Ghosh Carl W. Kain
Radhakrishna Canchi Monisha Ghosh Naveen K. Kakani
Fengming Cao James P. Gilb Hyunduk Kang
Tim Godfrey
Rui Cao Hyunjeong Kang
Cagatay Capar Michael Grigat Masami Katagiri
Laurent Cariou Russell Haines Richard H. Kennedy
David Halls
William Carney John Kenney
Christopher J. Hansen Stuart J. Kerry
Soo-Young Chang
Clint F. Chaplin Peng Hao Evgeny Khorov
Jiamin Chen Nathaniel Hardison Sangwon Ki
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Jaehwan Kim Kaiying Lv Cheol Ryu
Michael Lynch
Jeehoon Kim Kiseon Ryu
Jouni K. Malinen
Jeongki Kim Bahareh Sadeghi
Joonsuk Kim Alexander Maltsev Takenori Sakamoto
Kyeongpyo Kim Hiroshi Mano Kazuyuki Sakoda
James Marin
Sang Gook Kim Hemanth Sampath
Roger Marks Behcet Sarikaya
Suhwook Kim
Yongho Kim Simone Merlin Ioannis Sarris
Youhan Kim James Miller Sigurd Schelstraete
Apurva Mody
Youngsoo Kim Daniel Schneider
Akira Kishida Pooya Monajemi Andy Scott
Shoichi Kitazawa Michael Montemurro Jonathan Segev
Hiroki Mori
Jarkko Kneckt Yongho Seok
Kenichi Mori Kunal Shah
Gwangzeen Ko
Fumihide Kojima Masahito Mori Stephen J. Shellhammer
Tom Kolze Hitoshi Morioka Ian Sherlock
Yuichi Morioka
Igal Kotzer Jung-Chul Shin
Ronald Murias Robert Slater
Bruce P. Kraemer
Maciej Krasicki Andrew Myles Graham K. Smith
Toshihisa Nabetani
Byung-Jae Kwak Ju-Hyung Son
Yukimasa Nagai
Jin-Sam Kwak JungBo B. Son
Joseph Kwak Hiroki Nakano Hayeong Song
Hyoungjin Kwon Sai Shankar S. Nandagopalan Sudhir Srinivasa
Chiu Ngo
Yong-Jin Kwon Jung Hoon H. Suh
Paul Nikolich
Young Hoon H. Kwon Bo Sun
Massinissa Lalam Eric Nordstrom Li-Hsiang Sun
Paul Lambert John Notor Sheng Sun
Jinhyung Oh
Zhou Lan Yakun Sun
Jong-Ee Oh Kazuaki Takahashi
James Lansford
Daewon Lee Minseok Oh Mineo Takai
Hongsup Lee Min-Seok Oh Yasushi Takatori
Robert Olesen
Jae Seung S. Lee Sagar Tamhane
Jehun Lee Oghenekome Oteri Tomoya Tandai
Joonsoo Lee Kazuyuki Ozaki Rakesh Taori
Santosh Ghanshyam G. Pandey
Wookbong Lee Alireza Tarighat
Jiyong Pang
Young Ha Lee Bin Tian
Yuro Lee Babis Papadopoulos Jens Tingleff
Zhongding Lei Thomas Pare Fei Tong
Eunsung Park
James Lepp Payam Torab
Giwon Park
Joseph Levy Filippo Tosato
Bo Li Hyungu Park Toshimitsu Tsubaki
Jaewoo Park
Dejian Li Kazuyoshi Tsukada
Glenn Parsons
Feng Li Esa Tuomaala
Guoqing Li Xiaoming Peng Richard D. Van Nee
Huan-Bang Li Eldad Perahia Allert Van Zelst
Stephanie Pereira
Jing Li Lorenzo Vangelista
Hakan Persson
Qinghua Li Prabodh Varshney
Yunbo Li James E. Petranovich Ganesh Venkatesan
Zhiqiang Li Albert Petrick Sriram Venkateswaran
Walter Pienciak
Dong Guk Lim Sameer Vermani
Yingpei Lin Steve Pope
Gabriel Villardi
Der-Zheng Liu Ron Porat George A. Vlantis
Rethnakaran Pulikkoonattu
Jianhan Liu Chao Chun Wang
Emily H. Qi
Le Liu Haiguang Wang
Pei Liu Verotiana Rabarijaona Haiming Wang
Yong Liu Demir Rakanovic James June J. Wang
Stephen G. Rayment
Peter Loc Lei Wang
Edward Reuss
Hui-Ling Lou Qi Wang
Su Lu Maximilian Riegel Xiaofei Wang
Chuck Lukaszewski Mark Rison Xuehuan Wang
Zhigang Rong
Jun Luo Lisa Ward
Richard Roy
Yi Luo Fujio Watanabe
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Zou Wei-Xia Xun Yang Tevfik Yucek
Yunsong Yang
Menzo M. Wentink Ji-Hoon Yun
Leif Wilhelmsson Ke Yao Katsuo D. Yunoki
Eric Wong James Yee Hongyuan Zhang
Harry R. Worstell Peter Yee Jiayin Zhang
Tianyu Wu Su Khiong K. Yong Yan Zhang
Pengfei Xia Larry Yonge Mu Zhao
Yan Xin Christopher Young Jingyi Zhou
Mingguang Xu Chinghwa Yu Chunhui Zhu
Akira Yamada Heejung Yu Hufei Zhu
Rongzhen Yang Mao Yu Lan Zhuo
Xun Yang Juan Carlos Zuniga
The following members of the individual balloting committee voted on this amendment. Balloters may have
voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention.
Osama Aboulmagd Shiwen He Satoshi Oyama
Tomoko Adachi Marco Hernandez Clinton Powell
Thomas Alexander Werner Hoelzl Venkatesha Prasad
Noriyuki Ikeuchi
Nobumitsu Amachi Maximilian Riegel
Carol Ansley Yasuhiko Inoue Robert Robinson
Butch Anton Sergiu Iordanescu Benjamin Rolfe
Alfred Asterjadhi Akio Iso Richard Roy
Atsushi Ito Shigenobu Sasaki
Kwok Shum S. Au
Stefan Aust Raj Jain Naotaka Sato
Michael Bahr SangKwon Jeong Andy Scott
Piotr Karocki
Harry Bims Ian Sherlock
Demetrio Bucaneg Stuart J. Kerry Graham K. Smith
William Byrd Evgeny Khorov Robert Stacey
William Carney Yongbum Kim Dorothy V. Stanley
Yasushi Kudoh
Juan Carreon Thomas Starai
Jiamin Chen Thomas Kurihara Walter Struppler
Keith Chow James Lepp Mark Sturza
Charles Cook Dejian Li Pedro Tonhozi de Oliveira
Sourav Dutta Elvis Maculuba Mark-Rene Uchida
Donald E. Eastlake, III Jouni K. Malinen Lorenzo Vangelista
Richard Edgar Roger Marks Dmitri Varsanofiev
Jeffery Masters
Michael Fischer Ganesh Venkatesan
Avraham Freedman Stephen McCann George A. Vlantis
Tim Godfrey Michael McInnis Khurram Waheed
David Goodall Michael Montemurro Haiming Wang
Ronald Murias
Eric W Gray Lei Wang
Randall Groves Andrew Myles Xiaofei Wang
Michael Gundlach Michael Newman Karl Weber
Nicks A. Nikjoo
Stephen Haddock Yunsong Yang
Mark A. Hamilton Paul Nikolich Oren Yuen
Robert O’Hara
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When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved this amendment on 8 March 2018, it had the following
membership:
Jean-Philippe Faure, Chair
Gary Hoffman, Vice Chair
John D. Kulick, Past Chair
Konstantinos Karachalios, Secretary
Ted Burse
Xiaohui Liu Robby Robson
Guido R. Hiertz
Kevin Lu Dorothy Stanley
Christel Hunter Daleep Mohla Mehmet Ulema
Joseph L. Koepfinger* Andrew Myles Phil Wennblom
Philip Winston
Thomas Koshy Paul Nikolich
Ronald C. Petersen Howard Wolfman
Hung Ling
Jingyi Zhou
Annette D. Reilly
Dong Liu
*Member Emeritus
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Introduction
This introduction is not part of IEEE Std 802.11ak-2018, IEEE Standard for Information technology—Local and
metropolitan area networks—Specific requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN MAC and PHY Specifications—
Amendment 3: Enhancements for Transit Links Within Bridged Networks.
IEEE Std 802.11™ was originally designed with the assumption that non-access point (non-AP) non-mesh
stations (STAs) would be leaf nodes of the network. This amendment extends IEEE Std 802.11 so that
communication links can be established between general link (GLK) STAs that are usable as transit link s
inside an IEEE 802.1Q™ network.
Areas of extension and related improvements include the following:
®
a) Optional support of IEEE 802 length/type (EPD) frame encoding, as opposed to ISO/IEC 8802-2 :
1998 logical link control (LLC) encoding (LPD).
b) Facilities for GLK APs to send group addressed Data GLK frames to a subset of receiving GLK
STAs.
c) Priority code points in IEEE Std 802.1Q™ have a different default meaning than they do i n
IEEE Std 802.1D™. For example, in IEEE Std 802.1Q, priority 2 is, by default, higher priority than
priority 1, while in IEEE Std 802.1D, it is lower. Thus it is suggested in Annex V that GLK
associations use a Priority code point to user priority mapping in their corresponding IEEE 802.1Q
bridge port.
d) Accessibility to the wireless medium via one or more Internal Sublayer Service service access points
(SAPs) that map to attached bridge ports.
e) Improvement of groupcast with retries (GCR) setup to extend GCR to GLK STAs.
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Contents
1. Overview. 18
1.3 Supplementary information on purpose. 18
2. Normative references. 19
3. Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations. 19
3.1 Definitions . 19
3.2 Definitions specific to IEEE Std 802.11. 19
3.4 Abbreviations and acronyms . 20
4. General description . 20
4.2 How wireless local area networks (WLANs) are different. 20
4.2.5 Interaction with other IEEE 802® layers. 20
4.3 Components of the IEEE 802.11 architecture . 20
4.3.5 Distribution system (DS) conc
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