ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802-11:2012/Amd 1:2014

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 1: Prioritization of management frames (adoption of IEEE Std 802-11ae-2012)

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 1: Hiérarchisation des cadres de gestion (adoption de la norme IEEE Std 802-11ae-2012)

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 11-Mar-2014
• Withdrawal Date: 11-Mar-2014
• 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: 06-Jun-2019

Relations

• Revised: 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: 23-Apr-2020
• Amends: ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802-11:2012 - 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
• Effective Date: 25-Apr-2020

Standards Content (Sample)

INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC/
STANDARD IEEE
8802-11
First edition
2012-11-01
AMENDMENT 1
2014-03-15


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 1: Prioritization of
management frames (adoption of IEEE
Std 802-11ae-2012)
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 1: Hiérarchisation des cadres de gestion (adoption de
la norme IEEE Std 802-11ae-2012)





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IEEE Std 802.11ae™-2012
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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
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Frames
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Abstract: A mechanism for prioritization of management frames is provided and a protocol to
communicate management frame prioritization policy is specified in this amendment.
Keywords: IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.11ae, management, QMF, QoS, quality-of-service
management frame
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Participants
At the time this amendment was submitted to the IEEE-SA for approval, the IEEE 802.11 Working Group
had the following membership:
Bruce Kraemer, Chair
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Adrian P. Stephens, Vice-chair, Technical Editor, and Assigned Number Authority
Stephen McCann, Secretary
Peter Ecclesine, Technical Editor
At the time this amendment was submitted to sponsor ballot, Task Group ae had the following officers:
Michael Mentemurro, Chair
Henry Ptasinski, Technical Editor
Matthew Fischer, Secretary
When the IEEE 802.11 Working Group approved this amendment, the Working Group had the following
membership:
Osama S. AboulMagd Liwen Chu David Halasz
Santosh P. Abraham John Coffey Mark Hamilton
Roberto Aiello Charles Cook Christopher J. Hansen
Carlos H. Aldana Carlos Cordeiro
Dan N. Harkins
David C. Andrus Xavier P. Costa
Brian D. Hart
Sirikiat L. Ariyavisitakul Subir Das
Chris Hartman
Lee R. Armstrong Rolf J. de Vegt
Robert F. Heile
Yusuke Asai Yohannes Demessie
Guido R. Hiertz
Alex Ashley Theodorus Denteneer
Garth D. Hillman
Kwok Shum Au Thomas Derham
Seungeun Hong
Geert A. Awater Susan Dickey
Ju-Lan Hsu
David Bagby John Dorsey
Wendong Hu
Michael Bahr Offie Drennan
Tian-Wei Huang
Gabor Bajko Roger P. Durand
David Hunter
Raja Banerjea Peter Ecclesine
Brima Ibrahim
Kaberi Banerjee Marc Emmelmann
Akio Iso
John R. Barr Vinko Erceg
Wynona Jacobs
Tuncer Baykas Leonardo Estevez
Avinash Jain
Matthew Fischer
Ted Booth
Lusheng Ji
Wayne K. Fisher
Daniel Borges
Sunggeun Jin
George Flammer
Andre Bourdoux
Junho Jo
Colin Frank
Gregory Breit
Vince Jones
John Buffington Wen Gao
Haeyoung Jun
G. Bumiller Matthew Gast
Padam Kafle
Necati Canpolat Mohamed Ghamri-Doudane
Carl W. Kain
Laurent Cariou Amir Ghasemi
Naveen K. Kakani
William Carney James P. Gilb
Jeyhan Karaoguz
Philippe Chambelin Jeffrey Gilbert
Assaf Y. Kasher
Kapseok Chang Claude Giraud
Shuzo Kato
Clint F. Chaplin Ronald Glibbery
Tatsuya Kato
Minho Cheong Reinhard Gloger
Richard H. Kennedy
Meng W. Chia Michelle Gong
John Kenney
Woong Cho David Goodall
Stuart J. Kerry
Chang-Soon Choi Elad Gottlib
Inhwan Choi Sudheer A. Grandhi Thet Khine
In-Kyeong Choi Michael Grigat Alexey Khoryaev
Jee-Yon Choi Mark Grodzinsky Bonghoe Kim
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Eun S. Kim Rajendra T. Moorti Michael Sim
Eung S. Kim Hitoshi Morioka Francois Simon
Joonsuk Kim Yuichi Morioka Shubhranshu Singh
Kyeongpyo Kim Daniel C. Mur Dwight Smith
Yongsun Kim Anthony Murabito Graham K. Smith
Youhan Kim Peter Murray Jae-Hyung Song
Youngsoo Kim Andrew Myles Sudhir Srinivasa
Yunjoo Kim Yuhei Nagao Robert Stacey
Shoichi Kitazawa Hiroki Nakano Dorothy Stanley
Sai S. Nandagopalan Adrian P. Stephens
Jarkko Kneckt
Mohammad H. Nasrabadi David S. Stephenson
Mark M. Kobayashi
Chiu Ngo John Stine
Fumihide Kojima
Paul Nikolich Guenael T. Strutt
Tom Kolze
Yujin Noh Chin-Sean Sum
Bruce P. Kraemer
Knut Odman Mineo Takai
Riichi Kudo
Jong-Ee Oh Yasushi Takatori
Thomas M. Kurihara
Kazuyasu Okada Alireza Tarighat
Joseph Kwak
Satoshi Oyama Geoffrey Thompson
Hyoungjin Kwon
Santosh G. Pandey Allan Thomson
Ui K. Kwon
Thomas Pare Jerry Thrasher
Ismail Lakkis
Hyungu Park Eric Tokubo
Paul Lambert
Jaewoo Park Ichihiko Toyoda
Zhou Lan
Minyoung Park Jason Trachewsky
Leonardo Lanante
Bemini H. Peiris Solomon B. Trainin
Jeremy A. Landt
Xiaoming Peng Jean Tsao
Joseph P. Lauer
Eldad Perahia Yung-Szu Tu
Daewon Lee
James E. Petranovich Masahiro Umehira
Hoosung Lee
Albert Petrick Richard D. van Nee
Il-Gu Lee
John Petro Allert van Zelst
Jae S. Lee
Riku Pirhonen
Wookbong Lee Prabodh Varshney
Vishakan Ponnampalam
Wooyong Lee Ganesh Venkatesan
Sameer Vermani
Yuro Lee James D. Portaro
Paul Lin Henry Ptasinski George A. Vlantis
Hang Liu Rene Purnadi Sanjay Wadhwa
Pei Liu Ivan Pustogarov Chao-Chun Wang
Yong Liu Emily H. Qi Haiguang Wang
Peter Loc Huyu Qu James J. Wang
Artyom Lomayev Jim E. Raab Junyi Wang
Bradley Lynch Harish Ramamurthy Qi Wang
Michael Lynch Ivan Reede Fujio Watanabe
Alastair Malarky Alex Reznik Menzo M. Wentink
Jouni K. Malinen Sandrine Roblot Pyo C. Woo
Alexander Maltsev Jon Rosdahl James Worsham
Hiroshi Mano Ali Sadri Harry R. Worstell
Bill Marshall Kazuyuki Sakoda Ye Wu
Kenichi Maruhashi Hemanth Sampath Liuyang Yang
Stephen McCann Hirokazu Sawada James Yee
Justin P. McNew Jean Schwoerer Jung Yee
Simone Merlin Yongho Seok Peter Yee
Murat Mese Huairong Shao Su K. Yong
Sven Mesecke Nir Shapira Christopher Young
Robert R. Miller Stephen J. Shellhammer Artur Zaks
Jochen Miroll Bazhong Shen Hongyuan Zhang
Apurva Mody Ian Sherlock Ning Zhang
Michael Montemurro Nobuhiko Shibagaki Meiyuan Zhao
Ashish Shukla
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Major contributions were received from the following individuals:
Matthew Fischer Michael Montemurro Dorothy Stanley
Jouni Malinen Santosh G. Pandey Dave Stephenson
Stephen McCann Henry Ptasinski Allan Thomson
The following members of the balloting committee voted on this standard. Balloters may have voted for
approval, disapproval, or abstention.
Noriyuki Ikeuchi
Tomoko Adachi Clinton Powell
Yasuhiko Inoue
Iwan Adhicandra Venkatesha Prasad
Thomas Alexander Sergiu Iordanescu Michael Probasco
Mark Anderson Paul Isaacs Henry Ptasinski
Butch Anton Akio Iso Emily H. Qi
Lee R. Armstrong Atsushi Ito Mohammad Azizur Rahman
Raj Jain Jayaram Ramasastry
Alex Ashley
Ivan Reede
Arthur Astrin Junghoon Jee
Maximilian Riegel
Kwok Shum Au Tal Kaitz
Robert Robinson
Michael Bahr Shinkyo Kaku
Benjamin Rolfe
Harry Bims Piotr Karocki
Jon Rosdahl
Nancy Bravin Richard H. Kennedy
Randall Safier
John Kenney
John Buffington
Shigenobu Sasaki
William Byrd Stuart J. Kerry
Bartien Sayogo
William Carney Yongbum Kim
Shusaku Shimada
Clint F. Chaplin Youhan Kim
John Short
Keith Chow Bruce Kraemer
Gil Shultz
Charles Cook Thomas M. Kurihara
Graham K. Smith
Geoff Ladwig
Wael Diab
Kapil Sood
Patrick Diamond Richard Lancaster
Amjad Soomro
Thomas Dineen Jeremy A. Landt
Robert Stacey
Sourav Dutta Jan-Ray Liao
Dorothy Stanley
Peter Ecclesine Arthur Light
Thomas Starai
Richard Eckard Lu Liru
Adrian P. Stephens
Richard Edgar William Lumpkins
Walter Struppler
Dennis Edwards Greg Luri
Mark Sturza
Matthew Fischer Elvis Maculuba
Bo Sun
Andre Fournier Jouni K. Malinen
Joseph Tardo
Matthew Gast W. Kyle Maus
Michael Johas Teener
John Geiger Stephen McCann
Ichihiko Toyoda
Pieter-Paul Giesberts Michael Mcinnis
Mark-Rene Uchida
Gregory Gillooly Gary Michel
Anna Urra
Reinhard Gloger Apurva Mody
Dmitri Varsanofiev
David Goodall Michael Montemurro
Prabodh Varshney
Sudheer A. Grandhi Rick Murphy
Ganesh Venkatesan
Randall Groves Peter Murray
John Vergis
Michael Gundlach Andrew Myles
Bhupender Virk
C. Guy Michael S. Newman
George A. Vlantis
Rainer Hach Paul Nikolich
Khurram Waheed
Mark Hamilton Kevin Noll
Lei Wang
Christopher J. Hansen John Notor
Stanley Wang
Hiroshi Harada
Satoshi Obara
Stephen Webb
Robert F. Heile Robert O’hara
Hung-Yu Wei
Rodney Hemminger Chris Osterloh
Menzo M. Wentink
Jerome Henry Satoshi Oyama
James Worsham
Marco Hernandez Stephen Palm
Tan Pek Yew
David Hunter Brian Phelps
Joseph Yob
Tetsushi Ikegami
Shmulik Pisanty
Oren Yuen
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When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved this standard on 29 March 2012, it had the following
membership:
Richard H. Hulett, Chair
John Kulick, Vice Chair
Robert M. Grow, Past Chair
Judith Gorman, Secretary
Satish Aggarwal
Oleg Logvinov
Alexander Gelman
Masayuki Ariyoshi
Paul Houzé Ted Olsen
Peter Balma
Gary Robinson
Jim Hughes
William Bartley
Young Kyun Kim Jon Walter Rosdahl
Ted Burse
Joseph L. Koepfinger* Mike Seavey
Clint Chaplin
David J. Law Yatin Trivedi
Wael Diab
Thomas Lee Phil Winston
Jean-Philippe Faure
Hung Ling Yu Yuan
*Member Emeritus
Also included are the following nonvoting IEEE-SA Standards Board liaisons:
Richard DeBlasio, DOE Representative
Michael Janezic, NIST Representative
Catherine Berger
IEEE Standards Senior Program Manager, Document Development
Kathryn Bennett
IEEE Standards Program Manager, Technical Program Development
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Introduction
This introduction is not part of IEEE Std 802.11ae-2012, IEEE Standard for Information technology—
Telecommunications and information exchange between systems—Local and metropolitan area
networks—Specific requirements—Part 11: Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) and physical layer
(PHY) Specifications—Amendment 1: Prioritization of Management Frames.
This document provides amendments to the IEEE 802.11 PHY/MAC layers related to QoS for Management
Frames.
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Contents
3. Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations. 2
3.2 Definitions specific to IEEE 802.11 . 2
3.3 Abbreviations and acronyms . 2
4. General description . 3
4.5 Overview of the services. 3
4.5.6 Traffic differentiation and QoS support. 3
5. MAC service definition . 3
5.1 Overview of MAC services . 3
5.1.1 Data service. 3
6. Layer management. 4
6.3 MLME SAP interface . 4
6.3.3 Scan. 4
6.3.7 Associate. 4
6.3.8 Reassociate. 6
6.3.11 Start. 8
6.3.83 QMF policy. 9
8. Frame formats . 14
8.2 MAC frame formats. 14
8.2.4 Frame fields . 14
8.3 Format of individual frame types. 16
8.3.3 Management frames. 16
8.4 Management frame body components. 18
8.4.2 Information elements . 18
8.5 Action frame format details .
...