ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802-11:2022

INTERNATIONAL ISO/
STANDARD IEC/IEEE
8802-11
Third edition
2022-07
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
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)
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IEEE Std 802.11™-2020
(Revision of IEEE Std 802.11-2016)
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
Developed by the
LAN/MAN Standards Committee
of the
IEEE Computer Society
Approved 3 December 2020
IEEE SA Standards Board
Abstract: Technical corrections and clarifications to IEEE Std 802.11 for wireless local area
networks (WLANs) as well as enhancements to the existing medium access control (MAC) and
physical layer (PHY) functions are specified in this revision. Amendments 1 to 5 published in 2016
and 2018 have also been incorporated into this revision.
Keywords: 2.4 GHz, 256-QAM, 3650 MHz, 4.9 GHz, 5 GHz, 5.9 GHz, 60 GHz, advanced
encryption standard, AES, audio, beamforming, carrier sense multiple access/collision avoidance,
CCMP, channel switching, clustering, contention based access period, Counter mode with Cipher-
block chaining Message authentication code Protocol, confidentiality, CSMA/CA, DFS, direct link,
directional multi-gigabit, dynamic allocation of service period, dynamic extension of service period,
dynamic frequency selection, dynamic truncation of service period, E911, EDCA, emergency alert
system, emergency services, fast session transfer, forwarding, GCMP, generic advertisement
service, high throughput, IEEE 802.11™, international roaming, interworking, interworking with
external networks, LAN, local area network, MAC, management, measurement, medium access
control, media-independent handover, medium access controller, mesh, MIS, millimeter-wave,
MIMO, MIMO-OFDM, multi-band operation, multi-hop, multi-user MIMO, multiple input multiple
output, network advertisement, network discovery, network management, network selection,
noncontiguous frequency segments, OCB, path-selection, personal basic service set, PHY,
physical layer, power saving, QoS, quality of service, quality-of-service management frame, radio,
radio frequency, RF, radio resource, radio management, relay operation, spatial sharing, SSPN,
subscriber service provider, television white spaces, TPC, transmit power control, video, wireless
access in vehicular environments, wireless LAN, wireless local area network, WLAN, wireless
network management, zero-knowledge proof
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Participants
At the time this revision was sent to sponsor ballot, the IEEE 802.11 Working Group (WG) had the
following officers:
Dorothy V. Stanley, Chair
st
Jon W. Rosdahl, 1 Vice Chair
nd
Robert Stacey, 2 Vice Chair
Stephen McCann, Secretary
The officers of the WG Task Group md and the members of the WG ballot group for this revision are as
follows:
Dorothy V. Stanley, Chair
Mark Hamilton, Vice Chair
Michael Montemurro, Vice Chair
Jon W. Rosdahl, Secretary
Emily H. Qi, Technical Editor
Edward Au, Technical Sub-editor
Osama S. Aboulmagd Sean Coffey Hanseul Hong
Tomoko Adachi Carlos Cordeiro Koji Horisaki
Jinsoo Ahn Claudio da Silva Chunyu Hu
Subir Das Lei Huang
Woojin Ahn
Kosuke Aio Rolf J. de Vegt Po-Kai Huang
Carlos H. Aldana Pierre Debergh Zhiyong Huang
Yaron Alpert Donald E. Eastlake Sung Hyun H. Hwang
Song-Haur An Peter Ecclesine Yasuhiko Inoue
Carol Ansley Richard Edgar Timothy Jeffries
Lee R. Armstrong Marc Emmelmann Jia Jia
Yusuke Asai Vinko Erceg Jinjing Jiang
Alfred Asterjadhi Andrew Estrada Liang Jin
Kwok Shum S. Au Ping Fang Allan Jones
Vijay Auluck Yonggang Fang Vincent Knowles Jones
Xiang Feng Volker Jungnickel
Geert A. Awater
Shahrnaz Azizi Norman Finn Christophe Jurczak
Robert Baeten Matthew J. Fischer Carl W. Kain
Eugene Baik Michael Fischer Naveen K. Kakani
Stephane Baron Shunsuke Fujio Dzevdan Kapetanovic
Anuj Batra Sho Furuichi Assaf Y. Kasher
Friedbert Berens Ming Gan Oren Kedem
Christian Berger Eduard Garcia Villegas Richard H. Kennedy
Nehru Bhandaru Chittabrata Ghosh Stuart J. Kerry
John Buffington James P. Gilb Evgeny Khorov
George Calcev Tim Godfrey Jeongki Kim
Rui Cao Niranjan Grandhe Jin Min Kim
Laurent Cariou Michael Grigat Sang Gook Kim
William Carney Qiang Guo Suhwook Kim
Ricky Chair Yuchen Guo Yongho Kim
Clint F. Chaplin Robert Hall Youhan Kim
Jiamin Chen Xiao Han Jarkko Kneckt
Xiaogang Chen Thomas Handte Geonjung Ko
Fumihide Kojima
George Cherian Christopher J. Hansen
Dmitry Cherniavsky Chris Hartman Bruce P. Kraemer
Rojan Chitrakar Victor Hayes Manish Kumar
Hangyu Cho Allen D. Heberling Rajesh Kumar
Jinsoo Choi Ahmadreza Hedayat Massinissa Lalam
Liwen Chu Robert F. Heile Zhou Lan
Jinyoung Chun Guido R. Hiertz Leonardo Lanante
Dana Ciochina Duncan Ho James Lansford
Jae Seung S. Lee Minyoung Park Bin Tian
Sungeun Lee Sung-jin Park Fei Tong
Suzanne Leicht Glenn Parsons Solomon B. Trainin
James Lepp Abhishek Patil Yoshio Urabe
Joseph Levy Hakan Persson Richard D. Van Nee
Allert Van Zelst
Dejian Li James E. Petranovich
Guoqing Li Albert Petrick Lorenzo Vangelista
Huan-Bang Li Ron Porat Jerome Vanthournout
Qiang Li Rethnakaran Pulikkoonattu Prabodh Varshney
Yanchun Li Dengyu Qiao Ganesh Venkatesan
Yunbo Li Demir Rakanovic Lochan Verma
Dong Guk Lim Enrico-Henrik Rantala Sameer Vermani
Yingpei Lin Maximilian Riegel Pascal Viger
Erik Lindskog Mark Rison George A. Vlantis
Der-Zheng Liu Zhigang Rong Chao Chun Wang
Jianhan Liu Kiseon Ryu Haiming Wang
Huizhao Wang
Yong Liu Bahareh Sadeghi
Peter Loc Takenori Sakamoto James June J. Wang
Artyom Lomayev Kazuyuki Sakoda Lei Wang
Hui-Ling Lou Sam Sambasivan Xiaofei Wang
Kaiying Lv Hemanth Sampath Xuehuan Wang
Lily Lv Naotaka Sato Lisa Ward
Jing Ma Sigurd Schelstraete Julian Webber
Narendar Madhavan Andy Scott Menzo M. Wentink
Jouni K. Malinen Yongho Seok Leif Wilhelmsson
Alexander Maltsev Stephen J. Shellhammer Eric Wong
Hiroshi Mano Ian Sherlock Tianyu Wu
Shimi Shilo Yan Xin
Roger Marks
Stephen McCann Graham K. Smith Qi Xue
Simone Merlin Ju-Hyung Son Rui Yang
Apurva Mody Sudhir Srinivasa Xun Yang
Bibhu Mohanty Robert Stacey Yunsong Yang
Hitoshi Morioka Adrian P. Stephens Kazuto Yano
Yuichi Morioka Noel Stott James Yee
Hiroyuki Motozuka Jung Hoon H. Suh Peter Yee
Robert Mueller Takenori Sumi Su Khiong K. Yong
Yutaka Murakami Bo Sun Christopher Young
Andrew Myles Chen Sun Heejung Yu
Li-Hsiang Sun Jian Yu
Patrice Nezou
Paul Nikolich Sheng Sun Mao Yu
Yujin Noh Yanjun Sun SunWoong Yun
John Notor Dennis Sundman Alan Zeleznikar
Minseok Oh Mineo Takai Hongyuan Zhang
Oghenekome Oteri Sagar Tamhane Xingxin Zhang
Kazuyuki Ozaki Yusuke Tanaka Yan Zhang
Stephen Palm Kentaro Taniguchi Xiayu Zheng
Eunsung Park Wu Tao Lan Zhuo
Major contributions were received from the following individuals:
Tomo Adachi Daniel N. Harkins Mark Rison
Edward Au Jerome Henry Jon W. Rosdahl
Gabr Bajko Guido R. Hiertz Kazuyuki Sakoda
Nehru Bhandaru Srinivas Kandala Sigurd Schelstraete
Jiamin Chen Assaf Y. Kasher Graham K. Smith
Sean Coffey Youhan Kim Robert Stacey
Thomas Derham Jouni K. Malinen Dorothy V. Stanley
Peter Ecclesine Stephen McCann Bo Sun
Marc Emmelmann Michael Montemurro Payam Torab
Matthew J. Fischer Yujin Noh Solomon B. Trainin
David Goodall Abhishek Patil Ganesh Venkatesan
Mark Hamilton Emily H. Qi Haiming Wang
Christopher J. Hansen Menzo M. Wentink
The following members of the individual balloting committee voted on this revision. Balloters may have
voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention.
Osama Aboulmagd Atsushi Ito R. K. Rannow
Tomoko Adachi Raj Jain Ranga Reddy
Robert Aiello SangKwon Jeong Alon Regev
Thomas Alexander Pranav Jha Maximilian Riegel
Nobumitsu Amachi Jeffrum Jones Mark Rison
Carol Ansley Joe Natharoj Juisai Robert Robinson
Butch Anton Lokesh Kabra Benjamin Rolfe
Alfred Asterjadhi Srinivas Kandala Jon W. Rosdahl
Kwok Shum S. Au Piotr Karocki Kazuyuki Sakoda
Stephan Sand
Harry Bims Assaf Y. Kasher
Nancy Bravin Stuart J. Kerry Chester Sandberg
Jason Brent Evgeny Khorov Shigenobu Sasaki
Vern Brethour Yongbum Kim Naotaka Sato
Demetrio Bucaneg Youhan Kim Sigurd Schelstraete
William Byrd Patrick Kinney Andy Scott
Paul Cardinal Shoichi Kitazawa Yongho Seok
William Carney Jan Kruys Kunal Shah
Juan Carreon Yasushi Kudoh Ian Sherlock
Pin Chang Thomas Kurihara Di Dieter Smely
Cheng Chen Hyeong Ho Lee Graham K. Smith
Kang Lee Robert Stacey
Evelyn Chen
George Cherian Wookbong Lee Dorothy V. Stanley
Rojan Chitrakar Frank Leong Thomas Starai
Paul Chiuchiolo James Lepp Noel Stott
John Coffey Joseph Levy Walter Struppler
Charles Cook Yong Liu Mark Sturza
D. Nelson Costa Javier Luiso Mitsutoshi Sugawara
Claudio da Silva Valerie Maguire Bo Sun
Antonio de la Oliva Delgado Jouni K. Malinen Li-Hsiang Sun
Peter Ecclesine Jeffery Masters Jasja Tijink
Richard Edgar Stephen McCann Payam Torab Jahromi
Brett McClellan Solomon B. Trainin
Alecsander Eitan
Marc Emmelmann Michael Montemurro Mark-Rene Uchida
Xiang Feng Hiroyuki Motozuka Allert Van Zelst
Matthew J. Fischer Ronald Murias Prabodh Varshney
Michael Fischer Rick Murphy John Vergis
Avraham Freedman Andrew Myles Lochan Verma
Sho Furuichi Paul Neveux George A. Vlantis
Devon Gayle Nick S. A. Nikjoo Lei Wang
Mariana Goldhamer Paul Nikolich Lisa Ward
David Goodall Robert O’Hara Hung-Yu Wei
Michael Gundlach Satoshi Obara Matthias Wendt
Bansi Patel Menzo M. Wentink
Mark Hamilton
Christopher J. Hansen Abhishek Patil Scott Willy
Jerome Henry Arumugam Paventhan Andreas Wolf
Marco Hernandez Albert Petrick Chun Yu Charles Wong
Lili Hervieu Brian Petry Forrest Wright
Guido R. Hiertz David Piehler Peter Wu
Werner Hoelzl Walter Pienciak Yunsong Yang
Yu Yuan
Oliver Holland Clinton Powell
Glenn Hu Venkatesha Prasad Oren Yuen
Yasuhiko Inoue Emily H. Qi Janusz Zalewski
Demir Rakanovic
When the IEEE SA Standards Board approved this recommended practice on 3 December 2020, it had the
following membership:
Gary Hoffman, Chair
Jon Walter Rosdahl, Vice Chair
John D. Kulick, Past Chair
Konstantinos Karachalios, Secretary
Ted Burse David J. Law Mehmet Ulema
Doug Edwards Howard Li Lei Wang
J. Travis Griffith Dong Liu Sha Wei
Grace Gu Kevin Lu Philip B. Winston
Guido R. Hiertz Paul Nikolich Daidi Zhong
Joseph L. Koepfinger* Damir Novosel Jingyi Zhou
Dorothy V. Stanley
*Member Emeritus
Introduction
This introduction is not part of IEEE Std 802.11-2020, 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.
This revision gives users, in one document, the IEEE 802.11 standard for wireless local area networks
(WLANs) with all of the amendments that have been published to date.
Incorporating published amendments
The original standard was published in 1997, revised in 1999 with MIB changes, and reaffirmed in 2003.
A revision was published in 2007, which incorporated into the 1999 edition the following amendments:
— IEEE Std 802.11a™-1999: High-speed Physical Layer in the 5 GHz Band (Amendment 1)
— IEEE Std 802.11b™-1999: Higher-Speed Physical Layer Extension in the 2.4 GHz Band
(Amendment 2)
— IEEE Std 802.11b-1999/Corrigendum 1-2001: Higher-speed Physical Layer (PHY) extension in the
2.4 GHz band (Corrigendum 1 to Amendment 2)
— IEEE Std 802.11d™-2001: Specification for operation in additional regulatory domains
(Amendment 3)
— IEEE Std 802.11g™-2003: Further Higher Data Rate Extension in the 2.4 GHz Band
(Amendment 4)
— IEEE Std 802.11h™-2003: Spectrum and Transmit Power Management Extensions in the 5 GHz
band in Europe (Amendment 5)
— IEEE Std 802.11i™-2004: Medium Access Control (MAC) Security Enhancements (Amendment 6)
— IEEE Std 802.11j™-2004: 4.9 GHz–5 GHz Operation in Japan (Amendment 7)
— IEEE Std 802.11e™-2005: Medium Access Control (MAC) Quality of Service Enhancements
(Amendment 8)
A revision was published in 2012, which incorporated into the 2007 revision the following amendments:
— IEEE Std 802.11k™-2008: Radio Resource Measurement of Wireless LANs (Amendment 1)
— IEEE Std 802.11r™-2008: Fast Basic Service Set (BSS) Transition (Amendment 2)
— IEEE Std 802.11y™-2008: 3650–3700 MHz Operation in USA (Amendment 3)
— IEEE Std 802.11w™-2009: Protected Management Frames (Amendment 4)
— IEEE Std 802.11n™-2009: Enhancements for Higher Throughput (Amendment 5)
— IEEE Std 802.11p™-2010: Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (Amendment 6)
— IEEE Std 802.11z™-2010: Extensions to Direct-Link Setup (DLS) (Amendment 7)
— IEEE Std 802.11v™-2011: Wireless Network Management (Amendment 8)
— IEEE Std 802.11u™-2011: Interworking with External Networks (Amendment 9)
— IEEE Std 802.11s™-2011: Mesh Networking (Amendment 10)
A revision was published in 2016, which incorporated into the 2012 revision the following amendments:
— IEEE Std 802.11ae™-2012: Prioritization of Management Frames (Amendment 1)
— IEEE Std 802.11aa™-2012: MAC Enhancements for Robust Audio Video Streaming
(Amendment 2)
— IEEE Std 802.11ad™-2012: Enhancements for Very High Throughput in the 60 GHz Band
(Amendment 3)
— IEEE Std 802.11ac™-2013: Enhancements for Very High Throughput for Operation in Bands
below 6 GHz (Amendment 4)
— IEEE Std 802.11af™-2013: Television White Spaces (TVWS) Operation (Amendment 5)
This revision is based on IEEE Std 802.11-2016, into which the following amendments have been
incorporated:
— IEEE Std 802.11ai™-2016 (second printing): Fast Initial Link Setup (Amendment 1)
— IEEE Std 802.11ah™-2016: Sub 1 GHz License Exempt Operation (Amendment 2)
— IEEE Std 802.11aj™-2018: Enhancements for Very High Throughput to Support Chinese
Millimeter Wave Frequency Bands (60 GHz and 45 GHz) (Amendment 3)
— IEEE Std 802.11ak™-2018: Enhancements for Transit Links Within Bridged Networks
(Amendment 4)
— IEEE Std 802.11aq™-2018: Preassociation Discovery (Amendment 5)
Technical corrections, clarifications, and enhancements
In addition, this revision specifies technical corrections and clarifications to IEEE Std 802.11 as well as
enhancements to the existing medium access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) functions. In
addition, this revision removes some features previously marked as obsolete and adds new indications of
other obsolete features.
Generally, features that are marked deprecated or obsolete are not maintained; there might be technical
errors in the material describing these features.
Renumbering of clauses and annexes
The numbering of certain clauses and annexes has been modified since IEEE Std 802.11-2007.
The evolution of this numbering is shown in Figure 1.
Key:
Unchanged
Changed
Deleted
Amendments to  Amendments to  Amendments to
802.11‐2012 802.11‐2016
IEEE Std 802.11‐2007 802.11‐2007 IEEE Std 802.11‐2012 IEEE Std 802.11‐2016 IEEE Std 802.11‐2020
Clause 1 Clause 1 Clause 1 Clause 1
Clause 2 Clause 2 Clause 2 Clause 2
Clause 3 Clause 3 Clause 3 Clause 3
3.3
Clause 4 Clause 4 Clause 4
Clause 4
Clause 5 Clause 5 Clause 5
Clause 5
Clause 6 Clause 6 Clause 6
Clause 6
Clause 7 Clause 7 Clause 7
6.4
Clause 8 Clause 8 Clause 8
Clause 7
Clause 9 7.4 Clause 9 Clause 9
Clause 10 Clause 8 Clause 10 Clause 10
Clause 11 Clause 9 Clause 11 Clause 11
802.11w: Clause 11A Clause 10 Clause 12 Clause 12
801.11u: Clause 11B Clause 11 Clause 13 Clause 13
802.11s: Clause 11C Clause 12 Clause 14 Clause 14
Clause 12 Clause 13 Clause 15 Clause 15
Clause 13 Clause 14 Clause 16 Clause 16
Clause 14 Clause 15 Clause 17 Clause 17
Clause 15 Clause 16 Clause 18 Clause 18
Clause 16 Clause 17 Clause 19 Clause 19
Clause 17 Clause 18 Clause 20 Clause 20
Clause 18 Clause 19 Clause 21 Clause 21
Clause 19 Clause 20 Clause 22 Clause 22
802.11n: Clause 20 802.11ad: Clause 21 802.11ah: Clause 23 Clause 23
Annex A 802.11ac: Clause 22 802.11aj: Clause 24 Clause 24
Annex B 802.11af: Clause 23 802.11aj: Clause 25 Clause 25
Annex C Annex A Annex A
Annex A
Annex D Annex B Annex B
Annex B
Normative
Annex E Annex C Annex C
Annexes
Annex C
Annex F Annex D Annex D
Annex D
Annex G Annex E Annex E
Annex E
Annex H Annex F Annex F
Annex F
Annex I Annex G Annex G
Annex G
Annex J Annex H Annex H
Annex H
Annex K Annex I Annex I
Annex I
Annex L Annex J Annex J
Annex J
Annex M Annex K Annex K
Annex K
Annex N Annex L Annex L
Annex L
Annex O Annex M Annex M
Informative
Annex M
Annexes
Annex P Annex N Annex N
Annex N
Annex O Annex O
Annex O
Annex P Annex P
802.11k: Annex Q
Annex P
802.11n: Annex R Annex Q Annex Q
Annex Q
Annex R Annex R
802.11n: Annex S
Annex R
802.11n: Annex T Annex S Annex S
Annex S
Annex T Annex T
802.11z: Annex U
Annex T
802.11v: Annex V Annex U Annex U
Annex U
Annex V Annex V
802.11v: Annex W
Annex V
802.11u: Annex X 802.11aa: Annex X 802.11aj: Annex W Annex W
Annex W
802.11ad: Annex Y 802.11ak: Annex X Annex X
802.11s: Annex Y
802.11ad: Annex Z 802.11aq: Annex Y Annex Y
Figure 1—The evolution of numbering in IEEE Std 802.11
Contents
1. Overview. 149
1.1 Scope. 149
1.2 Purpose. 149
1.3 Supplementary information on purpose. 149
1.4 Word usage . 150
1.5 Terminology for mathematical, logical, and bit operations. 151
2. Normative references. 154
3. Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations. 158
3.1 Definitions . 158
3.2 Definitions specific to IEEE Std 802.11. 173
3.3 Definitions specific to IEEE 802.11 operation in some regulatory domains. 205
3.4 Acronyms and abbreviations . 205
3.5 Abbreviations and acronyms in some regulatory domains. 218
4. General description . 219
4.1 General description of the architecture. 219
4.2 How wireless local area networks (WLANs) are different. 219
4.2.1 Introduction. 219
4.2.2 Wireless station (STA). 219
4.2.3 Media impact on design and performance. 219
4.2.4 The impact of handling mobile STAs. 220
4.2.5 Interaction with other IEEE 802® layers. 220
4.2.6 Interaction with non-IEEE-802 protocols. 220
4.3 Components of the IEEE 802.11 architecture . 220
4.3.1 General. 220
4.3.2 Independent BSS (IBSS) . 221
4.3.3 Personal BSS (PBSS). 221
4.3.4 STA membership in a BSS is dynamic. 221
4.3.5 Distribution system (DS) concepts . 222
4.3.5.1 Overview. 222
4.3.5.2 Extended service set (ESS): the large coverage network. 223
4.3.6 Area concepts. 224
4.3.7 Integration with non-IEEE-802.11 LANs. 225
4.3.8 Robust security network association (RSNA) . 226
4.3.9 Centralized coordination service set (CCSS) and extended centralized AP or
PCP clustering (ECAPC) . 226
4.3.10 QoS BSS . 228
4.3.11 Wireless LAN radio measurements . 229
4.3.11.1 General. 229
4.3.11.2 Beacon. 230
4.3.11.3 Measurement pilot. 230
4.3.11.4 Frame . 230
4.3.11.5 Channel load . 230
4.3.11.6 Noise histogram . 231
4.3.11.7 STA statistics . 231
4.3.11.8 Location . 231
4.3.11.9 Measurement pause. 231
4.3.11.10 Neighbor report. 231
4.3.11.11 Link measurement. 231
4.3.11.12 Transmit stream/category measurement . 231
4.3.12 Operation in licensed frequency bands. 232
4.3.12.1 General. 232
4.3.12.2 Dynamic STA enablement (DSE) in licensed bands . 232
4.3.12.3 Contention based protocol (CBP) in nonexclusively licensed bands . 232
4.3.12.4 Using DSE STA identification to resolve interference. 232
4.3.12.5 Further coexistence enhancements in nonexclusively licensed bands 232
4.3.13 High-throughput (HT) STA . 232
4.3.14 Sub 1 GHz (S1G) STA . 233
4.3.14.1 Overview. 233
4.3.14.2 S1G relay. 234
4.3.15 Very high throughput (VHT) STA . 234
4.3.16 Television very high throughput (TVHT) STA. 235
4.3.17 STA transmission of Data frames outside the context of a BSS . 237
4.3.18 Tunneled direct-link setup . 237
4.3.19 Wireless network management. 237
4.3.19.1 Overview. 237
4.3.19.2 BSS max idle period management. 238
4.3.19.3 BSS transition management. 238
4.3.19.4 Channel usage . 238
4.3.19.5 Collocated interference reporting. 239
4.3.19.6 Diagnostic reporting. 239
4.3.19.7 Directed multicast service (DMS). 239
4.3.19.8 Event reporting. 239
4.3.19.9 Flexible multicast service (FMS). 239
4.3.19.10 Location services. 239
4.3.19.11 Multicast Diagnostic report. 239
4.3.19.12 Multiple BSSID capability.
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