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IEEE Std 802.11a-1999 Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) specifications:High-speed Physical Layer in the 5 GHZ Band -Description

Abstract: Changes and additions to IEEE Std. 802.11-1999 are provided to support the new high- rate physical layer (PHY) for operation in the 5 GHz band.

Keywords: 5 GHz, high speed, local area network (LAN), orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), radio frequency, unlicensed national information infrastructure (U-NII), wireless

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  • 4. Abbreviations and acronyms
    • 9.1 Multirate support Multirate support
    • 10.4 PLME SAP interface
      • 10.4.6 PLME-TXTIME.request
      • 10.4.7 PLME-TXTIME.confirm
  • 17. OFDM physical layer specification for the 5 GHz band>OFDM PHY specification for the 5 GHz band
    • 17.1 Introduction
      • 17.1.1 Scope
      • 17.1.2 OFDM PHY functions
    • 17.2 OFDM PHY specific service parameter list
      • 17.2.1 Introduction
      • 17.2.2 TXVECTOR parameters
      • 17.2.3 RXVECTOR parameters
    • 17.3 OFDM PLCP sublayer
      • 17.3.1 Introduction
      • 17.3.2 PLCP frame format
      • 17.3.3 PLCP preamble (SYNC)
      • 17.3.4 Signal field (SIGNAL)
      • 17.3.5 DATA field
      • 17.3.6 Clear channel assessment (CCA)
      • 17.3.7 PLCP data modulation and modulation rate change
      • 17.3.8 PMD operating specifications (general)
      • 17.3.9 PMD transmit specifications
      • 17.3.10 PMD receiver specifications
      • 17.3.11 PLCP transmit procedure
      • 17.3.12 PLCP receive procedure
    • 17.4 OFDM PLME
      • 17.4.1 PLME_SAP sublayer management primitives
      • 17.4.2 OFDM PHY management information base
      • 17.4.3 OFDM TXTIME calculation
      • 17.4.4 OFDM PHY characteristics
    • 17.5 OFDM PMD sublayer
      • 17.5.1 Scope and field of application
      • 17.5.2 Overview of service
      • 17.5.3 Overview of interactions
      • 17.5.4 Basic service and options
      • 17.5.5 PMD_SAP detailed service specification
  • Annex A Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) proforma
    • A.4.3 IUT configuration
      • A.4.8 Orthogonal frequency division multiplex PHY functions
  • Annex D ASN.1 encoding of the MAC and PHY MIB
  • Annex G An example of encoding a frame for OFDM PHY
    • G.1 Introduction
    • G.2 The message
    • G.3 Generation of the preamble
      • G.3.1 Generation of the short sequences
      • G.3.2 Generation of the long sequences
    • G.4 Generation of the SIGNAL field
      • G.4.1 SIGNAL field bit assignment
      • G.4.2 Coding the SIGNAL field bits.
      • G.4.3 Interleaving the SIGNAL field bits.
      • G.4.4 SIGNAL field frequency domain
      • G.4.5 SIGNAL field time domain
    • G.5 Generating the DATA bits
      • G.5.1 Delineating, SERVICE field prepending, and zero padding
      • G.5.2 Scrambling
      • G.6.1 Coding the DATA bits
      • G.6.2 Interleaving the DATA bits
      • G.6.3 Mapping into symbols
    • G.7 Generating the additional DATA symbols
    • G.8 The entire packet

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