IEEE 802.15.3b-2005

IEEE 802.15.3b-2005 IEEE Standard for IEEE Amendment to Part 15.3: Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications for High Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN): Amendment to MAC Sublayer
Amendment by IEEE, 05/05/2006

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Scope

This amendment contains changes to the IEEE Std 802.15.3 required to improve implementation and interoperability. This will include minor optimizations while preserving backward compatibility. In addition, this amendment will correct errors, clarify ambiguities, and add editorial clarifications.

Purpose

The purpose of this amendment is to improve the ability of IEEE Std 802.15.3 to support emerging wireless multimedia applications; e.g., multimedia streaming, time synchronization, low latency data transfer, and peripheral connectivity.

Abstract

Amendment Standard - Superseded.This amendment provides corrections and optimizations to IEEE Std 802.15.3-2003. Themanagement service access points (SAPs) have been completely updated to create a consistent,logical interface. As a consequence, most of the message sequence charts (MSCs) in the mediumaccess control (MAC) functional specification have been updated as well. Channel time usage ismore efficient with the addition of multiple contention periods, releasing channel time, impliedacknowledgment, and mullticast groups. (The PDF of this standard is available at no cost.