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Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications for Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (Wpans) IEEE Standard for Information technology— Telecommunications and information exchange between systems— Local and metropolitan area networks— Specific requirements— Part 15.4: Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications for Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) 1. Overview 1.1 General Wireless personal area networks (WPANs) are used to convey information over relatively short distances. Unlike wireless local area networks (WLANs), connections effected via WPANs involve little or no infrastructure. This feature allows small, power-efficient, inexpensive solutions to be implemented for a wide range of devices. This document defines a standard for a low-rate WPAN (LR-WPAN). 1.2 Scope The scope of this revision is to produce specific enhancements and corrections to IEEE Std 802.15.4, all of which will be backwards compatible with IEEE Std 802.15.4-2003. These enhancements and corrections include resolving ambiguities, reducing unnecessary complexity, increasing flexibility in security key usage, considerations for newly available frequency allocations, and others. IEEE Std 802.15.4 defines the physical layer (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) sublayer specifications for low-data-rate wireless connectivity with fixed, portable, and moving devices with no battery or very limited battery consumption requirements typically operating in the personal operating space (POS) of 10 m. It is foreseen that, depending on the application, a longer range at a lower data rate may be an acceptable tradeoff. Copyright © 2006 IEEE. All rights reserved. 1 IEEE Std 802.15.4-2006 LOCAL AND METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS—PART 15.4: It is the intent of this revision to work toward a level of coexistence with other wireless devices in conjunction with Coexistence Task Groups, such as IEEE 802.15.2 and IEEE 802.11/ETSI-BRAN/MMAC 5GSG. 1.3 Purpose The purpose of this revision is to extend the market applicability of IEEE Std 802.15.4 and to remove ambiguities in the standard. Implementations of the 2003 edition of this standard have revealed potential areas of improvements. Additional frequency bands are being made available in various countries that are attractive for this application space. 2 Copyright © 2006 IEEE. All rights reserved. IEEE WIRELESS MAC AND PHY SPECIFICATIONS FOR LR-WPANS Std 802.15.4-2006 2. Normative references The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments or corrigenda) applies. FIPS Pub 197, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).1 IEEE Std 802®, IEEE Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Overview and Architecture.2 ISO/IEC 8802-2 (IEEE Std 802.2™), Information technology — Telecommunications and information exchange between systems — Local and metropolitan area networks — Specific requirements — Part 2: Logical link control.3 ISO/IEC 9646-7 (ITU-T Rec. X.296), Information technology — Open systems interconnection — Conformance testing methodology and framework — Part 7: Implementation conformance statements. 1FIPS publications are available from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), U. S. Dept. of Commerce, 5285 Port Royal Rd., Springfield, VA 22161 (http://www.ntis.org/). 2IEEE Publications are available from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA (http://standards.ieee.org). 3ISO/IEC publications are available from the ISO Central Secretariat, Case Postale 56, 1 rue de Varembé, CH-1211, Genève 20, Switzerland/Suisse (http://www.iso.ch/). ISO/IEC publications are also available in the United States from Global Engineering Documents, 15 Inverness Way East, Englewood, Colorado 80112, USA (http://global.ihs.com/). Electronic copies are available in the United States from the American National Standards Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10036, USA (http:// www.ansi.org/). Copyright © 2006 IEEE. All rights reserved. 3 IEEE Std 802.15.4-2006 LOCAL AND METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS—PART 15.4: 4 Copyright © 2006 IEEE. All rights reserved. IEEE WIRELESS MAC AND PHY SPECIFICATIONS FOR LR-WPANS Std 802.15.4-2006 3. Definitions For the purposes of this standard, the following terms and definitions apply. Terms not defined in this clause can be found in the The Authoritative Dictionary of IEEE Standards Terms, Seventh Edition [B3].4 3.1 alternate personal area network (PAN) coordinator: A coordinator that is capable of replacing the PAN coordinator, if the PAN coordinator leaves the network for any reason. A PAN can have zero or more alternate PAN coordinators. 3.2 association: The service used to establish membership for a device in a wireless personal area network (WPAN). 3.3 authentication tag: Information that allows the verification of authenticity of a message. 3.4 beacon-enabled personal area network (PAN): A PAN in which all coordinators emit regular beacons, i.e., have beacon order < 0x0F. 3.5 block cipher: A cryptographic function that operates on strings of fixed size. 3.6 block size: The size, in bits, of the strings on which a block cipher operates. 3.7 contention access period (CAP): The period of time immediately following a beacon frame during which devices wishing to transmit will compete for channel access using a slotted carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA-CA) mechanism. 3.8 contention access period (CAP) symbol: A symbol period occurring during the CAP. 3.9 coordinator: A full-function device (FFD) capable of relaying messages. If a coordinator is the principal controller of a personal area network (PAN), it is called the PAN coordinator. 3.10 data authentication: The process whereby an entity receiving a message corroborates evidence about the true source of the information in the message and, thereby, evidence that the message has not been modified in transit. 3.11 data authenticity: Assurance about the source of information. 3.12 device: Any entity containing an implementation of the IEEE 802.15.4 medium access control (MAC) and physical interface to the wireless medium. A device may be a reduced-function device (RFD) or a full- function device (FFD). 3.13 encryption: The transformation of a message into a new representation so that privileged information is required to recover the original representation. 3.14 frame: The format of aggregated bits from a medium access control (MAC) sublayer entity that are transmitted together in time. 3.15 full-function device (FFD): A device capable of operating as a coordinator. 3.16 group key: A key that is known only to a set of devices. 3.17 idle period: A duration of time where no transceiver activity is scheduled to take place. 4The numbers in brackets correspond to the numbers of the bibliography in Annex G. Copyright © 2006 IEEE. All rights reserved. 5 IEEE Std 802.15.4-2006 LOCAL AND METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS—PART 15.4: 3.18 key: Privileged information that may be used, for example, to protect information from disclosure to, and/or undetectable modification by, parties that do not have access to this privileged information. 3.19 key establishment: A process whereby two or more parties establish a key. 3.20 keying material: The combination of a key and associated security information (e.g., a nonce value). 3.21 key management: The collection of processes for the establishment and maintenance of keying relationships over a system’s lifetime. 3.22 key sharing group: A set of devices that share a key. 3.23 local clock: The symbol clock internal to a device. 3.24 link key: A secret key that is shared between precisely two devices. 3.25 minimum security level: Indication of minimum protection required on information in transit. 3.26 mobile device: A device whose logical location in the network may change during use. 3.27 m-sequence: Maximal length linear feedback shift register sequence. 3.28 nonbeacon-enabled personal area network (PAN): A PAN in which coordinators do not emit regular beacons, i.e., have beacon order = 0x0F. 3.29 nonce: A nonrepeating value, such as an increasing counter, a sufficiently long random string, or a timestamp. 3.30 orphaned device: A device that has lost contact with its associated coordinator. 3.31 packet: The formatted, aggregated bits that are transmitted together in time across the physical medium. 3.32 payload data: The contents of a data message that is being transmitted. 3.33 personal area network (PAN) coordinator: A coordinator that is the principal controller of a PAN. An IEEE 802.15.4 network has exactly one PAN coordinator. 3.34 personal operating space (POS): The space about a person or object that is typically about 10 m in all directions and envelops the person or object whether stationary or in motion. 3.35 plain text: A string of unscrambled information. 3.36 protection: The combination of security services provided for information in transit, such as confidentiality, data authenticity, and/or replay protection. 3.37 radio sphere of influence: The region of space throughout which a radio may successfully communicate with other like radios. 3.38 reduced-function device (RFD): A device that is not capable of operating as a coordinator. 3.39 security level: Indication of purported protection applied to information in transit. 6 Copyright © 2006 IEEE. All rights reserved. IEEE WIRELESS MAC AND PHY SPECIFICATIONS FOR LR-WPANS Std 802.15.4-2006 3.40 self-healing: The ability of the network to detect, and recover from, faults appearing in either network nodes or communication links, without human intervention. 3.41 self-organizing: The ability of network nodes to detect the presence of other nodes and to organize into a structured, functioning network without human intervention. 3.42 symmetric key: A secret key that is shared between two or more parties that may be used for encryption/decryption or integrity protection/integrity verification, depending on its intended use.
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