[OPSAWG] I-D Action: draft-ietf-opsawg-capwap-hybridmac-02.txt

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Subject: [OPSAWG] I-D Action: draft-ietf-opsawg-capwap-hybridmac-02.txt

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the Operations and Management Area Working Group Working Group of the IETF.

Title : IEEE 802.11 MAC Profile for CAPWAP
Authors : Chunju Shao
Hui Deng
Rajesh S. Pazhyannur
Farooq Bari
Rong Zhang
Satoru Matsushima
Filename : draft-ietf-opsawg-capwap-hybridmac-02.txt
Pages : 10
Date : 2014-02-14

Abstract:
CAPWAP defines two entities Wireless Transmission Point (WTP) and
Access Controller (AC). CAPWAP also defines two MAC (Medium Access
Control) modes for IEEE 802.11 WTPs: Split and Local MAC . For each
MAC mode, CAPWAP describes how the MAC functionality is split between
the WTP and AC. However, certain functions have not been clearly
defined. For example for the Split MAC mode, the IEEE 802.11
encryption is specified as located in either the AC or the WTP with
no clear way for the AC to inform the WTP where it should be. This
lack of specification leads to interoperability especially when AC
and WTP come from different vendors. To solve the problem, this
specification defines a IEEE 802.11 MAC profile where each profile
specifies an unambigous division of functionality between the WTP and
AC. The IEEE 802.11 MAC profile is used as follows: The WTP informs
the AC of the supported profiles during the discovery or join process
and the AC configures the WTP with one of the supported profiles
while configuring a WLAN.

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