IEEE Standard for a Convergent
Digital Home Network for
Heterogeneous Technologies
Sponsored by the
Power Line Communications Standards Committee
IEEE
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New York, NY 10016-5997
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1
2 April 2013
IEEE Communications Society
IEEE Std 1905.1™-2013
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IEEE Std 1905.1
TM
-2013
IEEE Standard for a Convergent
Digital Home Network for
Heterogeneous Technologies
Sponsor
Power Line Communications Standards Committee
of the
IEEE Communications Society
Approved 6 March 2013
IEEE-SA Standards Board
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Abstract: An abstraction layer for multiple home networking technologies that provides a
common interface to widely deployed home networking technologies is defined in this standard:
IEEE 1901 over power lines, IEEE 802.11 for wireless, Ethernet over twisted pair cable, and
MoCA 1.1 over coax. Connectivity selection for transmission of packets arriving from any
interface or application is supported by the 1905.1 abstraction layer. Modification to the
underlying home networking technologies is not required by the 1905.1 layer, and hence it does
not change the behavior or implementation of existing home networking technologies. Introduced
by the 1905.1 specification is a layer between layers 2 and 3 that abstracts the individual details
of each interface, aggregates available bandwidth, and facilitates seamless integration. The
1905.1 also facilitates end-to-end quality of service (QoS) while simplifying the introduction of
new devices to the network, establishing secure connections, extending network coverage, and
facilitating advanced network management features including discovery, path selection,
autoconfiguration, and quality of service (QoS) negotiation.
Keywords: abstraction layer, access point (AP) autoconfiguration, data models, fragmentation
and reassembly, IEEE 802.1 bridge discovery, IEEE 802.11
TM
, IEEE 1901
TM
, IEEE 1905.1
TM
,
MoCA, pairwise master key, push button, registration, security, topology discovery protocol,
wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi)
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