Wi-Fi Optimized Connectivity™ Specification v2.0
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Table of contents
1 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Scope ............................................................................................................................................................ 5
1.2 References .................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.3 Definitions and acronyms .............................................................................................................................. 5
1.3.1 Shall/should/may/might word usage ................................................................................................ 5
1.3.2 Conventions ..................................................................................................................................... 6
1.3.3 Abbreviations and acronyms ............................................................................................................ 6
1.3.4 Definitions ........................................................................................................................................ 7
2 ARCHITECTURE .......................................................................................................................................................... 8
2.1 Components .................................................................................................................................................. 8
2.2 Topology ....................................................................................................................................................... 8
2.3 Requirements ................................................................................................................................................ 8
2.3.1 Baseline requirements ..................................................................................................................... 8
2.3.2 Wi-Fi Optimized Connectivity specific requirements ........................................................................ 9
2.3.3 Required IEEE 802.11 capabilities .................................................................................................. 9
3 WI-FI OPTIMIZED CONNECTIVITY PROTOCOL ..................................................................................................... 11
3.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. 11
3.2 OCE capability indication ............................................................................................................................ 11
3.3 FILS Discovery frames ................................................................................................................................ 11
3.4 Reduced Neighbor Report and AP Channel Report elements ................................................................... 12
3.5 Probe deferral and suppression .................................................................................................................. 13
3.6 Broadcast probe response .......................................................................................................................... 15
3.7 Indication of 11b-only AP and non-OCE AP presence in the operating channel........................................ 15
3.8 Max Channel Time Probe Response cancellation ...................................................................................... 16
3.9 Beacon frame replaces a Probe Response frame ...................................................................................... 16
3.10 Scanning mutually non-overlapping channels ............................................................................................ 16
3.11 Minimum Beacon transmission rate ............................................................................................................ 17
3.12 Minimum Probe Request frame transmission rate ...................................................................................... 17
3.13 Minimum Probe Response frame transmission rate ................................................................................... 17
3.14 RSSI-based association rejection information ............................................................................................ 18
3.15 Metrics for AP selection .............................................................................................................................. 18
3.16 FILS authentication ..................................................................................................................................... 18
3.17 Additional Metrics for scanning, AP and network selection ........................................................................ 19
4 INFORMATION ELEMENTS, ATTRIBUTES AND FRAME FORMATS..................................................................... 21
4.1 MBO-OCE information element .................................................................................................................. 21
4.2 OCE attributes ............................................................................................................................................. 22
4.2.1 OCE Capability Indication attribute ................................................................................................ 22
4.2.2 RSSI-based (Re-)Association Rejection attribute .......................................................................... 23
4.2.3 Reduced WAN Metrics attribute ..................................................................................................... 24
4.2.4 RNR Completeness attribute ......................................................................................................... 24
4.2.5 Probe Suppression BSSIDs attribute ............................................................................................. 25
4.2.6 Probe Suppression SSIDs attribute ............................................................................................... 25
4.2.7 Transmit Power attribute ................................................................................................................ 26
4.2.8 IP Subnet Identifier attribute .......................................................................................................... 26
