Draft Specification for PowerLine Intelligent Metering Evolution
R1.3.6 page 3 PRIME Alliance TWG
3.9.1 General .................................................................................................................................... 37
3.9.2 Transmit PSD............................................................................................................................ 37
3.9.3 Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) ................................................................................................ 39
3.9.4 Conducted disturbance limits .................................................................................................. 39
3.10 PHY service specification ................................................................................................................. 39
3.10.1 General .................................................................................................................................... 39
3.10.2 PHY Data plane primitives ....................................................................................................... 40
3.10.3 PHY Control plane primitives ................................................................................................... 43
3.10.4 PHY Management primitives ................................................................................................... 50
4 MAC layer ................................................................................................................................................ 56
4.1 Overview .......................................................................................................................................... 56
4.2 Addressing ....................................................................................................................................... 57
4.2.1 General .................................................................................................................................... 57
4.2.2 Example of address resolution ................................................................................................ 58
4.2.3 Broadcast and multicast addressing ........................................................................................ 60
4.3 MAC functional description ............................................................................................................. 60
4.3.1 Service Node start-up .............................................................................................................. 60
4.3.2 Starting and maintaining Subnetworks ................................................................................... 61
4.3.3 Channel Access ........................................................................................................................ 62
4.3.4 Tracking switches and peers .................................................................................................... 67
4.3.5 Switching ................................................................................................................................. 68
4.3.6 Direct connections ................................................................................................................... 72
4.3.7 Packet aggregation .................................................................................................................. 77
4.3.8 Security .................................................................................................................................... 78
4.4 MAC PDU format ............................................................................................................................. 82
4.4.1 General .................................................................................................................................... 82
4.4.2 Generic MAC PDU .................................................................................................................... 82