Submission

doc.: IEEE 11-12/1447r1December 2012

Donald Eastlake, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 1

Divide and ConquerDate: 2013-01-13

Authors:

Name Address Affiliations Phone Email

Donald EastlakeHuawei

Technologies

155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA 01757 USA

+1-508-333-2270 d3e3e3@gmail.com

Submission

doc.: IEEE 11-12/1447r1December 2012

Donald Eastlake, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 2

Abstract

I believe the the 802.11 General Link problem can be divided into three relatively independent sub-problems. Various combinations of the solutions to these sub-problems can be considered.

Submission

doc.: IEEE 11-12/1447r1December 2012

Donald Eastlake, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 3

Divide and Conquer

I believe the the 802.11 General Link problem can be divided into three relatively independent sub-problems. Various combinations of the solutions to these sub-problems can be considered.

• Locus of Control

• Reporting to Rest of Network

• Addressing Formats and the Reflection Problem

Submission

doc.: IEEE 11-12/1447r1December 2012

Donald Eastlake, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 4

Divide and Conquer

• Locus of Control in an Infrastructure BSS• Distributed among all STAs

• Mostly at the AP

• Reporting to Rest of Network – What does it look like?• Set of point-to-point links

• A virtual bridge

• (irtual link – no support?)

• Addressing Formats and the Reflection Problem• 4 Address format

• 802.11n aggregated frames

• vPort solution

• (Other ?)

Submission

doc.: IEEE 11-12/1447r1

Donald Eastlake, Huawei Technologies

Current Proposals

December 2012

Slide 5

Distributed Control Centralized ControlP2P vBridge P2P vBridge

4 Address Aggregated Frames vPort

= Each STA does bridge control and infrastructure BSS appears to be a set of P2P links. 802.1 Doc:http: new-nfinn-11-medium-choice-0812- v04.pdf

= vPort. 11-12/1449

= Most control at AP and infrastructure BSS appears to be a single virtual bridge. 11-12/1232