Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) - CISE

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revision, and parties to agreements based on this standard are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying
the most recent revisions of the standards listed below.
• ANSI X9.42: 2003. Agreement of Symmetric Keys Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography
• IEEE 802.3 Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks – Residential Ethernet
• IEEE 802.1p Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - Traffic Class Expediting and Dynamic
Multicast Filtering
• IEEE 802.1D Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks – MAC bridges
• IEEE 802.1q Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks
• IEEE 802.1w Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - Rapid Reconfiguration of Spanning
Tree
• IEEE 802.11i Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks – Medium Access Control (MAC)
Security Enhancements
• RFC 3610 - Counter with CBC-MAC (CCM)
• NIST 800-38A - 2001, Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation
• FIPS PUB 198 - The Keyed-hash Message Authentication Code
• FIPS 197 – Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
1.4 DOCUMENT CONVENTIONS
This document is divided into sections and appendices. The document body (all sections) is normative (except for
italicised text); each appendix is identified as in its title as normative or informative.
Text formatted in italics is not part of the specification. It is for clarification only.
Binary numbers are indicated by the prefix 0b followed by the binary digits, for example, 0b0101. Hexadecimal
numbers are indicated by the prefix 0x.
Formal requirements are indicated with ‘shall’ in the main body of this document.
Options are indicated with ‘may’ in the main body of this document. If an option is incorporated in an
implementation, it shall be done as specified in this document.
⎡⎤ ⋅ denotes rounding to the closest higher or equal integer
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