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

4-June-07 P1901_PRO_016_r0
Tonemap Table that contains the amount of bits that shall be transmitted by each
subcarrier.
Token The token is the MAC delimiter which terminates a regular MPDU. There are
ten types of tokens: data and distributor token are used to propose transmission
opportunities to one or more distant node, access/access reply tokens are used
to discover Unregistered slaves, polling and TDR token are used for the slave
and TDR states polling respectively, non-returnable token is used for allocating
simultaneous transmission opportunities to several slaves (spatial reuse),
silence token is used for sending a regular MPDU and keeping control of the
medium after the transmission of this MPDU, CSMA token allow the priorized
contention for the following transmission to every node that demodulate it, and
clock token allow the synchronization in time of every node in the BPL cell.
Unicast A transmission that is addressed to a unique recipient.
Unregistered slave An Unregistered slave is not managed by any master. A master can detect such
slaves via the exchange of an access frame and an access reply frame.
Visibility From a node to another node, when the first node is able to demodulate the
token announce sent by the second node.
Word A data unit of 32-bits
1.6 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
4D Four Dimensional
AAA Authorization – Authentication – Accounting
ABLP Adaptive Bit-Loading Protocol
ABR Available Bit Rate
ACK ACKnowledge
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