SWRU423A
July 2015 – May 2016
WL1801MOD
,
WL1805MOD
,
WL1807MOD
,
WL1831MOD
,
WL1835MOD
,
WL1837MOD
WiLink 8 WLAN Features Guide
Trademarks
1
Introducion
1.1
Scope
1.2
Acronyms Table
1.3
WiLink 8 Specification
2
General Features
2.1
Supported Rates
2.1.1
11b Rates
2.1.2
11a/g Rates
2.2
High-Throughput (HT) Features
2.2.1
11n Rates
2.2.2
MIMO at 2.4 GHz
2.2.3
40-MHz BW Operation
2.2.4
A-MPDU and A-MSDU
2.2.5
RIFS
2.2.6
BA Sessions
2.2.7
Greenfield
2.3
Quality of Service (QoS)
2.4
Protection Types
2.4.1
General
2.4.2
Protection Methods
2.5
Suspend and Resume
2.6
WoW (Wake on WLAN)
2.7
Set TX Power
2.8
5-GHz Antenna Diversity
2.9
Wi-Fi – Bluetooth/Bluetooth Smart Coexistence
2.10
Wi-Fi – ZigBee Coexistence
2.11
Accurate Synchronization Over Wi-Fi
3
Single Role: Station
3.1
Scanning
3.1.1
One-Shot Scan
3.1.2
Connection Scan
3.1.3
Background Scan
3.2
Connection
3.2.1
Manual (Via Commands)
3.2.1.1
Connection Time
3.2.1.2
Connection Success Rate
3.2.1.3
Connect to Best BSSID of the Configured SSID
3.2.2
Automatic (Via Profiles)
3.2.3
Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS)
3.2.3.1
WPS PBC
3.2.3.2
WPS PIN
3.3
Disconnection
3.4
DHCP Client
3.5
Security
3.5.1
Authentication Types
3.5.2
Encryption Types
3.5.3
Broadcast Key Rotation (BKR)
3.6
Filtering
3.6.1
Beacon Filtering
3.6.2
Multicast Filtering
3.7
Auto ARP
3.8
Preferred Networks (Profiles)
3.8.1
Hidden Network
3.9
Power-Save Mode
3.9.1
Active
3.9.2
Auto Power-Save Mode
3.9.3
Forced Power-Save Mode
3.10
Power-Save Delivery Protocols
3.10.1
Legacy
3.10.2
U-APSD
3.11
Keep-Alive Mechanism
3.12
Smart Config
3.13
Regulatory Domain
3.14
DFS Slave (Channel Switch)
3.15
Roaming
3.15.1
Roaming Mechanism
3.15.1.1
Mechanism Enabling
3.15.1.2
Roaming Candidates List
3.15.1.3
A Decision to Roam
3.15.1.4
Connection to a Better AP
3.15.2
Roaming Triggers
3.15.2.1
RSSI Level Delta
3.15.2.2
APs Disappearing
4
Single Role: AP
4.1
Connection
4.2
Hidden SSID
4.3
Security
4.4
Regulatory Domain
4.5
AP Scan
4.6
Automatic Channel Selection (ACS)
4.6.1
40-MHz Operation
4.6.2
ACS Whitelist and Blacklist Channels
4.7
Maximum Connected Stations
4.8
Aging
4.9
DFS Master
4.9.1
DFS Standards
4.9.2
DFS Mechanism
4.9.3
WiLink8.0 DFS Master Capabilities
4.10
Access Control
4.10.1
Blacklist
4.10.2
Whitelist
4.11
Extreme Low Power (ELP)
5
Single Role: P2P
5.1
P2P Device
5.1.1
Searching Phase
5.1.2
Negotiation
5.1.3
Group Formation
5.2
PSP Client
5.3
P2P GO
6
Single Role: Mesh
6.1
Supported Modes
6.1.1
Mesh Point
6.1.2
Mesh Portal/Gate
6.1.3
Mesh Access Point
6.2
Hardware and Software Requirements
6.2.1
Hardware requirements
6.2.2
Software Requirements
6.3
Capabilities
7
Multi-Role
7.1
General Overview
7.2
Limitations
8
Performance
8.1
Single-Role
8.2
Multi-Role
8.3
AP and mBSSID (Dual AP) Fairness
8.3.1
AP Fairness: 1-to-10 Stations Throughput Distribution
8.3.2
mBSSID Fairness: 10 Stations Throughput Distribution
8.4
Bluetooth WLAN Coexistence
8.4.1
WLAN Single Role – Bluetooth Performance
Revision History
8.3
AP and mBSSID (Dual AP) Fairness