Table of Contents

1. Scope
2. Normative references
3. Definitions
4. Acronyms and abbreviations
5. Conformance
6. Conventions
7. Basic architectural concepts and terms
8. Overview of the MAC Service
9. Model of the MAC Service
10. Quality of connectionless-mode service
11. Internal Sublayer Service
12. Protocol discrimination and media
13. Support of the Internal Sublayer Service by
    specific MAC procedures
14. MAC Service
Annex A (informative) - Bibliography
Annex B (informative) - Support of the Internal Sublayer
        Service by specific MAC procedure

Abstract

Specifies the Media Access Control (MAC) Service provided by all IEEE 802 MACs, and the Internal Sublayer Service (ISS) provided within MAC Bridges, in abstract terms of the following: a) Their semantics, primitive actions, and events; and b) The parameters of, interrelationship between, and valid sequences of these actions and events.

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Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
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