Table of Contents

 1     Scope          
 2     References 
 3     Definitions 
        3.1     Terms defined elsewhere           
        3.2     Terms defined in this Recommendation 
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms
 5     Introduction              
 6     General description 
        6.1     Overall infrastructure  
        6.2     Coexistence with other PLC networks    
 7     Physical layer specification  
        7.1     Introduction   
        7.2     System parameters       
        7.3     Data rate, Reed-Solomon block size and maximum PSDU length   
        7.4     Frame structure             
        7.5     Preamble         
        7.6     Frame control header   
        7.7     Payload of PHY frame 
        7.8     Scrambler        
        7.9     FEC coding     
       7.10     Interleaver     
       7.11     Mapping for DBPSK/DQPSK/D8PSK    
       7.12     Frequency domain pre-emphasis            
       7.13     OFDM generation (IFFT and CP addition)           
       7.14     Windowing    
       7.15     Tone masking and tone mapping            
       7.16     Coherent modulation scheme   
       7.17     PHY primitives            
 8     Transmitter specifications     
        8.1     Output level measurement         
        8.2     Transmit spectrum mask            
        8.3     Spurious transmission 
        8.4     System clock frequency tolerance           
        8.5     Transmitter constellation           
        8.6     Transmitter spectral flatness     
        8.7     Crossing MV/LV transformer    
        8.8     MV coupler (informative)          
        8.9     AC phase detection      
 9     Data link layer specifications              
        9.1     Introduction   
        9.2     Conventions   
        9.3     MAC sublayer specification      
        9.4     IPv6 adaptation sublayer specifications 
        9.5     Functional description 
10     Security     
       10.1     Access control and authentication         
       10.2     Confidentiality and integrity    
       10.3     Anti-replay and DoS prevention             
       10.4     Authentication and key distribution protocol – Selections from IETF RFC 3748     
       10.5     EAP method  
Annex A – Protocol implementation conformance statement    
        A.1     Overview        
        A.2     PICS proforma tables  
Annex B – Routing cost    
        B.1     Composite metric method          
Annex C – Device starting sequence of messages    
Annex D – The lightweight on-demand Ad hoc distance-vector  routing protocol – next generation (LOADng)    
        D.1     Introduction   
        D.2     Terminology and notation         
        D.3     Applicability statement             
        D.4     Protocol overview and functioning        
        D.5     Protocol parameters    
        D.6     Protocol message content          
        D.7     Information base          
        D.8     LOADng router sequence numbers         
        D.9     Route maintenance      
       D.10     Unidirectional link handling   
       D.11     Common rules for RREQ and RREP messages   
       D.12     Route requests (RREQs)           
       D.13     Route replies (RREPs)              
       D.14     Route errors (RERRs)
       D.15     Route reply acknowledgments (RREP_ACKs)   
       D.16     Metrics          
       D.17     Security considerations            
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Annex E – Commissioning in 6LoWPAN    
        E.1     Introduction   
        E.2     Terminology   
        E.3     Bootstrapping
        E.4     IANA consideration     
        E.5     Security considerations              
Annex F Regional requirements for Japan    
        F.1     Overview        
        F.2     Physical layer specifications for ARIB bandplan
        F.3     Data link layer specifications    
Appendix I – Examples on encoding and decoding    
        I.1     Example for data encoding         
        I.2     Example for data decoding         
Appendix II – Test vectors for cryptographic building blocks    
       II.1     Introduction    
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