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     Home network architecture and reference models 
 6     Profiles       
 7     Physical layer specification 
        7.1     Medium independent specification    
        7.2     Medium dependent specification        
 8     Data link layer specification of the MIMO transceiver            
        8.1     Functional model and frame formats 
        8.2     MAP controlled medium access           
        8.3     Transmission opportunities (TXOPs) and time slots (TSs)           
        8.4     Control parameters for APC, LLC and MAC       
        8.5     Functions of the endpoint node           
        8.6     Domain master node functional capabilities    
        8.7     Addressing scheme   
        8.8     Medium access plan (MAP) frame      
        8.9     Retransmission and acknowledgement protocol           
       8.10     Management and control message format    
       8.11     Channel estimation protocol
       8.12     Connection management      
       8.13     Message flooding     
       8.14     Operation in the presence of neighbouring domains – Distributed domain coordination (NDIM)    
       8.15     Coexistence with alien power-line networks 
       8.16     PHY multicast binding protocol           
       8.17     DLL multicast stream
       8.18     Inter-bandplan interoperability          
       8.19     Version control and capabilities exchange      
       8.20     Metrics acquisition   
       8.21     Operation in power saving modes     
       8.22     Layer 2 configuration and management protocol (LCMP)        
       8.23     MIMO transmission 
       8.24     Run-length compression of fields of management messages 
       8.25     Payload compression in management messages         
 9     Security      
Annex A – Regional requirements for North America    
Annex B              
Annex C – Regional requirements for Japan    
Annex D – International amateur radio bands    
Annex E – Impact of ITU-T G.9960 on VDSL2 service     
Annex F               
Annex G – Test vectors    
Annex H – Application protocol convergence sublayer    
Annex X – Test vectors