IEEE Standard for a Convergent
Digital Home Network for
Heterogeneous Technologies
Amendment 1: Support of New
MAC/PHYs and Enhancements
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IEEE Std 1905.1a™-2014
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IEEE Std 1905.1™-2013)
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IEEE Std 1905.1a™-2014
(Amendment to
IEEE Std 1905.1™-2013)
IEEE Standard for a Convergent
Digital Home Network for
Heterogeneous Technologies
Amendment 1: Support of New
MAC/PHYs and Enhancements
Sponsor
Power Line Communications Committee
of the
IEEE Communications Society
Approved 23 December 2014
IEEE-SA Standards Board
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Abstract: An abstraction layer for multiple home networking technologies that provides a
common interface to widely deployed home networking technologies is defined in this standard:
IEEE 1901™ over power lines, IEEE 802.11™ for wireless, Ethernet over twisted pair cable, and
MoCA 1.1 over coax. Additional network technologies are supported by an extensible mechanism
using an IEEE OUI and an XML-formatted document. Connectivity selection for transmission of
packets arriving from any interface or application is supported by the 1905 abstraction layer.
Modification to the underlying home networking technologies is not required by the 1905
abstraction layer, and hence it does not change the behavior or implementation of existing home
networking technologies. The 1905 abstraction layer is between layers 2 and 3 and abstracts the
individual details of each interface, aggregates available bandwidth, and facilitates seamless
integration. The 1905 abstraction layer also facilitates end-to-end quality of service (QoS) while
simplifying the introduction of new devices to the network, establishing secure connections,
extending network coverage, and facilitating advanced network management features including
discovery, path selection, autoconfiguration, and QoS negotiation.
Keywords: abstraction layer, access point (AP) autoconfiguration, data models, extensibility,
fragmentation and reassembly, Generic Phy, IEEE 802.1™ bridge discovery, IEEE Std 802.11™,
IEEE Std 1901™, IEEE Std 1905.1™, L2, MoCA®, pairwise master key, power management,
push button, registration, security, topology discovery protocol, Wi-Fi®, XML
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Participants
At the time this amendment was submitted to the IEEE-SA Standards Board for approval, the Convergent
Digital Home Network Working Group had the following membership:
Purva Rajkotia, Chair
C. Scott Willy, Vice Chair
Stephen Palm, Editor
The following entities submitted technical contributions or commented on this amendment at various stages
of project development.
AT&T
Broadcom Corporation
Entropic Communications
HD-PLC Alliance
HomeGrid Forum
HomePlug Powerline Alliance
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Institute for Information Industry
Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.
The following individuals submitted technical contributions or commented on this amendment at various
stages of project development.
Mstar Semiconductor, Inc
Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA)
Orange
Panasonic Corporation of North America
Qingdao Eastsoft Communication Technology Co. Ltd.
Qualcomm Incorporated
Sigma Designs
STMicroelectronics
ZTE Corporation
Jim Allen
Avner Aloush
Mitch Aramaki
David Barr
Erez Ben-Tovim
Edith Berard
Les Brown
Matt Chen
Wu Chen
Philippe Christin
Chen Dong
John Egan
The following members of the entity balloting committee voted on this amendment. Balloters may have
voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention.
Jean-Philippe Faure
Rob Gelphman
Stephan Horvath
Xiaoye Hu
Jean-Philippe Javaudin
Tong Jiang
Philippe Klein
Avi Kliger
Nobutaka Kodama
Abdesselem Kortebi
Fangfang Liu
Marcos Martinez
Pascal Moniot
Stephen Palm
Purva Rajkotia
Rob Ranck
Martin Renard
Hai Shalom
Barbara Stark
Viviane Su
Mark Walters
Lin Wang
C. Scott Willy
Boshan Zhang
AT&T
Bright House Networks
Broadcom Corporation
D-Link Corporation
HD-PLC Alliance
HomeGrid Forum
HomePlug Powerline Alliance
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Institute for Information Industry
Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.
Mstar Semiconductor, Inc
Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA)
Nokia
Orange
Panasonic Corporation of North America
Qingdao Eastsoft Communication Technology Co. Ltd.
Qualcomm Incorporated
Sensus
Siemens Corporation
Sigma Designs
Sony Corporation
STMicroelectronics
ZTE Corporation
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