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  1.   WiLink 8 WLAN Features Guide
    1.     Trademarks
    2. 1 Introducion
      1. 1.1 Scope
      2. 1.2 Acronyms Table
      3. 1.3 WiLink 8 Specification
    3. 2 General Features
      1. 2.1  Supported Rates
        1. 2.1.1 11b Rates
        2. 2.1.2 11a/g Rates
      2. 2.2  High-Throughput (HT) Features
        1. 2.2.1 11n Rates
        2. 2.2.2 MIMO at 2.4 GHz
        3. 2.2.3 40-MHz BW Operation
        4. 2.2.4 A-MPDU and A-MSDU
        5. 2.2.5 RIFS
        6. 2.2.6 BA Sessions
        7. 2.2.7 Greenfield
      3. 2.3  Quality of Service (QoS)
      4. 2.4  Protection Types
        1. 2.4.1 General
        2. 2.4.2 Protection Methods
      5. 2.5  Suspend and Resume
      6. 2.6  WoW (Wake on WLAN)
      7. 2.7  Set TX Power
      8. 2.8  5-GHz Antenna Diversity
      9. 2.9  Wi-Fi – Bluetooth/Bluetooth Smart Coexistence
      10. 2.10 Wi-Fi – ZigBee Coexistence
      11. 2.11 Accurate Synchronization Over Wi-Fi
    4. 3 Single Role: Station
      1. 3.1  Scanning
        1. 3.1.1 One-Shot Scan
        2. 3.1.2 Connection Scan
        3. 3.1.3 Background Scan
      2. 3.2  Connection
        1. 3.2.1 Manual (Via Commands)
          1. 3.2.1.1 Connection Time
          2. 3.2.1.2 Connection Success Rate
          3. 3.2.1.3 Connect to Best BSSID of the Configured SSID
        2. 3.2.2 Automatic (Via Profiles)
        3. 3.2.3 Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS)
          1. 3.2.3.1 WPS PBC
          2. 3.2.3.2 WPS PIN
      3. 3.3  Disconnection
      4. 3.4  DHCP Client
      5. 3.5  Security
        1. 3.5.1 Authentication Types
        2. 3.5.2 Encryption Types
        3. 3.5.3 Broadcast Key Rotation (BKR)
      6. 3.6  Filtering
        1. 3.6.1 Beacon Filtering
        2. 3.6.2 Multicast Filtering
      7. 3.7  Auto ARP
      8. 3.8  Preferred Networks (Profiles)
        1. 3.8.1 Hidden Network
      9. 3.9  Power-Save Mode
        1. 3.9.1 Active
        2. 3.9.2 Auto Power-Save Mode
        3. 3.9.3 Forced Power-Save Mode
      10. 3.10 Power-Save Delivery Protocols
        1. 3.10.1 Legacy
        2. 3.10.2 U-APSD
      11. 3.11 Keep-Alive Mechanism
      12. 3.12 Smart Config
      13. 3.13 Regulatory Domain
      14. 3.14 DFS Slave (Channel Switch)
      15. 3.15 Roaming
        1. 3.15.1 Roaming Mechanism
          1. 3.15.1.1 Mechanism Enabling
          2. 3.15.1.2 Roaming Candidates List
          3. 3.15.1.3 A Decision to Roam
          4. 3.15.1.4 Connection to a Better AP
        2. 3.15.2 Roaming Triggers
          1. 3.15.2.1 RSSI Level Delta
          2. 3.15.2.2 APs Disappearing
    5. 4 Single Role: AP
      1. 4.1  Connection
      2. 4.2  Hidden SSID
      3. 4.3  Security
      4. 4.4  Regulatory Domain
      5. 4.5  AP Scan
      6. 4.6  Automatic Channel Selection (ACS)
        1. 4.6.1 40-MHz Operation
        2. 4.6.2 ACS Whitelist and Blacklist Channels
      7. 4.7  Maximum Connected Stations
      8. 4.8  Aging
      9. 4.9  DFS Master
        1. 4.9.1 DFS Standards
        2. 4.9.2 DFS Mechanism
        3. 4.9.3 WiLink8.0 DFS Master Capabilities
      10. 4.10 Access Control
        1. 4.10.1 Blacklist
        2. 4.10.2 Whitelist
      11. 4.11 Extreme Low Power (ELP)
    6. 5 Single Role: P2P
      1. 5.1 P2P Device
        1. 5.1.1 Searching Phase
        2. 5.1.2 Negotiation
        3. 5.1.3 Group Formation
      2. 5.2 PSP Client
      3. 5.3 P2P GO
    7. 6 Single Role: Mesh
      1. 6.1 Supported Modes
        1. 6.1.1 Mesh Point
        2. 6.1.2 Mesh Portal/Gate
        3. 6.1.3 Mesh Access Point
      2. 6.2 Hardware and Software Requirements
        1. 6.2.1 Hardware requirements
        2. 6.2.2 Software Requirements
      3. 6.3 Capabilities
    8. 7 Multi-Role
      1. 7.1 General Overview
      2. 7.2 Limitations
    9. 8 Performance
      1. 8.1 Single-Role
      2. 8.2 Multi-Role
      3. 8.3 AP and mBSSID (Dual AP) Fairness
        1. 8.3.1 AP Fairness: 1-to-10 Stations Throughput Distribution
        2. 8.3.2 mBSSID Fairness: 10 Stations Throughput Distribution
      4. 8.4 Bluetooth WLAN Coexistence
        1. 8.4.1 WLAN Single Role – Bluetooth Performance
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WiLink 8 Specification

Table 3. WiLink 8 Specification

Role Feature Description Configuration
General 802.11b/g Supported Not Configurable
802.11a Supported (WiLink8.0 Platform Dependent) Not Configurable
802.11n Supported hostapd.conf (AP only)
RF Modes See Table 4 wlconf
A-MSDU Supported for RX only wlconf
RIFS Supported for RX only Not Configurable
BA Sessions TX: 10 / RX: 10 Not Configurable
Greenfield Supported Not Configurable
QoS (WMM) Supported hostapd.conf (AP only)
TX Power Supported wlconf
5GHz Antenna Diversity Supported (WiLink8.0 Platform Dependent) wlconf
STA Wi-Fi–Bluetooth/Bluetooth Smart Coexistence Supported (WiLink8.0 Platform Dependent) Not Configurable
Wi-Fi–ZigBee Coexistence Supported (HW modification is required) wlconf
Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) WPSv2 (PIN, PBC) Not Configurable
Security Personal: Open, WEP 40/128, WPA/WPA2-PSK
Enterprise: EAP, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, PEAPv0
Not Configurable
Filtering ARP, Beacon, Multicast, Data wlconf
Auto ARP Supported Not Configurable
Preferred Networks Supported wpa_supplicant.conf
Power Save Modes Active, Auto, Forced (Legacy, U-APSD) wlconf
Extreme Low Power Supported wlconf
Keep Alive Supported wlconf
Suspend/Resume Supported (Edge only) wlconf
Wake On WLAN Supported Not Configurable
Smart Config Supported Not Configurable
Regulatory Domain Supported wpa_supplicant.conf
Dynamic Frequency Selection Slave Supported Not Configurable
Roaming Supported Not Configurable
Time Synchronization Supported (HW modification is required) wlconf
AP Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) WPSv2 (PIN, PBC) hostapd.conf
Hidden SSID Supported hostapd.conf
Security Personal: Open, WEP 40/128, WPA/WPA2-PSK
Enterprise: Not Supported
hostapd.conf
Regulatory Domain Supported hostapd.conf
ACS Supported hostapd.conf
Number of Remote Peers Up to 10 connected peers Not Configurable
Aging Supported wlconf
Dynamic Frequency Selection Master Supported Not Configurable
Access Control Supported hostapd.conf
Extreme Low Power Supported wlconf
P2P Device Name Supported wpa_supplicant.conf
Client
GO
MR Multi-Role Combinations See Table 5 Not Configurable

Table 4. RF Modes

Role Band
2.4GHz 5GHz
STA 20 MHz SISO 20 MHz SISO
40 MHz SISO 40 MHz SISO
20 MHz MIMO
AP 20 MHz SISO 20 MHz SISO
20 MHz MIMO 40 MHz SISO
P2P 20 MHz SISO 20 MHz SISO
20 MHz MIMO 40 MHz SISO

Table 5. Multi-Role Combinations

Role STA AP P2P CL P2P GO
STA X V V V
AP V Same Channel V Same Channel
P2P CL V V X X
P2P GO V Same Channel X X