association: The service used to establish access point/station (AP/STA) mapping and enable STA invocation of the distribution system services (DSSs).

basic service set (BSS): A set of stations controlled by a single coordination function.

basic service set (BSS) basic rate set: The set of data transfer rates that all the stations in a BSS will be capable of using to receive frames from the wireless medium (WM). The BSS basic rate set data rates are preset for all stations in the BSS.

broadcast address: A unique multicast address that specifies all stations.

clear channel assessment (CCA) function: That logical function is the physical layer (PHY) that determines the current state of use of the wireless medium (WM).

coordination function: The logical function that determines when a station operating within a basic service set (BSS) is permitted to transmit and may be able to receive protocol data units (PDUs) via the wireless medium (WM).

elements of coordination function:

coordination function. The coordination function within a BSS may have one point coordination function (PCF) and will have one distributed coordination function (DCF).

coordination function pollable: A station able to (1) respond to a coordination function poll with a data frame, if such a frame is queued and able to be generated, and (2) interpret acknowledgments in frames sent to or from the point coordinator.

disassociation: The service that removes an existing association.

distributed coordination function (DCF): A class of coordination function where the same coordination function logic is active in every station...