IEEE Draft Standard for Information Technology - Telecommunications and information exchange between systems - Local and Metropolitan Area networks - Specific requirements - Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) specifications - Amendment 7: Extensions to Direct Link Setup(DLS)

This amendment provides Direct Link Setup enhancements to the IEEE 802.11 MAC and PHY, extending direct link setup to be independent of the access point (AP), and adding power save capabilities. The direct link setup is made independent of the AP by tunneling the protocol messages inside data frames.