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 6: Direct Link Setup

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.