Main Content

802.11 Standards Supported by WLAN Toolbox for System-Level Simulation

This table shows the IEEE® 802.11™ versions that WLAN Toolbox™ supports for system-level simulation, as well as the corresponding IEEE standards and supported features.

802.11 VersionSupported Amendment and Draft StandardSupported Features
Common to all versionsCommon to all standards

  • Enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) and quality of service (QoS)

  • MAC frame types:a

    • MAC protocol data unit (MPDU)

    • Beacon

    • Request to send (RTS)

    • Clear to send (CTS)

    • Acknowledgment (ACK)

802.11be™ (Wi-Fi® 7)bIEEE P802.11be/D5.0

  • Static bandwidths: 20, 40, 80, 160, and 320 MHz

  • Single-input single-output (SISO)

  • Single-user multiple-input multiple-output (SU-MIMO)

  • Multilink operation: simultaneous transmit and receive (STR) and enhanced multilink single radio (EMLSR) modes

  • Modulation and coding schemes 0–13

  • MAC frame types:

    • Aggregated MPDU (AMPDU)

    • Block ACK (BA)

    • Multiuser-RTS (MU-RTS)

  • Wi-Fi mesh network

  • Multiband operation/hybrid mesh

802.11ax™ (Wi-Fi 6 and 6E)IEEE Std 802.11ax-2021

  • Static bandwidths: 20, 40, 80, and 160 MHz

  • SISO

  • SU-MIMO

  • Spatial reuse

  • Downlink/uplink (DL/UL) OFDMA (abstract PHY)

  • MAC frame types:

    • AMPDU

    • BA

    • MU-RTS

    • MU block ACK request (BAR)

    • Basic trigger frame

    • Multi-STA BA

  • Wi-Fi mesh network

  • Multiband operation/hybrid mesh

802.11ac™ (Wi-Fi 5)

IEEE Std 802.11-2020

  • Static bandwidths: 20, 40, 80, and 160 MHz

  • SISO

  • SU-MIMO

  • MAC frame types:

    • AMPDU

    • BA

  • Wi-Fi mesh network

  • Multiband operation/hybrid mesh

802.11n™ (Wi-Fi 4)

  • Static bandwidths: 20 and 40 MHz

  • SISO

  • SU-MIMO

  • MAC frame types:

    • AMPDU

    • BA

  • Wi-Fi mesh network

802.11g™

  • Static bandwidth: 20 MHz

  • OFDM

802.11a™

  • Static bandwidth: 20 MHz

  • OFDM

a All the 802.11 standards listed here support these frame types. When the table indicates that a specific standard supports a frame type, that standard supports that frame type in addition to those listed in the first row.

b Only abstract PHY is supported for 802.11be.

See Also

Related Examples

More About