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Protocol version. Defines the value of the protocol used. This value is reserved
and will only be used during a standard evolution.
•
Bridged. Indicates whether the PLC station transmitting the data is in bridge
mode and has the potential for relaying the frames to other network stations.
•
MCF (multicast flag). Indicates whether the frames are sent in multicast or
broadcast mode by setting this value to 0b1.
•
CAP (channel access priority). Reuses the priority level of the source station in
comparison with the other stations of the PLC network.
•
Segment length. Used to find out the data length of the transmitted segment.
•
LSF (last flag segment). Used to find out, if the value is set to 0b1, that this
segment is the last BS segment.
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Segment number. Indicates the fragmentation and reassembly order for the
various BS segments.
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Segment sequence number. This number, set to 0, is assigned to each frame
and incremented by 1 steps for all the other transmitted frames. If a frame is
fragmented, all the segments of this frame have the same sequence number.
Address Fields
In HomePlug, all the address fields have a 6-byte length and the same format as the
addresses defined in the IEEE 802.3 standard.
MAC Layer Frames 101
Figure 5.16 HomePlug 1.0 MAC frame header
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