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Relay Technical Recommendations
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Figure 6: transitions from JOINED_WOR_ACTIVATED to JOIN_WOR_DEACTIVATED 322
4.3 During an active MAC session with WOR deactivated 323
This section addresses the recommended logic when the end-device already has a valid MAC 324
session (following a successful join procedure for OTAA end-devices) and currently 325
deactivates the WOR mechanism. In this case, the following recommendation instructs the 326
end-device when to activate the WOR protocol (i.e. enable the relay mode). 327
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Case JOINED_WOR_DEACTIVATED // the end-device has an active MAC session where 329
the WOR protocol is currently deactivated. 330
Activate WOR and proceed to JOINED_WOR_ACTIVATED case, in any of the following 331
cases: 332
• If the relay mode is activated by the network server through the MAC command 333
EndDeviceConfReq with RelayModeActivation = 1, or 334
