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• If the end-device has received EndDeviceConfReq with RelayModeActivation 335
= 2 (dynamic mode), and the end-device has not received any downlink frames for 336
SmartEnableLevel uplinks (as per section 10.2 of [TS011] v1.0.1), or 337
• If the end-device has received EndDeviceConfReq with RelayModeActivation 338
= 3 (ED-controlled mode) and the end-device has reached the last step of the data 339
rate back-off mechanism as described in section 4.3.1.1 of [TS001]. 340
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This state machine is illustrated by Figure 7. 342
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Figure 7: transitions from JOINED_WOR_DEACTIVATED to JOIN_WOR_ACTIVATED 344
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The network server needs to choose carefully the value of the SmartEnableLevel, to 346
avoid useless activation of the WOR protocol, keeping in mind that some downlink packets 347
