Howard Hudson - Week 2 - IEEE

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an organization that creates standards that standardize protocols and practices. For networking, the standards are identified as 802 LAN/MAN Standards. The 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee (Working Group) develops and maintains networking standards and recommends best practices for wired and wireless area networks.

An example of future 802 LAN/MAN Standards development is the IEEE 802.11ba standard. In short, 802.11ba defines WLAN wake-up radio operation for low-power WLAN devices, which should significantly extend the battery life of devices.

Below are four different charts for the 802 LAN/MAN Standards. The IEEE.org tables are more trustworthy than Wikipedia.

Table 1: IEEE.org
Name
Description
802.1
Higher Layer LAN Protocols Working Group
802.3
Ethernet Working Group
802.11
Wireless LAN Working Group
802.15
Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) Working Group
802.18
Radio Regulatory TAG
802.19
Wireless Coexistence Working Group
802.21
Media Independent Handover Services Working Group
802.22
Wireless Regional Area Networks
802.24
Vertical Applications TAG

Table 2: futurenetworks.ieee.org
Name
Description
IEEE 802.1™
Higher Layer LAN Protocols Working Group
IEEE 802.3™
Ethernet Working Group
IEEE 802.11™
Wireless LAN Working Group
IEEE 802.15™
Working Group for Wireless Specialty Networks
IEEE 802.16™
Broadband Wireless Access Working Group
IEEE 802.18™
Radio Regulatory Technical Advisory Group
IEEE 802.19™
Wireless Coexistence Working Group
IEEE 802.21™
Media Independent Handover Services Working Group
IEEE 802.22™
Wireless Regional Area Working Group
IEEE 802.24™
Vertical Applications Technical Advisory Group

Table 3: webopedia.com
Name
Description
IEEE 802.1
Standards related to network management.
IEEE 802.2
General standard for the data link layer in the OSI Reference Model. The IEEE divides this layer into two sublayers -- the logical link control (LLC) layer and the media access control (MAC) layer. The MAC layer varies for different network types and is defined by standards IEEE 802.3 through IEEE 802.5.
IEEE 802.3
Defines the MAC layer for bus networks that use CSMA/CD. This is the basis of the Ethernet standard. Also see the Ethernet Designations chart in the Quick Reference section of Webopedia.
IEEE 802.4
Defines the MAC layer for bus networks that use a token-passing mechanism (token bus networks).
IEEE 802.5
Defines the MAC layer for token-ring networks.
IEEE 802.6
Standard for Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs).

Table 4 wikipedia.org
Name
Description
Note
IEEE 802.1
Higher Layer LAN Protocols (Bridging)
active
IEEE 802.2
LLC
disbanded
IEEE 802.3
Ethernet
active
IEEE 802.4
Token bus
disbanded
IEEE 802.5
Token ring MAC layer
disbanded
IEEE 802.6
MANs (DQDB)
disbanded
IEEE 802.7
Broadband LAN using Coaxial Cable
disbanded
IEEE 802.8
Fiber Optic TAG
disbanded
IEEE 802.9
Integrated Services LAN (ISLAN or isoEthernet)
disbanded
IEEE 802.10
Interoperable LAN Security
disbanded
IEEE 802.11
Wireless LAN (WLAN) & Mesh

(Wi-Fi certification)
active

IEEE 802.12
100BaseVG
disbanded
IEEE 802.13
Unused[2]
reserved for Fast Ethernet development[3]
IEEE 802.14
Cable modems
disbanded
IEEE 802.15
Wireless PAN
active
IEEE 802.15.1
Bluetooth certification
active
IEEE 802.15.2
IEEE 802.15 and IEEE 802.11 coexistence
hibernating[4]
IEEE 802.15.3
High-Rate wireless PAN (e.g., UWB, etc.)
unknown
IEEE 802.15.4
Low-Rate wireless PAN

(e.g., ZigBee, WirelessHART, MiWi, etc.)
active

IEEE 802.15.5
Mesh networking for WPAN
unknown
IEEE 802.15.6
Body area network
active
IEEE 802.15.7
Visible light communications
unknown
IEEE 802.16
Broadband Wireless Access (WiMAX certification)
hibernating
IEEE 802.16.1
Local Multipoint Distribution Service
unknown
IEEE 802.16.2
Coexistence wireless access
unknown
IEEE 802.17
Resilient packet ring
hibernating
IEEE 802.18
Radio Regulatory TAG
unknown
IEEE 802.19
Coexistence TAG
unknown
IEEE 802.20
Mobile Broadband Wireless Access
hibernating
IEEE 802.21
Media Independent Handoff
unknown
IEEE 802.22
Wireless Regional Area Network
unknown
IEEE 802.23
Emergency Services Working Group
unknown
IEEE 802.24
Smart Grid TAG
new (November 2012)
IEEE 802.25
Omni-Range Area Network
unknown
IEEE 802.26
Reconfigurable Convolutional Encoder
unknown





Resources


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802

http://www.ieee802.org/

https://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/IEEE_802_standards.html

https://futurenetworks.ieee.org/standards

https://www.ieee.org/standards/index.html

https://standards.ieee.org/project/802_11ba.html

https://standards.ieee.org/news/2017/WakeUp_Radio.html

https://innovationatwork.ieee.org/wake-radio-resources/

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/1/72/pdf




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