Welcome to IEEE 802

26 Pages·2017·0.46 MB·English

by  Charlie Perkins

Welcome to IEEE 802

Newcomer Orientation
www.ieee802.org

IEEE 802 Plenary Session
Last updated, 3 July 2017

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Contents
• Introduction to IEEE 802
• Introduction to IEEE standards process
• Getting more information
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Introduction to IEEE 802
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Who we are
OSI Reference
• IEEE Project 802 LAN/MAN Model
Standards Committee (aka Application
Presentation
IEEE 802 or LMSC)
Session
• Develop LAN and MAN
Transport
standards
Network
• Mainly for link and physical
Data Link
layers of the network stack IEEE
Physical
802
• In operation since March
Medium
1980
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IEEE Standards
Organization
aka RevCom
aka NesCom
IEEE 802 is here:
a standards committee
formed by the
Computer Society
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Individual Method
• IEEE has two types of standards groups
• Individual method or Entity method
• IEEE 802’s projects use the Individual method
• Voter’s are individuals, not entities (e.g.
companies)

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Some terms
• PAR – project authorization request – the
document that authorizes work on a project.
• WG - Working group – responsible for
developing standards in an area
• TAG – Technical Advisory Group – experts on a
topic area that crosses working groups.
• Task group or task force – a part of a working
group which focuses on a particular project.
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All those dots….decoder ring
 802.1 Bridging and Architecture – generally the top of the link layer
 802.3 Ethernet
 802.11 Wireless LAN (WLAN)
 802.15 Wireless Specialty Network (WSN)
 802.16 Broadband Wireless Access (BWA)
 802.18 Radio Regulatory TAG
 802.19 Coexistence
 802.21 Media Independent Handover
 802.22 Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRAN)
 802.24 Vertical Applications TAG

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IEEE 802 Organization
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (EC) CHAIR
Paul Nikolich
Working Group/TAG Chairs
802.1 802.11
802.3
High Level WLAN
Ethernet
Interface Adrian
David Law Hibernating Appointed Officers
Glenn Parsons Stephens
WG Chair
(non voting) 1st VICE CHAIR 2nd VICE CHAIR
802.15 802.16 802.18 TAG
Pat Thaler James P.K. Gilb
WSN BWA Radio Regulatory
802.20
Bob Heile Roger Marks Rich Kennedy
MBWA
Radhakrishna
802.19 802.21 Canchi EXECUTIVE SEC RECORDING SEC
802.22
Coexistence Media indep. Jon Rosdahl John D’Ambrosia
WRAN
Steve handover
Apurva Mody
Shellhammer Subir Das
TREASURER
802.24
Clint Chaplin
Vertical
Applications
Tim Godfrey Appointed Officers
DISBANDED (non voting)
802.2 LLC 802.4 Token Bus 802.5 Token Ring
802.6 DQDB 802.7 Broadband TAG 802.8 Fiber Optic TAG MEMBER
802.9 ISLAN 802.10 Security 802.12 Demand Priority EMERITUS
802.14 CATV 802.17 Resilient Packet Ring 802.23 Emergency Services Geoff Thompson
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General structure of the week
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
A Some task Opening EC Task force/group Task Some WG
M force/group meetings force/ closing
802 newcomer
meetings orientation group plenaries
Some WG meetings
WG opening
plenaries (most) mid-week
plenaries
P Remaining WG Some WG Closing EC
M opening plenaries closing
plenaries
Task force/group
meetings TF/TG
meetings
E Tutorials TF/TG Social Some WG
v mtgs closing
e plenaries
Check WG agendas for details – there is some variation between groups
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