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Abstract: This revision specifies technical corrections and clarifications to IEEE Std 802.11 for
wireless local area networks (WLANS) as well as enhancements to the existing medium access
control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) functions. It also incorporates Amendments 1 through 8
including a corrigendum.
Keywords: 2.4 GHz, 4.9 GHz, 5 GHz, advanced encryption standard, AES, carrier sense multiple
access/collision avoidance, CCMP, Counter mode with Cipher-block chaining Message
authentication code Protocol, confidentiality, CSMA/CA, DFS, dynamic frequency selection,
international roaming, LAN, local area network, MAC, medium access controller, PHY, physical
layer, QoS, quality of service, radio frequency, RF, temporal key integrity protocol, TKIP, TPC,
transmit power control, wireless LAN, WLAN
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