IEEE Std 802.11
™
-2007
(Revision of
IEEE Std 802.11-1999 )
IEEE Standard for
Information technology—
Telecommunications and information
exchange between systems—
Local and metropolitan area networks—
Specific requirements
Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC)
and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications
I E E E
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12 June 2007
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Sponsored by the
LAN/MAN Standards Committee
IEEE Std 802.11
™
-2007
(Revision of
IEEE Std 802.11-1999)
IEEE Standard for
Information Technology—
Telecommunications and information
exchange between systems—
Local and metropolitan area networks—
Specific requirements
Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC)
and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications
Sponsor
LAN/MAN Committee
of the
IEEE Computer Society
Approved 8 March 2007
IEEE-SA Standards Board
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
3 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016-5997, USA
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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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