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IEEE 802.11-2016

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Note: Latest version: IEEE 802.11-2020

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Revision Standard - Superseded. 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 are specified in this revision. Amendments 1 to 5 published in 2012 and 2013 have also been incorporated into this revision.

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  • Document type: IS
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  • Publisher: IEEE
  • Distributor: IEEE
  • ICS: 35.100.10
  • ICS: 35.110
  • National Committee: IEEE Computer Society / LAN/MAN Standards Committee

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  • Referred by: IEEE 1930.1-2022
  • Referred by: IEEE 8802-1AS-2021
  • Revised by: IEEE 802.11-2020
  • Referred by: IEEE 8802-1Q-2020
  • Referred by: IEEE 802.1AS-2020
  • Referred by: IEEE 1588-2019
  • Referred by: IEEE 802.1X-2020
  • Referred by: IEEE 269-2019
  • Referred by: IEEE 802.1CF-2019
  • Referred by: IEEE 1609.0-2019
  • Referred by: IEEE 802.1Q-2018
  • Referred by: IEEE 802.1Q-2018
  • Referred by: IEEE 802.1AC-2016
  • Refers: IEEE 802.3-2012
  • Revises: IEEE 802.11-2012
  • Refers: IEEE 802.1Q-2011
  • Refers: IEEE 802.1AS-2011
  • Refers: IEEE 802.1X-2010
  • Refers: IEEE 802.21-2008
  • Refers: IEEE 754-2008
  • Refers: IEEE 802.1Q, 2003 Edition-2003
  • Refers: ETSI EN 301 893, Broadband Radio Access Networks (BRAN); 5 GHz high performance RLAN; Part 2:Harmonized EN covering essential requirements of article 3.2 of the R&TTE Directive.
  • Refers: FIPS PUB 180-4, Secure Hash Standard.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 2104, HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication, H. Krawczyk, M. Bellare, R. Canetti, Feb. 1997 (status: informational).
  • Refers: ITU-R Recommendation TF.460-4(2002), Standard-frequency and time-signal emissions.
  • Refers: ISO/IEC 15802-3, Information Technology—Telecommunications and information exchange between systems—Local and metropolitan area networks—Common specifications—Part 3: Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges.
  • Refers: IANA EAP Method Type Numbers, http://www.iana.org/assignments/eap-numbers.
  • Refers: OMA OMA-TS-ULP-V2_0_1 UserPlane Location Protocol, December 2012.
  • Refers: OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee, “Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Distribution Element, v. 1.0.” OASIS Standard EDXL-DE v1.0, May 2006.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 4282, The Network Access Identifier, Dec. 2005.
  • Refers: ISO 3166-1, Codes for the Representation of Names of Countries and Their Subdivisions—Part 1: Country Codes.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 1321, The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, Apr. 1992 (status: informational).
  • Refers: IETF RFC 826, An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol, David C. Plummer, November 1982.
  • Refers: ISO/IEC 8824-1:1995, Information technology—Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): Specification of basic notation.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 3748, Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), B. Aboba, L. Blunk, J. Vollbrecht, J. Carlson, H. Levkowetz, June 2004.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 5424, The Syslog Protocol, R. Gerhards, March 2009.
  • Refers: ISO/IEC 8802-2:1998, Information technology—Telecommunications and information exchange between systems—Local and metropolitan area networks—Specific requirements—Part 2: Logical link control.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 4017, Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) Method Requirements for Wireless LANs, D. Stanley, J. Walker, B. Aboba, Mar. 2005 (status: informational).
  • Refers: IETF RFC 5216, The EAP-TLS Authentication Protocol, D. Simon, B. Aboba, R. Hurst, March 2008.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 5985, HTTP-Enabled Location Delivery (HELD), M. Barnes (Ed.), September 2010.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 3394, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Key Wrap Algorithm, J. Schaad, R. Housley, Sept. 2002 (status: informational).
  • Refers: IETF RFC 4776, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCPv4 and DHCPv6) Option for Civic Addresses Configuration Information, Nov. 2006.
  • Refers: ISO 639, Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages.
  • Refers: NIST Special Publication 800-38B, Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: The CMAC Mode for Authentication, Dworkin, M.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 3610, Counter with CBC-MAC (CCM), D. Whiting, R. Housley, N. Ferguson, Sept. 2003(status: informational).
  • Refers: IETF RFC 4861, Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6), T. Narten, E. Nordmark, W. Simpson, H. Soliman, Sept. 2007.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 5227, IPv4 Address Conflict Detection, S. Cheshire, July 2008.
  • Refers: ISO/IEC 7498-1:1994, Information technology—Open Systems Interconnection—Basic Reference Model:The Basic Model.
  • Refers: ISO/IEC 11802-5:1997, Information technology—Telecommunications and information exchange between systems—Local and metropolitan area networks—Technical reports and guidelines—Part 5: Medium Access Control (MAC) Bridging of Ethernet V2.0 in Local Area Networks (previously known as IEEE Std 802.1H-1997).
  • Refers: ISO 3166-2, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions— Part 2: Country subdivision code.
  • Refers: ITU-T Recommendation Z.120 (2004), Programming Languages—Formal Description Techniques (FDT)—Message Sequence Chart (MSC).
  • Refers: 3GPP TS 24.302, Access to the 3GPP Evolved Packet Core (EPC) via non-3GPP access networks; Stage 3.
  • Refers: ISO 4217 Currency codes.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 925, Multi-LAN Address Resolution, J. Postel, Oct. 1984.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 791, Internet Protocol, Sept. 1981.
  • Refers: ISO/IEC 8824-4:1995, Information technology—Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): Parameterization of ASN.1 specifications.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 1042, A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams over IEEE 802® Networks, J. Postel, J. Reynolds, Feb. 1988.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 5297, Synthetic Initialization Vector (SIV) Authenticated Encryption Using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), D. Harkins, October 2008 (status: informational).
  • Refers: ISO/IEC 8824-2:1995, Information technology—Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): Information object specification.
  • Refers: NIST Special Publication 800-38D, Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) and GMAC, Morris Dworkin, November 2007.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 3986, Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax, Jan. 2005.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 2409, The Internet Key Exchange (IKE), D. Harkins, D. Carrel, Nov. 1998 (status: Standards Track).
  • Refers: IETF RFC 3629, UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646, F. Yergeau, Nov. 2003.
  • Refers: ISO 14962:1997, Space data and information transfer systems — ASCII encoded English.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 1035, Domain Names — Implementation and Specification, P. Mockapetris, Nov. 1987.
  • Refers: ITU-T Recommendation O.150, General requirements for instrumentation for performance measurements on digital transmission equipment.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 2460, Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6), S. Deering, R. Hinden, Dec. 1998.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 6225, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Options for Coordinate-Based Location Configuration Information, J. Polk, M. Linsner, M. Thomson, B. Aboba, July 2011.
  • Refers: FIPS PUB 197, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
  • Refers: ISO/IEC 8824-3:1995, Information technology—Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): Constraint specification.
  • Refers: IETF RFC 4119, A Presence-based GEOPRIV Location Object Format, J. Peterson, December 2005.