EDN

An overview of the IEEE 802.11 standard’s evolution

The wireless toolkit for electronics design engineers widened considerably with the emergence of the 802.11n draft standard. Thanks to its performance benefits, 802.11n will expand the range of ...
Business Wire

IEEE Announces Formation of IEEE 802.11™ Light Communications Study Group

PISCATAWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, and the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA), today ...
EDN

Progress, controversy mark IEEE 802.11 plenary meeting

The IEEE 802 committee's recently concluded plenary session included reports of progress in several areas and continuing disagreement in others. The 802.11n working group has not achieved consensus on ...
Yahoo Finance

InterDigital’s Xiaofei Wang Appointed Chair of the IEEE 802.11 Topic Interest Group (TIG) for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML)

WILMINGTON, Del., July 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ:IDCC), a mobile and video technology research and development company, applauded the appointment of Xiaofei Wang to serve ...
Design-Reuse

IEEE 802.11i and wireless security

IEEE's wireless security amendment adds stronger encryption, authentication, and key management strategies that go a long way toward guaranteeing data and system security. With the falling cost and ...
Electronic Design

Understanding IEEE 802.11ac VHT Wireless

The most recent version of the IEEE’s wireless local-area network (WLAN) standard, 802.11ac, uses the 5-GHz unlicensed band and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) to significantly boost data speeds ...
POWER Magazine

The Standards Cheat Sheet: What You Need to Know About the IEEE Standards Process

IEEE 802 standards are used but not often thought of in our daily lives—IEEE 802.3, Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, Wi-Fi, IEEE 802.15.4, Wi-SUN, etc. Despite these standards playing a role in almost every ...
Design-Reuse

Inside 802.11e: Making QoS a Reality over WLAN Connections

Wireless networks based on IEEE 802.11 have been widely adopted by home users and businesses. New applications such as video and multimedia streaming bring unique and challenging quality of service ...
The Next Web

This upcoming Wi-Fi standard will give your router motion-sensing superpowers

Wi-Fi is everywhere and we can’t really do without it. But the current-gen Wi-Fi standard is limited to data transfer between devices, and with every new iteration, we just see better speeds and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

IEEE 802.18-Radio Regulatory TAG

"RR-TAG" is a technical advisory group supporting IEEE standards groups working on 802.11, 802.12, 802.16, 802.20, 802.21, and 802.22. The IEEE 802.18 Radio Regulatory Technical Advisory Group ...
Electronic Design

What’s Driving The Success Of IEEE 802.15.4 Radios?

Fig 1. Among the protocol stack layers for IEEE 802.15.4, only layers 1 and 2 belong to the standard, while the upper layers are defined by the specific protocol (e.g., ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, and ...