Superseded Standard

IEEE 802.11-1997

IEEE Standard for Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) specifications

SUPERSEDED BY ISO/IEC 8802-11:1999 The medium access control and physical characteristics for wireless local area networks are specified in this standard, part of a series of standards for local and metropolitan area networks. The medium access control unit in this standard is designed to support physical layer units as they may be adopted dependent on the availability of spectrum. This standard contains three physical layer units: two radio units, both operating in the 2400-2500 MHz band, and one baseband infrared unit. One radio unit employs the frequency-hopping spread spectrum technique, and the other employs the direct sequence spread spectrum technique.

Standard Committee
C/LAN/MAN - LAN/MAN Standards Committee
Status
Superseded Standard
Superseded by
802.11-1999
Board Approval
1997-06-26
History
Published:
1997-11-18

Working Group Details

Society
IEEE Computer Society
Standard Committee
C/LAN/MAN - LAN/MAN Standards Committee

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