IEEE Std 802.11™-2020, was published February 26, 2021. Congratulations to the many 802.11 members who participated in development of these standards. Please visit the photographs page to see pictures of the leadership and major contributors receiving their awards.

Timeline Chart Notes: C = Stage Completed or Currently In-Process: N/A = Not Applicable: MEC = IEEE-SA Mandatory Editorial Coordination: MDR = 802.11 WG Mandatory Draft Review

The IEEE 802.11bb Task Group on Light Communications is focused on introducing necessary changes to the base IEEE 802.11 Stds to enable communications in the light medium - access to the approved Project Authorization Request (PAR) and the Criteria for Standards Development (CSD). The general scope for the TG is limited to:

IEEE 802.11 has approved the creation of a new task group to work on a major amendment, IEEE 802.11bn, for next generation wireless LAN, that applies to carrier frequency operation between 1 GHz and 7.250 GHz. This amendment defines modifications to both the IEEE Std 802.11 physical layer (PHY) and the IEEE Std 802.11 Medium Access Control (MAC).

Interested parties are welcome to attend our open IEEE 802.11 working group sessions; you do not need to be an IEEE member to attend. There is a registration fee to defray the cost of the session. Plenary sessions are administered by IEEE 802. Interim sessions are administered by the IEEE 802.11 and 802.15 working groups.

802.11bf is a new Task Group about WLAN sensing within the IEEE 802.11 working group. WLAN sensing is the use of PHY and MAC features of IEEE 802.11 stations to obtain measurements that may be useful to estimate features of objects in an area of interest. Features = Range, velocity, angular, motion, etc. Objects = Human, animal, etc.

doc.: IEEE 802.11-04/0123r1 Goals • Develop 802.11i through a process open to all • Anyone must be able to fully implement the entire standard or any part of it: no secret algorithms • Market driven feature development –Address all perceived security problems of WEP –Maximize the security achievable with existing authentication databases

2025年3月13日 · The IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee (LMSC) develops and maintains networking standards and recommended practices for local, metropolitan, and other area networks, using an open and accredited process, and advocates them on a global basis.

The amendment enhances the IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control layer to provide, mechanisms that enable data integrity, data origin authenticity, replay protection, and data confidentiality for selected IEEE 802.11 management frames.

AMbient Power (AMP) is a new TIG/SG within the IEEE 802.11 working group that will address the problem of support of Ambient Power communication in 802.11 network. Goals. The goal of the AMP TIG is to complete a technical report on AMP communication in 802.11 network which was completed at the March 2023 session.