IEEE 802

The Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) is a well-recognized body that was founded in 1884. The IEEE is a global technical, professional society serving the public interest and members in electrical, electronics, computer, information, and other technologies.The IEEE, which is based in the United States sponsors more than 300 conferences each year, including technical conferences, workshops, professional/careers/technical policy meetings, and standards working group meetings. In addition, the IEEE is involved in almost 200 "topical interest" meetings, either as consultants to the technical program or as nonfinancial partners.
The IEEE standards process consists of more than 30,000 volunteers and a Standards Board। IEEE is responsible for creating standards for the very popular local area networks (LAN) standards, such as 802.3 (also known as Ethernet), IEEE 802.5 (token ring), and 802.11 (wireless LAN).The standards process begins with the submission of a Project Authorization Request (PAR) to the Standards Board. According to IEEE, a PAR is the means by which standards projects are started. PARs define the scope, purpose, and contact points for the new project. If the Standards Board approves the PAR, then the standards process is initiated by the creation of a standards working group. The members of the standards working group are volunteers and may or may not be members of the IEEE.

The members of the IEEE working group create a draft standard. This draft is reviewed by a balloting group of IEEE members for review and approval. The constitution of the ballot group consists of standard's developers, potential users and others having general interest.Once this process is completed, the Standards Board conducts a review of the Final Draft Standard for the approval. Standards are typically reviewed once every five years for revision.One of the standards of interest to us is the IEEE 802 family, which is formally referred to as the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee. According to the IEEE, the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee develops local area network standards and metropolitan area network standards. The most widely used standards are for the Ethernet family, token ring, wireless LAN, bridging and virtual bridged LANs. An individual working group provides the focus for each area. IEEE 802 family standards and documents cover layers 1 and 2 of the OSI reference model.
This uses static encryption keys and does not have key distribution management। 802।11i will incorporate 802.1x that provides a framework for authenticating and controlling user traffic to a protected network. 802.1x provides dynamically varying encryption keys. It ties a protocol called Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) and provides multiple authentication methods, such as token cards, Kerberos, certificates, and public key authentication. 802.11i will use a stronger encryption algorithm such as Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). In summary, 802.11 task groups are exploring solutions for providing higher speed access, reduced interference, better quality management, strong security, and user roaming.