This page is a collection of the listings of the IEEE's 802 groups of standardized protocols and methods. The information below was taken from, and links to websites maintained by the working groups. In some cases, the protocols and the development work were abandoned due to lack of support or interest or changes in technology rendered the work obsolete (standard was withdrawn).
These sites are way too technical for anyone new to networking--they make great bedtime reading though..
WARNING: THIS READING IS ONLY RECOMMENDED FOR EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS
- IEEE 802 - Overview and Architecture
- IEEE 802.1 - Bridging and Management
- IEEE 802.2 - Logical Link Control [In Hiburnation]
- IEEE 802.3 - CSMA/CD Access Method (Ethernet)
- IEEE 802.5 - Token Ring Access Method
- IEEE 802.11 - Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN)
- IEEE 802.12 - Demand Priority Access (defunct--last updated 1997)
- IEEE 802.15 - Working Group for WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Networks) (a.k.a. Bluetooth)
- IEEE 802.16 - Broadband Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (satellite)
- IEEE 802.17 - Resilliant Packet Ring Working Group
- IEEE 802®: Overview & Architecture Working Group
- IEEE 802-2001, IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Overview and Architecture
- IEEE Std 802a-2003 IEEE Standard for Local and
Metropolitan Area Networks: Overview and Architecture Amendment 1:
Ethertypes for Protype and Vendor-Specific
Protocol Development
- IEEE 802.1™ Bridging & Management Working Group
- IEEE 802.1B, 1995 Edition ISO/IEC 15802-2-1995, IEEE Standards for Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems--IEEE standard for local and metropolitan area networks--Common specifications--Part 2: LAN/MAN Management
- IEEE 802.1D, 1998 Edition (ISO/IEC 15802-3:1998), IEEE Standard for Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems--IEEE standard for local and metropolitan area networks--Common specifications--Media access control (MAC) Bridges
- IEEE 802.1t-2001, Amendment to IEEE Std 802.1D, 1998 Edition IEEE Standard for Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems--Local and metropolitan area networks--Common specifications--Part 3: Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges: Technical and Editorial Corrections
- IEEE 802.1w-2001, IEEE Standard for Information technology---Telecommunications and information exchange between systems---Local and metropolitan area networks---Common specifications Part 3: Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges---Amendment 2---Rapid Reconfiguration [Amendment to IEEE Std 802.1D, 1998 Edition (ISO/IEC 15802-3:1998) and IEEE Std 802.1t-2001]
- IEEE 802.1E, 1994 Edition (ISO/IEC 15802-4-1994), IEEE Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems--IEEE standard for local and metropolitan area networks--Common specifications--Part 4: System Load Protocol
- IEEE 802.1F-1993, IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Common Definitions and Procedures for IEEE 802 Management Information
- IEEE 802.1G, 1998 Edition (ISO/IEC15802-5:1998), IEEE Std Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems--IEEE standard for local and metropolitan area networks--Common specifications--Part 5: Remote Media Access Control (MAC) bridging
- IEEE 802.1H, 1997 Edition (TR11802-5:1997) IEEE Technical Report and Guidelines--Part 5: Media Access Control (MAC) Bridging of Ethernet V2.0 in Local Area Networks
- IEEE 802.1Q, 2003 Edition, IEEE Standards for Local and metropolitan area networks—Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks
- IEEE Std 802.1s-2002 IEEE Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks- Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks- Amendment 3: Multiple Spanning trees
- IEEE 802.1u-2001, (Amendment to IEEE Std 802.1Q, 1998 Edition) IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks--- Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks---Amendment 1: Technical and editorial corrections
- IEEE 802.1v-2001 (Amendment to IEEE Std 802.1Q) IEEE standard for local and metropolitan area networks: Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks: VLAN Classification by Protocol and Port:
- IEEE 802.1X-2001 IEEE Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Port-Based Network Access Control
- IEEE 802.2™: Logical Link Control Working Group
- IEEE 802.2, 1998 (ISO/IEC 8802-2:1998), IEEE Standard for Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems--Local and metropolitan area networks--Specific requirements--Part 2: Logical Link Control
- IEEE 802.3™: CSMA/CD Access Method Working Group
- IEEE 802.3-2002 IEEE Standard for Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems--Local and metropolitan area networks--Specific requirements--Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications
- IEEE 802.3-2002 IEEE Standard for Information technology (ERRATA)
- IEEE 802.3ae-2002 IEEE Standard for Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications-Media Access Control (MAC) Parameters, Physical Layer and Management Parameters for 10 Gb/s Operation
- IEEE 802.3ae-2002 IEEE Standard for Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications (ERRATA)
- IEEE 802.3af-2003 (Includes portions of IEEE 802.3ae) IEEE Standard for Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems--Local and metropolitan area networks--Specific requirements--Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications--Amendment Data Terminal Equipment (DTE) Power via Media Dependent Interface (MDI)
- IEEE 802.3aj-2003 IEEE Standard for Information technology - Telecommunications and information exchange between systems - Local and metropolitan area networks - Specific requirements--Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications Amendment: Maintenance 7
- 1802.3-2001 IEEE Conformance Test Methodology for IEEE Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks-Specific Requirements-Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications (Incorporates IEEE Std 1802.3d)
- IEEE 802.4™: Token-Passing Bus Access Method (Withdrawn)
- IEEE 802.4-1990 (R1995) (ISO/IEC 8802-4-1990, ) IEEE Standard for Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems--Local and metropolitan area networks--Common specifications--Part 4: Token-Passing Bus Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications
- IEEE 802.4h-1997, IEEE Standard for Token Passing Bus Access Method and Physical layer Specifications--Alternative Use of BNC Connectors and Manchester-Encoded Signaling Methods for Single-Channel Bus Physical Layer Entities
- IEEE 802.5™: Token Ring Access Method Working Group
- IEEE 802.5, 1998 Edition (ISO/IEC 8802-5:1998) IEEE Standard for Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems--Local and metropolitan area networks--Specific requirements--Part 5: Token Ring Access Method and Physical Layer Specification
- IEEE 802.5c-1991, Supplement to 802.5-1989, Recommended Practice for Dual Ring Operation with Wrapback Reconfiguration
- IEEE 802.5r and IEEE 802.5j, 1998 Edition 8802-5:1998/Amd.1, Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems--Local and metropolitan area networks--Specific Requirements--Part 5 Token ring access method and physical layer specifications--Admendment1: Dedicated Token Ring Operation and Fibre Optic Media
- IEEE 802.5t-2000, IEEE Standard for Information technology-Telecommunications and information exchange between systems-Local and metropolitan area networks-Specific requirements-Amendment to Part 5: Token Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications
- IEEE Std 802.5v-2001, IEEE Standard for Information technology---Telecommunications and information exchange between systems---Local and metropolitan area networks---Specific requirements---Part 5: Token Ring access method and Physical Layer specifications---Amendment 5: Gigabit Token Ring operation
- IEEE Std 802.5w-2000 (Corrigendum to IEEE Std 802-5:1998 including (ISO/IEC 8802-5:1998/Amd.1:1998) Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems--Local and metropolitan area networks--Part 5: Token ring access method and physical layer specifications--Corrigendum 1
- IEEE 802.6™: DQDB Access Method (Withdrawn)
- IEEE 802.6, 1994 Edition (ISO/IEC 8802-6:1994), Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems--Local and metropolitan area networks--Specific Requirements--Part 6: Distributed Queue Dual Bus (DQDB) Access method and physical layer specifications
- IEEE 802.6j-1995, Supplement to 802.6-1994: Connection-Oriented Service on a DQDB Subnetwork of a MAN
- IEEE 802.7™: Broadband LAN (Withdrawn)
- IEEE 802.7-1989 (R1997), IEEE Recommended Practices for Broadband Local Area Networks
- IEEE 802.10™: Security (Withdrawn)
- IEEE 802.10-1998, IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Interoperable LAN/MAN Security (SILS)
- IEEE 802.10a-1999, Supplement to 802.10-1998, Standard for Interoperable LAN/MAN Security (SILS) - Security Architecture Framework
- IEEE 802.10c-1998, Supplement to 802.10-1998, Key management (Clause 3)
- IEEE 802.11™: Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) Working Group
- IEEE 802.11, 1999 Edition (ISO/IEC 8802-11: 1999) IEEE Standards for
Information Technology -- Telecommunications and Information Exchange
between Systems -- Local and Metropolitan Area Network -- Specific Requirements
-- Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer
(PHY) Specifications
Download the following:
Management Information Base (MIB) text file.
State Diagram Language source files:
SDT, including readme file; Station; AP; MACMIB - IEEE 802.11a-1999 (8802-11:1999/Amd 1:2000(E)), IEEE Standard for Information technology—Telecommunications and information exchange between systems—Local and metropolitan area networks—Specific requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) specifications—Amendment 1: High-speed Physical Layer in the 5 GHz band
- IEEE 802.11b-1999 Supplement to 802.11-1999,Wireless LAN MAC and PHY specifications: Higher speed Physical Layer (PHY) extension in the 2.4 GHz band
- IEEE 802.11b-1999/Cor1-2001, IEEE Standard for Information technology—Telecommunications and information exchange between systems—Local and metropolitan area networks—Specific requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) specifications—Amendment 2: Higher-speed Physical Layer (PHY) extension in the 2.4 GHz band—Corrigendum
- IEEE 802.11d-2001, Amendment to IEEE 802.11-1999, (ISO/IEC 8802-11) Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems--Local and metropolitan area networks--Specific requirements--Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications: Specification for Operation in Additional Regulartory Domains
- IEEE 802.11F-2003 IEEE Recommended Practice for Multi-Vendor Access Point Interoperability via an Inter-Access Point Protocol Across Distribution Systems Supporting IEEE 802.11 Operation
- IEEE 802.11g-2003 IEEE Standard for Information technology—Telecommunications and information exchange between systems—Local and metropolitan area networks—Specific requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) specifications—Amendment 4: Further Higher-Speed Physical Layer Extension in the 2.4 GHz Band
- IEEE 802.11h-2003 IEEE Standard for Information technology—Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems—LAN/MAN Specific Requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications: Spectrum and Transmit Power Management Extensions in the 5GHz band in Europe
- IEEE 802.11, 1999 Edition (ISO/IEC 8802-11: 1999) IEEE Standards for
Information Technology -- Telecommunications and Information Exchange
between Systems -- Local and Metropolitan Area Network -- Specific Requirements
-- Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer
(PHY) Specifications
- IEEE 802.12™: Demand Priority Access Working Group
- IEEE 802.12, 1998 Edition (ISO/IEC 8802-12:1998), IEEE Standard for Information technology - Telecommunications and information exchange between systems - Local and metropolitan area network - Specific requirements - Part 12: Demand-priority access method, physical layer and repeater specifications for 100 Mb/s Operation
- IEEE 802.15™: Wireless Personal
Area Networks Working Group
- IEEE 802.15.1(tm)-2002,IEEE Standard for Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems-- Local and metropolitan area networks--Specific requirements Part 15.1: Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs(tm))
- Specification Description Language (SDL)
- IEEE 802.15.2-2003 IEEE Recommended Practice for Telecommunications and Information exchange between systems – Local and metropolitan area networks Specific Requirements - Part 15.2: Coexistence of Wireless Personal Area Networks with Other Wireless Devices Operating in Unlicensed Frequency Band
- IEEE 802.15.3-2003 IEEE Standard for Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems--Local and metropolitan area networks--Specific requirements Part 15.3: Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications for High Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN)
- IEEE 802.15.4-2003 IEEE Standard for Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems--Local and metropolitan area networks-- Specific requirements Part 15.4: Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications for Low Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (LR-WPANs).
- IEEE 802.16™: Broadband Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks Working Group (WiMAX)
- IEEE 802.16-2001 IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks--Part 16 -- Air Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems
- IEEE 802.16a-2003 IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks Part 16: Air Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems--Amendment 2: Medium Access Control Modifications and Additional Physical Layer Specifications for 2-11 GHz
- IEEE 802.16c-2002 IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks--Part 16: Air Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems--Amendment 1: Detailed System Profiles for 10-66 GHz
- IEEE 802.16Conformance01-2003 IEEE Standard for Conformance to IEEE 802.16 Part 1: Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) Proforma for 10-66 GHz WirelessMAN-SC Air Interface
- IEEE Std 802.16.2(tm)-2001 IEEE Recommended Practice for Local and metropolitan area networks Coexistence of Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems
- IEEE 802.17™: Resilliant Packet Ring Working Group
Other IEEE Groups (NOT RELATED TO THE 802 WORKING GROUPS)
There isn't anywhere other section set aside for this yet, so here it is.
- IEEE P1394™- High Performance Serial Bus Working Groups (FireWire)
- IEEE P1394.1 - High Performance Serial Bus Bridges Working Group
- IEEE P1394.3 - Peer to Peer Data Transport Working Group
- IEEE P1394B - Gigabit 1394 - (Frozen in 2002)
- IEEE P1394C - S800T - Draft Specification