Ieee Standards For Local And Metropolitan Area Networks

This document provides an overview to the family of IEEE 802 Standards, defines compliance with the family of IEEE 802 Standards, describes the relationship of the IEEE 802 Standards to the Open Systems Interconnections Basic Reference Model (ISO 7498:1984) and explains the relationship of these standards to the higher layer protocols, and provides a standard for identification of public, private, and standard protocols.

IEEE Std 802-2001, IEEE Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Overview and Architecture, provides an overview to the family of IEEE 802 Standards. It defines compliance with the family of IEEE 802 Standards; it describes the relationship of the IEEE 802 Standards to the Open Systems Interconnection Basic Reference Model [ISO/IEC 7498-1:1994] and explains the relationship of these standards to the higher layer protocols; it provides a standard for the structure of LAN MAC addresses; and it provides a standard for identification of public, private, and standard protocols.

This amendment to IEEE 802.1Q, 1998 edition is intended to document maintenance items identified in the text of IEEE Std 802.1Q, 1998 edition. IEEE Std 802.1u-2001 identifies any proposed changes ti IEEE Std 801.1Q, 1998 edition that have arisen as a consequence of maintenance activity. The changes are documented in the usual form for an amendment to IEEE 802 standards; i.e. as an explicit set of editing instructions that, if correctly applied to the text of IEEE Std 802.1Q, 1998 edition, will create a corrected document.

Abstract: This amendment specifies improved mechanisms, as policies and medium access control enhancements, to enable coexistence among license-exempt systems based on IEEE Std 802.16 and to facilitate the coexistence of such systems with primary users. Keywords: broadband wireless access, BWA, coexistence, Coexistence Control Channel, coexistence mechanism, Coexistence Protocol, Coexistence Signaling, contention-based protocol, license-exempt, OFDMA, radio, standard, WAS, wireless access systems, WirelessMAN®, WirelessMAN-CX, WirelessMAN-UCP, wireless metropolitan area network.

Management information and procedures applicable across the entire family of IEEE 802 LAN/MAN standards within the architectural framework for LAN/MAN Management specified in IEEE Std 802-1990 are identified. Common management information, such as attributes to represent MAC address and managed objects to represent configurable gauges, are specified. The need of developers of LAN/MAN management specifications for common procedures to develop, describe, and register management information is addressed.