IEEE 802.11 - how It Works and Where It's Going
Adrian Stephens*
Intel Research Lab, Cambridge
IEEE 802.11 is the highly successful protocol used by most wireless
local area network devices. This talk starts with a short
tutorial on how the 802.11 protocol works. It then describes
current 802.11 standards activities and considers
the kinds of protocols and products that may result
from these in the short and medium term.
* Adrian Stephens is a wireless MAC architect in Intel's corporate
technology group. His focus is on developing next generation IEEE
802.11 standards. He is an active member of the 802.11 High Throughput
task group (TGn) (currently chair of their functional requirements
committee).
