IEEE 802 refers to a family of IEEE standards about local area networks and metropolitan area networks. More specifically, the IEEE 802 standards are restricted to networks carrying variable-size packets. (By contrast, in cell-based networks data is transmitted in short, uniformly sized units called cells. Isochronous networks, where data is transmitted as a steady stream of octets, or groups of octets, at regular time intervals, are also out of the scope of this standard.) The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (pronounced as eye-triple-ee) is an international non-profit, professional organization incorporated in the State of New York, United States. ... A local area network (LAN) is a computer network covering a small local area, like a home, office, or small group of buildings such as a college. ... Metropolitan Area Networks or MANs are large computer networks usually spanning a campus or a city. ... In telecommunication, the term isochronous has the following meanings: Of a periodic signal, pertaining to transmission in which the time interval separating any two corresponding transitions is equal to the unit interval or to a multiple of the unit interval. ...

The services and protocols specified in IEEE 802 map to the lower two layers (Data Link and Physical) of the seven-layer OSI networking reference model. In fact, IEEE 802 splits the OSI Data Link Layer into two sub-layers named Logical Link Control (LLC) and Media Access Control, so that the layers can be listed like this: The Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model (OSI Model or OSI Reference Model for short) is a layered abstract description for communications and computer network protocol design, developed as part of the Open Systems Interconnect initiative. ... Logical Link Control (LLC) is the upper portion of the data link layer of a local area network, as defined in IEEE 802. ... media access control is where people try to access a control to the media. ...

• Data link layer
  • LLC Sublayer
  • MAC Sublayer
• Physical layer

The IEEE 802 family of standards is maintained by the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee (LMSC). 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. The data link layer is layer two of the seven-layer OSI model. ... Logical Link Control (LLC) is the upper portion of the data link layer of a local area network, as defined in IEEE 802. ... media access control is where people try to access a control to the media. ... The physical layer is level one in the seven level OSI model of computer networking. ...

See its working groups:

• IEEE 802.1 Higher layer LAN protocols
• IEEE 802.2 Logical link control
• IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
• IEEE 802.4 Token bus (disbanded)
• IEEE 802.5 Token Ring
• IEEE 802.6 Metropolitan Area Networks (disbanded)
• IEEE 802.7 Broadband LAN using Coaxial Cable (disbanded)
• IEEE 802.8 Fiber Optic TAG (disbanded)
• IEEE 802.9 Integrated Services LAN (disbanded)
• IEEE 802.10 Interoperable LAN Security (disbanded)
• IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN
• IEEE 802.12 demand priority
• IEEE 802.13 (not used)
• IEEE 802.14 Cable modems (disbanded)
• IEEE 802.15 Wireless PAN
• IEEE 802.16 Broadband wireless access
• IEEE 802.17 Resilient packet ring
• IEEE 802.18 Radio Regulatory TAG
• IEEE 802.19 Coexistence TAG
• IEEE 802.20 Mobile Broadband Wireless Access
• IEEE 802.21 Media Independent Handoff
• IEEE 802.22 Wireless Regional Area Network

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See also

• computer networks.

A computer network is a system for communication between computers. ...

External links

• 802 Committee website