The IEEE 802 LAN Standards Family

The IEEE 802 LAN Standards Family
The IEEE 802 Local and Metropolitan Area Network Standards Committee is a major working
group charted by IEEE to create, maintain, and encourage the use of IEEE and equivalent
IEC/ISO standards. The IEEE formed the committee in February 1980, and this committee
meets as a plenary body at least three times per year. The IEEE 802 committee produces the
series of standards known as IEEE 802.x, and the JTC 1 series of equivalent standards is
known as ISO 8802-nnn.
IEEE 802 includes a family of standards, as depicted in Figure 3.3. The MAC and Physical
layers of the 802 standard were organized into a separate set of standards from the LLC
because of the interdependence between medium access control, medium, and topology