CHAPTER 19 Wireless Personal Area Network — Bluetooth
19.1 Introduction
Several technical committees of IEEE are responsible for developing standards of the local area network (LAN), wireless local area network (WLAN), and wireless personal area network (WPAN). Table 19.1 summarizes them to familiarize the readers.
Table 19.1 IEEE 802 working groups.
| Working group | |
|---|---|
| 802.1 | Higher Layer LAN Protocol |
| 802.2 | Logical Link Control (LLC) |
| 802.3 | Ethernet |
| 802.11 | WLAN |
| 802.15 | WPAN |
| 802.16 | Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) |
| 802.17 | Resilient Packet Ring |
| 802.18 | Radio Regulatory TAG |
| 802.20 | Mobile Broadband Wireless Access (MBWA) |
| Link Security | Executive Committee Study Group |
| 802 Handoff | Executive Committee Study Group |
In a WPAN, the residence ...
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