IEEE 802.18,
the Radio Regulatory Technical Advisory Group ("RR-TAG"), is a working group of
IEEE 802
IEEE 802 is a family of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards for local area networks (LAN), personal area network (PAN), and metropolitan area networks (MAN). The IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee (LMSC) mainta ...
, the LAN/MAN Standards Committee (LMCS). The working group currently has 6 projects on standards for
radio
Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmi ...
-based systems:
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IEEE 802.11
IEEE 802.11 is part of the IEEE 802 set of local area network (LAN) technical standards, and specifies the set of media access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) protocols for implementing wireless local area network (WLAN) computer commun ...
(Wireless
Local area network
A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building. By contrast, a wide area network (WAN) not only covers a larger ...
- WLAN)
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IEEE 802.15 (Wireless
Personal area network
A personal area network (PAN) is a computer network for interconnecting electronic devices within an individual person's workspace. A PAN provides data transmission among devices such as computers, smartphones, tablets and personal digital ass ...
- WPAN)
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IEEE 802.16 (Wireless
Metropolitan area network
A metropolitan area network (MAN) is a computer network that interconnects users with computer resources in a geographic region of the size of a metropolitan area. The term MAN is applied to the interconnection of local area networks (LANs) in ...
- WMAN)
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IEEE 802.20 (Wireless Mobility)
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IEEE 802.21 (Hand-off/Interoperability Between Networks)
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IEEE 802.22 IEEE 802.22, is a standard for wireless regional area network (WRAN) using white spaces in the television (TV) frequency spectrum.
The development of the IEEE 802.22 WRAN standard is aimed at using cognitive radio (CR) techniques to allow sharing ...
(Wireless Regional Area Network - WRAN).
The RR-TAG monitors the interests of the above 6 projects, at both national and international levels, and then makes comments and recommends policies to regulators, which balance the interests of all the wireless LMCS projects.
References
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IEEE 802
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