IEEE 802.11k - Wireless LAN Standard
Richard H. Paine
January 3, 2006
Abstract
IEEE 802.11k is the upcoming measurement standard for wireless LANs (WLANs). The next generation of 802.11 networks require more information to adapt to the environments in which they must operate. The 11k standard provides those measurements. The presentation is a tutorial on the proposed 11k standard.approach is especially ideal for mesh networking.
Speaker Bio
Richard Paine is a employee of The Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington, USA. He has twenty seven years total experience in the computer data networking field and at The Boeing Company for nineteen years. In computer data networking, he first served in the United States Air Force, writing network protocols in assembler and then led FORTRAN and real-time Operating System programming organizations. He was commander of a computer center in the United Kingdom and then, back in the states, worked on the design and implementation of a worldwide weather graphics network still in operation today. His work at Boeing consists of investigation and introduction of appropriate new networking technologies. That work has consisted of multi-level secure local area networks and strategic architectures for the entire company. He has led such projects within Boeing as the Web, Wireless and Mobility, Communications Security, Voice Over IP, the Directory Enabled Network (DEN), Location Enabled Network Services (LENS), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), and the Secure Mobile Architecture (SMA). He is currently chair of the IEEE 802.11k Task Group developing measurement standards for wireless LANs. Also, until recently, he was the co-chair of the Secure Mobile Architecture (SMA) project of the Open Group and currently has a functional prototype of that architecture on the Boeing Intranet.
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Seminar Series
Fundamentals of Networking Lab
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