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unusual facts about IEEE 802.15.4a


C-UWB

Continuous pulse UWB technology was the basis of one of the physical layers specified by the IEEE 802.15.4a standard.


11i

IEEE 802.11i-2004, an international standard specifying security mechanisms for wireless networks

11P

IEEE 802.11p, 802.11 wireless access for vehicular environments

Extremely high frequency

The upcoming Wi-Fi standard IEEE 802.11ad will run on the 60 GHz (V band) spectrum with data transfer rates of up to 7 Gb/s.

IEEE 802.11ac

“Space Division Multiple Access” (SDMA): streams not separated by frequency, but instead resolved spatially, analogous to 11n-style MIMO

IEEE 802.22

IEEE 802.22, is a standard for wireless regional area network (WRAN) using white spaces in the television (TV) frequency spectrum.

LIFX

The master light bulb connects to the router via 802.11n and then to all the other LIFX bulbs in the house via an IPV6 802.15.4 mesh network.

MBWA

Mobile Broadband Wireless Access, an IEEE Standard to enable worldwide deployment of multi-vendor interoperable mobile broadband wireless access networks

Russ Housley

He is also active in the security work of IEEE 802, among others working to rectify the security deficiencies of the IEEE 802.11 Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol.

Sun SPOT

The device used the IEEE 802.15.4 standard for its networking, and unlike other available sensor nodes, used the Squawk Java Virtual Machine.

WMAN

IEEE 802.16, the group preparing formal specifications for Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks


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