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IEEE Stands for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IEEE is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity.IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE's highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.

IEEE is a leading developer of international standards that underpin many of today's telecommunications, information technology and power generation products and services. Often the central source for standardization in a broad range of emerging technologies, the IEEE Standards Association has a portfolio of more than 1,500 standards and projects under development. This includes the prominent IEEE 802 standards for wireless networking.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802 Standards

• IEEE 802.1: Standards related to network management.
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  IEEE 802.2: General standard for the data link layer in the OSI Reference Model. The IEEE divides this layer into two sublayer -- the logical link control (LLC) layer and the media access control (MAC) layer.
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  IEEE 802.3: Defines the MAC layer for bus networks that use CSMA/CD. This is the basis of the Ethernet standard.
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  IEEE 802.4: Defines the MAC layer for bus networks that use a token-passing mechanism (token bus networks).
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  IEEE 802.5: Defines the MAC layer for token-ring networks.
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  IEEE 802.6: Standard for Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs)