- Computer Networking
- Network Types
- Network Models
- OSI-RM and TCP/IP Model Comparison
- The Client-Server Model
- Request for Comment
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- The Internet, TCP/IP, and Other Stacks
- Summary
- For Further Reading
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This chapter is from the book
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
The IEEE is a non-profit technical organization that, among other things, promotes standards for a variety of computing technologies, largely at layers 1 and 2 of the TCP/IP stack. We will be referring to their standards throughout this text. You can learn more about IEEE at their home and standards pages:
Throughout this book we will reference a variety of standards from the IEEE. Table 1–1 lists the high-level IEEE standard number and its general coverage of each standard number.
Table 1–1 IEEE High-Level Standards
|
STANDARD NUMBER |
DESCRIPTION |
|
802.1 |
High-level architectural overview |
|
802.2 |
Logical link control (LLC) |
|
802.3 |
Ethernet with CSMA/CD |
|
802.4 |
Token bus |
|
802.5 |
Token ring |
|
802.6 |
MANs |
|
802.7 |
Broadband LANs |
|
802.8 |
Fiber optic LANs |
|
802.9 |
Data and voice network integration |
|
802.10 |
Security and privacy |
|
802.11 |
Wireless networking |
For complete coverage of these standards, see the IEEE Web sites referenced above.
There is an excellent write-up of the topics discussed in the last six chapters of this book, including the relationship between IEEE standards and the lower layer ISO standards, at:
http://www.cs.herts.ac.uk/~simon/networks1/node1.html