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An  IEEE 802.11 session (in-person and electronic) is planned March 10-15, 2024.
 PAID REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED
IEEE 802.11 meetings are ongoing and held via teleconference

Ongoing Ballots, Comment Collections and Standards Association (SA) Ballot Group Formation:

IEEE SA Ballot pool formation: see SA Ballot process information.
P802.11bf SA Ballot pool formation opens 2024-03-06, closes 2024-04-05

SA Ballots: see myProject to vote if you are in the ballot pool.
None at present

IEEE 802.11 WG Ballots and Comment Collections:
None at present


You can import the calendar as an iCal file, or use the "Add to Google Calendar" at the bottom right of the calendar below. 

Next Session and New Activities

The next 802.11 Working Group in-person and electronic session will be held March 10-15,  2024 Additional teleconferences are being  held to progress technical work.
The  draft agenda for the March 2024 session is now available.

See the Working Group session report for the recently completed January 2024 session.

OF NOTE: IEEE 802 Wireless participants have created a spreadsheet of the frequencies for which operation is defined in 802 standards, including in the 802.11 standard.
See the document here.


Formation of a new Integrated Millimeter Wave (IMMW) Study Group was approved in March 2023. This SG began its meetings in November 2023.

Formation of Topic Interest Groups for (a) Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML Use in 802.11) and (b)  Ambient Power IoT Devices (AMP)
were approved at the 2022 May session, see
Slides 10 and 11 in 11-22-0597-03-0000-may-2022-working-group-motions.pptx
11-22-0645-02-0wng-ambient-power-enabled-iot-for-wi-fi.pptx and
11-22-0460-03-0wng-making-the-case-for-open-softwarized-data-driven-802-11-networks.pdf .
The Topic Interest Groups are meeting, contributions and draft TIG reports are posted in the respective document groups.
In March 2023, the 802.11
Ambient Power IoT Devices (AMP) Study Group was approved, and the AIML TIG was extended through January 2024.

Recent Amendment and Standard Approval

IEEE Std 802.11bb-2023 was published on November 10, 2023.  Congratulations to the many WG11 members who participated in development of the 802.11bb Standard.

IEEE Std 802.11az-2022 was published on March 3, 2023.  Congratulations to the many WG11 members who participated in development of the 802.11az Standard.

IEEE P802.11bd-2022 was published on March 10, 2023.  Congratulations to the many WG11 members who participated in development of the 802.11bd Standard.

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IEEE P802.11-2020/Cor 1-2022 was published on December 27, 2022.  Thank you to all who contributed to this corrigendum, providing a corrrection to IEEE 802.11ay Assignment of Protected Announce Support Bit.

IEEE P802.11ba-2021 was published on October 8, 2021. The 802.11ba awards were presented (electronically) at the September Interim. Congratulations to the many WG11 members who participated in development of the 802.11ba Standard.

IEEE P802.11ay-2021 was published on July 28, 2021. The 802.11ay awards were presented (electronically) at the July 2021 Plenary.  Congratulations to the many WG11 members who participated in development of the 802.11ay Standard.

IEEE Std 802.11ax-2021 was published on May 19, 2021. The 802.11ax awards were presented (electronically) at the May 2021 Interim. Congratulations to the many WG11 members who participated in development of the 802.11ax Standard.

IEEE Std 802.11 -2020, was published February 26, 2021. Congratulations to the many WG11 members who participated in development of the 2020 Standard. The REVmd awards were presented (electronically) at the March 2021 Plenary. Congratulations to all members who were recognized for their contributions!
The 2020 Standard incorprates previously published amendments together wth maintenance updates.

Physical awards for the above 4 standards were presented in the 2023 January meeting, see awards.

Of Note


In July 2019, IEEE 802.11 hosted a Coexistence Workshop, in collaboration with 3GPP. The agenda and presentations are available.


Please see the simulation and analysis which shows that P802.11ax D3.0 satisfies the primary MAC/PHY requirements for the benchmark enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) Indoor Hotspot test environment. See the related press release.

Access Published IEEE 802 and  IEEE 802.11 Standards (free download)

"Click Here" for IEEE 802 Free Standards

The IEEE has made available IEEE 802 standards for free download.  Under this program, a standard may be downloaded for free six months after the initial publication of the standard. All relevant IEEE 802.11 Standard, Amendments, and Recommended Practices are listed.



IEEE 802.11 Working Group Outgoing Liaison Statments and External Communications

Recent liaison statements and communications  are available here.

IEEE 802.11 Presentations

The former publicity standing committee (PUB SC) and other volunteers have produced  presentations to describe the activities of the IEEE 802.11 Working Group. These presentations are intended to be used to explain 802.11's activities to those outside 802.11.  


ACCESS TO 802 DRAFT STANDARDS

Draft standards are available from a number of sources:

  • If you are a voting 802.11 member, go to the members' area and log in using the 802.11 members ID and password supplied to you by the 802.11 officers.  Contact Dorothy Stanley if you have lost this. During an 802.11 session, attendees may access 802.11 draft standards from a local fileserver, regardless of their membership status.
  • If you are an active member of one of the other 802 groups,  you may be able to access the 802.11 members' area using the same credentials used to access your own group.  If this doesn't work,  ask your group's Chair to request access from the 802.11 Chair (Dorothy Stanley).
  • Draft IEEE standards are, from time to time,  made available for purchase using the IEEE store or Techstreet.

IEEE STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT GUIDE

The IEEE-SA has created an easy to use Online Standards Development web site that has a wealth of information that details the whole standards process flow, from creation of the initial PAR, to balloting to final draft, and beyond. It even includes, tutorials, and online forms of the various processes evolved. This site is recommended for all Members and Chairs involved.