This paper describes air interface standards for wireless local area network (LAN), wireless metropolitan area network (MAN), and wireless personal area network (PAN) technology being developed within the IEEE 802 LAN MAN Standards Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE). 1 U.S. Government work, not subject to U.S. Copyright. IEEE C802.16-03/03

Unlike wired networks, packets transmitted on wireless channels are often subject to burst errors which cause back to back packet losses. Most wireless LAN link layer protocols recover from packet losses by retransmitting lost segments. When the wireless channel is in a burst error state, most retransmission attempts fail, thereby causing poor utilization of the wireless channel. Furthermore, i...

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a form of voice communication that uses audio data to transmit voice signals to the end user. VoIP is one of the most important technologies in the World of communication. Around, 20 years of research on VoIP, some problems of VoIP are still remaining. During the past decade and with growing of wireless technologies, we have seen that many papers turn thei...

IEEE 802.11 has captured the support of major wireless industry leaders. The growth and commercialization seen by the personal communications sector may be finally spilling over to the Wireless LAN sector, but I still remember the cold and stormy night back in 88 when I started working on a Wireless LAN at a start-up. That venture didn t work, but it did provide valuable insight into the proble...