Subject: [DMM] 802.11p: point mentioned during presentation of Charlie

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 15:46:29 +0000

Hi all,

Today, during the 4th Next-Generation Mobility Protocols and Architectures call, Charlie Perkins presented the talk:
"Wireless handovers: relative importance of various technologies" .

During that call, Charlie asked me to send information related to the IEEE 802.11p wireless technology. which is the WLAN technology for vehicular networks.

The protocol is in 2010 standardized by IEEE. The reference can be found via:

IEEE 802.11p, "IEEE Std 802.11p(TM)-2010, IEEE Standard for Information Technology - Telecommunications and information exchange between systems - Local and metropolitan area networks -Specific requirements, Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications,  Amendment 6: Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments; document freely available at URL

http://<http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.11p-2010.pdf>standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.11p-2010.pdf<http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.11p-2010.pdf>

The main differences between IEEE 802.11a and IEEE 802.11p are very nicely described in Appendix C of:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-petrescu-ipv6-over-80211p-01#ref-ieee802.11p-2010

Best regards,

Georgios