- IEEE Workshops on Wireless LAN
In May 1991, the first
IEEE workshop on Wireless LANs was held at theWorcester Polytechnic Institute ,Worcester, MA . The workshop was scheduled in coordination with a meeting of the IEEE802.11 Wireless Access Methods and Physical Layer Standardization Committee forWireless LAN , also held in Worcester, MA. This seminal workshop was the first organized by the IEEE to address issues associated with wireless LANs. Its aim was to increase the awareness of then-current developments and future direction in the WLAN field, and to foster interaction among researchers, spectrum regulators, standardization organizations, leading manufacturers and end users [1] . Among the notable participants in the 1991 workshop were Charlie Bass, the co-founder ofUngermann-Bass and one of the pioneers of the commercial LAN industry; Mike Marcus, Chief engineer of theFCC , who was responsible for release of the first unlicensed bands, energizing the evolution of the WLAN industry; Bruce Tuch, the designer of the first DSSS WLAN, which became the 802.11 standard; Tom Freeburg, designer of Motorola's Altair product operating at 18-19GHz; Vic Hayes, the first chairman of the IEEE 802.11; and Bob Heile, the future founder and the chair of the IEEE802.15 standardization effort. This workshop was organized and chaired by Prof.Kaveh Pahlavan , who also chaired the second and third IEEE WLAN workshops in 1996 and 2001 [2,3] . The historical trace of a number of wireless LAN innovations and standardization activities can be found in the proceeding of these workshops [1,2,3] .References
# [http://www.cwins.wpi.edu/wlans91/index.html The first IEEE Workshop on Wireless LAN, 1991] .
# [http://www.cwins.wpi.edu/wlans96/index.html The second IEEE Workshop on Wireless LAN, 1996] .
# [http://www.cwins.wpi.edu/wlans01/index.html The third IEEE Workshop on Wireless LAN, 2001] .
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