Materials collected for the IEEE Computer Society History Committee's project about the IEEE 802 standard

Interview of Bob Stewart by Steve Diamond

• mp3 audio file of 2007-10-25 interview of Bob Stewart by Steve Diamond (a 58MB file).
• Provenance of the 2007-10-25 recording.
• Transcript of 2007 interview of Bob Stewart by Steve Diamond (a PDF)
• Time log of 2007-10-25 questions (.txt file)

Books that covering aspect of the 802 standard

• The Triumph of Ethernet: Technological Communities and the Battle for the LAN Standard, Urs von Burg, Stanford Business Books, 2002, 320 pages.
• The Innovation Journey of Wi-Fi: The Road to Global Success, Wolter Lemstra, Vic Hayes, and John Groenewegen, Cambridge University Press, 2010, 432 pages.
• A History of Computer Communications 1968-1988, James, Pelkey, www.historyofcomputercommunications.info. (To understand what is at this marvelous website, see the sitemap. Chapter IX is particularly relevant to the 802 standard, i.e., sections 9.2, 9.3, and 9.4.

Information from Maris Graube

• Notes on a 2012-02-27 meeting between Maris Graube and Dave Walden. (These notes mention four documents Maris gave to Dave; the second, third, and fourth of these documents will be scanned in May 2014 and posted here at that time.)

Information, images, and a reference from Gary Robinson relating to the 802.3 standard

• Standardization of Local Area Networks, Marvin Sirbu and Kent Hughes, Presented at the 14th Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Airlie Virginia, April 1986, 21 pages (while we do not have permission to post thus on the web, we do have a copy of it).
• Gary Robinson called the above paper to our attention, and went over it with Dave Walden making notes on his involvement in some of the things Sirbu and Hughes discuss and his view of them.
• Notes on a December 14, 2011, meeting between Gary Robinson and Dave Walden.
• List from Gary of some key people
• Document cover images
  • The Ethernet Local Network: Three Reports, February 1980.
  • The Ethernet: Link Layer and Physical Layer Specifications, version 1.0, September 1980.
  • 48-bit Absolute Internet and Ethernet Host Numbers, July 1981.
  • The Ethernet: Link Layer and Physical Layer Specifications, version 2.0, November 1982.
  • ANSI/IEEE std 802.3-1985, 1985
  • International Standard ISO/IEC8 802-3:2000(E), 2000.

References collected by Willis King

• IEEE Standards in Communications and Networking, guest editorial, Alexander D. Gelman, Steven Mills, and Robert S. Fish, IEEE Communications Magazine, July 2008, pp. 30-31.
• High Performance Wireless Ethernet, by Chris Heegard, John (Séan) T. Coffey, Srikanth Gummadi, Peter A. Murphy, Ron Provencio, Eric J. Rossin, Sid Schrum, and Matthew B. Shoemake, IEEE Communications Magazine, November 2001, pp. 64-73.
• IEEE 802.11n Development: History, Process, and Technology, Eldad Perahia, IEEE Communications Magazine, July 2008, pp. 48-55.
• A Technical Tutorial on the IEEE 802.11 Protocol, Pablo Brenner, Breezecom Wireless Communications, July 18, 1996, 24 pages.
• 802.11n: Next-Generation Wireless LAN Technology, Broadcom white paper, April 2006, 13 pages.
• IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks, Brian P. Crow, Indra Widjaja, Jeong Geun Kim, and Prescott T. Sakai, IEEE Communications Magazine, September 1997, pp. 116-126.
• The IEEE Standards Association and Its Ecosystem, F. D. (Don) Wright, IEEE Communications Magazine, July 2008, pp. 32-39. Fast-handoff Support in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks, Sangheon Pack, Jaeyoung Choi, Taekyoung Kwon, and Yanghee Choi, IEEE Communication Surveys, 1ST Quarter 2007, Volume 9, No. 1, pp. 2-12. IEEE Project 802 Standards Efforts, Ronald W. Gibson, Computer, August 1990, pp. 84-89.