802.11
The IEEE 802 refers to a family of IEEE standards dealing with local area networks and metropolitan area networks. The IEEE stands for the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. The IEEE 802 standards are resricted to networks carrying variable size packets. The number 802 was simply the next free number the IEEE could assign.
Project 802
IEEE stands for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IEEE802 is a specification for family of IEEE and standards dealing with local area networks and metropolitan area networks. More specifically, the IEEE 802 standards are restricted to networks carrying variable-size packets.
IEEE 802.11 is a set of standards carrying out wireless local area network (WLAN) computer communication in the 2.4, 3.6 and 5 GHz frequency bands. They are created and Maintained by the IEEE LAN/MAN standards committee (IEEE 802).
LAN standards are these of IEEE 802 group:802.3 - Ethernet802.11 a/b/g/n - Wireless LAN and Wi-Fi802.13 - 100BASE-X Ethernet802.15 - Wireless PAN (Personal Area Network)802.15.2 - IEEE 802.15 and IEEE 802.11 coexistence802.16 - Broadband Wireless Access (WiMAX certification)
LAN standards are these of IEEE 802 group:802.3 - Ethernet802.11 a/b/g/n - Wireless LAN and Wi-Fi802.13 - 100BASE-X Ethernet802.15 - Wireless PAN (Personal Area Network)802.15.2 - IEEE 802.15 and IEEE 802.11 coexistence802.16 - Broadband Wireless Access (WiMAX certification)
Logical link control sublayer and media access control sublayer
According to IEEE the 802STANDARD is used for LAN Standard.
It's IEEE 802.3 for Ethernet and IEEE 802.11 for Wireless LANs.
The IEEE was started at February, 1980. So they started to name their standard as 802 such as 802.2, 802.3,802.11 .... 802 - 80 Represents the year when they started 2 - Represents the month
802.1 Actually, I think the answer is 802.3.