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4、art 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) SpecificationsAmendment 4: Enhancements for Very High Throughput for Operation in Bands below 6 GHzSponsorLAN/MAN Standards Committeeof theIEEE Computer SocietyApproved 11 December 2013IEEE-SA Standards BoardThe Institute of E
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34、right 2013 IEEE. All rights reserved.ParticipantsAt the time this standard was completed, the IEEE 802.11 Working Group had the following membership:Bruce P. Kraemer, Chair Jon W. Rosdahl and Adrian P. Stephens, Vice-chairsStephen McCann, SecretaryThe following were officers of Task Group ac:Osama S
35、. Aboul-Magd, ChairJoonsuk Kim and Menzo M. Wentink, Vice-chairsRobert Stacey, Technical EditorDavid Xun Yang, SecretarySantosh P. AbrahamRoberto AielloCarlos H. AldanaThomas AlexanderPeiman AminiSirikiat Lek AriyavisitakulLee R. ArmstrongYusuke AsaiAlex AshleyTorrey AtcittyKwok Shum AuVijay AuluckS
36、tefan AustGeert A. AwaterDavid BagbyMichael BahrGabor BajkoRaja BanerjeaPhillip BarberJohn R. BarrTuncer BaykasAlan BerkemaAnirudh BhattBijoy BhukaniaTed BoothPhilippe BoucachardAndre BourdouxGeorge BumillerGeorge CalcevChris CalvertDaniel Camps MurLaurent CariouWilliam CarneyPhilippe ChambelinKim C
37、hangClint F. ChaplinBin ChenMinho CheongInhwan ChoiIn-Kyeong ChoiJee-Yon ChoiLiwen ChuJohn CoffeyKenneth CoopCarlos CordeiroSubir DasRolf J. de VegtHossein DehghanYohannes DemessieTheodorus DenteneerKlaus DopplerOffie DrennanRoger P. DurandPeter EcclesineRichard EdgarMarc EmmelmannLeonid EpsteinVink
38、o ErcegPing FangFei QinStanislav FilinMatthew J. FischerGeorge FlammerNoriyasu FukatsuPatrick FungChittabrata GhoshJames P. K. GilbReinhard GlogerDaning GongMichelle GongDavid GoodallElad GottlibSudheer A. GrandhiMichael GrigatDavid HalaszMark HamiltonChristopher J. HansenHiroshi HaradaDan N. Harkin
39、sBrian D. HartAhmadreza HedayatRobert F. HeileGuido R. HiertzGarth D. HillmanKen HiragaDavid HowardJing-Rong HsiehJu-Lan HsuDavid HunterSung Hyun HwangYasuhiko InoueAkio IsoMitsuru IwaokaByungJang Jang JeongJorjeta G. JetchevaZhongYi JinVince JonesAvinash JoshiPadam KafleCarl W. KainNaveen K. Kakani
40、Byeongwoo KangHyunduk KangAssaf Y. KasherShuzo KatoRichard H. KennedyJohn KenneyStuart J. KerryPrithpal KhakuriaThet KhineBonghoe KimByoung-Hoon KimEun Sun KimJinkyeong KimSuhwook KimYouhan KimYoungsoo KimYunjoo KimShoichi KitazawaTero KivinenJarkko KnecktGwangzeen KoMark M. KobayashiFumihide Kojima
41、Tom KolzeTimo KoskelaThomas M. KuriharaJoseph KwakPaul LambertZhou LanLeonardo LananteJames LansfordDaewon LeeDonghun LeeJae Seung Seung LeeCopyright 2013 IEEE. All rights reserved. viiJihyun LeeYuro LeeZhongding LeiWai Kong Kong LeungHonggang LiHuan-Bang LiLingjie LiYunzhou LiErik LindskogJeremy Li
42、nkLu LiruJianhan LiuSiyang LiuYong LiuPeter LocYi LuoZhendong LuoKaiying LvBradley LynchMichael LynchJouni K. MalinenHiroshi ManoAvi MasourSimone MerlinMurat MeseJames MillerFanny MlinarskyApurva ModyEmmanuel MonnerieMichael MontemurroRajendra T. MoortiHitoshi MoriokaAndrew MylesYukimasa NagaiHiroki
43、 NakanoSai Shankar NandagopalanPradeep NemavatChiu NgoPaul NikolichKnut OdmanHiroyo OgawaJong-Ee OhMinseok OhDavid OlsonSatoshi OyamaSantosh G. PandeyAnna PantelidouThomas PareJaewoo ParkJonghyun ParkMinyoung ParkSeung-Hoon ParkSandhya PatilEldad PerahiaJames E. PetranovichAlbert PetrickJohn PetroKr
44、ishna Madhavan PillaiRiku PirhonenJuho PirskanenVishakan PonnampalamRon PoratHenry S. PtasinskiSatish PuttaChang-Woo Chang PyoEmily H. QiHuyu QuJim E. RaabHarish RamamurthyJayaram RamasastryIvan ReedeEdward ReussMaximilian RiegelMark RisonDongwook RohAlexander SafonovKazuyuki SakodaRuben Salazar Car
45、dozoHemanth SampathSigurd SchelstraeteTimothy SchmidlCristina SeibertYongho SeokKunal ShahHuairong ShaoNir ShapiraSteve ShearerStephen J. ShellhammerIan SherlockWei ShiNobuhiko ShibagakiShusaku ShimadaThomas M. SiepMichael SimDwight SmithGraham Kenneth SmithIll Soo SohnChunyi SongDorothy StanleyChin
46、-Sean SumBo SunChen SunMohammad Hossein TaghaviKazuaki TakahashiMineo TakaiJoseph TeoJerry ThrasherJens TingleffJames D. TomcikIchihiko ToyodaSolomon B. TraininHa Nguyen TranMasahiro UmehiraRichard D. J. Van NeeAllert Van ZelstPrabodh VarshneyGanesh VenkatesanSameer VermaniDalton T. VictorGabriel Vi
47、llardiBhupender VirkGeorge A. VlantisSanjay WadhwaChao Chun WangHaiguang WangJames June WangJunyi WangLei WangQi WangLisa WardFujio WatanabeLei WenNicholas WestIan WongJames WorshamHarry R. WorstellTianyu WuZhanji WuAkira YamadaHuanchun YeJames YeeJung YeePeter YeeSu Khiong YongChristopher YoungHeej
48、ung YuArtur ZaksDezhi ZhangHongyuan ZhangJunjian ZhangNing ZhangMu ZhaoQiang ZhaoJun ZhengChunhui ZhuLawrence Zuckermanviii Copyright 2013 IEEE. All rights reserved.The following members of the individual balloting committee voted on this standard. Balloters may havevoted for approval, disapproval,
49、or abstention. Osama S. Aboul-MagdTomoko AdachiThomas AlexanderNobumitsu AmachiArthur AstrinKwok Shum AuPhillip BarberTuncer BaykasMathild BenvenisteNancy BravinWilliam ByrdGeorge CalcevWilliam CarneyJuan CarreonDouglas ChanXin ChangHong ChengMinho CheongPaul ChiuchioloHangyu ChoKeith ChowCharles CookCarlos CordeiroNeiyer CorrealAlessandro De FilippoMichael de la GarrigueMichael DensonHendricus De RuijterWael DiabPatrick DiamondRoger DurandSourav DuttaPeter EcclesineRichard EdgarMarc EmmelmannDavid EvansMatthew FischerGeorge FlammerP. FlynnAvraham FreedmanDevon Gayle
