Approved Standards and Active Projects

The IEEE ComSoc Standards Development Board (COM/SDB) sponsors standards in communications and networking technologies. These include the technical domains and interests reflected in the scope of ComSoc Technical Committees.

Communications Society Standards Development Board (COM/SDB)
Approved standards:

  • IEEE 661-1979: IEEE Standard Method for Determining Objective Loudness Ratings of Telephone Connections
  • IEEE 1902.1-2009: IEEE Standard for Long Wavelength Wireless Network Protocol
  • IEEE 1329-2010: IEEE Standard Method for Measuring Transmission Performance of Speakerphones
  • IEEE 269-2010: IEEE Standard Methods for Measuring Transmission Performance of Analog and Digital Telephone Sets, Handsets, and Headsets
  • IEEE 269a-2012: IEEE Standard Methods for Measuring Transmission Performance of Analog and Digital Telephone Sets, Handsets, and Headsets – Amendment 1
  • IEEE 1652-2016: IEEE Standard for Translating Head and Torso Simulator Measurements from Eardrum to Other Acoustic Reference Points

Active projects:

  • P269-2019: Standard for Measuring Electroacoustic Performance of Communication Devices

Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks Standards Committee (DySPAN-SC)

Approved standards:

  • IEEE 1900.1-2008: IEEE Standard Definitions and Concepts for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Terminology Relating to Emerging Wireless Networks, System Functionality, and Spectrum Management
  • IEEE 1900.2-2008: IEEE Recommended Practice for the Analysis of In-Band and Adjacent Band Interference and Coexistence Between Radio Systems
  • IEEE 1900.4-2009: IEEE Standard for Architectural Building Blocks Enabling Network-Device Distributed Decision Making for Optimized Radio Resource Usage in Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks
  • IEEE 1900.4a-2011: IEEE Standard for Architectural Building Blocks Enabling Network-Device Distributed Decision Making for Optimized Radio Resource Usage in Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks Amendment 1: Architecture and Interfaces for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks in White Space Frequency Bands
  • IEEE 1900.5-2011: IEEE Standard for Policy Language Requirements and System Architectures for Dynamic Spectrum Access Systems
  • IEEE 1900.6-2011: IEEE Standard for Spectrum Sensing Interfaces and Data Structures for Dynamic Spectrum Access and Other Advanced Radio Communication Systems
  • IEEE 1900.1a-2012: IEEE Standard Definitions and Concepts for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Terminology Relating to Emerging Wireless Networks, System Functionality, and Spectrum Management Amendment 1: Addition of New Terms and Associated Definitions
  • IEEE 1900.4.1-2013: IEEE Standard for Interfaces and Protocols Enabling Distributed Decision Making for Optimized Radio Resource Usage in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
  • IEEE 1900.6a-2014: IEEE Standard for Spectrum Sensing Interfaces and Data Structures for Dynamic Spectrum Access and Other Advanced Radio Communication Systems – Amendment 1: Procedures, Protocols, and Data Archive Enhanced Interfaces
  • IEEE 1900.6-2011/Cor 1-2015: IEEE Standard for Spectrum Sensing Interfaces and Data Structures for Dynamic Spectrum Access and Other Advanced Radio Communication Systems – Corrigendum 1
  • IEEE 1900.7-2015: IEEE Standard for Radio Interface for White Space Dynamic Spectrum Access Radio Systems Supporting Fixed and Mobile Operation
  • IEEE 1900.5.2-2017: IEEE Approved Draft Standard Method for Modeling Spectrum Consumption
  • IEEE 1900.1-2019: IEEE Standard for Definitions and Concepts for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Terminology Relating to Emerging Wireless Networks, System Functionality, and Spectrum Management
  • IEEE 1900.6b-2022: IEEE Standard for Spectrum Sensing Interfaces and Data Structures for Dynamic Spectrum Access and Other Advanced Radio Communication Systems Amendment 2: Spectrum Database Interfaces
  • IEEE 1900.5.1-2020: IEEE Standard for Policy Language for Dynamic Spectrum Access Systems

Active projects:

  • P1900.2: Revision to IEEE Standard 1900.2-2008
  • P1900.5: Revision to IEEE Standard 1900.5-2011
  • P1900.5.2a: Spectrum Consumption Modelling Schema
  • P1900.8: Machine Learning for RF Spectrum Awareness in DSA and Sharing Systems
  • P1900.1: Revision to IEEE Standard 1900.1-2019

Power Line Communication Standards Committee (PLC-SC)

Approved standards:

  • IEEE 1775-2010: IEEE Standard for Power Line Communication Equipment – Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Requirements – Testing and Measurement Methods – co-sponsored with the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Power System Communications Committee (PSCC)
  • IEEE 1901-2010: IEEE Standard for Broadband over Power Line Networks: Medium Access Control and Physical Layer Specifications
  • IEEE 1905.1-2013: IEEE Standard for a Convergent Digital Home Network for Heterogeneous Technologies
  • IEEE 1901.2-2013: IEEE Standard for Low Frequency (less than 500 kHz) Narrow Band Power Line Communications for Smart Grid Applications
  • IEEE 2030.5-2013: IEEE Adoption of Smart Energy Profile 2.0 Application Protocol Standard
  • IEEE 1905.1a-2014: IEEE Standard for a Convergent Digital Home Network for Heterogeneous Technologies Amendment 1: Support of New MAC/PHYs and Enhancements
  • IEEE 1909.1-2014: IEEE Recommended Practice for Smart Grid Communications Equipment — Test Methods and Installation Requirements
  • IEEE 1901.2a-2015: IEEE Standard for Low-Frequency (less than 500 kHz) Narrowband Power Line Communications for Smart Grid Applications – Amendment 1
  • P1901.1-2018: Medium Frequency (less than 15 MHz) Power Line Communications for Smart Grid Applications
  • IEEE 2030.5-2018: IEEE Standard for Smart Energy Profile Application Protocol
  • IEEE 1901a-2019: IEEE Standard for Broadband over Power Line Networks: Medium Access Control and Physical Layer Specifications — Amendment 1: Enhancement for Internet of Things Applications
  • IEEE 2413-2019: Standard for an Architectural Framework for the Internet of Things (IoT)
  • IEEE 1901-2020: IEEE Standard for Broadband over Power Line Networks: Medium Access Control and Physical Layer Specifications
  • IEEE 1901.1.1-2020: IEEE Standard Test Procedures for IEEE Std 1901.1(TM) for Medium Frequency (less than 15 MHz) Power Line Communications for Smart Grid Applications
  • IEEE 1901b-2021: IEEE Standard for Broadband over Power Line Networks: Medium Access Control and Physical Layer Specifications — Amendment 2: Enhancements for Authentication and Authorization
  • IEEE 2847-2021: DC Power Transmission and Communication to DC Loads

Active projects:

  • P2030.5: Standard for Smart Energy Profile Application Protocol
  • P2413.1: Standard for a Reference Architecture for Smart City (RASC)
  • IEEE P1901c: Standard for Broadband over Power Line Networks: Medium Access Control and Physical Layer Specifications – Amendment 3: Enhanced Flexible Channel Wavelet (FCW) physical and media access control layers for use on any media
  • IEEE P2893: Flexible Optical Service Unit (OSUFlex) of Optical Transport Network (OTN) in power systems
  • IEEE P1547: Standard for Interconnection and Interoperability of Distributed Energy Resources with Associated Electric Power Systems Interfaces
  • IEEE P1547.10: Recommended Practice for Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Gateway Platforms

Virtualized and Software Defined Networks and Services Standards Committee (NetSoft-SC)

Approved standards:

  • IEEE 1903-2011: IEEE Standard for the Functional Architecture of Next Generation Service Overlay Networks (NGSON)
  • IEEE 1903.1-2017: IEEE Approved Draft Standard for Content Delivery Protocols of Next Generation Service Overlay Network
  • IEEE 1903.2-2017: IEEE Approved Draft Standard for Service Composition Protocols of Next Generation Service Overlay Network (NGSON)
  • IEEE 1903.3-2017: IEEE Approved Draft Standard for Self-Organizing Management Protocols of Next Generation Service Overlay Network
  • IEEE 1930.1-2022: Recommended Practice for Software Defined Networking (SDN) based Middleware for Control and Management of Wireless Networks

Active projects:

  • P1913: Software-Defined Quantum Communication
  • P1916.1: Standard for Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization Performance
  • P1938.1: Standard for Software Defined Protocol and Functional Requirements for Improvement of the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) in Communications Channels
  • P1950.1:  Standard for Communications Architectural Functional Framework for Smart Cities
  • P1951.1: Standard for Discovering and Intent Sharing between Smart City Component Systems
  • P2784: Guide for the Technology and Process Framework for Planning a Smart City
  • P1952: Resilient Positioning, Navigation, And Timing User Equipment
  • P1943.1: Standard for Post-Quantum Network Security

Green ICT Standards Committee (GreenICT-SC)

Active projects:

  • P1922.1: A method for calculating anticipated emissions caused by virtual machine migration and placement
  • P1922.2: A method to calculate near real-time emissions of information and communication technology infrastructure
  • P1923.1: Computation of energy efficiency upper bound for apparatus processing communication signal waveforms
  • P1924.1: Recommended practice for developing energy efficient power-proportional digital architectures
  • P1925.1: Energy Efficient Dynamic Line Rate Transmission System
  • P1926.1: A Functional Architecture of Distributed Energy Efficient Big Data Processing
  • P1927.1: Services Provided by the Energy-efficient Orchestration and Management of Virtualized Distributed Data Centers Interconnected by a Virtualized Network
  • P1928.1: A Mechanism for Energy Efficient Virtual Machine Placement
  • P1929.1: An Architectural Framework for Energy Efficient Content Distribution

Mobile Communication Networks Standards Committee (MobiNet-SC)

Approved standards:

  • 1914.3-2018: IEEE Standard for Radio over Ethernet Encapsulations and Mappings
  • 1914.1-2019: IEEE Standard for Packet-based Fronthaul Transport Networks
  • IEEE 1920.1-2022: IEEE Trial-Use Standard for Aerial Network Communication

Active projects:

  • P1914.3: Standard for Radio Over Ethernet Encapsulations and Mappings
  • P1918.1: Tactile Internet: Application Scenarios, Definitions and Terminology, Architecture, Functions, and Technical Assumptions
  • P1918.1.1: Haptic Codecs for the Tactile Internet
  • P1920.2: Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications for Unmanned Aircraft Systems
  • P1931.1: An Architectural Framework for Real-time Onsite Operations Facilitation (ROOF) for the Internet of Things
  • P1932.1: Licensed/Unlicensed Spectrum Interoperability in Wireless Mobile Networks
  • P1954: Self-Organizing Sepctrum-Agile Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Communications
  • P2061: Architecture for Low Mobility Energy Efficient Network for Affordable Broadband Access
  • P2872: Standard for Interoperable and Secure Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Infrastructure and Architecture
  • P2994: Security Assessment Framework for the Internet of Things (IoT) Application Deployments

Edge, Fog, Cloud Communications with IOT and Big Data Standards Committee (EdgeCloud-SC)

Approved standards:

  • IEEE 1906.1-2015: IEEE Recommended Practice for Nanoscale and Molecular Communication Framework
  • P1906.1.1-2020: Standard Data Model for Nanoscale Communication Systems
  • P1934-2018: OpenFog Reference Architecture for Fog Computing
  • IEEE 2410-2017: IEEE Standard for Biometrics Open Protocol Standard

Active projects:

  • P1912: Privacy and Security Architecture for Consumer Wireless Devices
  • P1934.1: Nomenclature and Taxonomy for Distributing Computing, Communications and Networking along the Things-to-Cloud Continuum
  • P1935: Standard for Edge/Fog Manageability and Orchestration
  • P1940: Standard Profiles for ISO 8583 Authentication Services

Access and Core Networks Standards Committee (AccessCore-SC)

Approved standards:

  • IEEE 1904.1-Conformance01-2014: IEEE Standard for Conformance Test Procedures for Service Interoperability in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks, IEEE Std 1904.1(TM) Package A
  • IEEE 1904.1-Conformance02-2014: IEEE Standard for Conformance Test Procedures for Service Interoperability in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks, IEEE Std 1904.1(TM) Package B
  • IEEE 1904.1-Conformance03-2014: IEEE Standard for Conformance Test Procedures for Service Interoperability in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks, IEEE Std 1904.1(TM) Package C
  • IEEE 1904.1-2017: IEEE Standard for Service Interoperability in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (SIEPON)
  • IEEE 1904.2-2021: IEEE Standard for Control and Management of Virtual Links in Ethernet-based Subscriber Access Networks
  • IEEE 1910.1: IEEE Standard for Meshed Tree Bridging with Loop Free Forwarding

Active projects:

  • P1904.4: IEEE Standard for Service Interoperability in 25 Gb/s and 50 Gb/s Ethernet Passive Optical Networks
  • P1941.1: IEEE Recommended Practice for Internet Grades of Service in Rural Areas
  • P1942.1: IEEE Standard for Massive MIMO Architectural Framework

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Communications Standards Committee(COM/AerCom-SC)

Approved standards:

  • IEEE1937.1-2020: Standard of Interface Requirements and Performance Characteristics of Payload Devices in Drones
  • IEEE1936.1-2021: Standard for Drone Applications Framework
  • IEEE1939.1-2021: Standard for a Framework for Structuring Low Altitude Airspace for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Operations

Active projects:

  • P1936.2: Photogrammetric technical requirements of civil light and small UAS for power grid survey and design
  • P1937.3: Protocol for the Flight Data Transmission of Civil Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Based on BeiDou Short Message
  • P1937.6: Standard for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Light Detection and Ranging(LiDAR) remote sensing operation
  • P1937.7: Standard for the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle polarimetric remote sensing method for earth observation applications
  • P1937.8: Functional and Interface Requirements for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’ Cellular Communication Terminals
  • P1937.9: Requirements for External Power and Power Management Interfaces for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
  • P1920.1: Aerial Communications and Networking Standards
  • P1920.2: Standard for Vehicle to Vehicle Communications for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

ComSoc Co-Sponsored Active Projects

In addition, ComSoc is co-sponsoring the following projects:

  • P2413.1:  Standard for a Reference Architecture for Smart City (RASC) – Standards Committee:  BOG/CAG/IoT Architecture; Co-sponsoring Committee:  COM/PLC
  • P1920.2:  Standard for Vehicle to Vehicle Communications for Unmanned Aircraft Systems –  Standards Committee:  VT/ITS/V2V for Unmanned; Co-sponsoring Committee:  COM/MobiNet-SC
  • P2048:  Standard for Metaverse: Terminology, Definitions, and Taxonomy –  Standards Committee:  CTS/MSC/MWG; Co-sponsoring Committees:  SSIT/SC, C/SAB, SMC/SC, COM/SDB, EMB/Stds Com