Does IEEE 802.11a protocol operate on network or physical layer?

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can anyone tell me whether ieee 802.11a protocol operates on network layer or physical layer? and why that layer only?
 

IEEE 802.11a

The full name of the standard is:

EEE Standard for Information technology—Telecommunications and information exchange between systems—Local and metropolitan area networks—Specific requirements—Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) specifications—Amendment 1: High-speed Physical Layer in the 5 GHz band

and it is a part of IEEE802 Part 11 Amendment 1 ("a")
you could get more details here:

Answering on you question: standard defines MAC and PHY for 5 GHz band, thus physical and data link layers in OSI model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model)

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