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IEEE 802.11 Handbook: A Designer's Companion, Second Edition

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The IEEE 802.11 Handbook: A Designer's Companion, Second Edition is for the system network architects, hardware engineers and software engineers at the heart of this second stage in the evolution of 802.11 wireless LANs and for those designers that will take 802.11 to the next stage

by Bob O'Hara and Al Petrick
2005/Softcover/360pp
IEEE Product No.: STDSP1136
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ISBN: 0-7381-4449-5
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The first generation 802.11™ wireless market, once struggling to expand, has spread from largely vertical applications such as healthcare, point of sale, and inventory management to become much more broad as a general networking technology being deployed in offices, schools, hotel guest rooms, airport departure areas, airplane cabins, entertainment venues, coffee shops, restaurants, and homes. This has led to the tremendous growth of new sources of IEEE 802.11 devices.

IEEE 802.11 equipment is now moving into its second stage, where the wireless LAN is being treated as a large wireless communication system. As a system, there is more to consider than simply the communication over the air between a single access point and the associated mobile devices. This has lead to innovative changes in the equipment that makes up a wireless LAN.

The IEEE 802.11 Handbook: A Designer's Companion, Second Edition is for the system network architects, hardware engineers and software engineers at the heart of this second stage in the evolution of 802.11 wireless LANs and for those designers that will take 802.11 to the next stage.

RELATED PRODUCTS: 802 Standards Wireless Networks Series; Wireless Communication Standards: A Study of 802.11, 802.15, and 802.16; 802.11 Family of Standards

Contents:

A Designer's Companion, Second Edition explains in detail:

  • Medium Access Control (MAC) – including MAC management and the MAC Management Information Base (MIB).
  • Security Enhancements – addressing failures of the original Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) algorithm with the Robust Security Network (RSN) and Transition Security Network (TSN)
  • Quality of Service Enhancements – meeting the demands for bandwidth and minimizing network congestion and slowdown
  • Key Specifications and Attributes of the Five Physical Layers:
    • direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) physical layer
    • frequency-hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) physical layer
    • high rate direct sequence spread spectrum (HRDSSS) physical layer
    • orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) physical layer
    • infrared (IR) physical layer

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