ISBN: 978-0-7381-4449-8 Part Number: STDSP1136 Format: Softcover, 360 pages Release Date: 1 January 2005 Price: Member and Affiliate Price: $44.95 Non-Member Price: $54.95
About the Book 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.
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
