Emerging Technologies in Wireless LANs: Theory, Design, and Deployment

by Edited by Benny Bing

• ISBN13: 9780521895842
• ISBN10: 0521895847
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-05
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Wireless LANs have become mainstream over the last few years. What started out as cable replacement for static desktops in indoor networks has been extended to fully mobile broadband applications involving moving vehicles, high-speed trains, and even airplanes. This book is designed to appeal to a broad audience with different levels of technical background and can be used in a variety of ways: as a first course on wireless LANs, as a graduate-level textbook, or simply as a professional reference guide. It describes the key practical considerations when deploying wireless LANs and equips the reader with a solid understanding of the emerging technologies. The book comprises 38 high-quality contributions from industry and academia and covers a broad range of important topics related to 802.11 networks, including quality of service, security, high throughput systems, mesh networking, 802.11/cellular interworking, coexistence, cognitive radio resource management, range and capacity evaluation, hardware and antenna design, hotspots, new applications, ultra-wideband, and public wireless broadband.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction to l802.11

Emerging IEEEl802.11 standards

Guide to wireless LAN analysis Wildpackets Inc.

l802.11 Quality of Service

WLAN QoS Mathilde Benveniste

Performance understanding of IEEE l802.11 DCF and IEEE l802.11e EDCA

Cross-layer optimized video streaming over wireless multi-hop mesh networks

l802.11 Security

Understanding and achieving next-generation wireless security Motorola

Wireless local area network security

High throughput l802.11

The l802.11n standard

MIMO spatial processing for l802.11n WLAN Bjorn Andre Bjerke, Irina Medvedev

l802.11 Mesh Networks

Capacity of wireless mesh networks

Autonomous mobile mesh networks and their design challenges

Service provisioning for wireless mesh networks

Metro-scale Wi-Fi networks

Usage and performance comparison of mobile MetroMesh networks

First, second and third generation mesh architectures

Wireless mesh networks

l802.11/Cellular Interworking

WLAN interworking with 2G/3G systems

Towards service continuity in emerging heterogeneous mobile networks

A survey of analytical modeling for cellular/WLAN interworking Enrique

Coexistence

Coexistence of unlicensed wireless networks

Coexistence of IEEE l802.11n and bluetooth

l802.11 Network and Radio Resource Management

Measured WLANs: the first step to managed WLANs

Cognitive WLAN - a better architecture

l802.11 range

Wi-Fi range - impact on data rates, coverage, and capacity

l802.11 Hardware Design

An l802.11g WLAN system on a chip Atheros Communications

Antenna design for portable computers

Wi-Fi Hotspots

Service control and service management of Wi-Fi hotspots

Hot spots - public access using l802.11

Strategies for maximizing access to public commercial hot spots Boingo Wireless(r) Inc

A discussion of l802.11 for sensor networks

Wi-Fi based tracking systems

Building the mobile computing environment through context-aware service management Appear

Experiments using small unmanned aircraft to augment a mobile ad hoc network

Ultra WideBand (UWB)

Ultra-wideband wireless technology

High-rate WPAN Dagnachew

Public Wireless Broadband

Wireless cities British Telecom

The path to 4G and the mobilization of the internet

All internet is local - five ways public ownership solves the U.S. broadband problem

Epilogue

Index

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