Wireless Local Area Networks

BENNY BING is a research faculty member with the Broadband Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. He is the author of over 30 technical papers and 5 books. He is a guest editor of Wireless LANs for the IEEE Communications Magazine and the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

• Contributors xvForeword xviiPreface xixAcknowledgements xxviiChapter 1 Guide to Wireless LAN Analysis 1Wildpackets, IncChapter 2 The Evolution of 2.4-GHz Wireless LANs 17Chris Heegard, John (Sean) T. Coffey, Srikanth Gummadi, Peter A. Murphy, Ron Provencio, Eric J. Rossin, Sid Schrum, and Matthew B. Shoemake, Texas Instruments, Inc.Chapter 3 The 5-GHz IEEE 802.11a Wireless LAN 73James Chen, Atheros Communications, Inc.Chapter 4 Migration Strategies for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs 91Proxim, Inc.Chapter 5 5-GHz Radio Spectrum Regulations 97Teik-Kheong Tan, 3Com Corporations, Inc.Chapter 6 Quality of Service and Multimedia Support in 802.11 Standards 105Gregory Parks, Cirrus Logic, Inc.Chapter 7 Overview of Wireless LAN Security 115Cisco SystemsChapter 8 Wireless Network Security 123Dorothy Stanley, Agere Systems, Inc.Chapter 9 Building Secure Wireless Local Area Networks 141Colubris NetworksChapter 10 Wireless LAN for Mobile Operators 147Philppe Laine, AlcatelChapter 11 Wireless LAN Access Architecture for Mobile Operators 159Juha Ala-Laurila, Henry Haverinen, Jouni Mikkonen, Jyri Rinnemaa, Nokia Mobile PhonesChapter 12 From Wireless LANs to Wireless Network Solutions: Applying Lessons from Cellular Networking to Enterprise Wireless Networking 177Sandeep K. Singhal, ReefEdge, Inc.Chapter 13 The Bluetooth Basics 191Mike Sheppard, Bluetooth SIG Associate MemberChapter 14 Coexistence of IEEE 802.11b WLAN and Bluetooth WPAN 203Stephen J. Shellhammer, Symbol Technologies and IEEE 802.15.2 ChairmanChapter 15 An Introduction to Ultra Wide Band Wireless Technology 219Kazimierz Siwiak and Laura L. Huckabee, Time Domain CorporationGlossary 233Related Web Sites 239About the Author 241Index 243

Wireless Local Area Networks is for those who will be charged with designing, building, and maintaining those networks, and it is a resolutely practical book. The very first page of the preface promises that the chapters were chosen for “conciseness and clarity [without] unnecessary information.” The book begins with an overview of wireless standards, and moves on to cover network security, public access, personal area networks, and future developments. The chapters are, as promised, clear and concise. The overview of 802.11b in Chapter 1 and the Bluetooth overview in chapter 13 are both excellent introductions to these wireless networking standards. -- ACM Networker Overall, the book is a valuable source of information about wireless LAN technologies with special respect to IEEE 802.11 standards. It contains a lot of practical information that comes from the experience of the authors....Lots of illustrations help understanding of important topics. The book will be attractive to many readers. I recommend it for every WLAN user, students, graduate students, as well as engineers and mobile operators.-- IEEE Communications"...attractive to many readers. I recommend it for every WLAN user, students, graduate students, as well as engineers and mobile operators."(IEEE Communications Magazine, August 2003)