IEEE 802.11 Handbook
A Designer's Companion
2. Edition April 2011
400 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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.
Acronyms and Abbreviations.
Chapter 1 Similarities and differences between wireless andwired local area networks (LANs).
Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11: First International Standard forWLANs.
Chapter 3 Medium Access Control (MAC).
Chapter 4 IEEE 802.11i Security Enhancements.
Chapter 5 IEEE P802.11e Quality of Service (QoS)Enhancements.
Chapter 6 IEEE 802.11h Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) andTransmit Power Control (TPC).
Chapter 7 IEEE 802.11d International Operation.
Chapter 8 IEEE 802.11F Inter Access Point Protocol (IAPP).
Chapter 9 MAC Management.
Chapter 10 MAC Management Information Base (MIB).
Chapter 11 The Physical Layer (PHY).
Chapter 12 PHY Extensions to IEEE 802.11.
Chapter 13 IEEE 802.11j Operation in Japan at 4.9GHz and 5GHz.
Chapter 14 IEEE 802.11g Higher Data Rates in 2.4 GHz FrequencyBand.
Chapter 15 IEEE 802.11n Higher Data Rates beyond 54Mbit/s.
Chapter 16 System Design Considerations for IEEE 802.11LANs.
Glossary.
Index.
startup company that is leading the IEEE 802.11 industry into the
second stage of wireless local area network (WLAN) evolution. He is
actively involved in the development of networking,
telecommunications, and computing standards and products. His areas
of expertise are network and communication protocols and their
implementation, operating systems, system specification and
integration, standards development, cryptography and its
application, strategy development, and product definition. Mr.
O'Hara has been involved with the development of the IEEE 802.11
WLAN standard since 1992. He was the technical editor of that
standard and chairman of the revisions and regulatory extensions
tasks groups. He is currently chairman of the maintenance and task
group. In 2004, he was selected of one of the fifty most powerful
people in networking by Network World.
Al Petrick is vice president of marketing and business
development at WiDeFi, a fabless semiconductor company developing
802.11 WiFi¯® semiconductors for the wireless
consumer electronics market. Mr. Petrick's experience includes over
23 years of combined marketing and systems engineering in wireless
communications and semiconductor technology. Prior to WiDeFi, he
held executive management marketing and business development
positions at Icefyre and Intersil. At Intersil, now Conexant,
formally Harris Semiconductor, he pioneered the PRISM WLAN
chipset from inception into a successful Wi-Fi product line. Mr.
Petrick serves as vice chairman of the IEEE 802.11 WLAN Working
Group. He has published various marketing and technical papers on
wireless communications for leading wireless trade publications,
marketing analysts, and financial analysts. Mr Petrick co-authored
with Bob O'Hara the first edition of the IEEE 802.11
Handbook: A Designer's Companion. He serves on a number of
advisory boards for Wi-Fi product companies.
