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Broadband
Wireless: Technology, Infrastructure and Services
The field of wireless LAN systems has witnessed tremendous growth
in recent years and has become an integral part of corporate and
public network infrastructure for data communications. In addition,
WiFi has become a de-facto standard for home networking and is increasingly
being used by equipment manufacturers to extend WLAN application
domains to voice and multimedia.
These
diverse and ultimately mobile wireless environments present additional
challenges for the infrastructure side making it extremely rich
field for research and development. This tutorial is designed to
provide engineers, IT professionals as well as researchers with
an in-depth coverage of the WLAN technologies with extensive focus
on the IEEE 802.11 standard and its derivates.
It starts by addressing three basic concepts: radio spectrum and
propagation, modulation and medium access.
It then covers the fundamentals of 802.11 including security and
quality of service extensions. This is followed by brief overview
of related wireless standards.
The tutorial then focuses on design, operation, evaluation and performance
enhancement techniques for WLANs based on 802.11 and gives with
an overview of current 802.11 standardization efforts as well as
emerging wireless access technologies (802.16 and 802.20).
Tutorial
Outline:
1
- Wireless Fundamentals Spectrum Allocations Propagation Modeling
Modulation Techniques and Concept of BER Multiple Access Cellular
and Ad-hoc Concepts
2 - IEEE 802.11 Technologies System Architecture 802.11 PHYs
802.11 MAC WPA and 802.11i: Security 802.11e: MAC
Enhance ments for Quality of Service Related Wireless Standards
(Hyperlan, HomeRF, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Wireless USB)
3 - WLAN Deployment Issues Network Planning,
Deployment and Analysis Performance Tuning Network Monitoring
4 - “Future” Trends: Emerging WLAN Related Technologies
802.11 Trends 802.16 (WiMax) 802.20 UWB, Cognitive Radios, Sensor
Networks, RFID 4G and Data Communications Convergence?
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