Chapter 19

Understanding Wireless Roaming and Location Services

This chapter covers the following subjects:

  • Roaming Overview: This section discusses client mobility from the AP and controller perspectives.

  • Intercontroller Roaming: This section explains the mechanisms that allow wireless devices to roam from one AP/controller pair onto another.

  • Locating Devices in a Wireless Network: This section explains how the components of a wireless network can be used to compute the physical location of wireless devices.

Wireless client devices are inherently mobile, so you should expect them to move around. This chapter discusses client mobility from the AP and controller perspectives. You should have a good understanding of client roaming so that you ...

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