Chapter 6Wireless Evolution

DOI: 10.1201/9781003222095-6

“My designs were so deceptively simple that it was easy for people to assume I just had easy problems, whereas others, who made super-complicated designs (that were technically unsound and never worked) and were able to talk about them in ways that nobody understood, were considered geniuses.”

Radia Perlman

Computer scientist and Network Engineer for Dell EMC,

Developed the algorithm behind the Spanning Tree Protocol.

6.1 Wireless Technologies Evolution

Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) or the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standard 802.11 [1], was introduced for ...

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