Network Management, 2nd Edition

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Broadband Home Networks

OBJECTIVES

• Residential and SOHO networks

  • Transport technologies
  • Applications and application protocols
  • Middleware between multiple applications and transports

• Transport technologies

  • Wired: IEEE 802.3/Ethernet LAN and other options
  • Wireless: IEEE 802.11/WiFi

• Wired home networks

  • Comprehensive view
  • Lower-layer protocols
  • Ethernet-like protocols and management
  • Power Ethernet

• Wireless home network

  • WiFi (802.11a/b/g) wireless LAN
  • 802.11 standards and amendments
  • Hierarchical network using access point
  • Basic service set (BSS)
  • Ad-hoc networks

• Special network management considerations

  • Security management
  • QoS management
  • Centralized management
  • WLAN MIBs: ieee 802dot11MIB and CAPWAP-BASE-MIB

In Chapter 1 we introduced ...