December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
888 pages
48h 24m
English
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) started to look seriously at wireless networking in 1990. This is when the 802.11 standard was first introduced by the Wireless Local Area Networks Standards Working Group. The group based the standard roughly around the architecture used in cellular phone networks. The wireless network is controlled by a base station, which can be just a transmitter attached to the network or, more commonly these days, a router.
Larger networks can use more than one base station. Networks with more than one base station are usually referred to as distribution systems. You can use a distribution system to increase coverage area and support roaming of ...
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