'The ability of Wi-Fi technology to expand in so many directions while maintaining backwards compatibility has been one key to its success and the technology will certainly continue to evolve. This book has hopefully given you some insights into where we have been and where we may be headed.' Greg Ennis, Technical Director, WiFi Alliance

Wireless LANs have become mainstream over the last few years. What started out as cable replacement for static desktops in indoor networks has been extended to fully mobile broadband applications involving moving vehicles, high-speed trains, and even airplanes. This book is designed to appeal to a broad audience with different levels of technical background and can be used in a variety of ways: as a first course on wireless LANs, as a graduate-level textbook, or simply as a professional reference guide. It describes the key practical considerations when deploying wireless LANs and equips the reader with a solid understanding of the emerging technologies. The book comprises 38 high-quality contributions from industry and academia and covers a broad range of important topics related to 802.11 networks, including quality of service, security, high throughput systems, mesh networking, 802.11/cellular interworking, coexistence, cognitive radio resource management, range and capacity evaluation, hardware and antenna design, hotspots, new applications, ultra-wideband, and public wireless broadband.

Foreword
Preface
Part I. Introduction to 802.11: 1. Emerging IEEE 802.11 standards Luke Qian
2. Guide to wireless LAN analysis Wildpackets Inc.
Part II. 802.11 Quality of Service: 3. WLAN QoS Mathilde Benveniste
4. Performance understanding of IEEE 802.11 DCF and IEEE 802.11e EDCA Giuseppe Bianchi, Sunghyun Choi, Ilenia Tinnirello
5. Cross-layer optimized video streaming over wireless multi-hop mesh networks Yiannis Andreopoulos, Nicholas Mastronarde and Mihaela van der Schaar
Part III. 802.11 Security: 6. Understanding and achieving next-generation wireless security Motorola
7. Wireless local area network security Dorothy Stanley and Joshua Wright
Part IV. High throughput 802.11: 8. The 802.11n standard Richard VanNee
9. MIMO spatial processing for 802.11n WLAN Bjorn Andre Bjerke, Irina Medvedev, John Ketchum, Rod Walton, Steven Howard, Mark Wallace and Sanjiv Nanda
Part V. 802.11 Mesh Networks: 10. Capacity of wireless mesh networks Stephen Rayment
11. Autonomous mobile mesh networks and their design challenges Ambatipudi Sastry
12. Service provisioning for wireless mesh networks John Macchione
13. Metro-scale Wi-Fi networks Josef Kriegl and William Merrill
14. Usage and performance comparison of mobile MetroMesh networks Devabhaktuni Srikrishna
15. First, second and third generation mesh architectures Francis Dacosta
16. Wireless mesh networks Jan Kruys and Luke Qian
Part VI. 802.11/Cellular Interworking: 17. WLAN interworking with 2G/3G systems Srinivasan Balasubramanian
18. Towards service continuity in emerging heterogeneous mobile networks Sandro Grech, Henry Haverinen, Vijay Devarapalli and Jouni Mikkonen
19. A survey of analytical modeling for cellular/WLAN interworking Enrique Stevens-Navarro, Chi Sun and Vincent Wong
Part VII. Coexistence: 20. Coexistence of unlicensed wireless networks Steve Shellhammer
21. Coexistence of IEEE 802.11n and bluetooth Eldad Perahia
Part VIII. 802.11 Network and Radio Resource Management: 22. Measured WLANs: the first step to managed WLANs Richard Paine
23. Cognitive WLAN - a better architecture Nestor Feses
Part IX. 802.11 range: 24. Wi-Fi range - impact on data rates, coverage, and capacity John DiGiovanni and Perry Correll
Part X. 802.11 Hardware Design: 25. An 802.11g WLAN system on a chip Atheros Communications, Tereas Meng and Bruce Wooley
26. Antenna design for portable computers Frank Caimi, David Wittwer, Anatoliy Ioffe and Marin Stoytchev
Part XI. Wi-Fi Hotspots: 27. Service control and service management of Wi-Fi hotspots Jasbir Singh
28. Hot spots - public access using 802.11 James Keeler
29. Strategies for maximizing access to public commercial hot spots Boingo Wireless® Inc
30. A discussion of 802.11 for sensor networks William Merrill, Dustin McIntire, Josef Kriegl and Aidan Doyle
31. Wi-Fi based tracking systems Ekahau, Inc.
32. Building the mobile computing environment through context-aware service management Appear
33. Experiments using small unmanned aircraft to augment a mobile ad hoc network Timothy Brown et al. University of Colorado at Boulder
Part XIII. Ultra WideBand (UWB): 34. Ultra-wideband wireless technology Kai Siwiak and Yasaman Bahreini
35. High-rate WPAN Dagnachew Birru and Vasanth Gaddam
Part XIV. Public Wireless Broadband: 36. Wireless cities British Telecom
37. The path to 4G and the mobilization of the internet Philip Marshall
38. All internet is local - five ways public ownership solves the U.S. broadband problem Becca Vargo Daggett
Epilogue
Index.

Subject Areas: WAP [wireless technology TJKW]