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All in a Wi-Fi Network: A Comprehensive Workbook on Wireless LAN Technologies by Benny Bing
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The contents of the workbook have been carefully class-tested at many of the author's teaching assignments on the subject, including professional courses for industry, government agencies, and academic institutions, as well as tutorials for researchers at prestigious IEEE conferences. A companion website is available exclusively for users of this book, providing updates to this fast developing field, related websites, and additional learning resources and supplements.
The workbook provides valuable insights on a broad range of topics:
- Introduction to WLANs: Evolution, current standards, evolving
- technologies Fundamentals of WLAN Design and Deployment: WLAN
- classifications, physical layer transmission, MAC protocols, network
- topologies, security, switches, deployment considerations (e.g.,
- office, home, public hotspots/hotzones) 802.11 Standard and
- Amendments: Physical and MAC layers (802.11b/a/g), advanced security
- (802.11i), QoS support (802.11e) Performance Evaluation of WLANs:
- Throughput, delay, prioritization Emerging Technologies and New
- 802.11 Initiatives: High-speed MIMO systems, wireless VoIP,
- intelligent wireless systems, wireless broadband access (long-range,
- multihop/mesh technologies), wireless peer to peer applications
All in a Wi-Fi Network is written by an author whose books on wireless networks are highly regarded by many technology visionaries. They contain forewords from both chairmen of the IEEE 802.11 Working Group since its inception, the inventor of Internet technology, and the inventor of the first wireless protocol. In early 2000, his groundbreaking book on wireless LANs was adopted by Cisco Systems to launch the Cisco-Aironet Wi-Fi product. A multimedia CD was specially prepared by Cisco to accompany the book. The Aironet product has since enjoyed phenomenal success, dominating the corporate arena and capturing over 60% of the Wi-Fi market share.
The author was subsequently invited by Qualcomm Inc. to conduct a customized course on wireless LANs for its engineering executives. In
2002, his edited book on wireless LANs was extensively reviewed by illustrious research journals such as the IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network, and ACM Networker, the first time a book has been reviewed by all three journals. The author has worked on wireless LAN technologies well before it was known as Wi-Fi. He has also contributed significantly to the field of wireless LANs, being the first to emphasize the importance of improving range performance and throughput (versus raw data rate). These concepts have since been applied to Wi-Fi. The author carries over 12 years of teaching and research experience.His research publications have appeared in many leading journals, including the IEEE Spectrum and the MIT Technology Review. To date, he has over 100 research citations and over 40 research papers. In 2003, he was selected as one of ten best wireless designers in the U.S. by BICSI, a 22,000 industry member association based in Tampa, Florida. He is currently a technical editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, a senior member of IEEE, a research faculty member with the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, GA, USA, and an associate director with the Georgia Tech Broadband Institute.