Deploying Voice over Wireless LANs

The definitive guide to planning, architecting, deploying, supporting, and creating Voice over Wireless LAN solutions

Recent advances make it possible to deliver high-quality voice and video communications over a wireless LAN (WLAN), replacing costly wired telephone and video surveillance systems and dramatically reducing support costs. However, today’s new voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) technologies require fundamentally different skills and techniques from those used in traditional voice and video systems. Now, there’s a complete guide to every facet of VoWLAN deployment: planning, design, installation, security, maintenance, and troubleshooting.

Publisher: Cisco Press (Mar 14, 2007)
Pages: 264
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1-58705-231-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-58705-231-6
Format: CHM

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Designing a Wireless Network

Wireless network design presents the IT professional with unique obstacles. Your network requires the seamless and secure distribution of information, in spite of competing communication protocols, incompatible hardware platforms, and narrow bandwidths. This book is an introduction to developing efficient means of wireless transport in order to fully leverage wireless technologies.

Publisher: Syngress (June 15, 2001)
Pages: 379
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1928994458
ISBN-13: 978-1928994459
Format: PDF

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Wireless Network Security

Wireless networks technologies have been dramatically improved by the popularity of third generation (3G) wireless networks, wireless LANs, Bluetooth, and sensor networks. However, security is a major concern for wide deployments of such wireless networks. The contributions to this volume identify various vulnerabilities in the physical layer, the MAC layer, the IP layer, the transport layer, and the application layer, and discuss ways to strengthen security mechanisms and services in all these layers. The topics covered in this book include intrusion detection, secure PHY/MAC/routing protocols, attacks and prevention, immunization, key management, secure group communications/multicast, secure location services, monitoring and surveillance, anonymity, privacy, trust establishment/management, redundancy and security, and dependable wireless networking.

Publisher: Springer (June 5, 2007)
Pages: 424
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0387280405
ISBN-13: 978-0387280400
Format: PDF

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WiMAX: Technologies, Performance Analysis, and QoS

As the demand for broadband services continues to grow worldwide, traditional solutions, such as digital cable and fiber optics, are often difficult and expensive to implement, especially in rural and remote areas. The emerging WiMAX system satisfies the growing need for high data-rate applications such as voiceover IP, video conferencing, interactive gaming, and multimedia streaming. WiMAX deployments not only serve residential and enterprise users but can also be deployed as a backhaul for Wi-Fi hotspots or 3G cellular towers. By providing affordable wireless broadband access, the technology of WiMAX will revolutionize broadband communications in the developed world and bridge the digital divide in developing countries. Part of the WiMAX Handbook, this volume focuses on the technologies behind WiMAX, its performance capabilities, and its control mechanisms. The book introduces programmable baseband processors suited for WiMAX systems, describes an innovative methodology for the design of multi-band WiMAX antennas, addresses space-time block codes, and reviews space-frequency/space-time-frequency code design criteria. It also proposes a combined call admission control and scheduling scheme, focuses on the performance analysis of the IEEE 802.16 mesh mode, and analyzes the performance of both single-input-single-output and space-time-block-coded OFDM systems in mobile environments. The final section establishes a framework of an ideal reservation period controller, examines the ecosystem in which scheduling for IEEE 802.16e systems must be performed, and presents a fuzzy logic controller for admission control. With the revolutionary technology of WiMAX, the lives of many will undoubtedly improve, thereby leading to greater economic empowerment.

Publisher: CRC Press (September 7, 2007)
Pages: 296
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1420045253
ISBN-13: 978-1420045253
Format: PDF

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Bluetooth Application Developer's Guide

"Bluetooth (enabled devices) will ship in the billions of units once it gains momentum." - Martin Reynolds, Gartner Group
Bluetooth is the most exciting development in wireless computing this decade! Bluetooth enabled devices can include everything from network servers, laptop computers and PDAs, to stereos and home security systems. Most Bluetooth products to hit the market in 2001 will be PC cards for laptop computers and access points, which allow up to seven Bluetooth devices to connect to a network. Reports indicate that by the end of 2003 there will be over 2 billion Bluetooth-enabled devices.
Bluetooth-enabled devices communicate with each other through embedded software applications. Bluetooth Developer's Guide to Embedded Applications will provide embedded applications developers with advanced tutorials and code listings written to the latest Bluetooth's latest specification, version 1.1. Written by Bluetooth pioneers from market leaders in Bluetooth software development, Extended Systems and Cambridge Silicon Radio, this is the first advanced level Bluetooth developer title on the market.

Publisher: Syngress (December 2001)
Pages: 556
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1928994423
ISBN-13: 978-1928994428
Format: PDF

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Wi-Fi Handbook: Building 802.11b Wireless Networks

Detailing the design and deployment of 802.11b networks in every flavor and size, this working handbook delivers the hands-on expertise you need -- complete with illustrative case studies. From one-cell home systems to global provider networks, Wi-Fi Handbook provides the A-Z facts, details, tips, and strategies you need to handle the job.

Publisher: McGraw-Hill (April 10, 2003)
Pages: 363
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071412514
ISBN-13: 978-0071412513
Format: PDF

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Wireless Mesh Networking: Architectures, Protocols and Standards

A promising new technology, wireless mesh networks are playing an increasingly important role in the future generations of wireless mobile networks. Characterized by dynamic self-organization, self-configuration, and self-healing to enable quick deployment, easy maintenance, low cost, high scalability, and reliable services, this technology is becoming a vital mode complementary to the infrastructure-based wireless networks. Wireless Mesh Networking: Architectures, Protocols and Standards is the first book to provide engineers, students, faculties, researchers, and designers with a comprehensive technical guide covering introductory concepts. It addresses advanced and open issues in wireless mesh networks and explores various key challenges and diverse scenarios as well as emerging standards such as those for capacity, scalability, extensibility, reliability, and cognition. It focuses on concepts, effective protocols, system integration, performance analysis techniques, simulation, experiments, and future research directions. This volume contains illustrative figures and allows for complete cross-referencing on routing, security, spectrum management, MAC, cross-layer optimization, load-balancing, multimedia communication, MIMO, and smart antenna, etc. It also details information on the particular techniques for efficiently improving the performance of a wireless mesh network. Presenting a solid introduction, Wireless Mesh Networking: Architectures, Protocols and Standards elucidates problems and challenges in designing wireless mesh networks.

Publisher: Auerbach (December 13, 2006)
Pages: 608
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0849373999
ISBN-13: 978-0849373992
Format: PDF

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Wireless Networks First-Step

As a basic introduction to wireless networking, Wireless Networks First-Step assumes that readers have no previous wireless experience. The book provides an overview of wireless networking, along with details of applicable standards and technologies. Newcomers to wireless technologies will find practical information along with an abundance of examples. Case studies throughout the chapters provide real-world implementation examples, presented in a non-technical fashion. Implementation details are discussed only to the extent that readers can identify what type of wireless network may be appropriate for their needs.

Wireless Networks First-Step, written by Jim Geier, begins with a basic introduction to wireless networks and an explanation of radio wave communications. It then reviews different types of wireless networks including WPANs (wireless personal area networks), WLANs (wireless local area networks), wireless MANs (metropolitan area networks), and WWANs (wireless wide area networks). The final section covers security threats to wireless networks, and solutions to combat these threats.

Publisher: Cisco Press (Aug 3, 2004)
Pages: 264
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1-58720-111-9
ISBN-13: 978-1-58720-111-0
Format: CHM

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Wireless Ad Hoc Networking: Personal-Area, Local-Area, and the Sensory-Area Networks

The rapid progress of mobile, wireless communication and embedded micro-sensing MEMS technologies has brought about the rise of pervasive computing. Wireless local-area networks (WLANs) and wireless personal-area networks (WPANs) are now common tools for many people, and it is predicted that wearable sensor networks will greatly improve everyday life as we know it. By integrating these technologies into a pervasive system, we can access information and use computing resources anytime, anywhere, and with any device. Wireless Ad Hoc Networking: Personal-Area, Local-Area, and the Sensory-Area Networks covers these key technologies used in wireless ad hoc networks. The book is divided into three parts, each providing self-contained chapters written by international experts. Topics include networking architectures and protocols, cross-layer architectures, localization and location tracking, time synchronization, QoS and real-time, security and dependability, applications, modeling and performance evaluation, implementation and experience, and much more. The book is novel in its single source presentation of ad hoc networking and related key technologies and applications over the platforms of personal area, sensory area, and local area networks. It is a valuable resource for those who work in or are interested in learning about the pervasive computing environment.

Publisher: Auerbach (March 28, 2007)
Pages: 664
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0849392543
ISBN-13: 978-0849392542
Format: PDF


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WiMAX/MobileFi: Advanced Research and Technology

WiMAX is bringing about a worldwide revolution in broadband wireless access, including both fixed and mobile handsets. The IEEE 802.16 working group standardized most aspects of WiMAX signaling messages. However, several algorithms were left unspecified opening the door for innovations in protocol engineering for 802.16/802.20-based broadband wireless systems.
Get Connected to the WiMAX Revolution
WiMAX/MobileFi: Advanced Research and Technology brings together the worlds leading WiMAX researchers to present progressive techniques in the design, analysis, and optimization of protocols for WiMAX. This ground-breaking, previously unpublished, collection of papers addresses topics such as connection admission control, integration with WiFi Networks, QoS support, handoff management, scheduling algorithms, and load-balancing just to name a few.

Publisher: Auerbach (Dec 10, 2007)
Pages: 448
Language: English
ISBN-10: 142004351X
ISBN-13: 978-1420043518
Format: PDF

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Mobile WiMAX: Toward Broadband Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks

The Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (WirelessMAN) is a promising Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) technology that provides high-speed, high-bandwidth efficiency and high-capacity multimedia services for both residential and enterprise applications. Mobile WiMAX: Toward Broadband Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks examines the basic concepts, recent advances, and latest standard specifications pertinent to WirelessMANs, placing emphasis on IEEE 802.16-based WiMAX.

Edición: Auerbach (2007)
Idioma: Inglés
Formato: PDF

Contenido:

1. IEEE 802.16-Based WirelessMAN
2. RF System and Circuit Challenges for WiMAX
3. WirelessMAN Physical Layer Specifications: Signal Processing Perspective
4. MIMO for WirelessMAN
5. MIMO Spectral Efficiency of the Mobile WiMAX Downlink
6. Medium Access Control in WirelessMAN
7. MAC and QoS in WiMAX Mesh Networks
8. Radio Resource Management in IEEE 802.16 WiMAX Mesh Networks
9. Cross-Layer Design in WirelessMAN
10. Mobility Management in Mobile WiMAX
11. Dynamic Network Selection in Wireless LAN/MAN Heterogeneous Networks
12. Mobility Support for Wireless PANs, LANs, and MANs
13. Energy Management in the IEEE 802.16e WirelessMAN
14. Link Adaptation Mechanisms in WirelessMAN
15. Analysis of Threats to WiMax/802.16 Security
16. Techno-Economic Analysis of Fixed WiMAX Networks
17. Capacity of OFDMA-Based WirelessMAN

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Antennas for Portable Devices

Antennas for Portable Devices provides a complete and cutting-edge guide to the design and engineering of small antennas for portable electronic devices such as mobile phone handsets, laptop computers, RFID (radio frequency identification), microwave thermal therapies devices, wearable devices, and UWB (ultra-wideband) based consumer devices.

Edición: Wiley (2007)
Idioma: Inglés
Formato: PDF

Contenido:

1. Introduction
2. Handset Antennas
3. RFID Tag Antennas
4. Laptop Antenna Design and Evaluation
5. Antenna Issues in Microwave Thermal Therapies
6. Antennas for Wearable Devices
7. Antennas for UWB Applications

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802.11 Wireless Network Site Surveying and Installation

Performing a wireless LAN (WLAN) site survey before installing a wireless network is the key to any successful WLAN deployment. Yet each location and company have unique needs that must be taken into account. 802.11 Wireless Network Site Surveying and Installation helps you understand the challenges associated with any site survey, including multipath mitigation, reflection, absorption, and radio wave interference, plus the added complexity of user and application demands. This book helps you identify obstacles to a successful deployment and guides your equipment decisions to ensure that your WLAN reaches its maximum potential.

Edición: Cisco Press (2004)
Idioma: Inglés
Formato: CHM

Contenido:

1. Defining a Wireless Network's Protocols and Components
2. Understanding RF Fundamentals
3. Regulating the Use of 802.11 WLANs
4. WLAN Applications and Services
5. Selecting the WLAN Architecture and Hardware
6. Preparing for a Site Survey
7. Site Surveying Equipment
8. Discovering Site-Specific Requirements
9. Discovering Wired Network Requirements
10. Using Site Survey Tools
11. Performing a WLAN Site Survey
12. Installing WLAN Products
13. Preparing the Proper Documentation
14. Outdoor Bridge Deployments
15. Appendix A: WLAN Product References
16. Appendix B: Antenna Radiation Patterns
17. Appendix C: Alternative Antenas
18. Appendix D: Sample Forms

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Cisco 802.11 Wireless Networking Quick Reference

If you work on a wireless network using Cisco® technologies, keep this book within reach. Compact and convenient, this concise reference can be browsed occasionally or consulted regularly for a glance at a technical specification or that elusive command argument. Divided into three easy-to-follow sections, Part I describes and provides ways for Cisco wireless LAN (WLAN) equipment offerings to be integrated into an existing network. Part II covers how to configure access points and clients and how to set up and manage a secure wireless network. Lastly, Part III shows you how to maintain a wireless network and troubleshoot common wireless issues. Meant to be used in a hands-on capacity, this transportable guide is a practical tool when performing a variety of tasks on your wireless network.

Edición: Cisco Press (2005)
Idioma: Inglés
Formato: CHM

Contenido:

1. Cisco Wireless Equipment
2. Cisco Antennas
3. Cisco Wireless Technologies
4. Wireless Security
5. Installing and Configuring Access Points
6. Configuring Clients
7. Wireless and Wired LAN Integration Overview
8. Wireless Security: Next Steps
9. CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution
10. CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE)
11. Tuning AP Radio Parameters
12. Network Tuning Tools and Resources
13. Diagnosing Client Connection Problems
14. Diagnosing Performance Problems
15. Appendix A: 802.11 Protocols

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Managing and Securing a Cisco Structured Wireless-Aware Network

This book is essential reading for any network admin, network engineer, or security consultant responsible for the design, deployment and/or management of a Cisco Structured Wireless-Aware Network. It covers all product features, with particular attention to the challenges of integrating legacy Cisco products into a Wireless-Aware network.

Edición: Syngress (2004)
Idioma: Inglés
Formato: PDF

Contenido:

1. Wired versus Wireless and Wireless-aware LANs
2. Designing Wireless-Aware LANs
3. WLAN Roaming
4. IP Multicast in a Wireless LAN
5. WLAN Guest Network Access
6. Implementing Cisco Wireless LANs
7. WLAN Security Considerations
8. WLAN Rogue Access Point Detection and Mitigation
9. Wireless LAN VLANs
10. WLAN Quality of Service (QoS)

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Fundamentals of WiMAX: Understanding Broadband Wireless Networking

WiMAX is the most promising new technology for broadband wireless access to IP services. Fundamentals of WiMAX is the first comprehensive guide to WiMAX - its technical foundations, features, and peformance. Written by three leading wireless experts, one at the University of Texas, this book gives complete information for wireless professionals as well as basic, accessible knowledge for non-technical managers. While the main audience is industry professionals, this could be used in a special topics wireless undergraduate course.

Edición: Prentice Hall (2007)
Idioma: Inglés
Formato: PDF

Contenido:

1. Introduction to Broadband Wireless
2. Overview of WiMAX
3. The Challenge of Broadband Wireless Channels
4. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
5. Multiple-Antenna Techniques
6. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
7. Networking and Services Aspects of Broadband Wireless
8. PHY Layer of WiMAX
9. MAC Layer of WiMAX
10. WiMAX Network Architecture
11. Link-Level Performance of WiMAX
12. System-Level Performance of WiMAX

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Wireless Hacking: Projects for Wi-Fi Enthusiasts

This book covers 802.11a/b/g (“Wi-Fi”) projects. In addition, it covers techniques for building outdoor enclosures and working with Linux and BSD to build, deploy, and manage wireless networks. All of the authors are members of the SoCalFreeNet Wireless Users Group, a group of technology enthusiasts dedicated to building and exploring community based wireless networks to enable widespread broadband adoption and create an empowered, connected society. They are experts in this field, with real-world experience, and hands-on knowledge.

Edición: Syngress (2004)
Idioma: Inglés
Formato: PDF

Contenido:

1. A Brief Overview of the Wireless World
2. SoCalFreeNet.org: Building Large Scale Community Wireless Networks
3. Securing Our Wireless Community
4. Performing Indexing and Full-Text Searching
5. Wireless Access Points
6. Wireless Client Access Devices
7. Wireless Operating Systems
8. Monitoring Your Network
9. Low-Cost Commercial Options
10. Mesh Networking
11. Antennas
12. Building Outdoor Enclosures and Antenna Masts
13. Solar-Powered Access Points and Repeaters
14. Appendix A: Wireless 802.11 Hacks

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802.11 Wireless LAN Fundamentals

802.11 Wireless LAN Fundamentals gives networking engineers and IT professionals the knowledge they need to design, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot their own wireless local-area networks (WLANs). Starting with an overview of the technology and architecture of WLANs, the book goes on to explain services and advanced features that such applications can provide. Most importantly, it provides practical design guidance and deployment recommendations.

Edición: Cisco Press (2003)
Idioma: Inglés
Formato: PDF

Contenido:

1. Ethernet Technologies
2. 802.11 Wireless LANs
3. 802.11 Physical Layer Technologies
4. 802.11 Wireless LAN Security
5. Mobility
6. QoS for 802.11 Wireless LANs—802.11e
7. Radio Frequency Essentials
8. Deploying Wireless LANs
9. The Future of Wireless LANs
10. WLAN Design Considerations

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Cisco Wireless LAN Security

Cisco Wireless LAN Security covers the spectrum of WLAN security, including protocols and specifications, vulnerabilities and threats, and, especially, deployment patterns and design guidelines. With a unique combination of theory and practice, this book addresses fundamental wireless concepts, such as WEP, and innovations, such as EAP, switching, and management. Each chapter includes detailed illustrations, checklists, design templates, and other resources. You will also find generic wireless deployment patterns based on real-world customer installations and functional examples of architecture, design, and best practices.

Edición: Cisco Press (2004)
Idioma: Inglés
Formato: PDF

Contenido:

1. Securing WLANs Overview
2. Basic Security Mechanics and Mechanisms
3. WLAN Standards
4. WLAN Fundamentals
5. WLAN Basic Authentication and Privacy Methods
6. Wireless Vulnerabilities
7. EAP Authentication Protocols for WLANs
8. WLAN Encryption and Data Integrity Protocols
9. SWAN: End-to-End Security Deployment
10. Design Guidelines for Secure WLAN
11. Operational and Design Considerations for Secure WLANs
12. WLAN Security Configuration Guidelines and Examples
13. WLAN Deployment Examples
14. Route Maps
15. Appendix A: Tutorial: Working with Binary and Hex

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Building a Cisco Wireless LAN

Completa guía editada por Syngress sobre implementación de redes wireless con dispositivos Cisco.

Edición: Syngress (2002)
Idioma: Inglés
Formato: PDF

Contenido:

1. Introduction to Wireless Local Area Networks
2. Wireless Overview
3. Cisco Wireless LAN Product Line
4. Wireless Network Design
5. Installation and Configuration of Cisco 340 and Cisco 350 Series Access Points
6. Installation and Configuration of Cisco Aironet Bridges
7. Installation and Configuration of Cisco Wireless Network Cards
8. Cisco Wireless Security
9. Cisco Aironet Accessories

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