| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction to Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs), Public Access Locations (PALs), and Hotspot Services | p. 1 |
| The Potential Opportunity | p. 5 |
| Approaches to WLANs, WWANs, WPANs, and PALs | p. 12 |
| Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) | p. 16 |
| Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) | p. 22 |
| Home Radio Frequency (HomeRF) | p. 23 |
| Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWANs) | p. 25 |
| Fixed WWANs | p. 42 |
| Economics and Realities of Hotspot Services - A Provider's Perspective | p. 42 |
| Examples of Usage | p. 44 |
| Basic Economics | p. 44 |
| End Notes | p. 47 |
| Standards for Hotspots | p. 51 |
| Standards | p. 52 |
| IEEE 802 and Related Activities | p. 52 |
| Mobile IP | p. 75 |
| Quality of Service (QoS) | p. 85 |
| QoS Basics | p. 86 |
| QoS Approaches | p. 88 |
| Conclusion | p. 96 |
| End Notes | p. 98 |
| Technologies for Hotspots | p. 103 |
| Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) | p. 104 |
| Wireless PHYs | p. 110 |
| Multiple Access | p. 113 |
| WPANs: A Capsule View of Bluetooth | p. 119 |
| Overview | p. 120 |
| Bluetooth Technical Summary | p. 124 |
| Compliance | p. 125 |
| Constituent Products | p. 126 |
| The Technology | p. 127 |
| Voice | p. 127 |
| Data | p. 128 |
| Network Topology | p. 128 |
| Security | p. 128 |
| Hardware Architecture | p. 129 |
| Software Architecture | p. 130 |
| Competing Technologies | p. 130 |
| Licensing Technologies | p. 130 |
| WWAN Approaches | p. 131 |
| Current Baseline | p. 131 |
| Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) | p. 131 |
| cdmaOne | p. 132 |
| Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) | p. 138 |
| Third Generation (3G) | p. 143 |
| Antenna Basics for Hotspot Services | p. 147 |
| Dipoles | p. 148 |
| High-Gain Omnidirectional Antennas | p. 148 |
| Directional Antennas | p. 149 |
| Conclusion | p. 149 |
| End Notes | p. 150 |
| Security Considerations for Hotspot Services | p. 153 |
| Problems in Security Protocols | p. 154 |
| Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) Issues | p. 154 |
| Summary of the Issue and Planned Fixes | p. 160 |
| 802. 1X: Port-based Network Access Control | p. 165 |
| PPP Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) | p. 172 |
| Advantages | p. 173 |
| Disadvantages | p. 174 |
| Configuration Option Format | p. 174 |
| Packet Format | p. 174 |
| Request and Response | p. 175 |
| Success and Failure | p. 177 |
| Initial EAP Request/Response Types | p. 177 |
| Security Considerations for PPP | p. 180 |
| Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) | p. 181 |
| Introduction | p. 181 |
| Terminology | p. 182 |
| Basic Model | p. 184 |
| AAA Protocol Roaming Requirements | p. 187 |
| Requirements for Basic IP Connectivity | p. 189 |
| AAA for Mobile IP | p. 189 |
| Broker Model | p. 197 |
| Security Considerations for AAA | p. 200 |
| IPv6 Considerations | p. 200 |
| Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) | p. 200 |
| Operation | p. 202 |
| Packet Format | p. 207 |
| Practical Security Aspects | p. 209 |
| End Notes | p. 211 |
| IEEE 802.11 | p. 215 |
| How WLAN Systems Are Different | p. 217 |
| Destination Address Does Not Equal Destination Location | p. 217 |
| The Media Impact of the Design | p. 218 |
| The Impact of Handling Mobile Stations | p. 218 |
| Interaction with Other IEEE 802 Layers | p. 218 |
| Components of the IEEE 802.11 Architecture | p. 219 |
| The Independent BSS (IBSS) as an Ad Hoc Network | p. 219 |
| Distribution System (DS) Concepts | p. 220 |
| Area Concepts | p. 221 |
| Integration with Wired LANs | p. 222 |
| Logical Service Interfaces | p. 223 |
| Station Service (SS) | p. 224 |
| Distribution System Service (DSS) | p. 224 |
| Multiple Logical Address Spaces | p. 225 |
| Overview of the Services | p. 226 |
| Distribution of Messages within a DS | p. 226 |
| Services That Support the Distribution Service | p. 228 |
| Access and Confidentiality Control Services | p. 229 |
| Relationships Between Services | p. 232 |
| Differences Between ESS and IBSS LANs | p. 234 |
| Message Information Contents That Support Services | p. 235 |
| Data | p. 235 |
| Association | p. 235 |
| Reassociation | p. 236 |
| Disassociation | p. 237 |
| Privacy | p. 238 |
| Authentication | p. 238 |
| Deauthentication | p. 239 |
| Reference Model | p. 240 |
| MAC Service Definition | p. 240 |
| Asynchronous Data Service | p. 240 |
| Security Services | p. 241 |
| MSDU Ordering | p. 241 |
| Frame Formats | p. 242 |
| MAC Frame Formats | p. 242 |
| Format of Individual Frame Types | p. 247 |
| Management Frame Body Components | p. 255 |
| MAC Sublayer Functional Description | p. 262 |
| MAC Architecture | p. 262 |
| DSSS PHY Specification for the 2.4 GHz Band Designated for Industrial, Science, and Medical (ISM) Applications | p. 264 |
| Overview | p. 264 |
| End Notes | p. 266 |
| IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.11a | p. 267 |
| IEEE 802.11b | p. 268 |
| Overview of the High Rate, Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum PHY Specification | p. 268 |
| High Rate PLCP Sublayer | p. 270 |
| High Rate PMD Sublayer | p. 274 |
| IEEE 802.11a: OFDM PHY Specification for the 5 GHz Band | p. 280 |
| Concepts and Overview | p. 280 |
| OFDM PHY Specific Service Parameter List | p. 282 |
| OFDM PLCP Sublayer | p. 283 |
| OFDM PMD Sublayer | p. 293 |
| Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) | p. 297 |
| Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Fundamentals | p. 298 |
| Scope | p. 300 |
| Definitions and Abbreviations | p. 301 |
| Definitions | p. 301 |
| Abbreviations | p. 302 |
| WAP Background | p. 303 |
| Motivation | p. 303 |
| Architectural Goals | p. 305 |
| WAP Architecture | p. 306 |
| The World-Wide Web Model | p. 306 |
| The WAP Model | p. 307 |
| Feature/Performance-Enhancing Proxies | p. 308 |
| Supporting Servers | p. 309 |
| WAP Network Elements | p. 311 |
| Device Architecture | p. 312 |
| Security Model | p. 312 |
| Components of the WAP Architecture | p. 313 |
| Bearer Networks | p. 314 |
| Transport Services | p. 314 |
| Transfer Services | p. 315 |
| Session Services | p. 315 |
| Application Framework | p. 316 |
| Security Services | p. 317 |
| Service Discovery | p. 318 |
| Other Services and Applications | p. 318 |
| Sample Configurations of WAP Technology | p. 319 |
| Conformance and Interoperability | p. 320 |
| End Notes | p. 323 |
| Designing Nomadic and Hotspot Networks | p. 327 |
| Introduction | p. 328 |
| Logical Design Considerations | p. 329 |
| Physical Design Considerations | p. 330 |
| Will 3G Obviate the Need for WLAN Hotspot Technology? | p. 338 |
| Network Address Translation (NAT) | p. 348 |
| Working with NAT | p. 351 |
| Traditional NAT | p. 352 |
| Translation Phases of a Session | p. 356 |
| Packet Translations | p. 357 |
| Miscellaneous Issues | p. 359 |
| Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) | p. 361 |
| Overview of DHCP | p. 361 |
| DHCP in Some Detail | p. 362 |
| Protocol Summary | p. 365 |
| Configuration Parameters Repository | p. 368 |
| Dynamic Allocation of Network Addresses | p. 369 |
| The Client-Server Protocol | p. 370 |
| Client-server Interaction: Allocating a Network Address | p. 370 |
| Client-server Interaction: Reusing a Previously Allocated Network Address | p. 374 |
| Interpretation and Representation of Time Values | p. 378 |
| Obtaining Parameters with an Externally Configured Network Address | p. 378 |
| Client Parameters in DHCP | p. 379 |
| Use of DHCP in Clients with Multiple Interfaces | p. 380 |
| DHCP Server Administrative Controls | p. 383 |
| DHCP Server Behavior | p. 384 |
| DHCP Client Behavior | p. 391 |
| Initialization and Allocation of Network Addresses | p. 393 |
| Initialization with a Known Network Address | p. 395 |
| Initialization with an Externally Assigned Network Address | p. 395 |
| Case Study of a Plethora of Antenna Types from Cisco | p. 397 |
| Cisco Aironet Antennas and Accessories--Complete the Wireless Solution | p. 397 |
| Cisco Aironet Antennas and Accessories | p. 398 |
| Client Adapter Antennas | p. 398 |
| AP Antennas | p. 399 |
| Bridge Antennas | p. 401 |
| Low-Loss/Ultralow-Loss Cables | p. 401 |
| Accessories | p. 402 |
| End Notes | p. 403 |
| Migrating to 3G WWANs | p. 407 |
| ITU IMT-2000 | p. 409 |
| Transitions to 3G for Wireless WANs (WWANs) | p. 417 |
| End Notes | p. 420 |
| References | p. 421 |
| Index | p. 423 |
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