McGraw-Hill Networking Professional

By: Daniel Minoli

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Hotspot Networks are a new industry that seemed to come out of nowhere at the end of 2001. It has been described as a thrreat to the carriers' cellular networks (ABC News) and "the guerrilla revolution of wireless computing" (Seattle Times). Hotspots offer users Internet and telecom services that are up to 40 times faster and less than 1/10 as expensive as what they've got now. Reminiscent of the '90s, the action is evenly split between startups and providers, and the business press is following this industry closely.

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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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