IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN paper
This paper is about the theory of IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs.
It is written in german and covers the following topics:
- Introduction to the IEEE 802.11 standard
- Access to the wireless medium
- Frames
- Interframe spaces
- Distributed Coordination Function
- Point Coordination Function
- Frames
- General Frame format
- Control Frames
- Management Frames
- Wireless LAN security
- Introduction to WEP
- WEP insecurity
- Virtual Private Networks
- Wireless LAN case studies
- Replacement for wired LANs
- University Campus wireless network
- The future
The paper was written by Philipp Legrum and me for a University Course called
Internet Technologies led by Prof. Freisleben and Stefan Paal in 2004.
Paper
wlan_paper.pdf [390 KB] (in german)
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