Handbook of Wireless Local Area Networks - Applications, Technology, Security, and Standards (Electronic book text)

Handbook of Wireless Local Area Networks: Applications, Technology, Security, and Standards serves as the singular reference on wireless LANs. Contributed articles from expert authors provide an overview of wireless LAN technologies and performance, and examine issues such as ad hoc networks, peer-to-peer roaming, space time processing, and 3G cellular convergence. The handbook also examines mobile WLAN application services, mobile commerce and related applications, and applications in telemedicine. The text offers extensive coverage of WLAN security, and concludes with an examination of standards issues, focusing on the techniques and protocols of medium access control, 3G UMTS - IEEE 802.11b internetworking, and much more.