
CSE5501: MOBILE & DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS
Lecture 3: Wireless LANs
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Wireless LANs
Wireless LANs
Wireless LANs
• The work on radio-based computer networks goes back to the early
seventies and the work on Aloha network.
• Wireless LANS are providing data rates typically 2 orders of magnitude
higher than outdoor radio. Thus, data rates exceeding 1 Mb/s are quite
common.
• WaveLAN provides peer-to-peer communication in 902-928 MHZ (in the
US) and uses direct sequence spreading with the CSMA/CA (carrier
sense, multiple acess, with collision avoidance) protocol.
• Standards such as IEEE 802.11 are being developed in the US and in
Europe. In general, the goal is to provide data rates exceeding 1 Mb/s and
also to support architectures with infrastructure (base stations) as well as
ad-hoc architectures where the terminals communicate directly with each
other (peer to peer) without the mediation of a fixed base station.
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