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802.11® Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide

By Matthew Gast

Publisher : O'Reilly

Pub Date : April 2002

ISBN : 0-596-00183-5

Pages : 464

As a network administrator, architect, or security professional, you need to understand

the capabilities, limitations, and risks associated with integrating wireless LAN

technology into your current infrastructure. This practical guide provides all the

information necessary to analyze and deploy wireless networks with confidence. It?s the

only source that offers a full spectrum view of 802.11, from the minute details of the

specification, to deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Preface

Audience

Overture for Book in Black and White, Opus 2

Conventions Used in This Book

How to Contact Us

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction to Wireless Networks

Section 1.2. A Network by Any Other Name...

Chapter 2. Overview of 802.11 Networks

Section 2.2. 802.11 Nomenclature and Design

Section 2.3. 802.11 Network Operations

Section 2.4. Mobility Support

Chapter 3. The 802.11 MAC

Section 3.2. MAC Access Modes and Timing

Section 3.3. Contention-Based Access Using the DCF

Section 3.4. Fragmentation and Reassembly

Section 3.5. Frame Format

Section 3.6. Encapsulation of Higher-Layer Protocols Within 802.11

Section 3.7. Contention-Based Data Service

Chapter 4. 802.11 Framing in Detail

Section 4.2. Control Frames

Section 4.3. Management Frames

Section 4.4. Frame Transmission and Association and Authentication States

Chapter 5. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)

Section 5.2. WEP Cryptographic Operations

Section 5.3. Problems with WEP

Section 5.4. Conclusions and Recommendations

Chapter 6. Security, Take 2: 802.1x

Prometheus Untethered: The Possibilities of Wireless LANs

Section 1.1. Why Wireless?

Section 2.1. IEEE 802 Network Technology Family Tree

Section 3.1. Challenges for the MAC

Section 4.1. Data Frames

Section 5.1. Cryptographic Background to WEP

Section 6.1. The Extensible Authentication Protocol

Section 6.2. 802.1x: Network Port Authentication

Section 6.3. 802.1x on Wireless LANs

Chapter 7. Management Operations

Section 7.2. Scanning

Section 7.3. Authentication

Section 7.4. Association

Section 7.5. Power Conservation

Section 7.6. Timer Synchronization

Chapter 8. Contention-Free Service with the PCF

Section 8.2. Detailed PCF Framing

Section 8.3. Power Management and the PCF

Chapter 9. Physical Layer Overview

Section 9.2. The Radio Link

Section 9.3. RF and 802.11

Chapter 10. The ISM PHYs: FH, DS, and HR/DS

Section 10.2. 802.11 DS PHY

Section 10.3. 802.11b: HR/DSSS PHY

Chapter 11. 802.11a: 5-GHz OFDM PHY

Section 11.2. OFDM as Applied by 802.11a

Section 11.3. OFDM PLCP

Section 11.4. OFDM PMD

Section 11.5. Characteristics of the OFDM PHY

Chapter 12. Using 802.11 on Windows

Section 12.2. Lucent ORiNOCO

Chapter 13. Using 802.11 on Linux

Section 13.2. PCMCIA Support on Linux

Section 13.3. linux-wlan-ng for Intersil-Based Cards

Section 13.4. Agere (Lucent) Orinoco

Section 7.1. Management Architecture

Section 8.1. Contention-Free Access Using the PCF

Section 9.1. Physical-Layer Architecture

Section 10.1. 802.11 FH PHY

Section 11.1. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)

Section 12.1. Nokia C110/C111

Section 13.1. A Few Words on 802.11 Hardware

Chapter 14. Using 802.11 Access Points

Section 14.2. ORiNOCO (Lucent) AP-1000 Access Point

Section 14.3. Nokia A032 Access Point

Chapter 15. 802.11 Network Deployment

Section 15.2. Project Planning

Section 15.3. The Site Survey

Section 15.4. Installation and the Final Rollout

Chapter 16. 802.11 Network Analysis

Section 16.2. 802.11 Network Analyzers

Section 16.3. Commercial Network Analyzers

Section 16.4. Ethereal

Section 16.5. 802.11 Network Analysis Examples

Section 16.6. AirSnort

Chapter 17. 802.11 Performance Tuning

Section 17.2. Tuning Power Management

Section 17.3. Timing Operations

Section 17.4. Physical Operations

Section 17.5. Summary of Tunable Parameters

Chapter 18. The Future, at Least for 802.11

Section 18.2. The Longer Term

Section 18.3. The End

Appendix A. 802.11 MIB

Section A.2. Station Management

Section A.3. MAC Management

Section A.4. Physical-Layer Management

Appendix B. 802.11 on the Macintosh

Section B.2. The AirPort Base Station

Section B.3. Links to More Information

Section 14.1. General Functions of an Access Point

Section 15.1. The Topology Archetype

Section 16.1. Why Use a Network Analyzer?

Section 17.1. Tuning Radio Management

Section 18.1. Current Standards Work

Section A.1. The Root of the Matter

Section B.1. The AirPort Card

Glossary

Colophon

Index

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