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Encyclopedia: Wireless LAN

A wireless LAN or WLAN is a wireless local area network, which is the linking of two or more computers without using wires. WLAN utilizes spread-spectrum or OFDM (802.11a) modulation technology based on radio waves to enable communication between devices in a limited area, also known as the basic service set. This gives users the mobility to move around within a broad coverage area and still be connected to the network.

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How to say "Wireless LAN" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	无线局域网
	(Japanese)	無線LAN
	(German)	Wireless Local Area Network
	(Spanish)	WLAN
	(French)	Réseau sans fil
	(Italian)	Wireless local area network

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Distributed Coordination Function

Distributed Coordination Function is a type of MAC technique used in Wi-Fi Wireless LANs. DCF manages the transmission over a medium by allowing each node to listen to surrounding nodes to see if they are transmitting, before transmitting themselves. Compare with Point Coordination Function, which...

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Mobile computing

Mobile Computing is a generic term describing the application of small, portable, and wireless computing and communication devices. This includes devices like Laptops with Wireless LAN technology, Mobile phones, and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) with Bluetooth or IRDA interfaces. Related...

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IEEE 802

for the Ethernet family, Token Ring, Wireless LAN, Bridging and Virtual Bridged LANs. An individual... 802.9 isochronous LAN IEEE 802.10 Security IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN IEEE 802.12 demand priority IEEE...The IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee (LMSC) is a committee within the IEEE that develops local...

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4G

has variously been applied to wireless LAN technologies like Wi-Fi, as well as other potential... 4G (or 4-G) is short for fourth-generation wireless telephone technology. The primary aim of 4G seems to be very high data transmission speed, of the same order of magnitude as a local area network...

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ISM band

error-tolerant communications applications such as wireless LANs and Bluetooth: 900MHz band (33.3cm wavelength) 2.4GHz band (12.2cm wavelength) 5.8GHz band (5.2cm) IEEE 802.11b/g wireless ethernet...

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

floating point arithmetic specifications IEEE 802 LAN/MAN IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN IEEE 896 Futurebus...

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Power over Ethernet

Power over Ethernet technology describes any system that transmits electrical power, in addition to data, to remote devices over standard twisted-pair wire in an Ethernet network. This technology is useful for powering IP telephones, wireless LAN access points, webcams, hubs, and other appliances...

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Promiscuous mode

airsnort (for wireless LANs) make use of this feature to show the user all the data being transferred..., Wireless sniffer...

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Ad hoc

a connection method for wireless LANs that requires no base station — devices discover others...

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Computer network

may be categorized with respect to range: personal area network (PAN) wireless PAN local area network (LAN) wireless LAN metropolitan area network (MAN) wide area network (WAN) Computer network... Public switched telephone network Modems and dialup Wireless transmission Short range Bluetooth...

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