Wireless LANs and mobile networking: standards and future directions |
| Richard O. LaMaire, Arvind Krishna, Pravin Bhagwat, James Panian |
| The emerging widespread use of wireless LAN systems together with the
users' desire for such systems to interoperate has created a requirement
for standards. Many standards bodies are currently defining standards for
wireless systems that relate to different layers of the networking protocol
stack. Of these, two infuential physical and data link layer standards,
IEEE 802.11 and the European HIPERLAN, are described. The article then
considers the network layer by discussing extensions that are being made
to the widely used Internet Protocol (IP) to deal with mobility (wired
or wireless). The final standars that are discussed relate to wireless
link management. The article concludes by speculating on future directions
for wireless LAN systems.
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