Emerging Wireless LANs, Wireless PANs, and Wireless MANs: IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15, 802.16 Wireless Standard Family

  • 11h 32m
  • Yang Xiao, Yi Pan
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2009

A thoroughly up-to-date resource on IEEE 802 wireless standards

Readers can turn to this book for complete coverage of the current and emerging IEEE 802 wireless standards/drafts, including:

  • 802.11 Wireless LANs
  • 802.15.1 Bluetooth and 801.15.2
  • 802.15.3 Wireless PANs
  • 802.15.4 and 802.15.5 Wireless PANs
  • 802.16 Wireless MANs

Emerging Wireless LANs, Wireless PANs, and Wireless MANs is a unique, convenient resource for engineers, scientists, and researchers in academia and industry. It also serves as a valuable textbook for related courses at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels.

About the Authors

Yang Xiao, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Alabama. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and currently serves as Editor in Chief of International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet), and International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications (IJTA). His areas of research include security, telemedicine, sensor networks, and wireless networks. He has published more than 300 papers in major journals, refereed conference proceedings, and books related to the aforementioned areas.

Yi Pan, PhD, is a Yamacraw Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University. His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, optical networks, wireless networks, and bioinformatics. His work on computing using reconfigurable optical buses has inspired extensive subsequent work by many researchers, and his research results have been cited by more than 100 researchers worldwide. He is a co-holder of three U.S. patents (pending) and five provisional patents; has coedited eleven books or conference proceedings; and has published more than 130 research papers.

In this Book

  • IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control and Physical Layers
  • Framework for Decentralized Wireless LAN Resource Management
  • Incentive Issues in IEEE 802.11x Wireless Networks
  • Capacity and Rate Adaptation in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs
  • Overview of IEEE 802.15.1 Medium Access Control and Physical Layers
  • Overview of IEEE 802.15.2—Coexistence of Wireless Personal Area Networks with other Unlicensed Frequency Bands Operating Wireless Devices
  • Coexistence of Bluetooth Piconets and Wireless LAN
  • Frame Format, Channel Access, and Piconet Operation of IEEE 802.15.3 Wireless PANs
  • Power Management and Security of IEEE 802.15.3 Wireless PANs
  • Performance Evaluation and Optimization of IEEE 802.15.3 Piconets
  • Performance Analysis of MB-OFDM UWB Systems
  • Distributed Solution for Resource Allocation in Ultra-Wideband Wireless PANs
  • IEEE 802.15.4 Medium Access Control and Physical Layers
  • Performance Analysis for IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Personal Area Networks
  • Data Transmission and Beacon Scheduling in Low Rate Wireless Mesh Personal Area Networks
  • Impact of Reliable and Secure Sensing on Cluster Lifetime in IEEE 802.15.4 Networks
  • IEEE 802.15.5—Recommended Practice for WPAN Mesh Network (Low Data Rate)
  • Power-Saving Algorithms on IEEE 802.15.4 for Wireless Sensor Networks
  • IEEE 802.16 Medium Access Control and Physical Layers
  • QoS Support for WiMAX
  • Subchannel Allocation and Connection Admission Control in OFDMA-Based IEEE 802.16/WiMAX-Compliant Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks
  • Universal Authentication and Billing Architecture for Wireless MANs
  • Scheduling Algorithms for WiMAX Networks—Simulator Development and Performance Study
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