This Official CWNA Study Guide is intended first to help prepare you to install, manage,
and support wireless networks, and second to prepare you to take and pass the CWNA
certification exam. As part of the CWNP Training and Certification program, the CWNA
certification picks up where other popular networking certification programs leave off:
wireless LANs.

Your study of wireless networking will help you bring together two fascinating worlds of
technology, because wireless networks are the culmination of Radio Frequency (RF) and
networking technologies. No study of wireless LANs would be complete without first
making sure the student understands the foundations of both RF and local area
networking fundamentals.

Author(s) : Holger Karl, Andreas Willig
Publisher : Wiley
Year : Apr 2005
ISBN 10 : 0470095105
ISBN 13 : 9780470095102
Language : English
Pages : 526
File type : PDF
Size : 11.5 MB

Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks provides a thorough description of the most important issues and questions that have to be addressed in a wireless sensor network. Wireless sensor networks combine current research trends from a number of different disciplines – hardware design, information & signal processing, and communication networks to name but a few. This single resource makes the crucial aspects of these research fields accessible to the reader. The authors give an overview of the current state-of-the-art and put all the individual solutions into perspective with each other.

This singular text provides academic researchers, graduate students in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering, as well as practitioners in industry and research engineers, with an understanding of the specific design challenges and solutions for wireless sensor networks.

Author(s) : Savo Glisic
Publisher : Wiley
Year : Jun 2004
ISBN 10 : 0470867760
ISBN 13 : 9780470867761
Language : English
Pages : 878
File type : PDF
Size : 15.4 MB

At the present time, the wireless communications research community and industry are about to start discussions on standardization activities for the fourth generation (4G) of these systems. In the meantime, the research community has generated a number of promising solutions for significant improvements in system performance. Adaptive coding and modulation, iterative (turbo) decoding algorithms, space–time coding, multiple antennas and MIMO channels, multicarrier modulation, multiuser detection and ultra wideband radio are examples of enabling technologies for 4G.

The focus of the book is on the system elements that provide adaptability and reconfigurability, and discussion of how much these features can improve the system performance. At the same time, the book provides a solid overview of the conventional technologies, although this is not the focus of our discussion. The measure of performance is the reconfiguration efficiency defined as a ratio between the reconfiguration (signal to noise ratio) gain and the relative increase in complexity.

The content of this book is based on the results of the research community in the field of wireless communications across the globe, and a number of authors have been explicitly cited in the text. This by no means represents an exhaustive list of those whose work isbuilding up the enabling technology for 4G.

Defend against the latest pervasive and devastating wireless attacks using the tactical security information contained in this comprehensive volume. Hacking Exposed Wireless reveals how hackers zero in on susceptible networks and peripherals, gain access, and execute debilitating attacks. Find out how to plug security holes in Wi-Fi/802.11 and Bluetooth systems and devices. You'll also learn how to launch wireless exploits from Metasploit, employ bulletproof authentication and encryption, and sidestep insecure wireless hotspots. The book includes vital details on new, previously unpublished attacks alongside real-world countermeasures.



* Understand the concepts behind RF electronics, Wi-Fi/802.11, and Bluetooth
* Find out how hackers use NetStumbler, WiSPY, Kismet, KisMAC, and AiroPeek to target vulnerable wireless networks
* Defend against WEP key brute-force, aircrack, and traffic injection hacks
* Crack WEP at new speeds using Field Programmable Gate Arrays or your spare PS3 CPU cycles
* Prevent rogue AP and certificate authentication attacks
* Perform packet injection from Linux
* Launch DoS attacks using device driver-independent tools
* Exploit wireless device drivers using the Metasploit 3.0 Framework
* Identify and avoid malicious hotspots
* Deploy WPA/802.11i authentication and encryption using PEAP, FreeRADIUS, and WPA pre-shared keys

Author(s): David Tse, Pramod Viswanath
Publisher: Cambridge Press
Year: Jun 2005
ISBN: 0521845270
Language: English
Pages: 586
File type: PDF
Size (for download): 3.6 MB


This book aims to present modern wireless communication concepts in a coherent and unified manner and to illustrate the concepts in the broader context of the wireless systems on which they have been applied.

This book is written as a textbook for a first-year graduate course in wireless communication. The expected background is solid undergraduate/beginning graduate courses in signals and systems, probability and digital communication. This background is supplemented by the two appendices in the book. Appendix A summarizes some basic facts in vector detection and estimation in Gaussian noise which are used repeatedly throughout the book. Appendix B covers the underlying information theory behind the channel capacity results used in this book. Even though information theory has played a significant role in many of the recent developments in wireless communication, in the main text we only introduce capacity results in a heuristic manner and use them mainly to motivate communication concepts and techniques. No background in information theory is assumed. The appendix is intended for the reader who wants to have a more in-depth and unified understanding of the capacity results.

The more than 230 exercises form an integral part of the book. Working on at least some of them is essential in understanding the material. Most of them elaborate on concepts discussed in the main text. The exercises range from relatively straightforward derivations of results in the main text, to “back-of-envelope” calculations for actual wireless systems, to “get-your-hands-dirty” MATLAB types, and to reading exercises that point to current research literature. The small bibliographical notes at the end of each chapter provide pointers to literature that is very closely related to the material discussed in the book; we do not aim to exhaust the immense research literature related to the material covered here.