From entertainment to telephony, emerging wireless systems will make possible a new generation of wireless multimedia applications. To satisfy users, network designers and developers must integrate end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) support throughout all their underlying networks: WANs, WLANs, WPANs, and "last-mile" WLL or satellite distribution systems. However, wireless network standards typically focus on signaling, leaving crucial QoS issues to implementers. Multimedia Wireless Networks is the first book to help network professionals systematically address QoS in today's most important wireless networks -- and tomorrow's.

• Why users' wireless multimedia performance requirements will require extensive QoS support
• The fundamentals of QoS -- and how they drive network design
• WLAN standards from the multimedia network designer's viewpoint: IEEE 802.11, HiperLAN, and HomeRF
• Wireless MANs: introducing the new 802.16 WirelessMAN standard
• Integrating QoS into IEEE 802.15 and Bluetooth wireless personal area networks
• QoS in current and emerging cellular and satellite networks

Cisco Wireless LAN Security is an in-depth guide to wireless LAN technology and security, introducing the key aspects of 802.11 security by illustrating major wireless LAN (WLAN) standards that can protect the entire network. Because a WLAN is less effective as an isolated piece of the network, this book emphasizes how to effectively integrate WLAN devices into the wired network while maintaining maximum security.

Cisco Wireless LAN Security covers the spectrum of WLAN security, including protocols and specifications, vulnerabilities and threats, and, especially, deployment patterns and design guidelines. With a unique combination of theory and practice, this book addresses fundamental wireless concepts, such as WEP, and innovations, such as EAP, switching, and management. Each chapter includes detailed illustrations, checklists, design templates, and other resources. You will also find generic wireless deployment patterns based on real-world customer installations and functional examples of architecture, design, and best practices.

The book shows you how to integrate the latest technologies in mobility, wireless, and the Internet to achieve workable end-to-end solutions. You get detailed coverage of wireless IP and its relationship with other mobile technologies such as GPRS and UMTS. Moreover, this essential reference features discussions on wireless IP evolution; quality of service; resource management; TCP/IP in wireless IP networks; handoff, mobility and signaling; and services and applications. Essential reading for practicing mobile communications engineers, designers, and engineering managers, the book is also easily adoptable as a text for graduate-level courses.

It provides you with an in-depth examination of mobility, location management, paging, and radio resources for cellular networks, and it focuses on routing protocols and medium access control techniques for mobile ad hoc networks. Key topics discussed in detail include mobility models and traces, radio resource management, blanket and intelligent paging, location updating, location area planning, medium access control techniques, and unicast and multicast routing, as well as routing in next generation wireless and pervasive networks.

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly; 1 edition (April, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596001835
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds.