WiFi

Vicente González Ruiz

December 25, 2013

Contents

1 History
2 Hardware
3 Modulation
4 Multiplexing
5 Delay
6 Bit-rates
7 Routing
8 Security

1 History

2 Hardware

Modos

Infrastructura

PIC

Modo Ad-Hoc

PIC

Access points (APs)

An access point connect wireless clients (or stations) to the wired LAN. In essence, an AP converts the layer-3 data packets from their 802.11 frame encapsulation format in the air to the 802.3 Ethernet frame format on the wired Ethernet network. An AP is a layer-2 device that functions like an 802.3 Ethernet hub, because it uses a shared medium.

Planning a Wireless LAN

PIC

3 Modulation

4 Multiplexing

El proceso de asociaci’on

Estructura del frame IEEE 802.11

PIC

5 Delay

6 Bit-rates

PIC

7 Routing

Broadcasting

8 Security

Securing a wireless LAN

  1. SSID cloaking - Disable SSID broadcasts from APs.
  2. MAC address filtering - Specify manually the MAC aadress of the stations that are allowed to associate with the APs.
  3. Use the lastest encription mechanism (WPA2).

References

[1]   James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross. Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet (3rd Edition). Addison Wesley, 2005. http://www.cp.eng.chula.ac.th/~fyta/663/Curose-Ross%20-%20Computer_Networking_-_A_Top-down_Approach_Featuring_the_Internet__Third_Edition.pdf.