Wireless Networks

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses that, although wireless services represent a progression of technology and perhaps a new era of telecommunications, these services have been used for over a century and remain synonymous with "radio". The paper describes a wireless local area network, a flexible data communication system implemented as an extension to or an alternative for a wired LAN within a building or campus. The author states that there are many applications but cautions that they are new and have some difficulties.

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"For instance, when a mobile moves from the cell of its current base station to that of a new base station, all of the user's information must be transferred from the old base station to the new one without the user noticing any interruption in service. Such a process is termed a handoff. There are various algorithms, such as dynamic re-routing and pre-established connection trees, through which this can be accomplished. Additionally, mechanisms must be implemented for locating and keeping track of users as they move throughout a system. Many protocols exploit the idea of geographic locality by implementing a hierarchical structure. In this way, base stations only need to keep track of those mobile units beneath them in the hierarchy."

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