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Wireless Communications & Networking:
An overview
Ramiro Jordan and Chaouki T. Abdallah
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
frjordan,chaoukig@eece.unm.edu

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Contents
I Introduction 3
II History & General Concepts 3
II-A History of Wireless Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
II-B Wireless Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
II-B.1 WLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
II-B.2 WPANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
III Challenges of Mobility in Communications Systems 7
IV Networks Concepts & Technologies 9
IV-AIEEE 802.11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Source: Abdallah, Chaouki T- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of New Mexico

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