1. Overview of Wireless Standards and Fundamentals
1.1 History of WLAN
1.2 Standards Organizations
1.3 Core, Distribution and Access
1.4 Communication Fundamentals
1.5 Understanding Keying Methods
2. Radio Frequency Fundamentals
2.1 Definition of Radio Frequency (RF) signal
2.2 Radio Frequency Characteristics
2.3 Radio Frequency Behaviors
3. Radio Frequency Components, Measurements and Math
3.1 RF Components
3.2 Units of Power and Comparison
3.3 RF Mathematics
3.4 Link Budget
3.5 Fade Margin / System Operating Margin
4. Radio Frequency Signal and Antenna Concepts
4.1 Active and Passive Gain
4.2 Azimuth and Elevation Charts
4.3 Interpreting Polar Charts
4.4 Beamwidth
4.5 Antenna Types
5. IEEE 802.11 Standards
5.1 Overview of the IEEE 802.11 Standard
5.2 IEEE 802.11 Ratified Amendments
6. Wireless Networks and Spread Spectrum Technologies
6.1 Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) Bands
6.2 Unlicense National Information Infrastructure (UNII) Bands
6.3 Narrowband and Spread Spectrum
6.4 Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS)
6.5 Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS)
6.6 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
6.7 2.4 GHz Channels
6.8 5 GHz Channels
6.9 Adjacent, Nonadjacent and Overlapping Channels
6.10 Throughput vs. Bandwidth
6.11 Communication Resilience
7. Wireless LAN Topologies
7.1 Wireless Networking Topologies
7.2 Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (WMAN)
7.3 Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN)
7.4 802.11 Topologies
7.5 802.11 Configuration Modes
8. 802.11 Medium Access
8.1 CSMA/CA vs CSMA/CD
8.2 Distributed Coordination Function
8.3 Point Coordination Function
8.4 Hybrid Coordination Function
8.5 Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA)
8.6 HCF Controlled Channel Access (HCCA)
8.7 Block Acknowledgement
8.8 Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM)
9. 802.11 MAC Architecture
9.1 Packets, Frames, and Bits
9.2 Data Link Layer
9.3 Physical Layer
9.4 802.11 and 802.3 Interoperability
9.5 Three 802.11 Frame Type
9.6 Beacon Management Frame
9.7 Passive Scanning
9.8 Active Scanning
9.9 Authentication
9.10 Association
9.11 Authentication and Association States
9.12 Basic and Supported Rates
9.13 Roaming
9.14 Reassociation
9.15 Disassociation notification and Deauthentication notification
9.16 ACK Frame
9.17 Fragmentation
9.18 ProtectionMechanism
9.19 RTS/CTS
9.20 CTS-to-self
9.21 Data Frames
9.22 Power Management
10. Wireless Devices
10.1 Wireless LAN Client Devices
10.2 Progression of WLAN Architecture
10.3 Centralized WLAN Architecture
10.4 An exercise of Deploying Centralized WLAN Architecture
10.5 More about Wireless Lan Controller
10.6 Split MAC
10.7 Remote Office WLAN Controller
10.8 Distributed WLAN Architecture
10.9 Specialty WLAN Infrastructure
11. WLAN Deployment and Vertical Markets
11.1 Corporate Data Access and End-User Mobility
11.2 Network Extension to Remote Access
11.3 Bridging - Building-to-Building Connectivity
11.4 Wireless ISP (WISP) – Last Mile Data Delivery
11.5 Small Office/Home Office (SOHO)
11.6 Mobile Office Networking
11.7 Educational / Classroom Use
11.8 Industrial – Warehousing and Manufacturing
11.9 Healthcare - Hospitals and Offices
11.10 Municipal Networks
11.11 Hotspots - Public Network Access
11.12 Transportation Networks
11.13 Law-Enforcement Networks
11.14 First-Responder Networks
11.15 Fixed Mobile Convergence
11.16 WLAN and Health
11.17 WLAN Vendors
12. WLAN Troubleshooting
12.1 Layer 2 Retransmissions
12.2 RF Interference
12.3 Multipath
12.4 AdjacentCell Interference
12.5 Low SNR
12.6 Mismatched Power Settings
12.7 Near / Far
12.8 Hidden Node
12.9 Coverage Considerations
12.10 Dynamic Rate Switching
12.11 Layer 2 Roaming
12.12 Layer 3 Roaming
12.13 Co-Channel Interference
12.14 Channel Reuse/Multiple Channel Architecture
12.15 Single Channel Architecture
12.16 Capacityv.s. Coverage
12.17 Oversized Coverage Cells
12.18 Physical Environment
12.19 Voicev.s. Data
12.20 Performance
12.21 Weather
12.22 Summary
13. High Throughput (HT) and 802.11n
13.1 High Throughput (HT)
13.2 802.11n History
13.3 802.11n Draft Amendment
13.4 Wi-Fi Alliance Certification
13.5 MIMO
13.6 HT Channels
13.7 HT PHY
13.8 HT MAC
13.9 HTOperation