4. Wireless LAN
A wireless LAN is a flexible data communications
system implemented as an extension to or as an
alternative for a wired LAN.
Using radio frequency (RF) technology wireless LANs
transmit and receive data over the air minimizing the
need for wired connections.
Thus, combining data connectivity with user mobility.
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5. LAN/WLAN World
LANs provide connectivity for interconnecting computing
resources at the local levels of an organization
Wired LANs
Limitations because of physical, hard-wired infrastructure
Wireless LANs provide
Flexibility
Portability
Mobility
Ease of Installation
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7. In response to lacking standards, IEEE developed the
first internationally recognized wireless LAN standard
IEEE 802.11
IEEE published 802.11 in 1997, after seven years of work
Most prominent specification for WLANs
Scope of IEEE 802.11 is limited to Physical and Data Link
Layers.
IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Standard
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8. Fast Product Development
Stable Future Migration
Price Reductions
The 802.11 standard takes into account the following
significant differences between wireless and wired LANs:
Power Management
Security
Bandwidth
Benefits of 802.11 Standard
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9. IEEE 802 LAN Standards Family
IEEE 802.3
Carrier
Sense
IEEE 802.4
Token
Bus
IEEE 802.5
Token
Ring
IEEE 802.11
Wireless
IEEE 802.2
Logical Link Control (LLC)
PHY
OSI Layer 1
(Physical)
MAC
OSI Layer 2
(Data Link)
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10. Access point (AP): A station that provides access to the DS.
Basic service set (BSS): A set of stations controlled by a
single AP.
Distribution system (DS): A system used to interconnect a
set of BSSs to create an ESS.
DS is implementation-independent. It can be a wired 802.3 Ethernet
LAN, 802.4 token bus, 802.5 token ring or another 802.11 medium.
Extended service set (ESS):Two or more BSS interconnected
by DS
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11. A BSS without an AP is called an ad hoc network;
a BSS with an AP is called an infrastructure network.
Note:
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14. Bluetooth:
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Designed to be used to connect both mobile devices and
peripherals that currently require a wire.
Simplifying communications between:
- Devices and the internet
- Data synchronization
Short range wireless radio technology
Range: 10 meters
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15. Advantages:
Wireless (No Cables)
No Setup Needed
Low Power Consumption (1 Milliwatt)
Industry Wide Support
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16. Disadvantages:
Short range (10 meters)
Small throughput rates
Data Rate 1.0 Mbps
Mostly for personal use (PANs)
Fairly Expensive
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17. Working:
Bluetooth is a standard for tiny,
radio frequency chips that can
be plugged into your devices
These chips were designed to
take all of the information that
your wires normally send, and
transmit it at a special
frequency to something called a
receiver Bluetooth chip.
The information is then
transmitted to your device
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18. Piconet and Scatternet
Piconet
Basic unit of Bluetooth networking
Master and one to seven slave devices
Master determines channel and phase
Scatternet
Device in one piconet may exist as master or slave in another
piconet
Allows many devices to share same area
Makes efficient use of bandwidth
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21. Layers of Bluetooth:
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BT Radio (2.4 GHZ Freq. Band):
Baseband: FH-SS (79 carriers),
CDMA (hopping sequence from
the node MAC address)
Audio: Interfaces directly with
the baseband. Each voice
connection is over a 64Kbps SCO
link.
Logical Link Control and
Adaptation Layer (L2CAP)
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23. Introduction:
In virtual circuit network different design issues are
discussed during the development of virtual network
Some of are:
Bandwidth
Speed of the network
Frame size of the network
Control mechanism
In early 90s the wireless n/w for virtual circuit designed, know
as X.25.
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24. X.25:
The X.25 is a virtual n/w which can operate at a speed of a 1.544
Mbps.
The limitation of this n/w is that it doesnt allow burst data.
It operate on the,
Physical layer
Datalink layer
N/W layer
It is having low BW (Bandwidth).
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Frame Relay (FR):
FR is a high-performance WAN protocol.
It operates at the,
Physical Layer
Datalink Layer
FR originally was designed for use across Integrated Service Digital
Network (ISDN) interfaces.
Today, it is used over a variety of other network interfaces as well.
FR is an example of a packet-switched technology.
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Backbone of N/W.
Allow Burst data.
Speed: 45 Mbps.
Frame Size: 9000 Bytes
No flow and error control mechanism.
Only error detection process.
Doesnt support retransmission of frames
It can be used with the protocols of higher layer proving error and
flow control mechanism.
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29. Frame Relay Frame Structure:
FR define its own 4 Bytes frame format.
The address area (2 bytes)
10 bits represents the actual circuit identifier
6 bits of fields related to congestion management
Flags indicate the beginning and end of the frame
Three primary components make up the Frame Relay frame
The header and address area
The user-data portion
The frame-check sequence (FCS)
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30. VOFR:
It stands for Voice Over Frame Relay.
High speed internet connectivity required.
It is also know as bursty data.
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31. FRAD:
It stands for Frame Relay Assembler and Disassembler.
Support lower version of n/w.
Assembler is used at the sender end where signals of lower
version are converted to FR n/w.
Disassembler is used at receiver end to convert the FR n/w
into other version of the n/w.
Speed of n/w depends on,
FR
BW of the n/w
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33. ATM:
It stands for Asynchronous Transmission Mode.
It was designed in the 1980s.
Designed to increase the connectivity speed between the n/w.
It is the wireless mode of communication.
It enables virtual path between sender and receiver by creating
virtual n/w.
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34. ATM:
Challenge faced,
To increase the speed of n/w by fibre optics to maximize the size
of BW.
Should support lower version of n/w.
Cost factor.
Telecommunication hierarchies should not changed (Ex. Telephone
n/w).
Connection orientation.
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35. Architecture of ATM:
To connect different n/w it uses,
LAN
Switches
N/w connected by interfaces.
Speed of the n/w is more than the FR due to optical fibre.
It provides larger BW for more no. of connection in the n/w.
It allow voice over the n/w by using technique of modulation which
digitize the voice over the n/w.
Compatible with the lower version n/w by the help of interfaces.
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36. Architecture of ATM:
Users or LAN connected to n/w by User N/w Interface (UNI).
Switches are connected by N/w N/w Interface (NNI).
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37. Architecture of ATM:
It provides connection in 2 phase,
PVC: Permanent Virtual Circuit
SVC: Switch Virtual Circuit
It has own frame format, know as ATM Cell
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39. ATM Application:
ATM is the Backbone Network for many broadband applications
including Information Superhighway.
Some of the key applications can be mentioned as follows,
Video Conferencing
Desktop Conferencing
Multimedia Communications
ATM Over Satellite Communications
Mobile Computing over ATM for Wireless n/w
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