Wireless Network Coexistence deals with the integration and practical applications of the entire range of wireless services, including Wi-Fi, Wi-Media, ZigBee, and Bluetooth. It discusses what each of the services has to offer, what can be accomplished with each, and how each fits into an integrated wireless solution.

350 pages, hardcover

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Wireless Network Coexistence helps you in:

• Evaluating the suitability of Wi-Fi (802.11 a, b, and g), Bluetooth (802.15.1), WiMedia (802.15.3), and ZigBee (802.15.4), to your needs, objectives, and circumstances
• Discoveing how the rules in various regulatory domains influenced the development of wireless standards
• Meeting the significant challenges of designing and deploying multiple wireless networks within the same physical area
• Leveraging the benefits in all flavors of 802.11 within the standard's stringent restrictions
• Making the right choices in signal propagation, advanced modulation techniques, and network connectivity options
• Developing solutions for operating frequencies, packet structure, and channel access mechanisms
• Analyzing the extensive passive coexistence mechanisms integrated into the various wireless network standards
• Learning techniques for reducing interference through active coexistence methods
• Determining the suitability of using ultra-wideband for communicating at high data rates
• Building flexible systems ready for developing technologies, such as Wi-Media and ZigBee
• Studying the nature of interference from the microwave oven
• Discovering the safety implications of operating wireless networks onboard commercial aircraft

Contents

• Introduction
• Indoor RF Propagation and Diversity Techniques
• Basic Modulation and Coding
• Advanced Modulation and Coding
• Radio Performance
• Medium Access Control
• Passive Coexistence
• Active Coexistence
• Coexistence with Other Services
• List of Abbreviations