Optimizing and Testing WLANs

Description

As WLANs (Wireless Local Area Networks) become increasingly common, its becoming vital to be able to test them for proper performance and to optimize their operation. This book, written by a member of the IEEE committee that develops WLAN standards, is the first book addressing that need. It covers test equipment and methods for the RF (wireless) and physical layers of WLAN, protocols, the application layer, and manufacturing testing. The emphasis throughout is on underlying engineering principles along with modern metrics and methodologies, ensuring this book gives both a solid theoretical background along with field-proven techniques and applications.

Much of the subject material is drawn from the author's own hands-on experience in the field, as an architect and engineer of WLAN test equipment, and a writer of standards for measuring WLAN equipment performance. A particularly engaging chapter deals with manufacturing test, describing some of the different manufacturing test setups and equipment. A concise introduction to deployment testing of hotspots and WLANs in enterprises is also provided.

*Gives proven techniques for maximizing the coverage area and performance of wireless networks
*Author's insider position on the IEEE committee developing standards for WLAN testing ensures timeliness and technical integrity of the material
*Includes coverage of newer multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) wireless networks

描述

隨著無線區域網路（WLAN）越來越普及，測試其正確性能並優化其運作變得至關重要。這本書是由一位參與制定WLAN標準的IEEE委員會成員撰寫的，是第一本針對這一需求的書籍。它涵蓋了WLAN的射頻（無線）和物理層的測試設備和方法、協議、應用層和製造測試。全書強調基礎工程原理以及現代度量和方法，確保本書既提供了堅實的理論背景，又提供了經過實地驗證的技術和應用。

本書的許多主題材料來自作者在該領域的實際經驗，作為WLAN測試設備的架構師和工程師，以及測量WLAN設備性能標準的撰寫者。其中一個特別引人入勝的章節涉及製造測試，描述了一些不同的製造測試設置和設備。本書還提供了一個簡明的部署測試熱點和企業WLAN的介紹。

* 提供了最大化無線網路覆蓋範圍和性能的成熟技術
* 作者在IEEE委員會中擔任制定WLAN測試標準的內部職位，確保了材料的及時性和技術完整性
* 包括對新型多輸入/多輸出（MIMO）無線網路的覆蓋