FA, see Foreign agent
Fading
fluctuations, 341
small-scale, 345
fastConnect procedure, 172
initiation of, 166
message sizes of, 167
use of RLP with, 174
FCC, see Federal Communication Commission
F-CCCH, see Forward common control channel
FDDI, see Fiber distributed data interface
FDMA, see Frequency Division Multiple Access
FEC, see Forward error correction
Federal Communication Commission (FCC), 230, 412, 500
FER, see Frame error rate
F-FCH, see Forward fundamental channel
FH spread spectrum, see Frequency hopping (FH) spread spectrum
Fiber distributed data interface (FDDI), 229
File transfer protocol (FTP), 199, 386, 514
Firepad software, 24
First-generation systems, principal characteristics of, 36
First-generation (1G) wireless technologies, 114
Flat topology, 132
Fleet management applications, 411
FLIPS model, 561
FM, see Frequency modulation
FMDA, see Frequency division multiple access
Follow-me applications, 207
Follow-me Desktop, 207
Foreign agent (FA), 201, 202, 410
Assisted Handoff draft, 213
emulation, 211
gateway, 211
Forward common control channel (F-CCCH), 163
Forward Erasure Correction (FXC)
Forward error correction (FEC), 113, 318, 471
Forward fundamental channel (F-FCH), 163
Forwarding
agent, 237
tables, building of, 144
Forward supplemental channel (F-SCH), 163
FPLA, see Future probable location area
Frame
-based metrics, 486
check sequence generation, 392–393
error rate (FER), 152, 153, 167
definition of, 111
packet loss rate versus, 112
relay, 150
Framing data unit, 391
Freenet, 540
Frequency
carriers, 58
division multiple access (FDMA), 9, 10, 57, 336
hopping (FH) spread spectrum, 11, 229, 231, 310
modulation (FM), 7
reuse, 345
shift keying (FSK), 7, 447
Frozen application, 207
F-SCH, see Forward supplemental channel
FSK, see Frequency shift keying
FTP, see File transfer protocol
Full rerouting, 270, 274, 275
new connection setup time, 274, 289
old connection teardown time, 274, 289
Future probable location area (FPLA), 260
FXC, see Forward Erasure Correction