Index_F

F

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