Index_A

A

AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting), 181

attendants, 184

brokers, 197–198

firewalls, 194

IP connection requirements, 189

local home agents, 195

local payments, 196

Mobile IP, 189–193

Mobile IP fast handover, 196

Mobile IP with dynamic IP addresses, 193

roaming requirements, 187–188

security issues, 200

server operation model, 184–186

terms, 182–183

AAABs (AAA brokers), 198

AAAL (AAA Local), 185–186

abbreviations used in WAP, 302–303

access services, 802.11, 229

ACK frames, 802.11, 248

active traffic insertion attacks, WEP, 157

ad hoc networks, 104, 220

addresses

fields, 802.11 MAC frames, 244–246

NAT

binding, 356

engineering, 351–352

lookup/translation, 357

advanced queuing, QoS, 86

advertisement services, 7

agent discovery, Mobile IP, 79

antennas

Cisco products, 397, 401

hotspots, 147–149

WLAN diversity, 110

applicability of RFC 2002 protocol, 76

application categories, intserv, 89

Application Framework, WAP, 316

APs (access points), WLANs, 17–18, 104, 109

architectural entities, Mobile IP, 77

architecture

802.11, 219

access services, 229

ACK frames, 248

areas, 221

association messages, 235

asynchronous data service, 240

authentication, 230

authentication management frames, 238–239

CF-End frames, 249

CF-End+CF-Ack frames, 249

Control frames, 247

CTS frames, 248

data frames, 249–251

data messages, 235

deauthentication, 231, 239

disassociation messages, 237

DS, 220, 227–229

DSS, 224

dynamic STA-BSS association, 220

ESS, 220–221

frame classes, 232–233

IBSS, 219

logical service interfaces, 223

management frames, 251–255, 258–260

MSDU ordering, 241

multiple logical address spaces, 225

portals, 222

preauthentication, 230

privacy, 231, 238

PS-Poll frames, 248

reassociation messages, 236

RTS frames, 247

security service, 241

services, 226

SS, 224

STA state variables, 232

wired LAN integration, 222

GPRS, 142

GSM, 140

MAC frames, 802.11, 262–264

WAP, 300

areas, 802.11, 221

ARPUs (average revenues per user), mobile services, 7

association messages, 802.11, 235

asynchronous data service, 802.11, 240

attendants, AAA, 184

authentication, 15

3G, 146

802.11, 230

802.1X, 170

WAP, 317

WLANs, 116–117

authentication management frames, 802.11, 238–239

authenticators, 802.1X, 169

authors, WAP, 301

automatic allocation, DHCP, 363

Automatic Synchronization profile, Bluetooth, 126

Awake mode, WLAN stations, 109