List of Tables

Chapter 2: How Does 802.11 Work?

Table 2-1: IEEE 802.11 Variants

Table 2-2: IEEE 802.11 MAC Services and Agents

Chapter 4: Security and 802.11

Table 4-1: Five classes of attack

Table 4-2: A range of security options for wireless networks

Chapter 5: Interference and Quality of Service (QoS) on 802.11 Networks

Table 5-1: Potential External Sources of Interference to 802.11 Networks and Their Solutions

Table 5-2: The 11 Channels of 802.11

Table 5-3: Factors Affecting VoIP Voice Quality

Table 5-4: Reservation, allocation, and policing are mechanisms available in conventional packet-forwarding systems that can differentiate and appropriately handle isochronous traffic

Table 5-5: Mechanisms to Increase Queuing Efficiency

Table 5-6: Types of delay encountered on an 802.11 network

Chapter 6: Voice over 802.11

Table 6-1: Popular voice codecs developed for circuit-switched telephony

Table 6-2: MOS scores of speech codecs

Chapter 7: Considerations in Building 802.11 Networks

Table 7-1: Frequency bands and associated power limits

Table 7-2: Point-to-multipoint operation in the 2.4 GHz ISM band

Table 7-3: Point-to-point operation in the 2.4 GHz ISM band

Table 7-4: Point-to-point operation in 5.8 GHz U-NII band

Table 7-5: Coax attenuation losses (Source: Andrew, Times Microwave and Belden online catalogs)

Table 7-6: Attenuation of various building materials

Table 7-7: Antenna Specifications

Table 7-8: Injected voltages and polarities by manufacturer

Chapter 8: Economic Aspects of Wi-Fi

Table 8-1: A comparison of installation costs: Wired LANs versus WLANs

Table 8-2: Time and money saved using wireless networks

Table 8-3: Locations where 802.11 access enhances employee, visitor, and vendor productivity

Table 8-4: Worksheet for determining potential savings in bypassing local and long-distance telephone service providers

Table 8-5: 802.11 turnkey operators, and their product and business models for local operators

Table 8-6: Cost comparison of services provided by a telephone company versus services available via a WISP

Table 8-7: Potential cost savings in household telecommunications costs using 802.11 WISP versus conventional service providers

Table 8-8: Estimated ultimate annual consumer surplus from increased broadband penetration

Table 8-9: Total spending on home entertainment (1980-1999)

Table 8-10: Summary of consumer benefits from universal broadband deployment ($ billions per Year)

Chapter 9: Regulatory Aspects of 802.11

Table 9-1: Spectrum allocation for 802.11 and co-users

Table 9-2: Spectrum bands of 802.11b