Abstract
Introduction to IEEE 802.11 will provide an introduction covering both network and standard architectures. The course will also review access mechanisms and QoS – 802.11e. Physical layers and current trends in wireless local area networking (802.11p, mesh) will also be discussed.

Educational Course Subject Areas
Communications

Keywords
access point ,  authentication ,  beacon frame ,  contention-free period (CFP) ,  contention period (CP) ,  contention window (CW) ,  interframe space (IFS) ,  neighbor ,  slot time ,  standards ,  station ,  superframe ,  transmission opportunity ,  wireless