Glossary

Disassociation

An IEEE 802.11 term that defines the process a station or Access Point uses

service

to notify that it is terminating an existing association.

Distribution service

An IEEE 802.11 station uses the distribution service to send MAC frames

 

across a distribution system.

GPIO

General Purpose Input/Output refers to the digital I/O lines.

Hot spot

Same as an Access Point (usually found in public areas such as coffee shops

 

and airports).

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, an international organization

 

that develops standards for electrical technologies. The organization uses a

 

series of numbers, like the Dewey Decimal system in libraries, to differentiate

 

between the various technology families.

Independent Basic

An IEEE 802.11-based wireless network that has no backbone infrastructure

Service Set Network

and consists of at least two wireless stations. This type of network is often

(IBSS Network)

referred to as an “Ad-Hoc network” because it can be constructed quickly

 

without too much planning.

Infrastructure mode

A client setting providing connectivity to an Access Point. As compared to Ad-

 

Hoc mode, whereby PCs communicate directly with each other, clients set in

 

Infrastructure mode all pass data through a central Access Point. The Access

 

Point not only mediates wireless network traffic in the immediate

 

neighborhood, but also provides communication with the wired network. See

 

Ad-Hoc Mode and Access Point.

LAN application

A software application that runs on a computer (which is attached to a LAN,

 

Intranet or the Internet) and using various protocols, can communicate with

 

the Bridge.

LEAP

Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol developed by Cisco. LEAP

 

provides username/password-based authentication between a wireless client

 

and a RADIUS server. It is one of several protocols used with the IEEE

 

802.1X standard for LAN port access control.

Local Area Network

A system of connecting PCs and other devices within the same physical

 

proximity for sharing resources such as Internet connections, printers, files

 

and drives. When Wi-Fi is used to connect the devices, the system is known

 

as a wireless LAN or WLAN.

Medium Access

One of two sub-layers that make up the Data Link Layer of the OSI reference

Control Layer

model. The MAC layer is responsible for moving data packets to and from

 

one network node to another across a shared channel.

Peer-to-peer

A wireless or wired computer network that has no server or central hub or

network

router. All the networked PCs are equally able to act as a network server or

 

client, and each client computer can talk to all the other wireless computers

 

without having to go through an Access Point or hub. However, since there is

 

no central base station to monitor traffic or provide Internet access, the

 

various signals can collide with each other, reducing overall performance.

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