8 Acronyms and Abbreviations
The following table shows a list of acronyms and abbreviations used throughout this docu- ment.
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802.11 | A family of specifications developed by the IEEE for wireless LAN technology. |
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| 802.11b | An extension to 802.11 for WLANS and provides 11 Mbps transmission in the |
| 2.4 GHz band. |
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| 802.11g | An extension to 802.11 for WLANS and provides 11 Mbps transmission in the |
| 2.4 GHz band. |
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| ACK | Acknowledgement |
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A group of computers each with wireless adapters, connected as an indepen- | |
| dent WLAN. |
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AP | Access Point. A communication hub for wireless device users to connect to a |
| wired LAN. |
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| BSS | Basic Service Set |
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| BSSID | Basic Service Set Identifier |
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| CardBus | The |
| ing a wider bus (32 bits instead of 16 bits), CardBus also supports bus mas- |
| tering and operation speeds up to 33 MHz. |
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| CTS | |
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| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
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| EAP | Extensible Authentication Protocol |
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| FCC | Federal Communications Commission |
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| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
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| LAN | Local Area Network |
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| MAC | Media Access Controller |
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| MIC | Message Integrity Check |
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| PCMCIA | Personal Computer Memory Card International Association |
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| PEAP | Protected EAP |
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| PSK | |
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RF | Radio Frequency |
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| ROM | Read Only Memory |
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Rx | Receive |
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| SoC | |
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| SSID | Service Set ID. A |
| packets sent over a WLAN that acts as a password when a mobile device |
| tries to connect to the BSS. |
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| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
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| TKIP | Temporal Key Integrity Protocol |
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