Nurul Sarkar

Gebundenes Buch

Improving the Performance of Wireless LANs

A Practical Guide

Beschreibung

This book quantifies the key factors of WLAN performance and describes methods for improvement. It provides theoretical background and empirical results for the optimum planning and deployment of indoor WLAN systems, explaining the fundamentals while supplying guidelines for design, modeling, and performance evaluation. It discusses environmental effects on WLAN systems, protocol redesign for routing and MAC, and traffic distribution; examines emerging and future network technologies; and includes radio propagation and site measurements, simulations for various network design scenarios, numerous illustrations, practical examples, and learning aids.

Autor

Nurul I. Sarkar holds a Ph.D from the University of Auckland and is currently associate professor and leader of the Network Security Research Group at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. A member of many professional organizations and societies, including IEEE Communications Society and Australasian Association for Engineering Education, he is a regularly invited keynote speaker, chair, and committee member for various national and international forums. He has published more than 120 articles and served on the editorial review boards of several prestigious journals. His first edited book, Tools for Teaching Computer Networking and Hardware Concepts, was published by IGI Global in 2006.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Seitenzahl: 474
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 872g
• ISBN-13: 9781466560635
• ISBN-10: 1466560630
• Artikelnr.: 36603774