"A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes."
Networks that use radio waves, infrared or satellite communication to transmit data between devices.
Introduction to Wireless Networks: This provides an overview of wireless networks, including their types, protocols, and standards, along with the advantages and disadvantages.
Wireless Signals: This topic teaches about the properties of radio-frequency signals, such as frequency, amplitude, wavelength, bandwidth, and modulation types.
Antennas: This is an essential topic in the design and implementation of wireless networks, and it covers antenna types, specifications, characteristics, and placement.
Wireless Transmission Media: This describes the various media that transmit wireless signals, such as air or free space, and how signals are propagated, such as reflection, refraction, or scattering.
Wireless LAN Technologies: This covers the different wireless LAN standards, including IEEE 802.11b/g/n/ac/ax, Wi-Fi, and others, as well as their features, limitations, and compatibility issues.
Wireless Network Architecture: This topic focuses on the architecture of wireless networks, including the network topology, the network components, and the communication protocols.
Wireless Security: This is an essential aspect of wireless networks, and it involves the techniques used to protect wireless communications, such as encryption, authentication, and access control.
Wireless Mesh Networks: This is a more distributed wireless network topology where each node in the network is interconnected with other nodes, allowing for better scalability, redundancy, and reliability.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID): This is a wireless technology that enables automatic tracking and identification of objects using radio waves.
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs): This is a wireless network architecture that enables mobile devices to communicate with each other directly, without the need for any fixed infrastructure.
Wireless Sensor Networks: This involves wireless networks of small sensors that can detect and monitor different phenomena, such as temperature, humidity, light, or pressure.
Multipath Fading and Diversity Techniques: This covers the effects of multipath fading in wireless communications, and the techniques used to mitigate its effects, such as diversity techniques, spatial diversity, and frequency diversity.
Wireless Network Protocols: This describes the various wireless network protocols, such as Wi-Fi direct, Bluetooth, ZigBee, LTE, and others.
Wireless Network Management: This covers the various management techniques used to monitor, configure, and optimize wireless networks, including network monitoring tools, performance analysis, and troubleshooting.
Emerging Wireless Technologies: This describes various emerging wireless technologies, such as 5G, WiMAX, Li-Fi, and others, and their features, benefits, and limitations.
WLAN or Wireless Local Area Network: A wireless network that provides high-speed internet access to devices within a limited geographical area like a home, office, school, or campus.
Wi-Fi: A brand name for WLANs that comply with a standard set by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
WMAN or Wireless Metropolitan Area Network: A wireless network that covers a larger geographic area than WLAN and connects devices within up to several kilometers.
WiMAX or Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access: A standard for long-range WMANs that allow high-speed internet access within a range of several kilometers.
WWAN or Wireless Wide Area Network: A wireless network that enables internet access and other communication services over a large geographic area like a city or country.
LTE or Long-Term Evolution: A standard for high-speed mobile internet access that uses cellular networks.
5G or Fifth Generation: A newer standard for a faster and more efficient way of transferring information that involves ultra-high frequencies.
IoT or Internet of Things: A network that interconnects different devices and systems to collect, process, and share data in real-time.
Bluetooth: A wireless technology that allows devices to communicate over short distances.
NFC or Near Field Communication: A short-range wireless communication technology that enables data transfer between two devices in close proximity.
RFID or Radio Frequency Identification: A technology that uses radio waves to identify and track objects or people.
Zigbee: An open wireless standard for low-power, low-data-rate communications that is used for home automation.
Z-Wave: A wireless technology that enables devices in a smart home to communicate with each other, even if they are different brands.
LoRaWAN or Low-Power Wide Area Network: A wireless communication protocol designed for long-range, low-power communication between IoT devices.
Sigfox: A global wireless network dedicated to IoT devices that provides low-power, long-range communication.
Satellites: A communication network that uses artificial satellites orbiting Earth to transmit and receive data between devices.
"Wireless networking allows homes, telecommunications networks and business installations to avoid the costly process of introducing cables into a building."
"Admin telecommunications networks are generally implemented and administered using radio communication."
"This implementation takes place at the physical level (layer) of the OSI model network structure."
"Examples of wireless networks include cell phone networks, wireless local area networks (WLANs), wireless sensor networks, satellite communication networks, and terrestrial microwave networks."
"Wireless networking allows homes to avoid the costly process of introducing cables into a building."
"Wireless networking allows business installations to avoid the costly process of introducing cables into a building."
"Wireless networking allows homes, telecommunications networks and business installations to avoid the costly process of introducing cables into a building."
"Admin telecommunications networks are generally implemented and administered using radio communication."
"This implementation takes place at the physical level (layer) of the OSI model network structure."
"Examples of wireless networks include cell phone networks..."
"Examples of wireless networks include... wireless local area networks (WLANs)..."
"Examples of wireless networks include... wireless sensor networks..."
"Examples of wireless networks include... satellite communication networks..."
"Examples of wireless networks include... terrestrial microwave networks..."
"Wireless networking allows homes, telecommunications networks and business installations to avoid the costly process of introducing cables into a building."
"Admin telecommunications networks are generally implemented and administered using radio communication."
"This implementation takes place at the physical level (layer) of the OSI model network structure."
"Wireless networking allows homes to avoid the costly process of introducing cables into a building."
"Wireless networking allows business installations to avoid the costly process of introducing cables into a building."