IEEE 802.11 Handbook

IEEE 802.11 Handbook, A Designer's Companion is a supplement and guide to the international standard for wireless LANs. Written by Bob O'Hara and Al Petrick, two contributors to the standard that have been the technical editor of the standard and vice-chair of the 802.11 working group, and chair of several 802.11 task groups, the Handbook is a book that provides significant insight into the reasons that the standard developed as it did. The handbook describes how 802.11 equipment operates, how the parts of the standard integrate to provide capabilities necessary for a robust, high performance wireless LAN, and how to use the various protocol tools built into the standard.

IEEE 802.11 Handbook is useful to the designer of 802.11 wireless LAN equipment, as an aid to more quickly understanding the standard, as well as to the network administrator, as an aid to understanding what capabilities an 802.11 equipment vendor should be providing to be compliant with the standard. The network administrator can also improve their understanding of the content of the management information base (MIB), The configuration options that are controllable, the performance measurements that are available, and the strategies that are useful for creation of alarms.

The Handbook provides detailed information on the 802.11 medium access control (MAC) methods, frame descriptions, operation of MAC management, and each of the five physical (PHY) layers. The Handbook is completely up to date with information from the original 802.11 standard, the revision published in 1999 and both of the new PHY layers approved in 1999, 802.11a and 802.11b. There is nothing more current than what is contained in the Handbook, unless you are actually working on the extensions to the standard that are currently in progress.

You can read more about the Handbook and purchase it at Amazon.com or IEEE Press.

Additional material and corrections to the Handbook are available here.

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