Introduction:

An advanced class covering the Wireless LAN standards that are most relevant to your next design project. This course will provide the student with broad knowledge on current Wireless LAN (WLAN) standards, trends, issues and technologies. We have included content that is emerging from recent IEEE 802.11 WLAN working group meeting and letter ballots. These are the critical topics for today s development projects. Other courses may spend most of their time on the early WLAN specifications published between 1997 through 2003, but this course is squarely focused on the newer specifications that will affect the current and future applications for wireless LANs.

Audience:

This course is carefully designed for both beginner and intermediate students who are working on Wireless-LAN-related products and services, or expect to be on those projects soon. A student who is just beginning to work on Wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) projects will gain a full understanding of the entire set of WLAN standards. A student who has already taken an introductory WLAN course will receive a crucial update on the latest 802.11 issues and specifications, in the context of those earlier specifications.

Customize it

This 2-day course will be customized to your needs and specifications. Enowireless will assist you in identifying those needs and specifications. A word to the wise, there are many vendors of wireless training. They will typically have a broad and general course, one size fits all, already developed and just put your organization’s name on the title slide. This minimizes their effort and time investment. At Enowireless, every course is made to your exact and exacting specifications. We help you ensure what you are getting is what you really need even if at the beginning you weren’t too sure of what that was. We fit the class to your needs. We never fit you into our “standard”, one size fits all, class.

Course Objectives:

At the successful completion of this course, the student should be able to: Contribute effectively to the WLAN design projects that implement or support the newest standards Evaluate, and choose among, design options and tradeoffs that are presented in the latest WLAN specifications List the significance of each IEEE 802 wireless Working Group and standard amendment, from 802.11a through 802.11v Compare and contrast the WLAN security evolution steps from Wired Equivalent Privacy to Wi-Fi Protected Access to 802.11i Diagram the process of roaming between Access Points with 802.11f Explain how the CSMA/CA Medium Access Control procedures are amended with 802.11e Quality of Service approaches to support Voice over Wi-Fi Map the evolution of 802.11b to 802.11g in the 2.4 GHz band, and the migration from 802.11a to 802.11h to 802.11n in the 5 GHz band Comment on current WLAN Implementation and management issues

Course Outline

The latest 802.11 innovations The latest in Security and 802.11i Roaming (802.11f) and the recent fast roaming proposals (802.11r) Access mechanisms, QoS and 802.11e Radio resource management: 802.11k Wi-Fi Mesh networks and 802.11s Physical layers: 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g review 802.11n for Wi-Fi at 100 Mb/s+ Throughput and throughput limits Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) techniques Wireless LAN architecture and installation options Testing and performance prediction: 802.11t Wireless access for the vehicular environment (WAVE): 802.11p Interworking with external networks: 802.11u Voice over 802.11 (VoWiFi)