Essay On IEEE 802.11

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A Survey on IEEE 802.11n 802.11 are just digits for someone from outside wireless but for people interested in wireless technologies they have a significant value. Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) sets up certain standards for researching technologies in certain fields. 802 is such standard which deals with local area networks and metropolitan area networks. 802.11 is the standard dealing with implementation of wireless-LAN. IEEE introduced 802.11 in order to improve communication between computers and similar devices. 802.11 mainly deals with different mechanisms utilized in physical and MAC layers to ultimately control the data rate, which defines the efficiency of the system. The first of it was introduced in 1997 and later several amendments were made to those standards in order to gain better data rate with the help of cutting edge technologies. While introducing new standards, mostly the former standards were collaborated in the new standard. Moreover, a huge number of companies make their products based on these standards so that they can cope up with their competitors. 802.11a and 802.11g were the most popular protocols prior to the revision of 802.11n standard. 802.11a is a wireless protocol introduced in 1999. This protocol works in a 5GHz band and uses basic orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing(OFDM) waveform and attains a maximum data rate of around 54 Mbps. It was one of the most widely used protocols for wireless systems. However, 802.11g operated at 2.4 GHz band and used the same OFDM waveform as that of 802.11a. It was revised in 2003 and came into public use with a maximum possible bit rate of about 54 Mbps. IEEE 802.11n wireless protocol was not just a revision but some revol... ... middle of paper ... ... 802.11n standard like MIMO, OFDM, channel bonding and other factors that are changed in 802.11n compared to its previous standards. These journals also give an idea on how a protocol is implemented and conditions involved in achieving maximum throughput using a 802.11n system. Along with those, I came across some interesting publications and websites which are included in the reference section that give brief introduction to wireless communications and significance of the 802.11 protocols while communication occurs among computer or other devices. These publications clearly depict the functionality of the 802.11n protocol and also describes different factors involved in achieving maximum throughput of 600Mbps. Thus, I would like to discuss all the above mentioned topics as a part of my survey report on IEEE 802.11n with the help of the references mentioned above.

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