Wi-Fi Handbook : Building 802.11b Wireless Networks

weatherproofing antennas, 251

WEPCrack, 69, 70

Werner-Braun, Hans, 46

WhiteCap, 213

wide area networks (WAN), 14, 158, 165, 235-236

WiFi, 14-19, 192, 205, 293-296

WiFi adapters, 232-234

WiFi Alliance, 62

WiFi Protected Access (WPA) in, 85-86

WinProp, 224

wired equivalent privacy (WEP), 9, 62-65, 233, 255, 256, 331

birthday principle vs. security of, 71

ciphertext creation in, 70

eavesdropping and sniffing vs., 69-72

hex vs. ASCII keys in, 71

media access control (MAC) and, 28

modification attacks in, 75-77

open system authentication and, 73-75

personal digital assistant (PDA) and, 71

Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA), 19, 62

wireless Internet Service provider (WISP), 8, 10, 92, 190, 200, 287, 288-291, 290, 334

interference and, 111

power management in, 310

range of signal and, 47-48, 47

voice over IP (VoIP) and, 196

wireless LANs (WLAN), 8, 15-19, 15, 35, 48, 49, 201, 205, 288, 332

architecture of, 81-83, 81

cost comparison to wired, 268-270, 269

security model for, 62, 67

voice over IP (VoIP) and, 192

wireless local loop (WLL), 48, 160

wireless MAN (WMANs), 8, 42, 48, 49, 54, 286

802.16protocol for, 51-53, 51

consecutive point network (CPN) in, 53, 55, 53

range of signal and, 47-48, 49, 47

wireless personal area networks (WPANs), 48, 49, 48

wireless wide area networks (WWAN), 8, 113