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Wireless LAN Technology: Current State and Future Trends

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Overview In this paper, a comprehensive overview of the current state and future trends of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) has been presented. This paper studies and compares two most competing commercially potential WLAN technologies, namely IEEE 802.11 and ETSI HiperLAN. This study also addresses the challenges of their coexistance and convergences towards a global standards.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Helsinki University of Technology	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2007	Downloads	1
Format	White Papers
Topics	Local Area Networks (LAN), Wireless LAN, Wi-Fi (802.11)

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LANs
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cisco,
alliance,
programme,
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scam,
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network,
cisco

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