Malicious software (malware) is one of the largest threats facing the Internet today. In recent years, malware has proliferated into wireless LANs as these networks have grown in popularity and prevalence. Yet the actual effects of malware-related network traffic in open wireless networks has never been examined. In this paper, we provide the first study to quantify the characteristics of malwa...

With the advent of the IEEE 802.11 wireless networks that provide high speed connectivity, demand for supporting multiple real-time traffic applications over wireless LANs has been increasing. A natural question is how to provide fair resource allocation to real-time traffic in wireless LANs. Wireless networks are subject to unpredictable location-dependent error bursts, which is different from...

Although Wireless LANs market has grown tremendously in the last few years, their enterprise deployment has been fairly limited. From manual site survey process to ensure adequate coverage to well-known security issues in original standards, there have been several deterrents to widespread enterprise deployment of wireless LANs. In this paper we describe three of the core wireless LAN deploymen...

Lappeenranta University of Technology Department of Information Technology RADEK SPÁČIL Forcing Usage Rules in Public Wireless LANs Thesis for the Degree of Master of Science in Technology 2002 With rapid increase of popularity of wireless LANs and employing of this technology in large scale networks, a necessity of forcing usage rules arise. This thesis describes how to force users to follow u...

Medium access control protocol plays an important role in providing fair and efficient allocation of limited bandwidth in wireless LANs. The basic medium access model in the IEEE 802.11 standard, known as DCF (Distributed Coordination Function), is widely used in wireless LANs. Research efforts in wireless multihop networks, where wireless nodes need to forward packets on other’s behalf, try to...

Wireless LAN technology is becoming increasingly popular for a wide variety of applications. After evaluating the technology, most users are convinced of its reliability, satisfied with its performance and are ready to use it for large-scale and complex wireless networks. Originally designed for indoor office applications, today's Wireless LANs can be used for both indoor peer-to-peer networks ...

Wireless LANs based on the IEEE 802.11 standard have achieved wide customer acceptance in the enterprise environment. They are expected to continue to expand in popularity and become ubiquitous communication systems even in private and public places. This paper discusses the basics of the wireless LAN physical layer, focusing on radio tranceiver specifications and design options.