Eogogics

Part 1: Introduction to IEEE 802.11 and Wi-Fi

• Wired vs wireless communications
• Comparison of networks
• Categories of information transmission
• Asynchronous, isochronous, and synchronous requirements
• Voice and data
• Overview of 802.11 and Wi-Fi
• General architecture
• Wi-Fi Alliance
• IEEE 802.11 task groups
• 3GPP standardization
• The need for standardization
• 3GPP structure

Part 2: Wi-Fi Physical (PHY) Layer

• Link budget and path loss
• Calculating maximum range
• Multipath
• Doppler and delay spread
• Diversity combining
• Basic modulation methods
• Modulated signal structure
• Amplitude, frequency, and phase shift keying
• Direct sequence spread spectrum (802.11b)
• DSSS methods
• Processing gain
• Complementary code keying (CCK)
• Advanced modulation methods (802.11g/n)
• Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM)
• Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
• Performance
• Advanced antennas and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
• 802.11n MIMO
• 802.11n operating modes and performance
• Error control
• Error detection and correction
• Automatic repeat request

Part 3: Wi-Fi Medium Access Control (MAC)

• Carrier-sense multiple access
• Basic concept and operation
• Avoiding network instability
• Distributed Coordination Function (DCF)
• Channel access and backoff
• Performance
• Point Coordination Function (PCF)
• Channel access and scheduling
• Performance
• Quality-of-Service
• The QoS challenge
• Overview of 802.11e QoS enhancements
• Throughput capabilities
• Frame transmission times
• Throughput analysis
• Management operations
• Connection process
• Addressing and traffic flow
• Roaming
• Layer 2 and Layer 3 roaming
• Overview of 802.11r Fast BSS Transition
• Mesh networking
• Deployment scenarios
• Overview of 802.11s Mesh Networking

Part 4: Wi-Fi Security

• Types of security threats
• Disclosure, integrity, denial-of-service
• Overview of 802.11i security
• 802.11i enhancements over WEP
• Access control
• Data security
• 802.11i and IPsec
• 802.1X port based authentication
• Portal / web based authentication

Part 5: Wi-Fi Deployment and Optimization

• Key performance indicators (KPI)
• Range
• Data rate and throughput
• Latency
• Security
• Others
• Project planning
• Requirements
• Site survey
• Coverage vs. capacity planning
• Access point (AP) installation
• Network traffic analysis
• Coexistence
• Interference characteristics
• General coexistence strategies
• Wi-Fi coexisting with other Wi-Fi networks
• Wi-Fi coexisting with other wireless systems
• Dynamic frequency selection (DFS) and transmit power control (TPC)
• Infrastructure consideration
• WLAN controllers and switches
• Load balancing and other considerations 

Part 6: Future Directions in Wireless Networking

• Wi-Fi
• Higher data rates
• Other enhancements
• Seamless roaming
• Roaming between 3GPP and Wi-Fi
• LTE vs Wi-Fi
• Scenarios where Wi-Fi is best
• Scenarios where LTE is best
• Wi-Fi vs WiMAX
• Wrap-up
• Course Recap and Q/A
• Evaluations