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    The document discusses the issues and challenges facing wireless local area networks (WLANs). It describes how WLANs can be classified as ad hoc networks which do not require administration, or infrastructure networks which use access points. Key challenges include enhancing data rates, minimizing device size and cost, enabling low power networking, and ensuring user security. Improving compression algorithms, error control methods, and power-efficient network protocols could help enhance data rates to support multimedia applications. Low power spread spectrum techniques like FHSS also aim to address challenges of battery life and device portability. Security remains an ongoing concern as hackers develop new threats. Overall, both fundamental and practical challenges in WLAN technologies require continued innovation and solutions.

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    The document discusses the issues and challenges facing wireless local area networks (WLANs). It describes how WLANs can be classified as ad hoc networks which do not require administration, or infrastructure networks which use access points. Key challenges include enhancing data rates, minimizing device size and cost, enabling low power networking, and ensuring user security. Improving compression algorithms, error control methods, and power-efficient network protocols could help enhance data rates to support multimedia applications. Low power spread spectrum techniques like FHSS also aim to address challenges of battery life and device portability. Security remains an ongoing concern as hackers develop new threats. Overall, both fundamental and practical challenges in WLAN technologies require continued innovation and solutions.

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    The document discusses the issues and challenges facing wireless local area networks (WLANs). It describes how WLANs can be classified as ad hoc networks which do not require administration, or infrastructure networks which use access points. Key challenges include enhancing data rates, minimizing device size and cost, enabling low power networking, and ensuring user security. Improving compression algorithms, error control methods, and power-efficient network protocols could help enhance data rates to support multimedia applications. Low power spread spectrum techniques like FHSS also aim to address challenges of battery life and device portability. Security remains an ongoing concern as hackers develop new threats. Overall, both fundamental and practical challenges in WLAN technologies require continued innovation and solutions.

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    Wireless LAN: Issues and Challenges

    R. Chandramouli and K.P. Subbalakshmi

    Wireless local area networks (LANs) are LANs and wireless LANs with
    playing a major role in the information infrastructure. In ad hoc networks,
    technology revolution. They are finding several wireless nodes join together to
    their way into a wide variety of markets establish a peer-to-peer communication
    including financial sectors, corporations, as shown in Figure 1. They typically
    health care, and education. For example, require no administration. Networked
    wireless devices are used in New York nodes share their resources without a
    Stock Exchange for trade reporting. central server. In wireless LANs with
    Employees in a company can initiate a infrastructure, there is a high-speed
    wireless video conference wired or wireless backbone. Wireless
    instantaneously without having to go nodes access the wired backbone
    through the tedious procedure of through access points (see Figure 2).
    connecting the communicating devices These access points allow the wireless
    using wires. Indeed, according to a nodes to share the available network
    research study by Frost and Sullivan, the resources efficiently.
    wireless LAN market is set to reach
    $697.7 million in 2003.

    One of the factors that could have had an


    adverse impact on the market for
    wireless devices, is the interoperability
    issue between products developed by
    different vendors. However, the IEEE
    has developed the 802.11 standard,
    compliance with which should alleviate
    this issue. Other factors that will impact
    the long-term success of wireless LANs
    largely depends on improving the
    technology, reducing installation costs, Figure 1: Ad hoc wireless LAN.
    and predicting the market and customer
    needs. While initial costs to install a
    wireless LAN infrastructure may be Critical Challenges.
    greater than its wired counter-part, in the
    long-term, benefits due to the wireless Since wireless devices need to be small
    network can be significantly higher and wireless networks are bandwidth
    when the users are constantly mobile. limited, some of the key challenges in
    wireless networks are:
    Wireless LAN Classifications.
    • data rate enhancements
    • minimizing size and cost
    Wireless LANs can be broadly classified
    into two categories: ad hoc wireless • low power networking
    • user security network errors and interference and this
    necessitates the use of algorithms to
    Enhancing Data Rate. protect sensitive data from being
    corrupted. Efficient error control
    Improving the current data rates to algorithms with low overhead must be
    support future high speed applications is explored. Another way to enhance the
    essential, especially, if multimedia data rates would be to employ intelligent
    service are to be provided. Data rate is a data transfer protocols that adapt to the
    function of various factors such as the time-varying network and traffic
    characteristics.

    Low Power Design.

    The size and battery power limitation of


    wireless mobile devices place a limit on
    the range and throughput that can be
    supported by a wireless LAN.
    Bottlenecks in the wired portion of a
    LAN also affect the throughput.

    The complexity and hence the power


    consumption of wireless devices vary
    Figure 2: Wireless LAN with significantly depending on the kind of
    infrastructure. spread spectrum technology being used
    to implement the wireless LAN.
    Normally, direct sequence spread
    spectrum (DSSS) based implementations
    data compression algorithm, interference require large and power-hungry
    mitigation through error-resilient coding, hardware compared to frequency
    power control, and the data transfer hopped spread spectrum (FHSS). They
    protocol. Therefore, it is imperative that tend to consume about two to three times
    manufacturers implement a well thought the power of an equivalent FHSS
    out design that considers these factors in system. But, the complex circuitry
    order to achieve higher data rates. provides better error recovery capability
    to DSSS systems compared to FHSS.
    Data compression plays a major role FHSS is generally less tolerant to
    when multimedia applications such as multipath and other interference. In fact,
    video conferencing is to be supported by there is a constant debate going on both
    a wireless network. Currently, in academia and the wireless industry
    compression standards such as MPEG-4 regarding the pros and cons of DSSS
    produce compression ratios of the order versus FHSS. It is the right time for
    of 75 to 100. The challenge now is to researchers and developers to approach
    improve these data compression these issues in wireless LAN
    algorithms to produce high quality audio technologies together and from a global
    and video even at these compression perspective. This may also enable
    rates. Unfortunately, highly compressed different vendors to develop wireless
    multimedia data is more sensitive to
    LAN technologies that can co-exist and
    operate together. K.P. Subbalakshmi is an Assistant
    Professor in the Department of Electrical
    Security Issues. and Computer Engineering, Stevens
    Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
    Security is a big concern in wireless 07030.
    networking, especially in m-commerce Email: ksubbala@stevens-tech.edu
    and e-commerce applications. Mobility Web: www.ece.stevens-tech.edu/~suba
    of users increases the security concerns
    in a wireless network. Current wireless
    networks employ authentication and
    data encryption techniques on the air
    interface to provide security to its users.
    The IEEE 801.11 standard describes
    wired equivalent privacy (WEP) that
    defines a method to authenticate users
    and encrypt data between the PC card
    and the wireless LAN access point. In
    large enterprises, an IP network level
    security solution could ensure that the
    corporate network and proprietary data
    are safe. Virtual private network (VPN)
    is an option to make access to fixed
    access networks reliable. Since hackers
    are getting smarter, it is imperative that
    wireless security features must be
    updated constantly.

    In conclusion, wireless LAN


    technologies still have a long way to go.
    Both fundamental and practical
    problems still persist in this area.
    Therefore, it may be crucial to develop
    innovative and commercially viable
    solutions to some of the key issues and
    challenges discussed in this article to
    ensure the success of emerging wireless
    applications.

    R. Chandramouli is an Assistant
    Professor in the Department of Electrical
    and Computer Engineering, Stevens
    Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
    07030.
    Email: rchandr1@stevens-tech.edu
    Web: www.ece.stevens-tech.edu/~mouli

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