Next Generation Wireless LANs: Throughput, Robustness, and Reliability in 802.11n

This exciting and comprehensive overview describes the underlying principles, implementation details, and key enhancing features of the new IEEE 802.11n standard, which has been created to significantly improve network throughput. A detailed discussion of important strength and reliability enhancing features is given in addition to a clear summary of any issues. Advanced topics are also covered. With numerous examples and simulation results included to highlight the benefits of the new features, this is an ideal reference for designers of Wireless Local Area Network (LAN) equipment, and network managers whose systems adopt the new standard. It is also a useful distillation of 802.11n technology for graduate students and researchers in the field of wireless communication.

Eldad Perahia is a member of the Wireless Standards and Technology group at Intel Corporation, Chair of the IEEE 802.11 Very High Throughput Study Group, and the IEEE 802.11 liaison to IEEE 802.19. Prior to joining Intel, Dr. Perahia was the 802.11n lead for Cisco Systems. He was awarded his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles and has fourteen patents in various areas of wireless communications.

Robert Stacey works in Intel Corporation's Wireless Standards and Technology group. He was a member of the 802.11 high throughput task group (TGn) and a key contributor to the various proposals culminating in the final joint proposal submission that became the basis for the 802.11n draft standard and has numerous patents filed in the field of wireless communications.