Perahia E., Stacey R. Next Generation Wireless LANs: Throughput, Robustness, and Reliability in 802.11n

New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2008, -416 p.If you’ve been searching for a way to get up to speed quickly on IEEE 802.11n without having to wade through the entire standard, then look no further. This comprehensive overviewdescribes the underlying principles, implementation details, and key enhancing features of 802.11n. For many of these features, the authors outline the motivation and history behind their adoption into the standard. A detailed discussion of the key throughput, robustness, and reliability enhancing features (such as MIMO, 40 MHz channels, and packet aggregation) is given, in addition to a clear summary of the issues surrounding legacy interoperability and coexistence. Advanced topics such as beamforming and fast link adaption are also covered. With numerous MAC and physical layer examples and simulation results included to highlight the benefits of the new features, this is an ideal reference for designers of WLAN 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 is a member of the Wireless Standards and Technology group at Intel Corporation. He was a member of the IEEE 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.