Designing a Wireless Network

Designing a Wireless Network

Book Title:	Designing a Wireless Network
Author:	Jeffrey Wheat, Randy Hiser, Jackie Tucker, Alicia Neely, Andy McCullough
Publication:	Syngress Press? June 2001
ISBN:	1928994458

Book Review: Designing a Wireless Network

Designing a Wireless Network as the name suggests, is a complete guide about designing wireless network for communication purposes. It is a professionally written guide on completely setting up a wireless network from the design to actual setup. Besides the basic principles, the book covers up practical examples and situations for the optimum design of wireless networks. .

Covers basics and Practical situations

The books is meant to be a complete guide for designing, implementing and maintaining wireless networks and is very successful to be able to do exactly that. Moreover, the book is filled with theoretical portions such as physics behind wireless communication, Protocols such as TCP/IP and even fixed and wireless networks.

Many other advanced technologies such as Wireless PANs and LANs and optical wireless technology are clearly explained in the book, making it a good reference book. Several other practical situations are clearly explained by the means of fictional case studies and cover several domains such as home settings, colleges, hospitals and industrials organizations.

Thorough Explanation of Advance Topics

The book covers almost every advanced topic associated with wireless networks. Many advance topics such as 802.11 protocol, Multi-channel Multipoint Distribution Service (MMDS), Basic Service Set (BSS), Extended Service Set (ESS),Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS), Wireless Local Loop (WLL), Access Point (AP), the wireless medium and distribution system (DS) are well explained in the book making it an excellent guide to both beginners and intermediate skill level persons.

Easy Language and Good Quality Case Studies

The book is written for beginners and intermediate level users of wireless technology and is hence written in a clear and concise manner with through explanation of advanced concepts. The worth of the book increases with the addition of good case studies in a wide range of different domains. Overall, the book proves its worth for people interested in wireless technology by providing good references for all the basic and advanced concepts in the book.