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IEEE Orange County Computer Society Joint Meeting with IEEE OC ComSig Chapter Wireless LAN Instrumentation, Scientific, Medical Band. Dwight Borses MTS, Field Applications Engineering National Semiconductor, Irvine,CA Feb 25, 2002.
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IEEE Orange County Computer SocietyJoint Meeting withIEEE OC ComSig ChapterWireless LANInstrumentation, Scientific, Medical Band Dwight Borses MTS, Field Applications Engineering National Semiconductor, Irvine,CA Feb 25, 2002
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Points to Ponder • Standards - so many to choose from • Cellular/PCS - both a competitor and a complement to WLAN • DECT – up-banded applications for proprietary applications • UWB – yet another contender • FSO – Light based wireless
Data Migration Path to 3G WWAN 3G Fixed access at 2Mbps 2 M 384 K 144 K 64 K 14.4 K 9.6 K 3G Phase II IS-2000 Rel A (3XRTT) Packet Data / Voice / Video 3G Phase I IS-2000 Rel 0 (1XRTT) Packet Data Subscriber Data Rate 2.5G IS-95B Packet Data 2G IS-95-A Circuit Switched + QNC 1G Analogue Cellular 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
ISM Band Inhabitants (Besides 802.11)Frequency & Modulation Spec’s
802.11 StandardsOverview IEEE 802.11 802.11a 802.11b 802.11d 802.11e 802.11f 802.11g 802.11h 802.11i
802.11 Standards • Original 802.11, circa 1999 • FHSS, DSSS, IR • 1 & 2 Mbps • Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) • SNMP v2 for remote management • 802.11b (shortly after 802.11) • DSSS • 1, 2, 5.5 & 11 Mbps, Complementary Code Keying (CCK)
802.11 Standards • 802.11a (Approved same time as .11b) • 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54 Mbps • Only 6, 12, 24 Mbps support is mandatory • 5 GHz UNII band (not universally free)
802.11 Standards • 802.11c (completed, subsumed into d) • Bridge operation • 802.11d (ongoing) • Specs for other regulatory domains • 802.11e (ongoing) • QoS (Security moved to 802.11i (May 2001)) • 802.11f (ongoing) • Inter Access Point interoperability
802.11 Standards • 802.11g (ongoing) • High-speed extension to 802.11b, > 20Mbps • Just approved! • 802.11h (ongoing) • improvement to 802.11a, w.r.t. power and spectrum management • 802.11i (ongoing) • Security enhancements
Very High Speed60 GHz Range LAN 300GHz • 156MbpsMMAC(Japan) • 156MbpsMEDIAN (German) EHF(milli-wave) Frequency 19GHz range LAN10Mbps (ARIB) 30GHz High Speed5GHz Range LAN SHF(micro-wave) (1)IEEE 802.11a 6/12/24Mbps (2)HIPERLAN (ETSI BRAN)Type ½: 23.5/25Mbps (3)WATM (ATM Forum) 25Mbps Middle Speed 2.4GHz Range LAN 3GHz IEEE802.111Mbps/2Mbps UHF 1GHz UHF 300MHz IEEE802.11b5.5Mbps/11Mbps VHF Bandwidth 4Mbps/16MbpsToken RingIEEE 802.5 10MbpsEthernetIEEE 802.3 25/52/100MbpsATM-LAN(ATM Forum) 100MbpsFast EthernetIEEE 802.3u 156/622 MbpsATM-LAN(ATM Forum) 1000MbpsGigabit EthernetIEEE 802.3z, 802.3ab Wired LAN Full Range of Wireless LANs
AU 1 Freq. f7 AU 2 f6 f5 AU 3 f4 f3 AU 4 f2 f1 t1 t2 t3 t4 t6 Time t5 Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) • Transmitted signal is “spread” over a wide range of frequencies (ISM 2.4-2.4835 GHz) • Transmission hops 8 to 30 times per second
Complementary Code Keying This sequence 1 has 4 pairs of like elements with a separation of 1 and 3 pairs of unlike elements with a separation of 1
Complementary Code Keying This sequence has 4 pairs of unlike elements with separation of 1 and 3 pairs of like elements.
CSMA/CD Carrier Sense, Multiple Access/Collision Detection For wire communication No control BEFORE transmission Generates collisions Collision Detection How? CSMA/CD
CSMA/CA Carrier Sense, Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance For wireless communication Collision avoidance BEFORE transmission Pre-avoidance of collision Why avoidance on wireless? CSMA/CA
Difference on energy/power for transmit and receive At maximum, transmission power is a million times larger than receiving Very hard to detect because of this difference Energy often matter on wireless environment Portable devices/terminals with batteries Collision Detection On Wireless?
Decrease the possibility of contention/collision Backoff window Time to wait ot avoid collision Random backoff Use random length of time to wait Backoff
IFS – Inter Frame Spacing • Defined length of time for control • To assure the control of multiple access • DIFS – Distributed Inter Frame Spacing • PIFS – Point Inter Frame Spacing • SIFS – Short Inter Frame Spacing • DIFS (MAX) > PIFS > SIFS (MIN)
Backoff Time = Random() x aSlotTime Basic Access Method: CSMA/CA
RTS : Request To Sent. CTS : Clear To Sent Duration/ID fields that define the period of time that the medium is to be reserved to transmit the actual data frame and the returning ACK frame RTS/CTS
The NAV maintains a prediction of future traffic on the medium based on duration information that is announced in RTS/CTS frames prior to the actual exchange of data The duration information is also available in the MAC header of all frames sent during the CP other than PS-Poll Control frames Network Allocation VectorNAV
Impractical to stop RF signals from propagating beyond your premises “Parking lot” attack, war-driving Poorly configured networks can be woefully exposed Hackers can be highly stealthy, guerilla warfare style That’s the reason for WEP Basic Security Concerns
Wired Equivalent Privacy Shared 40/128 bit key Static, i.e. not designed to change often RC4 stream cipher Any AP/client can be configured to handle up to 4 keys Baseline Security Features