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wireless network communications channel.
4.9 What is WEP?
An optional IEEE 802.11 function offers frame
transmission privacy similar to a wired network. The
Wired Equivalent Privacy generates secret shared
encryption keys that both source and destination stations
can use to alert frame bits to avoid disclosure to
eavesdroppers.
WEP relies on a secret key that is shared between a
mobile station (e.g. a laptop with a wireless Ethernet card)
and an access point (i.e. a base station). The secret key is
used to encrypt packets before they are transmitted, and an
integrity check is used to ensure that packets are not
modified in transit.
4.10 What is Fragment Threshold?
The proposed protocol uses the frame fragmentation
mechanism defined in IEEE 802.11 to achieve parallel
transmissions. A large data frame is fragmented into
several fragments each of size equal to fragment threshold.
By tuning the fragment threshold value, we can get
