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asymmetric packet reception (all send packets, for example). You may want to try lowering your
fragmentation threshold. This will cause packets to be broken into smaller fragments. These small
n be resent faster than a larger fragment. Fragmentation increases
overhead, so you'll want to keep this value as close to the maximum value as possible.
o Send) Threshold
acket to the receiving station, and waits for the receiving
acket before sending the actual packet data. This
nts. With many clients, and a high network load, there will
o setting this value too low
will limit performance.
, 802.11 includes management
and control frames that support data transfer. The beacon frame, which is a type of management
ss LAN, enabling stations to establish and maintain
con Interval represents the amount of time between
2 e
efined in IEEE 802.11 specification. A long preamble basically gives
ss the preamble. All 802.11 devices support a long preamble. The
2
It is the second generation of WPA. WPA2 is based on the final IEEE 802.11i amendment to the
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fragments, if corrupted, ca
26. RTS(Request T
The RTS threshold is the packet size at which packet transmission is governed by the RTS/CTS
transaction. The IEEE802.11-1997 standard allows for short packets to be transmitted without
RTS/CTS transactions. Each station can have a different RTS threshold. RTS/CTS is used when the
data packet size exceeds the defined RTS threshold. With the CSMA/CA transmission mechanism,
the transmitting station sends out an RTS p
station to send back a CTS (Clear to Send) p
setting is useful for networks with many clie
be many more collisions. By lowering the RTS threshold, there may be fewer collisions, and
performance should improve. Basically, with a faster RTS threshold, the system can recover from
problems faster. RTS packets consume valuable bandwidth, however, s
27. Beacon Interval
In addition to data frames that carry information from higher layers
frame, provides the "heartbeat" of a wirele
communications in an orderly fashion. Bea
beacon transmissions. Before a station enters power save mode, the station needs the beacon
interval to know when to wake up to receive the beacon (and learn whether there are buffered frames
at the access point).
8. Preamble Typ
There are two preamble types d
the decoder more time to proce
short preamble is designed to improve efficiency (for example, for VoIP systems). The difference
between the two is in the Synchronization field. The long preamble is 128 bits, and the short is 56
bits.
9. WPA2
802.11 standard.
0. Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)
The Temporal Key Integrity Protocol, pronounced tee-kip, is part of the IEEE 802.11i encryption
standard for wireless LANs. TKIP is the next generation of WEP, the Wired Equivalency Protocol,
which is used to secure 802.11 wireless LANs. TKIP provides per-packet key mixing, a message
integrity check and a re-keying mechanism, thus fixing the flaws of WEP.
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