AWU50G-US User’s Manual
(WT-mU-MTRa01/AWM503g-WT)
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Appendix A: Terminology
ad hoc network A
network composed solely of stations within mutual communication range
of each other via the wireless medium (WM).
access point (AP)
Any entity that has station functionality and provides access to the
distribution ser-vices, via the wireless medium (WM) for associated stations.
Station (STA)
Any device that contains an IEEE 802.11 conformant medium access control
(MAC) and physical layer (PHY) interface to the wireless medium (WM).
RTS (Request To Send)
The frame type used to deign the RTS-CTS clearing exchange.
RTS frames are used when the frame that will be transmitted is larger than the RTS
threshold.
CTS (Clear To Send)
The frame type used to acknowledge receipt of a Request to Send
and the second component used in the RTS-CTS clearing exchange used to prevent
interference from hidden nodes.
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
The optional cryptographic confidentiality algorithm
specified by IEEE 802.11 used to provide data confidentiality that is subjectively equivalent
to the confidentiality of a wired local area network (LAN) medium that does not employ
cryptographic techniques to enhance privacy.
authentication
The service used to establish the identity of one station as a member of the
set of stations authorized to associate with another station.
WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access)
A specification of standards-based, interoperable security
enhancements that strongly increase the level of data protection and access control for
existing and future wireless LAN systems.
