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Chapter 5 - Glossary
Chapter 5
SSID (Service Set ID)
SSID is a group name shared by every member of a wireless network. Only
client PCs with the same SSID are allowed to establish a connection.
Station
Any device containing IEEE 802.11 wireless medium access conformity.
TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)
The standard transport level protocol that provides the full duplex, stream
service on which many application protocols depend. TCP allows a pro-
cess or one machine to send a stream of data to a process on another. Soft-
ware implementing TCP usually resides in the operating system and uses
the IP to transmit information across the network.