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Appendix 1: Acronyms and Terms
WLAN
Wireless Local Area Network
802.11
A family of specifications developed by the IEEE for WLAN
technology.
802.11a
An extension to 802.11 WLAN standards that provides up to 54
Mbps transmission in the 5 GHz UNI radio band.
802.11b
An extension to 802.11 WLAN standard that provides up to 11
Mbps transmission in the 2.4 GHz ISM radio band. 802.11b uses DSSS
modulation.
802.11g
An extension to 802.11 WLAN standard that provides up to 54
Mbps transmission in the 2.4 GHz ISM radio band. 802.11b uses OFDM
modulation and is backwards compatible with 802.11b.
802.11n
higher transmission rate, supports Multi-Input Multi-Output(MIMO
）
technology.
WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy. A security protocol for WLANs defined in
the IEEE 802.11 standard.
WPA
Wireless Protected Access
，
adopts rotating keys.
RSN
Robust Security Network
，
A substitute for WPA, and it adopts 802.1x
standard and advanced encryption
ICS
Microsoft Internet Connection Sharing enables multi-computer to share
access to Internet via one PC.
