11 STANDARDS WERE DEVELOPED FROM TECHNOLOGIES THAT PRECEDED THEM)

802.11 standards were developed from technologies that preceded them).The IEEE 802.11 standard provides for all the necessary definitions and constructs forwireless networks.The standard defines everything from the physical transmission specifica-tions to the authentication negotiation.Wireless traffic, like its wired counterpart, consists offrames transmitted from one station to another.The primary feature that sets wireless net-works apart from wired networks is that at least one end of the communication pair iseither a wireless client or a wireless AP.

IEEE 802.11b

The most common standard in use today for wireless networks, the 802.11b standard,defines DSSS networks that use the 2.4GHz ISM band and communicate at speeds of 1, 2,