Computer Networking - Chapter 6: Wireless and Mobile Networks wireless (mobile) phone subscribers now exceeds wired phone subscribers; computer nets; two important (but different) challenges. | Chapter 6 Wireless and Mobile Networks A note on the use of these ppt slides: We’re making these slides freely available to all (faculty, students, readers). They’re in PowerPoint form so you can add, modify, and delete slides (including this one) and slide content to suit your needs. They obviously represent a lot of work on our part. In return for use, we only ask the following: If you use these slides (., in a class) in substantially unaltered form, that you mention their source (after all, we’d like people to use our book!) If you post any slides in substantially unaltered form on a www site, that you note that they are adapted from (or perhaps identical to) our slides, and note our copyright of this material. Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach 4th edition. Jim Kurose, Keith Ross Addison-Wesley, July 2007. Thanks and enjoy! JFK/KWR All material copyright 1996-2007 Kurose and . Ross, All Rights Reserved 6: Wireless and Mobile Networks 6-1 Chapter 6: Wireless and Mobile Networks Background: # wireless (mobile) phone subscribers now exceeds # wired phone subscribers! computer nets: laptops, palmtops, PDAs, Internet-enabled phone promise anytime untethered Internet access two important (but different) challenges wireless: communication over wireless link mobility: handling the mobile user who changes point of attachment to network 6: Wireless and Mobile Networks 6-2 Chapter 6 outline Introduction Wireless Wireless links, characteristics CDMA IEEE wireless LANs (“wi-fi”) Cellular Internet Access architecture standards (., GSM) Mobility Principles: addressing and routing to mobile users Mobile IP Handling mobility in cellular networks Mobility and higherlayer protocols Summary 6: Wireless and Mobile Networks 6-3 Elements of a wireless network network infrastructure wireless hosts laptop, PDA, IP phone run applications may be .
