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WLAN Service sets and ESS

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Three WLAN Services.

There are three WLAN services that a Wi-Fi device can use. WLAN has a wireless

interface which has small portable devices such as PDAs. The WLAN provides communication

and high data speed in small areas such as homes and offices (Chan, 2004).

The three services include:

Ad- Hoc Networks.

It is usually put in a small room for a limited number of mobile users, it needs no support

from any wired backbone. This network mode makes all devices responsible for messages sent

and received from other devices without anything in between them. All devices under this

connection uses the same connection for participation (Chan, 2004).

Infrastructure Networks.

Users in this network mode can move in a building while they are connected to

computer resources. It is a composed of Basic Service Area which contains a number of wireless

stations. BSA size is dependent on transmitter power, receiver units and the environment BSA is

connected to the distribution site Access Points (Chan, 2004).

Wireless Clients Network.

This WLAN service is applicable to (computers, tablets and phones) on a common

client’s network. The client is known as station mode when the users access wireless hotspot or

the router in their offices or homes. Some routers act as the client and also as wireless card in a

computer as Access points (Anderson, 2012).

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Extended Service Set.

This is a set of BSSs connected with their associated LANs, each BSS has a single AP

together with STAs (wireless client devices) (Chan, 2004). An ESS consisting of a set of BSSs

must have a common service set called SSID which helps to boost the signal throughout the

wireless network.

The following steps are used in connection when a device changes host location:

 Before the connection is made, do verification of the prior network and internet access

for the wired hosts.

 Implement wireless with only a single access point and a single client without wireless

security.

 Ensure the DCHIP IP address has been received by the wireless, default router local

wired and then browse to the external internet.

 Do configuration of wireless security with WPA/WPA2, If the hardware equipment does

not support WPA/WPA2 then use WEP

Importance of wireless LAN controller.

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It lowers deployment cost due to the provision of all necessary services, makes

management easy and provides multiple layers of security since it is a centralized device network

which is the data center where Aps are connected (Anderson, 2012)

WLAN controller provides standards-based power over Ethernet (IEEE 802.3af), which

eliminates the need of drawing power to each access point therefore eliminating site surveys by

including RF planning software and does not require the access point to be directly to the WLAN

controller (Chan, 2004).

It easily detects the disruption between close Access Points and automatically re-connects

its strengths and channel settings. In this principle WLAN controller detects coverage gap due to

an Access Points going down. It therefore causes close Access Points to increase strength levels

(Links, 2014).

References

Anderson, J. A (2012). Three Technical Hurdles on the Road to a wireless office integration: IEE

International Conference on selected Topics in Wireless Communication., 38,390.

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Chan, K. (2004). Medium Access Control of Wireless LANs for mobile computing Network. U.

Pa. J. Comm. L., 20, 489.

Links, D. (2014). Universal Wireless: LANs Byte V.N0., 99,108.