Wireless network

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Wireless networks are telephone or computer networks that use radio as their carrier or physical layer.

• Wireless MAN - metropolitan area network
• Wireless LAN - local area network
• Wireless PAN - personal area network
• Cellular network - cellular phone network
• GSM - Global Standard for Mobile, a cellular standard common in most countries except South Korea and Japan
• CDMA2000 - a family of cellular standards using CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access)
• Mobitex - The first public access WWAN network in the USA and Canada, built by Ericsson, now used by PDAs such as the Palm VII and Research in Motion BlackBerry
• GPRS - General Packet Radio Service, upgraded packet-based service within the GSM framework, gives higher data rates and always-on service
• UMTS - Universal Mobile Telephone Service (3rd generation cell phone network), based on the W-CDMA radio access network
• AX.25 - amateur packet radio
• NMT - Nordic Mobile Telephony, analog system originally developed by PTTs in the Nordic countries
• AMPS - Advanced Mobile Phone System
• D-AMPS - Digital AMPS, also known as TDMA
• ZigBee - small-power wireless network protocol
• Bluetooth - industrial specification for wireless personal area networks (PANs)

Tutorials

• Wireless Networking Tutorials
• Online tutorials from IEEE Communications Society

Some research institutes

• University of California, Berkeley
• University of Pennsylvania
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Helsinki University of Technology
• Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Stanford University
• Malaysia University of Science and Technology
• UMIST

Some companies

• Handsets, network equipment
  • Nokia
  • Motorola
  • Ericsson (network equipment only)
  • Siemens AG
  • Sony Ericsson (handsets only)
  • EnOcean (Energy autarkic devices (transmitters, receivers and transceivers) that readily form mesh networks)

• Service provider
  • Boingo

Some communities

• NYCwireless
• RedLibre
• FreeNetworks
• Personal Telco
• Melbourne Wireless

Some ideas

• Warchalking
• Wireless mesh network

See also

• Wireless community network
• Wireless LAN
• Exposed terminal problem
• Wireless securitybs:Bežićno umrežavanje

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