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Wireless Networking Vocab

Subject : it-skills
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1. An ______ ______ issues and receives wireless signals with equal strength and clarity in all directions. This type of antenna is used when many different receivers must be able to pick up the signal - or when the receiver's location is highly mobile.






2. Because of reflection - diffraction - and scattering - wireless signals follow a number of different paths to their destination.






3. In ________ wireless - the receiver can be located anywhere within the transmitter's range. This allows the receiver to roam from one place to another while continuing to pick up its signal.






4. An exchange in which a wireless station requests the exclusive right to communicate with an access point and the access point confirms that it has granted that request.






5. The process a wireless station undergoes to find an access point.






6. The geographical area in which signals issued from an antenna or wireless system can be consistently and accurately received.






7. A. CSMA/CA






8. A small (usually home) network composed of personal communications devices.






9. The relative strength over a three dimensional area of all the electromagnetic energy an antenna sends or receives.






10. A type of wireless LAN in which stations communicate directly with each other (rather than using an access point)






11. In IEEE terminology - the identifier for a BSS (basic service set)






12. An access point that provides routing functions and is used as a gateway.






13. The equipment on a satellite that receives an uplinked signal from Earth - amplifies the signal - modifies its frequency - then retransmits it (in a downlink) to an antenna on Earth.






14. A method used by wireless stations to detect the presence of an access point. In _____ _____ - the station issues a probe to each channel in its frequency range and waits for the access point to respond.






15. This is the diffusion - or the reflection in multiple different directions - of a signal. This occurs when a wireless signal encounters an object that has small dimensions compared to the signal's wavelength.






16. In ________________ - a signal jumps between several different frequencies within a band in a synchronization pattern known only to the channel's receiver and transmitter.






17. A connection from an orbiting satellite to an Earth -based receiver.






18. In the context of wireless networking - a frame issued by an access point to alert other nodes of its existence.






19. In the context of 802.11n wireless technology - the combination of two 20-MHz frequency band to create one 40-MHz frequency band that can carry more than twice the amount of data that a single 20-MHz band could. It's recommended for use only in the 5






20. Regulated radio frequency band - 1/3rd range of 802.11b or g - Usually found in corporate environments.






21. A group of access points and associated stations (or basic service sets) connected to the same LAN.






22. A command-line utility for viewing and setting wireless interface parameters on Linux and UNIX workstations.






23. On your Linux workstation - you open a terminal window and type at the command prompt iwconfig eth0 key 5c00951b22. What have you done?






24. A type of satellite that orbits the Earth with an altitude between 100 and 900 miles - closer to the Earth's poles than the orbits of either GEO or MEO satellites. LEO satellites cover a smaller geographical range than GEO satellites and require less






25. A unique character string used to identify an access point on an 802.11 network.






26. This type of propagation uses the least amount of energy and results in the reception of the clearest possible signal.






27. Networks that transmit signals through the atmosphere via radio frequency (RF) waves.






28. An end node on a network; used most often in the context of wireless networks.






29. A continuum of the electromagnetic waves used for data and voice communication. The _______ _______ (as defined by the FCC - which controls its use) spans frequencies between 9KHz and 300 GHz. each type of wireless service can be associated with one






30. In _____ - a transmitter concentrates the signal energy at a single frequency or in a very small range of frequencies.






31. A type of satellite Internet access service in which a subscriber sends and receives data to and from the Internet over the satellite link. This is a symmetrical technology - in which both upstream and downstream throughputs are advertised to reach 4






32. If your wireless stations are configured to perform passive scanning - what do they need from an access point to initiate association?






33. A type of WLAN in which stations communicate with an access point and not directly with each other.






34. Another type of Spread-Spectrum signaling. In __________ - a signal's bits are distributed over an entire frequency band at once. Each bit is coded so that the receiver can reassemble the original signal upon receiving the bits.






35. In 802.11 wireless networking - a type of frame issued by a station during active scanning to find nearby access points.






36. The use of multiple frequencies to transmit a signal. (because the signal is spread out over the wireless spectrum)






37. ISM Range - Radio frequency band that may experience home appliance interference - Unregulated radio frequency band.






38. What frequency band is used by Bluetooth - 802.11b - and 802.11g?






39. A method of satellite Internet access in which a subscriber receives data via a satellite downlink transmission - but sends data to the satellite via an analog modem (dial-up) connections.






40. Which type of satellites is used to provide satellite Internet access?






41. In wireless networking - the process that describes a station moving between BSSs without losing connectivity.






42. The term used to describe the recently released standards for high thoughput - long-distance digital data exchange over wireless connections. WiMAX (IEEE 802.16) is one example of a wireless broadband technology.






43. A change in a wireless signal's strength as a result of some of the electromagnetic energy being scattered - reflected - or diffracted after being issued by the transmitter.






44. The signals made of electromagnetic energy that travel through the atmosphere.






45. A device used on wireless LANs that transmits and receives wireless signals to and from multiple nodes and retransmits them to the rest of the network segment. Access points can connect a group of nodes with a network or two networks with each other.






46. The locations of the transmitter and receiver do not move. The transmitting antenna focuses its energy directly toward the receiving antenna. This results in a point to point link. (Advantage: receiver's location is predictable - energy need not be w






47. Which techniques help to reduce overhead in 802.11n wireless transmission?






48. In the context of wireless networking - the communication that occurs between a station and an access point to enable the station to connect to the network via that access point.






49. The term used to refer to a satellite that maintains a constant distance from a point on the equator at every point in its orbit. Geosynchronous orbit satellites are the type used to provide satellite Internet access.






50. In the context of wireless networking - the process in which a station listens to several channels within a frequency range for a beacon issued by an access point.