802.11ac: A Survival Guide: Wi-Fi at Gigabit and BeyondThe next frontier for wireless LANs is 802.11ac, a standard that increases throughput beyond one gigabit per second. This concise guide provides in-depth information to help you plan for 802.11ac, with technical details on design, network operations, deployment, and monitoring. Author Matthew Gast—an industry expert who led the development of 802.11-2012 and security task groups at the Wi-Fi Alliance—explains how 802.11ac will not only increase the speed of your network, but its capacity as well. Whether you need to serve more clients with your current level of throughput, or serve your existing client load with higher throughput, 802.11ac is the solution. This book gets you started.
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2.4 GHz band 80 MHz channel A-MPDU access points aggregate frame airtime applications authentication beamforming bits Block ACK bytes capabilities capacity CCMP certification channel bandwidth channel measurement channel width client devices Compressed Beamforming constellation points control plane convolutional code coverage Data field data rates deployment described designed enables encoding encryption error-correcting codes Ethernet feedback matrix forward error correction Gbps gigabit guard interval header implement increase interoperability LDPC management plane maximum Mbps MU-MIMO multi-user MIMO multi-user transmission multicast multiple NDP Announcement frame network administrators null data packet number of spatial OFDM Optional payload performance phase shift physical layer PLCP protocol features receiver Segment SIFS Signal B field single single-stream single-user space-time streams speed standard STBC steering matrix subcarriers symbol throughput TKIP traffic transmit unlicensed spectrum VHT Signal wave Wi-Fi Alliance wider channels wireless LAN wireless network