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The combination of computing and mobile communication technologies makes mobility ubiquitous. Whenever and wherever, it is becoming possible for anyone to communicate with anyone else in whatever modes with the development of mobile computing technologies. Now the Short Message Service (SMS) has become popular, in which the Multimedia Message Service (MMS), Mobile Multimedia Mail Service (MMMS), Mobile Instant Message (MIM) and Location-based Service (LBS) have been greatly recommended as the value-added services by the mobile operation business. It can be predicted that the value-added service of wireless networks, such as future mobile offices, mobile banks, and mobile e-commerce, will be a new fashion and bring operation business more profits and a vaster development space.
With a series of specifications for the mobile e-commerce and mobile TV being published, the mobile e-commerce will be widely used within a few years and a new highlight of the enterprise information. In order to realize the personalized wireless service, the wireless market controlled by the mobile operation business will be split. The future structure of wireless networks will include the Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WMANs), and Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWANs). Especially, the IEEE 802.11 series standards specify the access technologies. In this chapter, the architecture and transmission technologies of WLAN are introduced firstly. Then, the IEEE 802.11 series standards are described, and applications and development trends of WLAN are discussed. The key issues of the WLAN security are analyzed and summarized next. Finally, to solve these problems, three kinds of architectures which we designed and implemented in the following chapters are given.
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Ma, J., Wang, C., Ma, Z. (2009). Introduction. In: Security Access in Wireless Local Area Networks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00941-9_1
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