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4.2 Glossary 
 
1.  What is the IEEE 802.11g standard? 
802.11g is the new IEEE standard for high-speed wireless LAN communications that 
provides for up to 54 Mbps data rate in the 2.4 GHz band. 802.11g is quickly becoming 
the next mainstream wireless LAN technology for the home, office and public networks.   
802.11g defines the use of the same OFDM modulation technique specified in IEEE 
802.11a for the 5 GHz frequency band and applies it in the same 2.4 GHz frequency 
band as IEEE 802.11b. The 802.11g standard requires backward compatibility with 
802.11b. 
 
The standard specifically calls for:   
A.  A new physical layer for the 802.11 Medium Access Control (MAC) in the 2.4 GHz 
frequency band, known as the extended rate PHY (ERP). The ERP adds OFDM as a 
mandatory new coding scheme for 6, 12 and 24 Mbps (mandatory speeds), and 18, 
36, 48 and 54 Mbps (optional speeds). The ERP includes the modulation schemes 
found in 802.11b including CCK for 11 and 5.5 Mbps and Barker code modulation for 
2 and 1 Mbps. 
B.  A protection mechanism called RTS/CTS that governs how 802.11g devices and 
802.11b devices interoperate. 
 
2.  What is the IEEE 802.11b standard? 
The IEEE 802.11b Wireless LAN standard subcommittee, which formulates the 
standard for the industry. The objective is to enable wireless LAN hardware from 
different manufactures to communicate. 
 
3.  What does IEEE 802.11 feature support? 
The product supports the following IEEE 802.11 functions: 
 
CSMA/CA plus Acknowledge Protocol 
 
Multi-Channel Roaming 
 
Automatic Rate Selection 
 
RTS/CTS Feature 
 
Fragmentation 
 
Power Management 
 
4. What 
is 
Ad-hoc? 
An Ad-hoc integrated wireless LAN is a group of computers, each has a Wireless LAN 
card, Connected as an independent wireless LAN. Ad hoc wireless LAN is applicable at 
a departmental scale for a branch or SOHO operation. 
5.  What is Infrastructure? 
An integrated wireless and wireless and wired LAN is called an Infrastructure 
configuration. Infrastructure is applicable to enterprise scale for wireless access to 
central database, or wireless application for mobile workers. 
 
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