Wireless and Mobile Networks

Elements of a wireless ntework

• wireless hosts
  
  laptop,smartphone
  run application
  may be staionary(non-mobile) or mobile(wireless does not always mean mobility)
• base station
  
  typically connexted to wired network
  relay-responsible for sending packets between wired host(s) in its “area”(e.g.,cell towers,80.11 access points)
• wireless link
  
  typically used to connect mobile(s) to base station
  also used as bcakbone link
  multiple access protocol coordinate link access
  various data rates,transmission distance
• infrastructure mode