The Importance Of Wireless Communication

Introduction Wireless is a growing technology that will continue to evolve. Standards aid in understanding how to best utilize wireless transmission. Businesses must understand the 802.11 standards when determine how to utilize wireless networks within their organization. 802.11 standards have continued to evolve to meet the needs of organizations and residential users alike. However, wireless designs must address several propagation issues unrelated to wired networks. Wireless propagation concerns and understand before implementing a wireless network in a home or business.
Important aspects of the 802.11 standards Wireless Local Area Network (LAN) technology today is 802.11. Working Group of the IEEE 802 Committee standardizes Wireless …show more content…
213). Attenuation effects wireless transmission just like wired transmission. Attenuation is a natural consequence of signal transmission over long distances (Siles, Riera, & Garcia-del-Pino, 2015). According to Panko & Panko (2015), "Inverse square law attenuation is due to the signal spreading out as a sphere and so becoming weaker at each point of the sphere"( p.217). This leads to the next issues with wireless transmission of dead zones. Dead zones are locations were a signal is unable to reach causing a loss of connectivity. A good example of a dead zone may be a corner office too far away from the wireless access point or inside of an elevator. However, the most severe propagation difficulty with WLAN frequencies is multipath inference (Panko & Panko, 2015). Interface can make or break the trust in a wireless network with end-users. Just the minor change in frequency can negatively impact the usability and strength of a wireless network. Multipath interface may cause the signal to range from strong to nonexistent with a few centimeters (Panko & Panko,