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Notes 3. What is Wi-Fi? Explain the concept of Wi-Fi with examples.
4. Discuss the features and limitations of Wi-Fi.
5. How Wi-Max technology provides transmission of wireless data? Enlighten.
6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of wireless technologies? Discuss.

7. Make distinction between Wi-Fi and Wi-Max.
8. Describe the various generations that are described in cellular systems.
9. Make distinction between Fixed Wi-MAX and Mobile WiMax.
10. Elucidate the concept of advanced mobile phone service.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. Wireless communication 2. Microwave transmission
3. communication satellite 4. Cellular systems
5. Communication
6. AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Service)
7. 1G 8. 2G

9. Wi-Fi 10. Wi-Fi hotspot
11. ad hoc
12. Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access

13. 72 Mega Bits 14. Mobile
15. fixed wireless

7.8 Further Readings

Books Bagad, V.S. (2009). Wireless Communication, Technical Publications.
Chandra, Praphul (2008). Wireless Networking, Newnes.
Papadimitriou, Georgios I. (2003). Wireless Networks, John Wiley & Sons.

Viswanath, Pramod. (2005) Fundamentals of Wireless Communication, Cambridge
University Press.

Online links http://wsl.stanford.edu/~andrea/Wireless/SampleChapters.pdf

http://modeling.asu.edu/modeling/DavidsMark_cellPhone-TPT10.pdf
http://www.plt.com.tw/apexch/images/7download/Wireless%
20Communication.pdf
http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~liu/289I/Material/book-goldsmith.pdf

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