networking A term describing a computer
network where
there is no physical connection (either copper cable or
fibreoptics) between sender and receiver, but instead they are
connected by radio.
Applications for wireless networks include multi-party
the transmission of voice, video,
images, and data, each
traffic type with possibly differing
bandwidth and
quality-of-service requirements. The wireless network
components of a complete source-destination path requires
consideration of mobility,
hand-off, and varying
transmission and
bandwidth conditions. The wired/wireless
network combination provides a severe bandwidth mismatch, as
well as vastly different error conditions. The processing
capability of fixed vs. mobile terminals may be expected to
differ significantly. This then leads to such issues to be
domain, flow and error control over the complete end-to-end
path, dynamic bandwidth control to accommodate bandwidth
mismatch and/or varying processing capability.
(1995-02-27)