Handbook of Wireless Local Area Networks‎:‎ Applications‎,‎ Technology‎,‎ Security‎,‎ and Standards captures the current state of wireless LANs‎,‎ and serves as the single comprehensive reference on the subject‎.‎ Addressing challenges related to the further development of WLAN technology‎,‎ the Handbook covers the entire spectrum of topics from basic concepts to research grade material‎.‎ Consisting of 25 articles contributed by expert authors from around the world‎,‎ the Handbook begins with a detailed introduction that provides an overview of LAN technologies‎,‎ performance‎,‎ security‎,‎ and security protocols‎.‎ It then delves further into WLAN technology‎,‎ covering space‎-time processing‎,‎ WLAN and cellular convergence‎,‎ and a peer‎-to‎-peer approach to roaming‎,‎ along with other topics‎.‎ The Handbook continues by exploring WLAN applications‎,‎ followed by an extensive discussion of security that includes the steps that can be taken to minimize WLAN security risks‎.‎ This text concludes with an analysis of standards‎,‎ describing 3G UMTS ‎- IEEE 802‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎