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Glossary of Terms

4th Generation (or Fourth Generation)

802.11 (or IEEE 802.11)

802.11n Draft 2

Air Firewall

Air Traffic Control

Airtime Fairness

Antenna Diversity

Block ACK

BSSID (Basic Service Set Identifier)

Channel Bonding

Channel Layering (or Channel Stacking)

Channel Reuse

Co-channel Interference

Connection Security

Controller

Denial of Service

Evil Twin

FIPS 140-2 Certified Encryption

Geofencing

Guard Interval

Handoff

Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)

Line of Defense

Microcell

MIMO (Multiple In, Multiple Out)

Modulation

Multipath

OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)

Overlay Network

Parking Lot Attack

Partitioning

Per-Station SSID

Per-User Firewall

Perimeter Security

Pooling

Protocol Overhead

RADIUS Authentication

RF Barrier

Roaming

Rogue Access Point

Rogue Detection and Prevention

Rogue Mitigation

Role-Based Access Control

Scanning

Single Channel

Spectral Efficiency

Sticky Client

Virtual Cell

Virtual Port

Virtualization

VoFI Security

VoWLAN (Voice over Wireless LAN) or VoFI (Voice over Wi-Fi)

War Driving

Wi-Fi

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