| dc.description.abstract | Wireless is becoming the most popular type of communication nowadays.
There are a variety of wireless devices in the market. The diversity of wireless devices leads to the incompatibility of wireless device drivers on different platforms. Fortunately, on open - source platform like Linux, this problem is solved and supported through open - source projects. In t his
thesis, we are going to explore such an open - source project : ath 5k driver for WLAN card using Atheros chipsets. The focus is three - fold. Firstly, operations of WLAN MAC layer (I E E E 8 0 2 . 1 1 ), both in the infra structure mode and the infrastructure - less (ad - hoc ) mode, are described and analyzed. Secondly, the source code of at h5 k device driver is analyzed and discussed o n different
characteristics. These ones include : i ) data structures to be used in the
at h5k, i i ) reception and transmission packet flows , i i i ) configuration flow.
Finally, realistic scenarios are presented to illustrate for the operations of
at h5k device driver, and to collect statistical wireless information. | en_US |
