COMPUTER NETWORKING USING WIRLESS NETWORK

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Wireless network is a network through which data signals flow through the air. It's useful for people to communicate and access applications and information without wires (Rappaport, 2002). It allows people to interact with e-mail or browse the Internet from a location that they prefer. Wireless networks are not bound to a channel to follow like wired networks. Wireless networking is less expensive and much easier to install than more traditional wired networking. Wireless networking is used at the airport, or in hotel lobbies, and a small office or home network etc. The transmitted distance can be anywhere between a few meters as a television's remote control and thousands of kilometers as radio communication.

Wireless network uses the antennas for sending and receiving the electromagnetic waves without using any physical conductors. Radio frequencies (RF) are generated by antennas that propagate the waves into the air (Rhoton, 2001). A detailed overview of wireless network will be highlighted in this study.

1.3   OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The following are the objectives of this study:

1.  To provide an overview on wireless network

2.  To examine the different types of wireless network

3.  To determine the structure and components of a wireless network

4.  To analyze the advantages of wireless network

1.4   RESEARCH QUESTIONS

1.  What is a wireless network?

2.  What are the different types of wireless network?

3.  What are the structure and components of a wireless network?

4.  What are the advantages of wireless network?

1.6   SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study on the computer networking using wireless network has the following significance:

1.  It will educate the general public on the details about computer networking with more emphasis on wireless network. It will also familiarize students and the general public about the structure and components of wireless network and most importantly the various types of wireless networks that exists.

2.  This research will be a contribution to the body of literature in the area of the relationship between performance assessment and investment decision, thereby constituting the empirical literature for future research in the subject area.

1.7   SCOPE OF THE STUDY

This study on computer networking using wireless network will provide an overview of computer networking with more emphasis on wireless networks. It will also cover all the types of wireless network that exists, structure and components of the wireless network.

1.8   DEFINITION OF TERMS

Computer: an electronic device which is capable of receiving information (data) in a particular form and of performing a sequence of operations in accordance with a predetermined but variable set of procedural instructions (program) to produce a result in the form of information or signals.

Networking: connection of computers together in order to make them share information

Internet: a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols

Communication: the imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium.

Wireless network: wireless is the term used to describe any computer network where there is no physical wired connection between sender and receiver, but rather the network is connected by radio waves and/or microwaves to maintain communications.

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