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title: Wireless Networks
description: Wireless networks enable device communication without physical cables using radio waves. Learners will understand Wi-Fi standards, cellular network architectures, wireless security protocols, and how to design and optimize wireless coverage.
category: programming-tech
subcategory: computer-networks
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url: /subject/wireless-networks
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# Wireless Networks

Wireless networks enable device communication without physical cables using radio waves. Learners will understand Wi-Fi standards, cellular network architectures, wireless security protocols, and how to design and optimize wireless coverage.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 2 Courses • 1 Websites

## Websites

### 1. CWNP

Site of the Certified Wireless Network Professional program, the vendor-neutral Wi-Fi certification body. It publishes exam objectives, study guides and whitepapers, giving learners a structured route through 802.11 RF fundamentals, WLAN design, security and analysis.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.cwnp.com/

**Tags:** wi-fi, 802.11, wlan-design, wireless-certification, cwna

## Courses

### 1. Managing Cisco Devices

Cisco Networking Academy's networking course catalog, where free self-paced courses introduce network fundamentals, addressing, routing, switching, and device configuration on Cisco equipment. Entry point to Networking Basics and CCNA-track material with hands-on Packet Tracer simulations.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.netacad.com/courses/networking

**Tags:** cisco, network-configuration, ccna, troubleshooting

### 2. Introduction to EECS II: Digital Communication Systems (MIT 6.02)

**Author:** Hari Balakrishnan, George Verghese

Covers the bits, signals and packets layers of digital communication: error-correcting codes, modulation, frequency-domain analysis and network routing. Includes 24 lecture videos, lecture notes, the open textbook, and problem sets with solutions, building a working model of how the Internet moves data.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-02-introduction-to-eecs-ii-digital-communication-systems-fall-2012/

**Tags:** digital-communication, error-correcting-codes, modulation, packet-switching, signal-processing

## Books

### 1. 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide

**Author:** Matthew S. Gast

O'Reilly reference on the IEEE 802.11 standard: MAC framing, physical layers, WEP and WPA/802.11i security, roaming and network deployment. Readers learn how Wi-Fi works at the protocol level and how to plan and troubleshoot wireless LANs.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0596100523?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** 802.11, wi-fi, wireless-lan, network-protocols

### 2. Wireless Communications and Networks

**Author:** William Stallings

Textbook covering wireless transmission fundamentals, antennas and propagation, modulation, spread spectrum, cellular systems, satellite links and wireless LANs including IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth. Readers gain the communications theory needed to understand how modern wireless networks are engineered.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0131918354?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** wireless-communications, cellular-networks, modulation, 802.11, propagation

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