The compatibility of integrating USB on top of 802.11.

Cheung Cheuk Lun.Thesis submitted in: July 2004.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Abstract --- p.1Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.3Chapter 1.1 --- Differentiation from existing products --- p.6Chapter 1.2 --- Problems --- p.6Chapter 1.3 --- Assumption --- p.9Chapter 2 --- Study of bulk transfer --- p.10Chapter 2.1 --- Simple wireless solution --- p.10Chapter 2.2 --- Problems of the simple wireless solution --- p.10Chapter 2.2.1 --- Low performance due to header overhead --- p.12Chapter 2.2.2 --- Low performance due to unnecessary packets --- p.12Chapter 2.2.3 --- Model derivation --- p.12Chapter 2.2.4 --- Performance study --- p.17Chapter 2.3 --- Packed wireless solution --- p.19Chapter 2.3.1 --- Example --- p.19Chapter 2.3.2 --- Solved problems --- p.21Chapter 2.3.3 --- Model derivation --- p.22Chapter 2.3.4 --- Performance study --- p.24Chapter 2.3.4 --- Performance study on the effect of the value of n --- p.25Chapter 2.4 --- Controllable packed wireless solution --- p.27Chapter 2.4.1 --- Problem --- p.27Chapter 2.4.2 --- Analysis --- p.27Chapter 2.4.3 --- Solution --- p.29Chapter 2.4.4 --- Model derivation --- p.33Chapter 2.4.5 --- Performance study --- p.35Chapter 2.4.6 --- Performance study on the effect of the sliding window size --- p.36Chapter 2.5 --- Summary of performance study --- p.41Chapter 2.5.1 --- Comparison of the throughput between four cases --- p.41Chapter 2.5.2 --- Study of how the throughput-varies with the processing time --- p.44Chapter 2.6 --- Simulation --- p.47Chapter 2.6.1 --- Measuring the packet loss rate and the throughput --- p.49Chapter 2.6.2 --- Studying the throughput against the distance --- p.50Chapter 2.6.3 --- Studying the throughput against the packet loss rate --- p.53Chapter 2.7 --- Conclusion --- p.54Chapter 3 --- Study of interrupt transfer --- p.55Chapter 3.1 --- Problem --- p.55Chapter 3.2 --- Solution --- p.56Chapter 3.2.1 --- Remote polling --- p.56Chapter 3.3 --- Feasibility of the solution --- p.58Chapter 3.4 --- The problem of Distributed Coordination Function collision --- p.60Chapter 3.5 --- Collision avoidance --- p.60Chapter 3.6 --- Model derivation --- p.61Chapter 3.6.1 --- Wired case --- p.61Chapter 3.6.2 --- Wireless solution (remote polling) --- p.62Chapter 3.7 --- Maximum allowed request generation frequency --- p.64Chapter 3.7.1 --- More than one interrupt transfer --- p.64Chapter 3.7.2 --- More than one bulk transfer --- p.64Chapter 3.7.3 --- Maximum allowed request generation frequency --- p.65Chapter 3.8 --- Conclusion --- p.65Chapter 4 --- System architecture issues --- p.66Chapter 4.1 --- USB network --- p.66Chapter 4.1.1 --- Problems --- p.66Chapter 4.1.2 --- Solution --- p.66Chapter 4.1.3 --- Conclusion --- p.69Chapter 4.2 --- Security --- p.70Chapter 4.2.1 --- Suggested solution --- p.70Chapter 4.2.2 --- Conclusion --- p.72Chapter 4.3 --- Cost --- p.72Chapter 4.4 --- Power supply --- p.73Chapter 5 --- Conclusion --- p.75Appendix --- p.77Chapter A. --- Wireless USB (WUSB) --- p.77Chapter B. --- Introduction of USB --- p.83Chapter C. --- Framing details of 802.11 --- p.99Chapter D. --- A case study of a USB device --- p.102Chapter E. --- Reference of notations used in figures --- p.106Chapter F. --- Values of all symbols --- p.107Reference i --- p.10