Finding refereed publications

Instead, it is greatly prefered to use indexing and citation website devoted explicitly to Computer Science research publications. An effective indexing and citation website will permit you to locate papers by title, author(s), or publication location, list the (past) citations made by any paper, list (future) papers that cite the paper you're locating, and list other papers also published by the authors.

Here are four very good websites to aid your searches:

• CiteSeer from Pennsylvania State University, and their newer (beta) CiteSeerX.
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineer's (IEEE's) IEEE Xplore.
• The Association of Computing Machinery's (ACM's) ACM's Digital Library.
• Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature, thought it does not focus exclusively on Computer Science literature.

Note that UWA has campus-wide licences to access IEEE Xplore and the ACM Digitial Library. You will be able to download and print full papers while in the CSSE building. From off-campus, you'll be able to locate publications, but not download them.

Resources:

Wireless Ethernet (IEEE 802.11), WiFi:

• A gentle introduction - Microsoft's How 802.11 Wireless Works.
• The June 2007 IEEE 802.11 formal specification -
  Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications (warning, 15MB, 1184 pages).
  Section 7, on MAC frame formats, is the most relevant to our discussions.
• Helpful tables and online calculators for fundamental wireless characteristics.