This chapter reviews the principles of networking operations of wireless personal area networks (WPANs) and wireless local area networks (WLANs). Member devices of a WPAN or a WLAN communicate their ...
Book Abstract: Wireless Personal Area Networks provides an in-depth analysis of the recent IEEE 802.15.4 standard for low data rate wireless personal area networks (LR-WPANs), including suggestions to ...
Transmitting data wireless over a short distance. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct are examples of personal area networks (PANs). See Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct. In the mid-1990s, IBM's Almaden Research ...
Examples include networks employed by small businesses ... or even the world. A personal area network (PAN) is a network that is spread over a very small area. It often covers no more than ...