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Wireless networking

Terms in relation to computer networks that use (usually) ratio communication to wirelessly connect to the internet.

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Wireless networking

Passkey

Network hardware; Wireless networking

The authentication key used to establish a link between devices. A passkey is similar to a password, but the passkey is only used once you enter the passkey once and won’t need to remember it.

Name discovery

Network hardware; Wireless networking

The mechanism that requests and receives a device name.

Pairing

Network hardware; Wireless networking

The process of creating a persistent link between two Bluetooth devices, which may involve the exchange of a passkey between two devices. This only occurs once; future connexions between the devices ...

Carrier frequency

Network hardware; Wireless networking

Carrier Frequency refers to the nominal frequency of a carrier wave, the frequency of the unmodulated electrical wave at the output of an amplitude modulated, the centre frequency of a frequency ...

Chase combining

Network hardware; Wireless networking

Chase Combining (CC), also known as Convolution Code, is one of the two fundamental forms of Hybrid ARQ (HARQ). The other one is an incremental redundancy (IR). In Chase combining, each ...

Customised application for mobile network enhanced logic (CAMEL)

Network hardware; Wireless networking

Customised Application for Mobile Network Enhanced Logic (CAMEL) refers to a set of 3rd Generation APIs based on ETSI recommendation TS 129 078 (V3. 3. 0). CAMEL finds widespread applicability in ...

Complementary cumulative distribution function (ccdf)

Network hardware; Wireless networking

Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function (CCDF) is a method used to characterise the peak power statistics of a digitally modulated signal. The CCDF curve can be used to determine design ...

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