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WMM

Wireless Multimedia (WMM) is a

IEEE

technology standard designed to improve the quality of audio, video

and multimedia applications on a wireless network. Both access points and wireless clients (laptops,
consumer electronics products) can be WMM-enabled. WMM features are based on is a subset of the

WLAN

IEEE

802.11e

draft specification. Wireless products that are built to the standard and pass a set of

quality tests can carry the "Wi-Fi certified for WMM" label to ensure interoperability with other such
products. For more information, see the WMM page on the Wi-Fi Alliance Web site:

http://www.wi-fi.org/

OpenSection/wmm.asp

.

WPA

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a

Wi-Fi

Alliance version of the draft

IEEE

802.11i

standard. It provides

more sophisticated data encryption than

WEP

and also provides user authentication. WPA includes

TKIP

and

802.1x

mechanisms.

WPA2

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA2) is an enhanced security standard, described in

IEEE

802.11i

, that uses

Advanced Encryption Standard (

AES

) for data encryption.

The original

WPA

uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (

TKIP

) for data encryption. WPA2 is backwards-

compatible with products that support the original

WPA

.

WPA2, like the original

WPA

, supports an Enterprise and Personal version. The Enterprise version

requires use of IEEE

802.1x

security features and Extensible Authentication Protocol (

EAP

) authentication

with a

RADIUS

server.

The Personal version does not require IEEE

802.1x

or

EAP

. It uses a Pre-Shared Key (

PSK

) password to

generate the keys needed for authentication.

WRAP

Wireless Robust Authentication Protocol (WRAP) is an encryption method for

802.11i

that uses

AES

but

another encryption mode (

OCB

) for encryption and integrity.

X

XML

The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a specification developed by the

W3C

. XML is a simple, flexible

text format derived from Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), which is defined in

ISO

8879:1986

, designed especially for electronic publishing.

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