The Plane Truth
As I continue to study and learn about the nuances of WLANs, I’ve found that there are some conceptual frameworks that help in the organization of the unwieldy quantities of information. If you’re at all like me and have a lot of disparate pieces of information floating around in your head, organization is massively helpful. Understanding how a technology works is usually a minor undertaking as compared to understanding how a set of technologies work in cooperation. That is often my struggle, so I am hoping to share—at a high-level—about a framework (and terminology) that helps to organize some of the processes related to WLAN functionality. This organizational taxonomy breaks down the basic WLAN functions into three planes: management, control, and data. Each of these planes includes a set of functions.
Continue reading...