Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)I purchased this book as a software engineer hoping to get a better understand of IEEE 802.11 networks operate. That information is in the book, but it's not presented as clearly as it could be and it is practically buried by other topics. Some of those other topics, such as the author's proposal for "Future Mesh Technologies", seemed out of place in a book that otherwise describes standardized technologies. I remain in search of a better book on the subject.
It seems clear that the authors have significant knowledge in the field, and they often revert to jargon and acronyms that I found impenetrable. A reader with sufficient knowledge would probably find the book more approachable. However, it is particularly egregious that some abbreviations are used without initial definitions.
Whether intentional or not, there is significant redundancy between some of the chapters. In a book that is so dense written, I found myself skimming by the end to avoid slogging through these similar-seeming paragraphs. Chapters have been written by different subsets of the authors--there are in fact more authors than get credit on the cover--and it is possible, this redundancy represents a lack of coordination among them.
Finally, the book contains a couple of real gems, like the chapter introduction that explains the chapter will conclude with "a conclusion", and a definition of "cognitive" from Wikipedia, when any dictionary would have been a better source.
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