Wireless Acronym Decoder

802.11d: Standard completed in 2001. Radio emissions are subject to regulatory limits. 802.11 was written to

comply with the regulatory limits in the US., Canada, and Europe. New regulators may specify different constraints

for transmit power and allowed frequencies. Rather than revise the specification when new regulators issues rules,

802.11d allows an access point to “describe” allowed configurations to clients to make deployment easier.

DA Destination Address

dB Decibels

DBPSK Differential Binary Phase Shift Keying

DCF Distributed Coordination Function

DFS Dynamic Frequency Selection

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DIFS Distributed Inter-Frame Space

DPSK Differential Shift Keying

DQPSK Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying

DR Default Rate

DS Distribution System

DSPF Detailed Standard Parasitic Format

DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum

DTIM Delivery Traffic Indication Message