electronics
RSS electronics802.11n: The End of Ethernet?
White Paper The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11n standard represents the beginning of the end for wired Ethernet as the dominant Local Area Network (LAN) access technology in the enterprise. [12 Nov 2009]
Getting Up to Speed: RFID Powered by Impinj
White Paper Because of the advances in technology that moved electronics from bulky boxes to highly integrated circuitry, engineers can create tiny, inexpensive, and powerful communications chips that make the deployment of wireless... [12 Nov 2009]
Service Level Agreement Based Grid Scheduling
White Paper In order to co-ordinate multiple resource providers in grid environment to meet a common objective, support for negotiation is needed to establish a contract between the user and the resource providers that clearly states the QoS... [12 Nov 2009]
Medical-Grade, Mission-Critical Wireless Networks
White Paper Off late healthcare environment requires an enterprise mobility solution for both patients and staff. Separate isolated networks are suboptimal from cost, management, scalability, and reliability perspectives. [12 Nov 2009]
Future mobiles, Windows 7, iPhone apps and the latest gadgets
Photo The phones of the future were also on display last month at Ceatec IT and electronics trade show in Japan. October saw silicon.com cast its eye over the top iPhone apps for business. Shown above is the Skype app which... [12 Nov 2009]
An Enhanced Security Protocol for Fast Mobile IPv6
White Paper Off late, Kempf and Koodli have proposed a security protocol for Fast Mobile IPv6 (FMIPv6). Through the SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND) protocol, it achieves secure distribution of a handover key, and consequently becomes a security... [11 Nov 2009]
Photos: The happy robot sat-nav
Photo The project to develop Aida is a collaboration between the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, MIT's SENSEable City Lab and the Volkswagen Group of America's Electronics Research Lab. In the future drivers will... [11 Nov 2009]
How to pay for your Amazon purchases with a feisty mango
News The PayPhrase scheme is also being taken up by other retailers in the US, including electronics company Buy.com and fashion store DKNY. Amazon has launched a new payments system based around a user's memorable phrase. [30 Oct 2009]
Revealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News For the best earning affiliates, there's also the promise of prizes - cars and electronics - as well as bonuses for the most prolific scareware pushers. Scareware is bad for your PC and your pocket - but the fake... [19 Oct 2009]
Performance Evaluation of Single-Mode and Multimode Fiber in LAN Environment
White Paper Optical networks are high capacity networks that meet the rapidly growing demand for bandwidth in the terrestrial telecommunications industry. This paper studies and evaluates single-mode and multimode fiber transmission by varying the... [09 Oct 2009]
Mac users just can't kick the Windows habit
News Perhaps unsurprisingly given their higher spend on electronics, the statistics show Apple owners tend to be wealthier than the average consumer. While popular wisdom says 'once you go Mac, you don't go back', new... [06 Oct 2009]
Photos: The phones of the future on display
Photo The winner of the Fujitsu Mobile Phone Design Award 2009 was announced this week at the IT and electronics trade show Ceatec Japan, where finalist designs are on display. Here is the Tile, designed by Wataru Igarashi. [06 Oct 2009]
A Security Design of Data Exchange Platform
White Paper The paper introduces a data security assurance mechanism, which is already applied in a Security Data Exchange Platform (SDEP). Then, the paper describes the security design of SDEP in details. By using the security solution, information... [05 Oct 2009]
Dynamic Routing With Security Considerations
White Paper Security has become one of the major issues for data communication over wired and wireless networks. Different from the past work on the designs of cryptography algorithms and system infrastructures, the paper will propose a dynamic... [05 Oct 2009]
Empirical Study of Tolerating Denial-of-Service Attacks With the Fosel Architecture
White Paper Filtering techniques are one of the main approaches to protect applications from Denial of Service Attacks (DoS). However filtering techniques suffer from two main challenges: the accuracy detection of DoS traffic and processing time. [02 Oct 2009]
