mobile signal
Photos: How Dubai's driverless trains get their wi-fi
Photo The company also installed this GPS/Ethernet switch (pictured above) on each train, which can convert the system's GPS signal to IP data for connection to on-board applications such as passenger information systems. [17 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News With Nokia now using two separate smartphone OSes, questions have been asked over whether the advent of Maemo could signal a lessening of Nokia's support for Symbian. New entrants to the market including Google's Android... [02 Nov 2009]
The Manycore Shift: Microsoft Parallel Computing Initiative Ushers Computing Into the Next Era
White Paper The recent advances in microelectronic technology and the advent of multi-core and manycore processors are a signal that another large industry change is on the horizon. When major qualitative shifts such as the... [02 Oct 2009]
Deployment Considerations for Mobile WiMAX
White Paper Along with traditional factors such as link budgets and Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), deployment considerations for Mobile WiMAX systems should include the cost-saving opportunities offered by the 802.16e... [30 Aug 2009]
Apple finally reveals why some iPhone apps get a 'yes' at the App Store
News This included SlingPlayer Mobile, which was rejected by Apple and only allowed to use the iPhone's wi-fi and not its 3G cellular signal. Apple says in the letter that the Sling app, which allows video... [24 Aug 2009]
Microsoft 'White-Fi' to solve interference worries in white space
News Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel are each selling Mi-Fi routers, which allow its wireless broadband subscribers to attach a device to convert the cellular broadband signal into a Wi-Fi signal that can... [20 Aug 2009]
Working Together - Customer Relationship Management and Wireless Networks
White Paper Wireless access can be sporadic when mobile workers move into areas with low signal -strength - and unpredictable connection interruptions can be devastating to CRM applications. If the connection... [04 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Open info for all?
Comment Obviously, measuring the signal strength on a mobile phone close to a tower is one way but it is time consuming and often very inconvenient. I approached the mobile companies but they... [20 Jul 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: We have plenty of radio spectrum
Comment It's not surprising that the signal space below 2GHz is very much coveted by mobile phone operators, broadcasters, public mobile radio users and the military. So in this total... [09 Jun 2009]
Mobile Broadband: The Shift From Detachable to Embedded Solutions
White Paper Such progression usually follows the maturity of the technology and constitutes a signal that the social adoption of computing devices with such connectivity has reached critical levels to justify embedded solutions. [29 May 2009]
Newspapers failing web 2.0 challenge
Comment Some will argue this is due, in part, to the ad agencies who are comfortable with old metrics, but it's also the responsibility of the publishers to signal the change. When a confused whale swam up the Thames in London,... [12 May 2009]
Mobile WiMAX - Deployment Scenarios Performance Analysis
White Paper Evaluated performance of mobile WiMAX system such as signal-to-interference + noise ratio distributions, spectral efficiency and system outage in various scenarios of multi-cellular deployment will be... [23 Apr 2009]
Rogue-Base Station Detection in WiMax/802.16 Wireless Access Networks
White Paper This approach is based on the observation that inconsistencies in the signal strength reports received by the Mobile Stations (MSs) can be seen if a rogue BS is present in a network. Novel algorithms for... [22 Apr 2009]
Adaptive Antenna Array for IEEE802.16e Base Station in the Presence of Multipath and Interference and Considering Mutual Coupling Effects
White Paper Complex excitation coefficients of the array elements are controlled adaptively to track the mobile user signal considering channel and interference variations. In this paper, an adaptive antenna array... [22 Apr 2009]
Mobile WiMAX System Performance - Simulated Versus Experimental Results
White Paper Simulated Packet Error Rate (PER) versus Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) graphs are generated on a per link-speed basis using a fully compliant 512 carrier mobile WiMAX simulator. This paper addresses the... [22 Apr 2009]