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WLAN Security - Why Your Firewall, VPN, and IEEE 802.11i Aren't Enough to Protect Your Network

whitepaper Wireless Local Area Networks based on the IEEE 802.11 standard (also called 'Wi-Fi', and referred to as 'WLAN' in this paper) have proliferated in enterprises, homes, and public places. Embedding of wireless technology into laptops, Personal...

Tags: firewalls

[11 Apr 2008]

University of Birmingham Case Study: Bluetooth Device Discovery

whitepaper Bluetooth is a short-range low-power open standard for implementing wireless personal area networks. Scanning devices, i.e.those which wish to be discovered, listen on the same 32 frequencies, but hopping at a much slower speed to ensure eventual...

Tags: bluetooth, sender, frequencies, inquiry

[10 Apr 2008]

Guide to Wireless Personal Area Networks

whitepaper A Wireless Personal Area Network is a short-range, wireless network designed to link personal devices together without cables. While similar to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), WPANs are intended for mobility and simple point-to-point...

Tags: wireless lan, point, cables, wpan

[11 Feb 2008]

Nortel Optical Photonic Solutions: The Adaptive, All-Optical Intelligent Network

whitepaper In addition, with the availability of increased computing power, personal video recorders, home theater and entertainment systems, and home area networks, the demand for higher bandwidths keeps accelerating.

Tags: optical networking

[08 Jan 2008]

Fault-Tolerant Switched Local Area Networks

whitepaper The paper examines networks of switches (e.g.based on Myrinet technology) and focuses on degree two compute nodes (two network adaptor cards per node). The primary goal is to create networks that are as resistant as possible to partitioning.

Tags: local area networks (lan)

[08 Jan 2008]

Bluetooth PAN and External IP Networks

whitepaper This paper discusses how ad-hoc Personal Area Network (PAN) based on Bluetooth technology may connect to external networks. The paper assumes that the Bluetooth network (piconet) is formed by the automatic SAPIFO procedure, that one or more piconet...

Tags: tcp - ip

[26 Dec 2007]

IT security breach pitfalls named

News Gleichauf added peer-to-peer networks are also being used to find corporate data and companies must "build for the fact that our networks are all open networks". Speaking at the Gartner IT Security Summit 2007, Joanna Rutkowska, CEO and founder of...

Tags: cybercrime, malware, security

[18 Sep 2007]

Energy-Efficient Bounded-Diameter Tree Scatternets for Bluetooth Networks

whitepaper Bluetooth is a promising wireless technology that enables devices to form short-range multihop wireless ad-hoc networks, or personal area networks. However, Bluetooth scatternet formation is one of the challenges that must be resolved since the...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, tree, binary, formation

[31 Aug 2007]

Wireless Mesh Networks: A Survey

whitepaper WMNs are anticipated to resolve the limitations and to significantly improve the performance of ad hoc networks, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs), and Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WMANs).

Tags: local area networks (lan), routers, clients, mesh

[31 Aug 2007]

Wireless Mesh Networks: A Survey

whitepaper WMNs are anticipated to resolve the limitations and to significantly improve the performance of ad hoc networks, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs), and Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WMANs).

Tags: clients, routers, mesh, wmns

[30 Aug 2007]

DAS, NAS or SAN: Choosing the Right Storage Technology for Your Organization

whitepaper There are a variety of options available, the most prevalent being Direct-Attached Storage (DAS), Network-Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Networks (SAN). Choosing the right storage solution can be as personal and individual a decision as...

Tags: removable storage, attached, direct attached storage, legislation

[23 Aug 2007]

Who pays your broadband bill?

Comment At one time computers and networks were found only in certain workplaces, were often selected and managed by specialists - the high priests of IT - and were certainly far in advance of anything even geeky hobbyists would have experienced at home.

Tags: security policy, mobile phones, laptops, broadband

[21 Aug 2007]

Energy-Efficient Bounded-Diameter Tree Scatternets for Bluetooth Networks

whitepaper Bluetooth is a promising wireless technology that enables devices to form short-range multihop wireless ad-hoc networks, or personal area networks. However, Bluetooth scatternet formation is one of the challenges that must be resolved since the...

Tags: tree, binary, formation, trees

[10 Aug 2007]

An Indoors Wireless Positioning System Based on Wireless Local Area Network Infrastructure

whitepaper With the increasing use of mobile computing devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDA), and an expansion of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), there is growing interest in an indoor Wireless Positioning Systems (WPS) based on WLAN...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, wlan, personal digital assistants, wps

[08 Aug 2007]

Measuring Effective Capacity of IEEE 802.15.4 Beaconless Mode

whitepaper IEEE 802.15.4 is an emerging wireless standard addressing the needs of Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks with a focus on enabling various pervasive and ubiquitous applications that require interactions with the surrounding environments.

Tags: wireless lan, capacity, environments, ieee

[01 Aug 2007]

The Trusted Computing Group Mobile Specification: Securing Mobile Devices on Converged Networks

whitepaper Mobile workers and consumers alike have increasingly numerous ways to access these networks - via data-enabled cell phones, smartphones, PDAs, Ultra-Mobile Personal Computers (UMPCs) and notebook computers.

Tags: cellular equipment, enabled, cell, computers

[01 Aug 2007]

Personal Area Networks

whitepaper A personal area network (PAN) could be thought of as the interconnection of devices within the range of an individual person and nowadays typically uses wireless technology (WPAN). Devices are normally within 1-10m range of each other although some...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, range, wpans, wpan

[19 Jul 2007]

Ultra-Wideband (UWB Technology): Enabling High-Speed Wireless Personal Area Networks

whitepaper Ultra-WideBand (UWB) technology offers a solution for the bandwidth, cost, power consumption, and physical size requirements of next-generation consumer electronic devices. UWB enables wireless connectivity with consistent high data rates across...

Tags: wireless lan, bandwidth, universal serial bus, leaders

[19 Jul 2007]

A Peer-to-Peer Framework for Mobile Collaboration

whitepaper The framework focuses on the support for same place-same-time collaboration on mobile phones utilising Personal Area Networks (PANs). The paper describes a framework used to develop mobile collaborative applications in Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME).

Tags: java, peer, collaborative, aspects

[05 Jul 2007]

Cheat Sheet: M2M

Cheat Sheet It's pretty much doing what it says on the tin - it's where two machines communicate with each other without human intervention, typically over wireless networks (although M2M can also make use of good old-fashioned wired communications too).

Tags: rfid, machine to machine, m2m

[09 May 2007]

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