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RSS networksNetworks Telecom attacked over 'dolly bird' image
News Just days before this year's Networks Telecom trade show swings into gear, the event has been attacked by a former exhibitor for focusing more on marketing than technology. Clare Williamson, marketing communications... [24 Jun 1999]
Networks Telecom show launches despite big-name absentees
News This year's Networks Telecom show in Birmingham will not suffer from the loss of major vendors, despite the absence of big names like 3Com, Madge Networks and Microsoft, according to show organiser,... [29 Jun 1999]
Networks have become over-complicated finds Black Box Report
News Although the figure has dropped dramatically from 20 million man-hours in August 1997, the amount of time taken to get networks back up and running is increasing. He added: "The real worry is the length of time that... [01 Jul 1999]
VoIP in finance: Networks too "rickety"
News Financial services companies are eager to embrace emerging technologies such as IP telephony for the business benefits they offer but their networks are often not up to the task, according to a new report from... [28 Feb 2005]
Bandwidth Allocation for Service Level Agreement Aware Ethernet Passive Optical Networks
White Paper Passive Optical Networks (PON) are thought to be the next step in the development of access networks and providing broadband access in the "Last mile" area. Ethernet PONs (EPONs) are gaining the most... [09 Aug 2006]
Leveraging Mobility to Improve Quality of Service in Mobile Networks
White Paper Existing solutions for QoS-aware routing in mobile multi-hop networks attempt to discover a QoS satisfactory route for the user at the user's current location. This approach does not take advantage of the special... [31 Aug 2007]
Oftel gets heavy on mobile networks
News Oftel has called in the Competition Commission after expressing concerns that mobile phone companies are abusing their position of power in setting the prices for calls to their networks. The telecoms regulator believes... [07 Jan 2002]
Quality-Aware Routing Metrics for Time-Varying Wireless Mesh Networks
White Paper As a result, quality-aware routing metrics are desired for networks that are built solely from wireless radios. This paper considers the problem of selecting good paths in a wireless mesh network. It is well-known that... [31 Aug 2007]
Can spammers really exploit wireless networks?
News Security experts have been concerned for years that hackers could take advantage of insecure Wi-Fi networks to propagate their wares. The idea of war spamming being a real threat went down badly with some Wi-Fi pioneers,... [08 Sep 2004]
An Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Underwater Wireless Acoustic Networks
White Paper This protocol can be used for delay-tolerant applications such as underwater ecological sensor networks between energy-limited nodes. This paper proposes a distributed, scalable, energy-efficient MAC protocol that works... [31 Aug 2007]
Relative Accuracy Based Location Estimation in Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks
White Paper In sensor networks, the location of a sensor making an observation is a vital piece of information to allow accurate data analysis. GPS is an established technology to enable precise position information. [25 Aug 2007]
LANMAR: Landmark Routing for Large Scale Wireless Ad Hoc Networks With Group Mobility
White Paper This paper presents a novel routing protocol for wireless ad hoc networks - Landmark Ad Hoc Routing (LANMAR). LANMAR combines the features of Fisheye State Routing (FSR) and Landmark routing. The key novelty is the use... [31 Aug 2007]
A State-Free Data Delivery Protocol for Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper A novel, state-free, and competition-based data delivery protocol, called State-free Implicit Forwarding (SIF), is proposed for multihop wireless sensor networks. The SIF protocol assumes moderate node density and... [31 Aug 2007]
Robustness and Reliability for Virtual Topologies in Wireless Multihop Access Networks
White Paper Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANet) are a spontaneous collection of mobile terminals. This paper proposes to organize MANet and hybrid networks through a virtual topology. Moreover, this improved solution... [31 Aug 2007]
Performance Study of Organization and Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper Clustering is a proven method for enhancing the scalability of ad hoc mobile networks. It can also enhance the energy efficiency and a lifetime of large sensor networks typically deployed in sensitive... [31 Aug 2007]
