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How to scan your network for free
News Are you absolutely sure you know all the protocols and ports that are open on your network? By periodically scanning your network, you'll be able to maintain a good view of what devices are connected to it and to determine whether those devices are...
[February 2, 2004, 11:00]
Design and Implementation of Turbo Decoders for Software Defined Radio
White Papers Software Defined Radio (SDR) is an emerging paradigm for wireless terminals, in which the physical layer of communication protocols is implemented in software rather than by ASICs. Many of the current and next generation wireless protocols include...
[November 10, 2006, 0:00]
Extending CANopen Applications With ETHERNET Powerlink
White Papers During the last 10 years, CANopen became one of the most popular higher layer protocols for CAN-based networks. Compared with other higher layer protocols, the essential benefits of CANopen are its simplicity and flexibility which enables its use...
[July 8, 2008, 1:01]
Why Strong Authentication? - The Security and Administrative Benefits of Using X.509 PKI Based Strong Authentication
White Papers Strong authentication based on X.509 PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) is available in a number of protocols and provides both security & administrative benefits and drawbacks. This paper looks at the security and administrative benefits (and draw...
[January 7, 2008, 0:01]
Mutual Authentication in RFID
White Papers In RFID protocols, tags identify and authenticate themselves to readers. At Asiacrypt 2007, Vaudenay studied security and privacy models for these protocols. The paper extends this model to protocols which offer reader authentication to tags.
[April 15, 2009, 1:22]
Location Independent Compact Routing for Wireless Networks
White Papers While reactive routing protocols such as AODV operate efficiently for small ad hoc wireless networks, their O(N) per-flow control overhead limits deployment on larger-scale networks. Deployment of compact routing protocols such as geographic...
[August 13, 2007, 15:14]
Using OLSR for Streaming Video in 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks to Save Bandwidth
White Papers Routing protocols such as OLSR that provide topology information with a minimum delay to the quick reconfiguration of path breaks are desired. Applications and protocols should be able to adapt to the dynamics of these networks.
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Survivable IP Network Design With OSPF Routing
White Papers Internet protocol (IP) traffic follows rules established by routing protocols. Shortest path-based protocols, such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), direct traffic based on arc weights assigned by the network operator.
[January 12, 2008, 0:01]
BBC launches open source network testing platform
News The Kamaelia project, released on Tuesday, is designed to simplify the creation and testing of new protocols for large-scale media delivery systems. Kamaelia is designed to allow easy large-scale testing of network protocols while they're being...
[December 22, 2004, 14:10]
Web services security spec ready for deployment
News A much anticipated Web services specification has been approved as an industry standard, paving the way for broader usage of Web services protocols in mainstream business applications. Web services protocols use XML to make it easier to share data...
[April 8, 2004, 10:05]
Web services to weave devices together
News Microsoft and Intel are backing a standardisation effort to connect all manner of devices, from computer peripherals to consumer electronics, using Web services protocols. The companies said WS-Discovery is intended to work with existing Web...
[February 18, 2004, 10:35]
TCP-Adaptive Reno for Improving Efficiency-Friendliness Tradeoffs of TCP Congestion Control Algorithm
White Papers A number of protocols, such as High Speed TCP, Scalable TCP and TCP-Westwood have been proposed to address this problem. However, their lack of friendliness to existing protocols has hampered their wide deployment in public networks.
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
Microsoft keeps its open source enemies close
Talkback The only true signal of cooperation (and it has been asked for plenty of times by many) is to open up protocols and formats with no strings attached whatsoever. Rather then taking existing, established, formats and protocols and polluting them (or...
[July 1, 2005, 23:34]
Real-World Environment Models for Mobile Network Evaluation
White Papers The study of mobile ad hoc networks depends on understanding protocols from simulations, before these protocols are implemented in a real-world setting. Simulation environments are an important tool for the evaluation of new concepts in networking.
[August 13, 2007, 8:20]
Worm detector looks out for bad behaviour
News Firewall maker Check Point launched a security appliance on Tuesday that it claims will protect corporate networks from cyberattacks that exploit known vulnerabilities in LAN protocols and applications.
[January 20, 2004, 14:15]
No security flaws in the ASN.1 standard
Talkback ASN.1 is a well-established standard language that is used in many different standard communications protocols to define the structure of the messages and their encodings. Around the year 2002 there was a surge in the level of public concern and in...
[April 24, 2008, 21:28]
High-Performance Host Connectivity in an SNA Server Environment
White Papers Microsoft SNA Server is a LAN-to-SNA gateway that provides SNA communications for LAN-based services and multiple platform PC workstations running a variety of network protocols. Microsoft SNA Server provides a single access method for all IBM of...
[October 16, 2004, 0:00]
On the Number of MPLS LSPs Using Multicast Tree Aggregation
White Papers Existing works on tree aggregation have focused on developing and simulating protocols that build trees dynamically. However, the underlying problem of the impact of the tree construction algorithm on the performance of the protocols remains...
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
T-ANT: A Nature-Inspired Data Gathering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers Due to the severe sensor node constraints, protocols have to be simple yet scalable. To this end, collective social insects' behavior could be adopted to guide the design of these protocols. There are many difficult challenges ahead in the design...
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]
Microsoft says Sun deal unsealed
News As part of Microsoft's settlement with Sun Microsystems, Sun agreed to take part in a licensing programme under which Microsoft gives rivals access to various Windows communications protocols. The requirement that Microsoft license its Windows...
[July 19, 2004, 8:25]
