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Spyware's tentacles spread to search
News According to PestPatrol, the software installs itself via downloads from partner sites and delivers pop-up windows displaying ad links when a person searches at Google. Researchers for Lavasoft, which sells the popular spyware detection software Ad...
[June 29, 2004, 12:50]
Yahoo-eBay deal: a Google buster?
News That project will look at releasing "click-to-call" ad technologies on their Web sites, using both Yahoo Messenger with Voice and eBay's Skype service. For Yahoo, Devitt noted, the deal brings a "massive ad client" in the form of eBay.
[May 26, 2006, 8:55]
Windows Server 2008 review
Reviews As the name suggests, changes in the RODC's AD database are not replicated back to the datacentre DCs. The Add Server Role wizard is used to add and configure complex applications, such as Active Directory (AD) and Network Policy and Access Services.
[February 27, 2008, 6:39]
Media Streaming Performance in a Portable Wireless Classroom Network
White Papers This paper presents empirical measurements of wireless media streaming traffic in an IEEE 802.11b wireless ad hoc network. Finally, the paper demonstrates a "Bad apple" phenomenon in wireless ad hoc networks, wherein a single client with poor...
[May 10, 2006, 0:00]
Optimal Backpressure Routing for Wireless Networks With Multi-Receiver Diversity
White Papers This paper considers the problem of optimal scheduling and routing in an ad-hoc wireless network with multiple traffic streams and time varying channel reliability. Each packet transmission can be overheard by a subset of receiver nodes, with a...
[August 10, 2007, 11:15]
Trajectory-Based Forwarding Mechanisms for Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks
White Papers Routing in ad-hoc sensor networks is a complicated task because of many reasons. Because of that, greedy forwarding at intermediate nodes is desirable in ad-hoc networks. Also, for traffic engineering, multipath capabilities are important.
[April 3, 2009, 1:22]
Detecting Critical Nodes for MANET Intrusion Detection Systems
White Papers Ad hoc routing protocols have been designed to efficiently reroute traffic when confronted with network congestion, faulty nodes, and dynamically changing topologies. The common design goal of reactive, proactive, and hybrid ad hoc routing...
[May 31, 2008, 1:01]
TCP Contention Control: A Cross Layer Approach to Improve TCP Performance in Multihop Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers It is well known that one of the critical sources of TCP poor performance in multihop ad hoc networks lies in the TCP window mechanism that controls the amount of traffic sent into the network. The simulation results show TCP Contention Control can...
[December 20, 2007, 0:01]
Connectivity in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks in Presence of Wireless Mobile Base-Stations
White Papers Connectivity in vehicular ad hoc networks tends to be vulnerable. This is mostly because of the influence of road's traffic parameters like traffic flow and vehicle's speed. These nodes also could give some commercial services to the vehicles on...
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]
Performance of Wireless LANs Based on IEEE 802.11 MAC Protocols
White Papers IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol has been the standard for Wireless LANs, and also adopted in many network simulation packages for wireless multi-hop ad hoc networks. However, it is well known that, as the traffic goes up, the performance of IEEE 802.11...
[October 30, 2009, 2:38]
Privacy-Invasive Software in File-Sharing Tools
White Papers In an experiment presented in this paper, five file-sharing tools are investigated and found that they all contained ad-/spyware programs, and, that these hidden components communicated with several servers on the Internet.
[April 14, 2006, 0:00]
Mobility Changes Anonymity: New Passive Threats in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers Privacy in mobile ad hoc networks has new semantics in addition to the conventional notions for infrastructure networks. In particular, mobility requires ad hoc routing schemes to transmit messages frequently in an open wireless medium.
[August 1, 2007, 1:00]
nugg.ad Selects NeuStar's UltraDNS Services
White Papers nugg.ad is a German company based in Berlin that provides an Application Service Provider (ASP) solution for predictive behavioral targeting. The company implemented NeuStar's UltraDNS Managed Services to bolster the scalability and reliability of...
[April 16, 2009, 1:22]
OSTG Increased Its Income From International Traffic With Google AdSense and AdSense Link Units
White Papers OSTG therefore began serving link units specifically to its international traffic, replacing U.S.targeted ad campaigns, on the Sourceforge.net homepage. Founded in 1996, OSTG (Open Source Technology Group) started out as the tech network Andover.net.
[June 22, 2009, 1:19]
Set Your Content Free (And Monetize It): How Online Publishers Can Increase Revenue Through Offsite Content Distribution
White Papers This strategy allows increasing offsite ad revenue, drive more traffic to the site, and find new opportunities for licensing and syndication. Publishers today face a changing online landscape, one in which users are taking control of how and where...
[May 14, 2008, 1:01]
Coupons: Wide Scale Information Distribution for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers In particular, ad hoc networks must not only overcome intermittent connectivity, but they also need a strong incentive mechanism to encourage users to participate in the cooperative relay of data traffic.
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]
Optimization Issues and Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks With Mobile Sink
White Papers Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are a new kind of ad-hoc wireless network that will probably bring new progress on the paradigm of pervasive computing. Many applications have already been envisioned for WSNs, such as: support for traffic...
[May 29, 2009, 6:49]
Trickle: A Userland Bandwidth Shaper for Unix-Like Systems
White Papers However, users of smaller networks regularly find themselves in need of nothing more than ad-hoc rate limiting. Existing solutions typically implement this by employing traffic management in edge routers.
[July 8, 2008, 1:01]
Modelling Incentives for Collaboration in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers This paper explores a model for the operation of an ad hoc mobile network. The model incorporates incentives for users to act as transit nodes on multi-hop paths and to be rewarded with their own ability to send traffic.
[August 1, 2007, 1:00]
What Does Using TCP as an Evaluation Tool Reveal About MANET Routing Protocols?
White Papers Past research studying the operations of TCP over wire-less/mobile ad hoc networks has shown that TCP cannot be adopted as-is for use in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET) to achieve reasonable performance.
[December 20, 2007, 0:01]
