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Ofcom pushes for free 0800 calls for mobiles

...statement.In addition, Ofcom is looking into the charges for calling non-geographic phone numbers. These are typically used for phone-based services from banks... Read more

4 April, 2012 by Ben Woods
<endeca_term>Geographic</endeca_term> Routing With Constant Stretch in Large Scale Sensor Networks With Holes

Geographic Routing With Constant Stretch in Large Scale Sensor Networks With Holes

Geographic routing is well suited for large scale sensor networks deployments, because the... Read more

29 January, 2012
VIGOR+: Energy-Efficient Local Visibility Graph-Based <endeca_term>Geographic</endeca_term> Routing in Large-Scale Sensor Networks

VIGOR+: Energy-Efficient Local Visibility Graph-Based Geographic Routing in Large-Scale Sensor Networks

Geographic routing has received significant attention from the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) research... Read more

15 December, 2011
SBGR: A Simple Self-Protected Beaconless <endeca_term>Geographic</endeca_term> Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks

SBGR: A Simple Self-Protected Beaconless Geographic Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks

In geographic routing a node forwards data packets to a neighbor which is closer... Read more

14 November, 2011
Topo-Net Spatial Entity Relationship Model for <endeca_term>Geographic</endeca_term> Information System Applications

Topo-Net Spatial Entity Relationship Model for Geographic Information System Applications

Rapid development of Geographic Information System (GIS) has given rise to great amount of spatial database... Read more

1 November, 2011
GOAL: A Parsimonious <endeca_term>Geographic</endeca_term> Routing Protocol for Large Scale Sensor Networks

GOAL: A Parsimonious Geographic Routing Protocol for Large Scale Sensor Networks

Geographic routing protocols have attracted significant attention from the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN... Read more

1 September, 2011
Localization and Dynamic Link Detection for <endeca_term>Geographic</endeca_term> Routing in Non-Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) Environments

Localization and Dynamic Link Detection for Geographic Routing in Non-Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) Environments

IEEE 802.15.4a networks can provide the geographic routing solution with high location accuracy for the indoor environments. However, in... Read more

20 August, 2011
Performance Evaluation of Hole Avoidance Techniques in <endeca_term>Geographic</endeca_term> Forwarding for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Performance Evaluation of Hole Avoidance Techniques in Geographic Forwarding for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

...over proactive routing due to the rapid changes in a nodes position. Geographic position based routing is a convenient method to route a packet from... Read more

1 August, 2011
The Boomerang Protocol: Tying Data to <endeca_term>Geographic</endeca_term> Locations in Mobile Disconnected Networks

The Boomerang Protocol: Tying Data to Geographic Locations in Mobile Disconnected Networks

...authors present the boomerang protocol to efficiently retain information at a particular geographic location in a sparse network of highly mobile nodes without using infrastructure... Read more

13 June, 2011
Asymmetric <endeca_term>Geographic</endeca_term> Forwarding: Exploiting Link Asymmetry in Location Aware Routing

Asymmetric Geographic Forwarding: Exploiting Link Asymmetry in Location Aware Routing

Geographic Forwarding (GF) algorithms typically employ a neighbor discovery method to maintain a... Read more

20 May, 2011
WebSphere software helps National <endeca_term>Geographic</endeca_term> trace human history

WebSphere software helps National Geographic trace human history

...the connections and differences that make up the human species, the National Geographic Society (NGS) and IBM collected and analyzed one of the largest collections... Read more

8 March, 2011
Efficient Multicast <endeca_term>Geographic</endeca_term> Service Provisioning in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Efficient Multicast Geographic Service Provisioning in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

The need for multiple service requirements in geographic multicasting is fumed by the drastic demand of private T.V. Channel... Read more

19 February, 2011
<endeca_term>Geographic</endeca_term> Routing Without Planarization

Geographic Routing Without Planarization

The authors present a new geographic routing algorithm, the Greedy Distributed Spanning Tree Routing (GDSTR), that finds shorter... Read more

1 January, 2011
<endeca_term>Geographic</endeca_term> Locality of IP Prefixes

Geographic Locality of IP Prefixes

Information about the geographic locality of IP prefixes can be useful for understanding the issues related... Read more

1 January, 2011
Efficient <endeca_term>Geographic</endeca_term> Routing in Multihop Wireless Networks

Efficient Geographic Routing in Multihop Wireless Networks

The authors propose a new link metric called Normalized ADVance (NADV) for geographic routing in multihop wireless networks. NADV selects neighbors with the optimal trade... Read more

1 January, 2011

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