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France Telecom And Accor Announce The Deployment Of Wi-Fi Hotspots In 900 Hotels In France
White Papers France Telecom and Orange France have announced a strategic alliance with Accor to deploy their network of Wi-Fi hotspots in 900 Sofitel, Mercure, Libertel, Suitehotel, Ibis, Etap Hotel and Formule 1 economy, midscale and upscale hotels in...
[June 25, 2004, 20:00]
Power-Saving In Wi-Fi Hotspots: An Analytical Study
White Papers Wi-Fi hotspots are one of the most promising scenarios for mobile computing. This paper analyzes a power-saving network architecture for the mobile-Internet access through Wi-Fi hotspots. Both hardware and software architectures of current devices...
[January 10, 2006, 23:00]
A Multilateral Secure Payment System For Wireless LAN Hotspots
White Papers Beginning with the adoption of the de-facto standard for wireless LAN communications IEEE 802.11 in 1999 one can observe a continuous growth of public wireless LAN hotspots that provide access to the Internet for modern road warriors.
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
Cost Analysis Of WLAN Integrated With GSM/GPRS Networks: Do Hotspots Benefit Cellular Operators?
White Papers The hotspots deployment is growing at a rapid pace, despite the absence of a good business model. The primary objective of this paper is to show how cellular service providers can benefit from Wi-Fi, by integrating it to their existing GSM/GPRS...
[November 10, 2005, 0:00]
Saving Energy In Wi-Fi Hotspots Through 802.11 PSM: An Analytical Model
White Papers Wi-Fi hotspots are becoming very popular. A key point to exploit the potentialities of Wi-Fi hotspots is managing the scarce energetic resources of mobile devices. Due to limited costs, they are an effective solution to provide wireless Internet...
[January 10, 2006, 23:00]
Interoperability Of Wi-Fi Hotspots And Cellular Networks
White Papers The widespread deployment of Wi-Fi hotspots and wide area cellular networks opens up the exciting possibility of interoperability between these types of networks. Interoperability allows a mobile device to dynamically use the multiple network...
[May 24, 2006, 1:00]
A Performance Study Of Power-Saving Polices For Wi-Fi Hotspots
White Papers Wi-Fi hotspots are one of the most promising scenarios for mobile computing. This paper focuses on a network architecture for energy-efficient mobile-Internet access through Wi-Fi hotspots (PS-WiFi). In this scenario, a very limiting factor is the...
[January 11, 2006, 0:01]
Statoil Fires Up Connection On The Move With Wireless Hotspots
White Papers Through its service provider, Telenor, Statoil Detaljhandel used the Cisco technology to turn its service stations into wireless access hotspots. Statoil is Scandinavia's leading upstream and downstream oil company.
[July 17, 2008, 1:19]
DOMINO: A System To Detect Greedy Behavior In IEEE 802.11 Hotspots
White Papers The proliferation of hotspots based on IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs brings the promise of seamless Internet access from a large number of public locations. However, as the number of users soars, so does the risk of possible misbehavior; to protect...
[October 6, 2005, 3:00]
End-to-End Throughput And Delay Assurances In Multihop Wireless Hotspots
White Papers The paper addresses the challenges in concurrently providing end-to-end throughput and delay assurances in such mobile multihop WLAN hotspots. Next generation Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN's) are likely to require multihop wireless connections...
[January 18, 2006, 0:01]
Integrating PwLAN/Hotspots Into Existing Business Networks
White Papers Wireless LAN hotspots empower mobile workers through continuous high-speed communications and access to real-time information with the same laptop, Tablet PC or PDA used on the corporate campus. For enterprises, SMBs, public venues and service...
[October 6, 2006, 1:00]
Not All Hotspots Are Free
Talkback Not all Wi-Fi hotspots are free. For instance, The Cloud's hotspots in McDonalds restaurants are free, but their coverage in the financial district in London is not. Hence the need for credit card details up front, to make it unnecessary to enter...
[May 22, 2008, 11:32]
Siemens Bluetooth Hits The "Hotspots"
White Papers Public hotspots, such as airports, hotels, conference centers, trade show sites, and railroad stations can thus be networked wirelessly, flexibly, and still securely with Bluetooth, thus opening up new avenues for mobile business.
[June 22, 2004, 0:05]
Applicability Of Repeaters For Hotspots In UMTS
White Papers The aim of this paper is to assess the applicability of repeaters for downlink capacity improvement in hotspots through field measurements. Deployment of repeaters in capacity-limited scenarios requires more careful radio network planning compared...
[July 26, 2005, 6:00]
Intuit Bug Resurfaces At Public Wi-Fi Hotspots
News Users of a popular accounting package have been warned not to use the software at public Wi-Fi hotspots, such as those found in coffee shops, airports and hotels. Users of the 2006 Mac version of Intuit's QuickBooks software could find that a...
[January 3, 2008, 14:04]
BT Business Customers To Become Wi-Fi Hotspots
News BT will soon offer all its business-hub users the chance to become Wi-Fi hotspots for their visitors and neighbours, the firm revealed on Wednesday. In return for adding a residential footprint to BT's Openzone network, those customers got to use...
[May 21, 2008, 11:45]
Mobile Guides For Locating Network Hotspots
White Papers Instead of creating a dedicated tool for locating network hotspots, this paper argues for the mobile guides systems to provide information also about the networks neighborhood. This paper outlines some user requirements for locating network...
[February 10, 2006, 0:01]
A Manager's Guide To Wireless Hotspots - How To Take Advantage Of Them While Protecting The Security Of Your Corporate Network
White Papers There are more than 150,000 Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide today. Some of these, namely municipal hotspots, span entire cities. In coffee shops, hotels, airport terminals and libraries, public Wi-Fi hotspots are increasingly becoming commonplace.
[May 21, 2008, 1:01]
100,000 Wi-Fi Hotspots By The End Of 2005
News A new report from research firm Informa Telecoms and Media is predicting the number of Wi-Fi hotspots will reach 100,000 before the start of 2006. Despite the continuing boom in hotspots, users are apparently still scarce.
[September 27, 2005, 16:40]
P2P-Based Roaming Between Home WLAN Hotspots
White Papers This paper concentrates on describing the current situation in P2P-based roaming between home WLAN hotspots, what are its pros and cons, and why it is being done. The increased amount of broadband Internet connections at home, combined with the low...
[November 10, 2006, 0:00]
