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MC-CDMA in Personal Area Networks - A Combined PHY and MAC Approach
White Papers Future personal networks (PN) will be complemented by personal area networks (PANs), which are considered as a building block for 4G communication systems. Air interfaces for personal area networks need to be flexible and adaptive as well as robust...
[January 31, 2009, 8:24]
A Theoretical Model for Location Privacy in Wireless Personal Area Networks
White Papers Location privacy is one of the major security problems in a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN). The use of temporary pseudonyms has been suggested by several authors to solve the problem. This paper constructs a formal model of location privacy...
[April 15, 2009, 1:22]
Ultra-Wideband (UWB Technology): Enabling High-Speed Wireless Personal Area Networks
White Papers Ultra-WideBand (UWB) technology offers a solution for the bandwidth, cost, power consumption, and physical size requirements of next-generation consumer electronic devices. UWB enables wireless connectivity with consistent high data rates across...
[July 19, 2007, 1:00]
Efficient Location Area Planning for Personal Communication Systems
White Papers Unlike previous works, the authors concentrate on optimizing existing schemes, and so the algorithms presented are easily incorporated into current networks. A central problem in personal communication systems is to optimize bandwidth usage, while...
[December 13, 2006, 0:00]
Wireless Communications Technology Landscape
White Papers These categories range from wireless wide area networks (WWANs), which cover the widest geographic area, to wireless personal area networks (WPANs), which cover less than 10 meters. These networks are transforming the way people use computers and...
[May 11, 2005, 3:00]
Gates touts vision of PC as hub
News Research firm In-Stat/MDR projects that 100 million personal area networks will be installed this year, rising to more than 900 million in 2005. Bluetooth advocates say that the radio-frequency communication standard will eliminate cable clutter...
[April 19, 2002, 10:28]
Microsoft puts its weight behind Bluetooth
News Bluetooth advocates say that the radio-frequency communication standard will eliminate cable clutter, make it easier to synchronise handheld computers and PCs, connect microphones and headsets to computers, let a person use a next-generation cell...
[April 18, 2002, 14:30]
Verizon to launch 3G in US
News These new networks also offer the ability for computers or phones to access the Internet as fast as a personal computer's dial-up Internet connection. Verizon Wireless and other 3G carriers are expected to use the new networks to challenge dial-up...
[January 25, 2002, 11:45]
Card promises Wi-Fi for the PDA masses
News Wi-Fi networks create a 300-foot zone in which anyone with a laptop or PDA (personal digital assistant) can surf the Web or transfer files without using wires. Wi-Fi devices generally connect to the Internet or a network directly, while devices...
[July 10, 2002, 7:34]
Linux gets Bluetooth
News Research firm In-Stat/MDR projects that 100 million personal area networks will be installed this year, rising to more than 900 million in 2005. Bluetooth allows PCs, portable devices and peripherals the ability to connect to each other in a...
[May 27, 2002, 16:39]
MTSF: A Fast Mesh Scatternet Formation Algorithm for Bluetooth Networks
White Papers Bluetooth is a short range technology that enables the formation of wireless personal area networks (WPAN). The paper proposes a Mesh Topology Scatternet Formation (MTSF) algorithm, for Bluetooth networks.
[August 11, 2005, 0:00]
Using the Java APIs for Bluetooth, Part 2 - Putting the Core APIs to Work
White Papers Bluetooth is a low-cost, short-range wireless technology that has become popular among those who want to create Personal Area Networks (PANs). Each PAN is a dynamically created network built around an individual, that enables devices such as...
[October 20, 2006, 1:00]
Performance Evaluation of TCP in an Integrated WPAN and WLAN Environment
White Papers Short-range low power radio frequency systems such as Bluetooth and UWB enable the deployment of Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN). A WPAN can interface to larger networks to provide broader network access and Internet connectivity.
[February 10, 2006, 0:01]
Cross-Layer Optimization for Scheduling in OFDM-TDMA Transmission
White Papers In the integrated project My personal Adaptive Global NET (MAGNET) of the European Union, advanced adaptive and scalable air interface concepts for personal area networks (PANs) are being studied. The activities are grouped in clusters dealing with...
[March 30, 2005, 3:00]
Using the Java APIs for Bluetooth Wireless Technology, Part 1 - API Overview
White Papers Bluetooth is a low-cost, short-range wireless technology that has become popular among those who want to create Personal Area Networks (PANs). Each PAN is a dynamically created network built around an individual, that enables devices such as...
[October 20, 2006, 1:00]
Singapore cabs catch Web fever
News As the PAN is linked to other public networks like GSM and GPRS, passengers would be able to access the Internet from their own personal digital assistants. Ericsson, meanwhile, would be developing the mobile services -- including booking and...
[June 19, 2001, 10:15]
Measuring Effective Capacity of IEEE 802.15.4 Beaconless Mode
White Papers IEEE 802.15.4 is an emerging wireless standard addressing the needs of Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks with a focus on enabling various pervasive and ubiquitous applications that require interactions with the surrounding environments.
[August 1, 2007, 1:00]
Ad-Hoc IP Networks Over Bluetooth
White Papers In the emerging mobile Internet, Bluetooth will serve as the link between the personal mobile devices and the wide area 3G access networks, i.e.offering an Internet access to the PAN. However, in order to use IP for ad-hoc Bluetooth PANs, certain...
[September 25, 2009, 2:35]
A Peer-to-Peer Framework for Mobile Collaboration
White Papers The framework focuses on the support for same place-same-time collaboration on mobile phones utilising Personal Area Networks (PANs). The paper describes a framework used to develop mobile collaborative applications in Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME).
[July 5, 2007, 1:00]
Bluetooth PAN and External IP Networks
White Papers This paper discusses how ad-hoc Personal Area Network (PAN) based on Bluetooth technology may connect to external networks. The paper assumes that the Bluetooth network (piconet) is formed by the automatic SAPIFO procedure, that one or more piconet...
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
