Optimal Topology Design In Wireless Personal Area Networks
White Papers This paper deals with the optimal topology design in wireless personal area networks based on the Bluetooth technology. The problem consists in determining how to connect network nodes and group them into piconets in such a way that the system...
[July 1, 2004, 0:00]
Forming Optimal Topologies For Bluetooth-Based Wireless Personal Area Networks
White Papers This paper addresses the problem of determining an optimal topology for Bluetooth Wireless Personal Area Networks (BT-WPANs). In BT-WPANs, multiple communication channels are available, through a frequency hopping technique.
[August 11, 2005, 0:00]
Dynamic Source Routeing In Bluetooth Personal Area Networks
White Papers This paper presents on-going work on a simulator that is being designed for investigating Policy versus Cost trade-offs for a wide range of topologies of Bluetooth Personal Area Networks (PAN). This paper reports on a mobility model of mobile units...
[August 9, 2005, 0:00]
Optimizing The Topology Of Bluetooth Wireless Personal Area Networks
White Papers This paper addresses the problem of determining an optimal topology for Bluetooth Wireless Personal Area Networks (BT-WPANs). In BT-WPANs, multiple communication channels are available, thanks to the use of a frequency hopping technique.
[July 1, 2004, 0:00]
Personal Area Networks
White Papers A personal area network (PAN) could be thought of as the interconnection of devices within the range of an individual person and nowadays typically uses wireless technology (WPAN). Devices are normally within 1-10m range of each other although some...
[July 19, 2007, 0:00]
Guide To Wireless Personal Area Networks
White Papers A Wireless Personal Area Network is a short-range, wireless network designed to link personal devices together without cables. While similar to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), WPANs are intended for mobility and simple point-to-point...
[February 11, 2008, 23:00]
Analysis Of Bandwidth Allocation Algorithms For Wireless Personal Area Networks
White Papers This paper improves and analyzes heuristic centralized and distributed capacity assignment algorithms and provides an upper bound on their performance. Those algorithms have been designed for Bluetooth scatternets but can be applied to any ad hoc...
[September 29, 2005, 0:00]
Distributed Topology Construction Of Bluetooth Wireless Personal Area Networks
White Papers Bluetooth, a wireless technology based on a frequency hopping physical layer, enables portable devices to form short-range wireless ad hoc networks. Bluetooth hosts are not able to communicate unless they have previously discovered each other...
[September 14, 2005, 0:00]
Analysis Of Bandwidth Allocation Algorithms For Bluetooth Wireless Personal Area Networks
White Papers A major issue in the design and operation of ad hoc networks is sharing the common spectrum among links in the same geographic area. Bandwidth allocation, to optimize the performance of networks in which each station can converse with at most a...
[September 20, 2005, 0:00]
Forming Scatternets From Bluetooth Personal Area Networks
White Papers There is increasing interest in wireless ad hoc networks built from portable devices equipped with short-range wireless network interfaces. This paper addresses issues related to internetworking such networks to form larger "scatternets.
[September 20, 2005, 0:00]
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, 0:00]
Distributed Topology Construction Of Bluetooth Personal Area Networks
White Papers Bluetooth is a promising new wireless technology, which enables portable devices to form short-range wireless ad hoc networks and is based on a frequency hopping physical layer. This fact implies that hosts are not able to communicate unless they...
[August 9, 2005, 0:00]
EE402B: Radio Systems And Personal Computer Networks - Wireless LANs And Bluetooth
White Papers The intention of this paper is to study the technology of Wireless Local Area Network and Bluetooth. Wireless LAN (WLAN) is a flexible data communication system, being designed and implemented as an extension or an alternative for wired LAN systems.
[November 10, 2005, 23:00]
Applications Flourish On Personal Wireless Networks
White Papers Stable and integrated wireless networks, from state-wide WWANs (Wireless Wide Area Networks), to miles-wide WLANs (Wireless LANs), to feet-wide WPANs (Wireless Personal Area Networks) have evolved to the point that wireless mobile computing has...
[November 9, 2006, 23:00]
Preparing Today's Logistic Operations For Tomorrow's Wireless Opportunities
White Papers Businesses of the near future will fully exploit wireless investments and capabilities by converging multiple devices and wireless technologies - including wireless wide-area networks (WWANs), wireless LANs and Bluetooth-enabled personal area...
[June 19, 2004, 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, 0:00]
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]

