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Wireless Ad Hoc Networking—the Art of Networking without a Network
White Papers Imagine, however, if they could interact directly: participants at a meeting could share documents or presentations; business cards would automatically find their way into the address register on a laptop and the number register on a mobile phone...
[March 22, 2004, 23:19]
BTopenworld / Linksys Instant Wireless Network Access Point review
Reviews BTopenworld's own documents suggest that if you have a USB ADSL modem, you don't bother with an access point and simply use ad-hoc wireless networking. This limits the number of machines you can have in an ad-hoc network (in the case of the Linksys...
[September 3, 2002, 10:20]
The Future of Bluetooth: Attacks and Counter-Measures
White Papers Bluetooth is by far the most popular protocol for wireless ad hoc networking on the market today. It easily manages the dynamically changing topologies of the ad hoc network, provides fairly reliable connections and allows office networks to work...
[August 9, 2005, 6:00]
A Platform Independent Model and Threat Analysis for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers Mobile Ad Hoc NETworking (MANET) is a layer on top of an existing wireless network to assist in discovery and multi-hop routing of packets across a network topology. While extensive work has been performed in the field of secure MANET, it has been...
[April 3, 2009, 1:22]
Ad Hoc UAV Ground Network (AUGNet)
White Papers This paper describes an implementation of a wireless mobile ad hoc network with radio nodes mounted at fixed sites, on ground vehicles, and in small (10kg) UAVs. The radio is an IEEE 802.11b (WiFi) wireless interface and is controlled by an...
[March 2, 2009, 20:51]
Testing and Analyzing TCP Performance in a Wireless-Wired Mobile Ad Hoc Test Bed
White Papers This paper addresses some of them for mobile ad hoc networking. The testbed and the initial results are the first step for making an improvement to TCP for ad hoc networking. The authors have made a real-life testbed for experimenting and analyzing...
[August 1, 2007, 1:00]
Experimental Evaluation of TCP Performance in Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers This paper presents experimental measurements of TCP bulk data transfer performance in a multi-hop wireless ad hoc network environment. Contrary to prior simulation results in the networking literature, the measurement results show no performance...
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
On the Scalability of Hierarchical Hybrid Wireless Networks
White Papers The network under consideration, which arises in mesh networking scenarios such as 802.11s, aims to achieve better capacity than ad hoc networks without infrastructure support, and also reduces the investment on wired infrastructure.
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
A Cooperative Intrusion Detection System for Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers Mobile Ad hoc NETworking (MANET) has become an exciting and important technology in recent years because of the rapid proliferation of wireless devices. MANETs are highly vulnerable to attacks due to the open medium, dynamically changing network...
[May 21, 2008, 1:01]
A Layer-2 Architecture for Interconnecting Multi-Hop Hybrid Ad Hoc Networks to the Internet
White Papers Recently, the research on mobile ad hoc networks is departing from the view of stand-alone networks, to focus on hybrid self-organized network environments interconnected to the Internet. In this paper the authors design a lightweight and efficient...
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
Zero Servers With Zero Broadcasts
White Papers To achieve the vision of networks that work without any supporting infrastructure, it needs wireless ad hoc technology to replace the cabling infrastructure, but it also need self-configuring network and application services to replace the server...
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
Internet Connectivity for Ad Hoc Mobile Networks
White Papers This paper presents a method for enabling the cooperation of Mobile IP and the Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol, such that mobile nodes that are not within direct transmission range of a foreign agent can still obtain...
[August 13, 2007, 8:20]
Q&A: Bell Labs eyes broadband's future
News Security is not something that you do ad hoc. Security is not something that you do ad hoc. So we had IPsec (a wireless security standard that's short for "Internet protocol security"), and we've since developed an approach called IP SuperSEC.
[June 13, 2003, 13:24]
Information Processing and Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers Nowadays, ad hoc networking technologies can much simplify the network formation task. A wireless sensor network normally comes a large area with many inexpensive, tiny sensor nodes, each capable of collecting, processing, and storing environmental...
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
IDF: Intel demonstrates largest ad-hoc network
News Intel on Monday demonstrated what may be the largest wireless ad-hoc network ever set up, as part of a discussion of its research and development efforts. Ad-hoc networks are crucial to allowing diverse types of devices to link up under...
[August 28, 2001, 10:03]
Negroponte brings wireless meshing to Greek island
News Mesh networking is an integral part of Negroponte's One Laptop per Child project, with each XO laptop acting as a wireless node to form a mobile ad-hoc network, or 'manet'. Negroponte's MIT Media Lab then went on to look at ways of bringing...
[July 25, 2008, 11:06]
Mesh networking heats up
News Mesh networks are ad hoc, decentralised networks. Mesh networking equipment relies either on proprietary methods or Wi-Fi, a standard for devices that establishes wireless local-area networks for devices to connect, transmit and receive data within...
[November 17, 2004, 7:30]
Security and wireless networking review
Reviews Wireless connections can also be operated in ad-hoc mode, also referred to as an Independent Basic Service Set (IBSS) or peer-to peer mode, where devices communicate directly with each other, without the use of an access point.
[July 23, 2007, 15:06]
ROI, security and management: three necessities of the WLAN
News These ad hoc wireless connections -- called rogue access points -- introduce serious security issues. Wireless connectivity offers many benefits: quick setup, untethered employees, networking flexibility, and relatively low costs.
[March 24, 2003, 13:46]
Epson EMP-735 review
Reviews The connection can use either ad-hoc or infrastructure mode networking - you'll probably use the former when visiting another office, and the latter in your own. The EMP-735's wireless network connection is provided through a standard-looking PC...
[April 7, 2003, 10:11]
