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Video: How to spoof a MAC address

July 14, 2008 8:24am PDT

Video: How to spoof a MAC address article root Have you retired old, insecure wireless equipment? MAC address filtering is often used to secure older wireless equipment. Is this technique...

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Video: How to spoof a MAC address

July 14, 2008 8:22am PDT

MAC address filtering is often used to secure older wireless equipment. Is this technique effective? In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler shows you just how easy it is to spoof a MAC address and...

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IT Dojo: How to spoof a MAC address

July 14, 2008 8:18am PDT

When you support small offices, home offices, and remote offices, you often run across older wireless equipment. Equipment that's likely secured with MAC filtering and perhaps a hidden SSID and...

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wi-fi Problem

July 14, 2008 4:01am PDT

Wag200g what i would have thought you would have to do is to block incoming ports on the linksys but allow outgoing hope thats a help wi-fi Problem what i am trying to do is add a linksys...

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WiMAX/Wi-Fi Coexistence in the 3.65GHz Band - Standardization and Simulation

July 14, 2008 12:00am PDT

Opening of the 3.65-3.7GHz band in the US has created opportunities to standardize solutions for license-exempt operation of WiMAX systems. This is being realized through the IEEE P802.16h...

Provided by: NextWave Wireless

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Wi-MuMe: WiMAX MuLTIHOP MeSH - A Relay Based Approach to Deliver Broadband to Rural Communities

July 14, 2008 12:00am PDT

Multi-hop relay based WiMAX is one of the proposed solutions to address the problem of capacity and coverage expansion in the developing and under-developed regions of the world. Compared with the...

Provided by: Indian Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

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Image Gallery: Palm Treo 800w adds WiFi and GPS

July 13, 2008 11:06pm PDT

The Palm Treo line of devices has been quite popular for years, but the Palm faithful have been asking for WiFi for a couple of years without success. The new Palm Treo 800w from Sprint is the...

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Wireless broadband speed issues

July 13, 2008 7:05am PDT

Wireless broadband speed issues Hi all, I've just upgraded to Virgin Media's 20mb broadband, it runs fine on my one pc which is connected to the router at about 18-20mb but my other pc which is...

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Mapping the Location of 2.4 GHz Transmitters to Achieve Optimal Usage of an IEEE 802.11 Network

July 13, 2008 12:00am PDT

This paper describes the use of a low cost 2.4 GHz spectrum analyzer, the MetaGeek WiSpy device, in conjunction with custom developed client-server software for the accurate identification of 2.4...

Provided by: Rhodes University

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Co-Simulation Framework for Networked Control Systems Over Multi-Hop Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

July 11, 2008 12:00am PDT

Networked control systems over mobile ad-hoc networks have drawn the attention of the researchers because of its suitability in various ad-hoc applications. This paper presents the investigation...

Provided by: The International Federation of Automatic Control

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SomSeD: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Developing Wireless Sensor Networks

July 11, 2008 12:00am PDT

The research field "Self organized mobile Sensor and Data networks" (SomSeD) is introduced. Its purpose is the investigation of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). It benefits from interdisciplinary...

Provided by: Hamburg University of Technology

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Energy-Efficient Distributed Topology Control for Heterogeneous Wireless Mesh Networks

July 11, 2008 12:00am PDT

The topology control problem is a well researched topic for energy saving in wireless ad hoc networks. However, little attention has been given to similar problems in the case of Wireless Mesh...

Provided by: Tshwane University of Technology

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WLAN Based Pose Estimation for Mobile Robots

July 11, 2008 12:00am PDT

Nowadays, many buildings are equipped with a WLAN infrastructure, as an inexpensive communication technology. In this paper a method to estimate position and heading (pose) of a mobile robot using...

Provided by: IFAC (International Federation of Accountants)

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Capacity-Delay Tradeoff for Information Dissemination Modalities in Wireless Networks

July 11, 2008 12:00am PDT

This paper presents the first comprehensive capacity-delay tradeoff study for random wireless ad hoc networks under all information dissemination modalities (unicast, multicast, broadcast, and...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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10 technologies that cybercriminals love to exploit

July 10, 2008 6:52am PDT

Cybercriminals can go after your users in any number of ways, and the results can be devastating. Share this list with them to help them stay on their toes in this increasingly risky online world.

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Prediction of Wireless Network Signal Strength Within a Building

July 10, 2008 12:00am PDT

With the increase in the provision of access to Wireless Local Area Networks and the abundance of user devices capable of utilising Wi-Fi, the design of the network infrastructure has introduced...

Provided by: Glyndwr University

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Towards the Quality of Service for VoIP Traffic in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks

July 9, 2008 12:00am PDT

The usage of Voice over IP (VoIP) traffic in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks is expected to increase in the near future due to widely deployed 802.11 wireless networks and VoIP services on fixed...

Provided by: Columbia University

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The Problem of Distributed Wireless Sensors Positioning in the Mobile Spatial Coordinate Measuring System (MSCMS)

July 9, 2008 12:00am PDT

Mobile Spatial coordinate Measuring System (MScMS) is a wireless-sensor-network based system developed at the Industrial Metrology and Quality Engineering Laboratory of DISPEA - Politecnico di...

Provided by: ASME International

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Cross Layer Hybrid ARQ 2 Cooperative Diversity in Next Generation Wireless Networks

July 9, 2008 12:00am PDT

Coded cooperation can achieve diversity through channel coding. The traditional Coded Cooperation framework is not an efficient transmission scheme since in some cases the base station has already...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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Optimized Handover Delay in Proxy Mobile IPv6 Using IEEE802.21 MIH Services

July 9, 2008 12:00am PDT

Recent trends are showing fast convergence of mobile and wireless communication networks with internet services to provide ubiquitous access to network users. It is envisioned that these next...

Provided by: University of Cape Town