Our life is surrounded by internet services and it’s hard to imagine not being connected to the web one way or another. It’s also worth thinking about technologies such as Wi-Fi and Ethernet, which ...

In Signal Chain Basics #24, we covered basic networking using the IEEE 802.15.4 PHY/MAC Protocol. We started simple, identifying the fundamentals of the IEEE 802.15.4 PHY and MAC layers. Now I would ...

IEEE's wireless security amendment adds stronger encryption, authentication, and key management strategies that go a long way toward guaranteeing data and system security. With the falling cost and ...

Fig 1. Among the protocol stack layers for IEEE 802.15.4, only layers 1 and 2 belong to the standard, while the upper layers are defined by the specific protocol (e.g., ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, and ...

802.11n/802.11ac dual-band chipsets, according to ABI Research. networks, ABI Research. The 1×1 version of 802.11n replaced 802.11g. A rapid transition will occur with 802.11ac, but without the messy ...

Wireless LAN (WLAN) throughput advancements introduced by the emerging IEEE 802.11n standard come at the price of unprecedented technological complexity. This creates an immediate need for ...

The latest generation Wi-Fi protocol brings better speeds and data handling, but it does little to bridge various communications technologies. That, in turn, makes it more difficult and more expensive ...

has successfully completed its first demonstration of the Wi-Fi Alliance’s Hotspot 2.0 specification with a major U.S. operator.